It could be described as lusty, wanton, or insistent, but basically it indicates that she is prepared to breed. She is saying to the bull, "I'm ready for you, big boy!" Nearby bulls react immediately, to say the least. According to Norm, a cow elk may utter this sound one time during an entire breeding season.     Norm knows elk. In fact, he held one of the first archery elk tags issued in Arizona . "I've been elk hunting 42 years with bow and arrow. In the beginning, there just wasn't a vast amount of knowledge out there for the bowhunting elk hunter. We had to learn as we went.		confrontation when they have a harem of cows.     "I never really got good at bugling back when they were working and found early-on that I was getting good results with fairly aggressive mewing'—which was easier for me to reproduce. I found the best thing for my particular calling style was an exposed reed call.     "In any case," Norm continues, "about two years ago a friend, Rick Sloan, and I had drawn New Mexico tags and were hunting the Gila area. Those bulls get hit pretty hard these days. They're smart as all get-out. We had closed on a good bull,		about 300 points, and were mewing fairly aggressively. Rick's call was sticking quite a lot, making strange sounds, when suddenly the bull turned and started in. When the bull walked into range, Rick took a shot and missed because his arrow glanced off a limb. He kept calling aggressively, and the bull hung around in the area. It was then I caught a movement to my right, and I turned and saw another bull coming in at a trot. I couldn't believe it!     "I waited for the bull to walk behind a tree, drew my bow, and shot him when he walked clear. He scored about 330 inches Pope & Young, a good bull.
	"Early on, bugling worked very well, and we tried various calls over the years until we found the diaphragm calls that are popular for bugling today. As most elk hunters know, it didn't take long for bulls in heavily hunted areas to learn about man and bugles and, of course, they quit working well. They never worked on bulls with cows anyway, mostly just frightening them away. Bulls just don't want a		Seventeen days of tough hunting resulted in this handsome bull the author took in New Mexico . Used properly, the HyperHot Cow Call might mean shorter, more productive hunts.

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