All elk hunters dream of a screaming bull that charges across a meadow and into bow range, hot steam still flowing from his nostrils. After all, calling in a bugling bull (or even just getting a ...

I knew where I wanted to be based on experiences the season prior. That was the first time I’d bowhunted for elk in this mountain belt within Montana’s interior. I spotted a bull I on that trip during ...

If Elias McMillan takes anything away from his recent experience at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation elk-calling championship, it's this: Sounding like an elk is sure different when it's judges, not ...

Ripping a bugle and hearing a bull respond is an experience like no other. It’s why elk hunters climb mountains every September. But don’t expect your calls to work every time. If you’re trying to ...

Elk sounds vary from grunts, screams and coos to something like an excited chimpanzee – a sound human elk callers refer to as “chuckling.” None of it sounds like something that would emanate from a 12 ...

A Vernonia man was declared the world’s best professional elk caller at the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation’s 2024 World Elk Calling Championships, held this week in Big Sky, Montana. It’s the first pro ...

Courtesy of Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation Hearing an elk bugle in the wild can sound otherworldly: high pitched, but also guttural, sound, sometimes even seeming to have a metallic resonance. These ...