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The MeatEater Podcast

Ep. 131: Calling Elk

The MeatEater Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.937.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2018

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Bozeman, MT- Steven Rinella talks with Jason Phelps of Phelps Game Calls, along with Janis Putelis of the MeatEater crew.

Subjects Discussed: rippin' bugles; herd bulls, satellite bulls, lead cows, and their impact on herd dynamics; dissecting the five parts of a bugle; 90% bugles to 10% cow calls; the good fortune of listening to bad elk callers; getting more locater bulls; lunch bulls and nap bulls; and more.

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0:00.0

This is a meat eater podcast coming at you shirtless severely both bitten in my case underwear

0:15.3

and you can't predict anything.

0:34.2

That's nice.

0:35.9

Thank you.

0:37.2

But do you find like, you know, a lot of bulls have crazy bugles.

0:43.9

Yeah, I mean, they're spread across the board from where you sometimes you have some

0:47.5

bull.

0:48.5

He's like, you know, the ones that sound like they broke their larynx somehow.

0:53.7

Yeah, we were in not the diverge too quick too fast, but I was in the ball marsh on

0:58.1

2012 and the place is untouched basically in some of these areas.

1:02.1

And we have a bolded beagle that sounded like an owl that I would have never believed

1:06.3

if he didn't answer me like five, you know, within that five second range.

1:09.5

And he did it again and it was like a owl hooting.

1:11.4

I'm like, what?

1:12.4

Can you give me an example?

1:13.4

I almost can.

1:14.4

And then the, the, the, the, just do it without a call, but just do it or come as close

1:19.6

as you can to mimicking what he's doing.

1:22.4

But you're not even really that thump.

1:23.7

It's just kind of an owl ho sound.

1:26.5

And then on that same day, we walked a half mile down the ridge and one sound like a donkey

1:31.5

and it did it twice like a he-ha type sound.

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