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Cutting The Distance

Ep. 92: Four World-Champ Elk Callers: Team America

Cutting The Distance

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.96.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 July 2024

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Dirk and three other world-champion elk callers, Tony Gilbertson, Jermaine Hodge, and Erik Berglund, discuss the 2024 RMEF World Elk Calling Championships. They also talk about the elk hunt the three guests shared last fall, which is on YouTube now, and the process of designing their new signature elk diaphragms that are included in the new All-American 3-Pack.

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0:44.0

f-I-R-S-T-L-I-E- dot com. Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance Podcast.

1:04.0

Tonight, we are in beautiful Big Sky Montana,

1:08.0

Monteucky, as some people call it,

1:10.0

and what we're doing here is we just completed the World Elk Calling Championships put on by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation.

1:18.0

And I didn't compete, but we have four world champion elk calling collars, if you will, in the house tonight.

1:28.0

First off, we got Germain Hodge, we got Tony Gilbertson and Eric Bergland.

1:33.2

Last but not least, Dark Durham.

1:35.4

You may or may not know this, I'm a world calling Champion 2.

1:39.4

I just don't really like to toot my horn about it.

1:41.8

I like to focus on the hunt but and so do these guys. But it's

1:46.9

fun to compete. It's fun to get up there show your stuff and see where you stack up

1:51.5

against the best of the best.

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