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Cutting The Distance

Ep. 96: How to Call an Elk - Fundamentals First: Cow Calls and Bugles

Cutting The Distance

MeatEater

Wilderness, Sports

4.96.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

31 days until September! Are you ready? Want to learn how to become a more proficient elk caller? In this episode, Dirk dives deep into making elk vocalizations. He starts with fundamental sounds, then shifts into turning those sounds into cow calls and bugles.

Link to see videos of Dirk making these calls: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmts0qLfo7ZzXMW-ssBUr7gful9S6cT1A&si=-Z4Eaf7-cOROFhhI

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0:00.0

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0:04.1

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0:10.1

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0:13.2

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0:18.1

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0:21.2

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0:26.0

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0:30.5

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0:34.0

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0:39.7

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0:46.4

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0:51.9

discoveries, revelations, and near misses narrated by me Stephen Ronella Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance Podcast, I'm Dirk Durham, and it is August 1st.

1:17.3

And you know what that means?

1:18.8

We have 31 days until September.

1:22.1

I don't know if anybody else is counting those days besides me but man

1:26.7

this is the time of year that I get kind of excited. You can you almost it's been super hot and you can almost kind of feel a change in August,

1:36.4

especially the further along we get. Usually by the 15th I start feeling those changes.

1:41.4

The mornings are a little cooler, the air's a little

1:43.9

fresher, you get maybe a little more of a crisp, you can tell we're on the cusp of

1:48.5

entering fall. As hot as it's been and it's been dry and hot across the west here, I think we're all probably welcoming those kind of mornings definitely.

2:01.0

So we have 31 days to finalize our preparations. Are we ready? We're yet on your fitness goals?

2:13.0

So I really like to ramp my fitness stuff up in August.

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