How 2 Tuesday - How To Call In An Elk Ft. Turner Rowland

Tom Rowland Podcast

Waypoint TV

Wilderness, Sports, Health & Fitness

5 • 899 Ratings

🗓️ 28 September 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Turner Rowland is a professional Elk Hunting Guide in Bozeman, Montana. Today, he sits down with us on How2Tuesday to discuss the best ways to call in an elk. Turner recommends to never be afraid of closing the gap on the bull, and prefers to bow hunt over rifling. Playing the wind is a huge help when hunting, especially when calling down the mountain with a bull below you in the morning versus doing the same in the afternoon. Though doing the same technique, the hunter will get two different results as the wind travels differently during the morning and afternoon. The biggest advice Turner gives is to always be ready, play the wind, and get in the elk’s “backdoor”. From Turner’s experience, there are basically two strategies and possibly a hybrid between the two. First is the cow call, which is where you sound like a cow in an attempt to lure the bull elk to you. Second is the bugle call, which sounds like a bull elk that is threatening to pull other cows away from the dominant bull. Doing a hybrid of the two calls is a great approach for starting out hunting. The best strategy is “to get right up his backdoor” about a 100 yards away and call out to him. If you start calling from far away and move closer and closer when calling, the elk will know your location quickly and may lose interest if you’re too far out. Therefore when bugling, you need to bugle as loud and as close as you can, because there’s no point in bugling softly. Another great strategy is to take some tree branches and scrape them up and down a tree to mimic elks scraping antlers getting ready to fight. Males generally don’t want to fight, but if you call out aggressively, they’ll be looking for you to go after. Follow Turner on Instagram at @turnerrowland1 WIN A FISHING VACATION AT HAWKS CAY! Click Here to Enter: http://tackledirect.tv If you have questions or suggestions for the show you can text Tom at 1 305-930-7346 This episode has been brought to you by Waypoint TV. Waypoint is the ultimate outdoor network featuring streaming of full-length fishing and hunting television shows, short films and instructional content, a social media network, Podcast Network. Waypoint is available on Roku, Samsung Smart TV, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast, Android TV, IoS devices, Android Devices and at www.waypointtv.com all for FREE! Join the Waypoint Army by following them on Instagram at the following accounts @waypointtv @waypointfish @waypointsalt @waypointboating @waypointhunt @waypointoutdoorcollective Find over 150 full episodes of Saltwater Experience on Waypoint You can follow Tom Rowland on Instagram @tom_rowland and find all episodes and show notes at Tomrowlandpodcast.com Learn more about Tom's Television shows by visiting their websites: Saltwater Experience Into the Blue Sweetwater Contact Tom through email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:17.6	Roland, Guy at Extraordinair, gonna teach us how to call in an elk today.
1:23.4	Turner, what do you got for us?
1:25.1	Well, there are a few different ways you can do it, a few different strategies.
1:29.8	There are two main strategies is what I would say a cow call based approach and a
1:35.4	bugle based approach and basically the two basic things about those are
1:41.8	bugle as a kind of fighting call from another male and a
1:45.4	cow call is a breeding call from a female. So you know you can you can start out even doing a hybrid approach doing a kind of a cow call and
1:56.4	bugle strategy which is what I like to do. So say you have a bull bugling down this drainage, which is just, you know, the intersection of two ridges at a creek, which is very commonplace for elk to be in and to be doing their things.
2:12.5	So if you have an elp bugle in this drainage
2:15.2	and whether he's with cows or without cows
2:18.0	doesn't really matter for this purpose.
2:21.0	You want to basically get as close to him as possible before calling. I see a lot of people,
2:27.6	even on some hunting videos, kind of bugling their way to the elk, and they're just thinking,
2:33.6	you know, well, he's beugling back, he's be going back,
2:36.1	like, we're doing the right thing,
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