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SiG MT 101 Call Less, Way Less Call companies send out their best callers to put on seminars and compete in calling competitions. is is all good, and they sound great, but what you aren't being told (very oen, anyways) is that squawking through the elk woods probably does more harm than good. Yes, I've walked into elk herds that are extremely vocal and, in turn, have been very vocal with them. But this isn't the norm, and when it does happen it usually doesn't last long. For instance, the elk I described above was killed when I made just two mews from a mouth call. But before that time, I was patient, called sparingly, and only moved when I should have, which put me in a killing position. I was ready when that bull finally made his move. Since that time my mantra has been, move more, call less. THE POWER Behind Your Game www.johnsondistributing.com EXPERIENCE THE ALL NEW ONWARD ™ BY CLUB CAR ® 1021 Third St NW Great Falls, MT 59404 Office (406) 453-6541 Your statewide distributor for Club Car ® Golf Cars ® FBR Fort Benton Realty, LLP Lower Birch Creek Deer Camp 608 Acres (+/-) $345,000 LAND FOR SALE - two parcels. 320 acres of expired CRP cropland, priced at $900/acre. Immediate possession. 320 acres of grass/pasture land located 6.5 miles E of Power, priced at $575/acre. Leased for 2018, but available for 2019.Call for details at Fort Benton Realty, Agent Dennis Franz 406-788-1163. HUNTERS!!! LOWER BIRCH CREEK DEER CAMP: 608 Acres (+/-) located east of Big Sandy, MT. Grass/pasture hills & coulees with some outcropping of brush providing great Trophy Mule Deer Habitat. Little Birch Creek runs seasonally through the bottom lands also offering good wildlife and good livestock grazing. Thousands of acres of BLM Land are adjacent to this property providing plenty of area and space for hunting and other recreational activities. Call Mark Pyrak, Broker, at: 406-788-9280 or Shane Ophus, Broker, at 406-788-6662. FBR Fort Benton Realty, LLP Fort Benton Realty LLP • (406) 622-3803 • www.fbrealty.com Lower Birch Creek Deer Camp 608 Acres (+/-) $345,000 You don't have to be a calling champ to trick an elk Elk sound similar to each other, but they don't all sound the same. I've heard elk choke in the middle of a bugle—so they aren't perfect. Neither are we. Some of the funniest moments at elk camp are right after someone makes the most horrific sounding bugle "anyone's ever heard." e tip here? We all know we need to spend more time practicing with our elk calls, but the reality is most of us are prey dang busy. So, how do you make time? One trick is to leave your calls in your car and practice on the way to swim lessons, or on the way to the kid's baseball game. If the call is there and you can see it, you are likely to practice with it more oen. Sometimes you don't need to call at all Once, on an early season hunt, I dropped into a canyon with five bulls bugling haleartedly. Aer geing the wind right I planned my aack. e first bull I encountered was a young five-point that I thought would be easy to call in. Unfortunately, I thought wrong— when I called, that young bull ran away. Fortunately, a few minutes later I found myself about 150 yards away from two bugling six-point bulls. Rather than repeating my mistake I tucked my mouth call into a pocket, knocked an arrow and snuck into bow range across an open sagebrush flat. Sometimes it pays to keep quiet and use your stalking skills instead. Get in Close, then Call A mistake I made early in my hunting career was calling to elk that were a long ways away. I must have watched too many elk hunting videos and thought I could call them in from across the longest and broadest canyons imaginable. Sure, we all know "that guy" who called one in from a mile away, but let's be real—that guy is most likely not going to be you . . . and it certainly wasn't me.

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