1 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Cutting the Distance podcast. 2 00:00:15,240 --> 00:00:20,119 Speaker 1: I'm Dirk Durham and it is August first, and you 3 00:00:20,200 --> 00:00:23,760 Speaker 1: know what that means. We have thirty one days until September. 4 00:00:24,840 --> 00:00:27,000 Speaker 1: I don't know if anybody else is counting those days 5 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:30,600 Speaker 1: besides me, but man, this is the time of year 6 00:00:30,720 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: that I get kind of excited. You can almost it's 7 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:37,800 Speaker 1: been super hot and you can almost kind of feel 8 00:00:37,800 --> 00:00:41,360 Speaker 1: a change in August, especially the further along we get. 9 00:00:41,600 --> 00:00:44,320 Speaker 1: Usually by the fifteenth they start feeling those changes. The 10 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,280 Speaker 1: mornings are a little cooler, the air is a little fresher, 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:49,800 Speaker 1: you get maybe a little more of a crisp. You 12 00:00:49,840 --> 00:00:54,360 Speaker 1: can tell we're on the cusp of entering fall. As 13 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:56,440 Speaker 1: hot as it's been, and it's been dry and hot 14 00:00:56,480 --> 00:01:00,600 Speaker 1: across the west here. I think we're all probably welcoming 15 00:01:00,760 --> 00:01:06,720 Speaker 1: those kind of mornings definitely. So we have thirty one 16 00:01:06,880 --> 00:01:14,119 Speaker 1: days to finalize our preparations. Are we ready where you're 17 00:01:14,120 --> 00:01:17,520 Speaker 1: at on your fitness goals? So I really really like 18 00:01:17,600 --> 00:01:21,280 Speaker 1: to ramp my fitness stuff up in August. Stay pretty 19 00:01:21,280 --> 00:01:23,480 Speaker 1: active all summer, but in August I'm really going to 20 00:01:23,560 --> 00:01:27,000 Speaker 1: get more granular on my day to day fitness. I 21 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:30,639 Speaker 1: need to be hiking the hills, do some bicycle work, 22 00:01:31,480 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: taking the dog for a walk around the neighborhood, whatever 23 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:36,479 Speaker 1: I can do to get steps in every day. Here 24 00:01:36,480 --> 00:01:40,120 Speaker 1: in the Tresure Valley, we have the Woisey Foothills which 25 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:43,319 Speaker 1: have a really great trail system, and there's some really 26 00:01:43,319 --> 00:01:45,800 Speaker 1: steep ones and there's some really mild ones, but you 27 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:48,360 Speaker 1: can really get in some good, good hikes in there. 28 00:01:48,400 --> 00:01:52,320 Speaker 1: So I really like to start hiking those a lot 29 00:01:52,360 --> 00:01:58,440 Speaker 1: more often in August, so that way kind of prepared 30 00:01:58,480 --> 00:02:01,880 Speaker 1: to climb mountains and chase elk and the good part, 31 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,840 Speaker 1: I guess then the bad part is those foothills. There's 32 00:02:05,840 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 1: no trees, there's no shade, it's just hot. So unless 33 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: you get up super early in the morning and beat 34 00:02:11,080 --> 00:02:14,280 Speaker 1: the heat, which I never can seem to do. I'm 35 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:18,040 Speaker 1: not an early riser, so I'm usually suffering in the heat. 36 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:21,760 Speaker 1: But it's good because if I'm used to dealing with 37 00:02:21,960 --> 00:02:29,200 Speaker 1: hot sun and sweat and discomfort during those hikes, then 38 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 1: it's gonna acclimate me to do in the same thing 39 00:02:31,960 --> 00:02:35,000 Speaker 1: during September when the mornings are cool. So that's a 40 00:02:35,000 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: great way to fulfill my fitness goal to do some. 41 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,640 Speaker 1: I also like to do some dumb bell workouts. You know, 42 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:46,480 Speaker 1: I'm doing curls for the curls, as they say, I'm 43 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:48,200 Speaker 1: doing a lot of shoulder stuff. I just want to 44 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:50,480 Speaker 1: be able to be strong and that way, when my 45 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 1: pat goes on my back, I won't get fatigued all September. 46 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: And that kind of goes along with your your you're hiking, right, 47 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,200 Speaker 1: you're rocky. Put on some put a put your pack on. 48 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,359 Speaker 1: Put a little weight down there, you know, twenty twenty 49 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:07,400 Speaker 1: pounds at the beginning, and as as season gets approaches, 50 00:03:08,040 --> 00:03:12,040 Speaker 1: puts put a pretty good load in it. Shooting your bow, 51 00:03:12,960 --> 00:03:17,040 Speaker 1: that's that's paramount. At this point of summer, we should 52 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:19,920 Speaker 1: have started. If you haven't, you should have probably started 53 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:22,600 Speaker 1: that a couple of months ago. But shooting, you know, 54 00:03:22,639 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: a pretty dedicated, uh schedule of shooting. I like to 55 00:03:26,720 --> 00:03:29,399 Speaker 1: shoot in the mornings before it gets gets warm here, 56 00:03:29,840 --> 00:03:34,440 Speaker 1: before I start my day, shoot shoot a few rounds. 57 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: I'm not a big believer in shooting one hundred arrows 58 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:40,600 Speaker 1: a day like some people. I feel like high quality, 59 00:03:41,400 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 1: shorter rounds, shorter amount of reps works better for me. 60 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: That way, I can just focus on all the fundamentals 61 00:03:49,480 --> 00:03:52,320 Speaker 1: and focusing on hunting the bow or holding the bow. 62 00:03:52,480 --> 00:03:57,080 Speaker 1: I'm I'm focusing on releasing the arrow correctly. I'm just 63 00:03:57,160 --> 00:04:00,800 Speaker 1: working on all the muscle memory of doing it right. 64 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: And when I start getting fatigued, then that's when things 65 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,600 Speaker 1: start slipping. My group starts slipping. I start practicing bad habits, 66 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:13,720 Speaker 1: so I like to I like to practice good habits. 67 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:18,480 Speaker 1: And acquiring gear. Seems like once you hit the fourth 68 00:04:18,520 --> 00:04:22,400 Speaker 1: of July, everybody starts getting pretty pretty ramped up on 69 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,000 Speaker 1: buying their gear, you know, for hunting season, whether it's 70 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: new new hunting gear or freeze dried meals or elk 71 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:33,880 Speaker 1: calls or what have you. Then yeah, it's time get 72 00:04:33,880 --> 00:04:37,480 Speaker 1: that stuff ordered. If you're wearing closed or boots, get 73 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,960 Speaker 1: those ordered up right away or bought from your local 74 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,680 Speaker 1: retailer that way, have time that's like, ah, these don't 75 00:04:42,680 --> 00:04:44,599 Speaker 1: fit quite right, you can always return them, get them, 76 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:49,560 Speaker 1: get the right size that way. Come September, it's all good. 77 00:04:49,600 --> 00:04:51,880 Speaker 1: You don't have to worry about waiting on that stuff 78 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:54,720 Speaker 1: to get shipped out right away to you, or or 79 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,880 Speaker 1: maybe they're not in stock in your local retailer. And then, last, 80 00:04:58,880 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 1: but not least, learn and a call that you know. 81 00:05:04,080 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: I always recommend starting months in advance, a September. That 82 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: way comes September, you have really a really good grasp 83 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,400 Speaker 1: on calling and you feel really confident. But if you 84 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,960 Speaker 1: haven't done that, not to worry. I mean we can. 85 00:05:18,080 --> 00:05:20,760 Speaker 1: We still have time, but you don't have to be dedicated. 86 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:22,600 Speaker 1: You have to spend some time here. We're going to 87 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:26,640 Speaker 1: have to do you know, every day, practice every day. 88 00:05:27,520 --> 00:05:30,600 Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be hours a day, but that 89 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:35,880 Speaker 1: ten fifteen minutes a day will let you crush that 90 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:39,640 Speaker 1: learning curve on your commutant, on the way to work, 91 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 1: maybe when you get home, out in the garage or 92 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,360 Speaker 1: somewhere where you're not annoying the rest of the family. 93 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:48,320 Speaker 1: I mean, it's kind of tough to call it home 94 00:05:48,360 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: sometimes when you have a family, because everybody doesn't appreciate 95 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:58,159 Speaker 1: those loud bugles like a lot of us do. But 96 00:05:58,200 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: this is going to kick off our series learn to 97 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: Call Elk, and we're going to talk about fundamentals first, 98 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:09,520 Speaker 1: cow calls and bugles, and now, whether you're a season 99 00:06:09,720 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: vet or a beginner, I got you. I always like 100 00:06:15,160 --> 00:06:20,760 Speaker 1: to tell people to practice the fundamentals first. If you've 101 00:06:20,800 --> 00:06:23,680 Speaker 1: been calling for a long time. If you practice these fundamentals, 102 00:06:24,200 --> 00:06:27,400 Speaker 1: it will definitely help you improve your your game. It 103 00:06:27,440 --> 00:06:36,719 Speaker 1: will help you make your calls a lot more realistic. Now, 104 00:06:36,920 --> 00:06:40,279 Speaker 1: I always like to say, you want to crawl before 105 00:06:40,279 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: you walk, right. We want to build muscle memory, and 106 00:06:45,839 --> 00:06:49,960 Speaker 1: we want our tongue and our our internal diaphragm to 107 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:51,880 Speaker 1: know how much how much pressure to put, how much 108 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:54,400 Speaker 1: air to blow, how much tongue pressure to blow every 109 00:06:54,440 --> 00:06:56,960 Speaker 1: single time we put that call in our mouth. That 110 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 1: way we build confidence to when it comes time to 111 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: blow it in the elk woods, then you know what's 112 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:04,919 Speaker 1: going to come out of your mouth. Right. If you 113 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,320 Speaker 1: haven't practiced much, sometimes it's like, Okay, I'm gonna try 114 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,080 Speaker 1: to make this certain call, and you go to make 115 00:07:12,120 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: it and it's like, oh, I didn't come out like 116 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:21,840 Speaker 1: I anticipated, And that's just lack of practice. So tuning 117 00:07:21,960 --> 00:07:25,440 Speaker 1: up your calls every day for ten to fifteen minutes 118 00:07:25,640 --> 00:07:29,840 Speaker 1: will definitely take that guess work out. But crawling before 119 00:07:29,840 --> 00:07:33,880 Speaker 1: you walk has to do with if you're a new caller, 120 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,040 Speaker 1: don't just open a package. If you never tried to 121 00:07:36,040 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: call a bugle before, don't just open the package and 122 00:07:39,960 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: throw the read in your mouth and try to rip 123 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:48,160 Speaker 1: a big bugle because I promise you it probably won't 124 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:51,200 Speaker 1: sound anything like an elk. Then that can be kind 125 00:07:51,200 --> 00:07:54,480 Speaker 1: of discouraging and be like, oh man, wow, that was crazy. 126 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:56,920 Speaker 1: I don't know if you know I can do this 127 00:07:57,240 --> 00:08:01,240 Speaker 1: elk call and stuff. So get your diaphragm, put it 128 00:08:01,240 --> 00:08:05,880 Speaker 1: in your mouth. If you're using a phelps Amp call, 129 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:09,520 Speaker 1: we have the little silver dome on top of our diaphragms. 130 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: And you want to put that that silver dome on 131 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:14,800 Speaker 1: top towards the roof of your mouth. And you want 132 00:08:14,800 --> 00:08:17,480 Speaker 1: to put the latex, the flat, the flat into the call, 133 00:08:17,600 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: not the round it in, but the flat into the call. 134 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:20,880 Speaker 1: You want to put that towards your teeth, and you 135 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: want to put that up in your in your mouth 136 00:08:23,480 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: there and get it on your tongue. That don would 137 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:27,760 Speaker 1: put it too far back because that's where that gag 138 00:08:27,840 --> 00:08:30,240 Speaker 1: reflex will come in. And you get it too far back, 139 00:08:30,280 --> 00:08:35,000 Speaker 1: you'll you'll you'll start gagging. Uh. And if you get 140 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,440 Speaker 1: it too far forward, a lot of folks have a 141 00:08:37,440 --> 00:08:40,920 Speaker 1: problem with a tickle. It'll tickle their tongue. So you 142 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: try to find that kind of a happy place in 143 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:45,840 Speaker 1: the in the middle of your tongue, where your tongue 144 00:08:45,840 --> 00:08:49,600 Speaker 1: feels the strongest. Now, I like to picture having a 145 00:08:49,679 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: grape on my tongue, and if I were to push 146 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: pressure with my tongue on that grape and I want 147 00:08:56,840 --> 00:09:00,160 Speaker 1: to crush it, I'm going to put that grape and 148 00:09:00,240 --> 00:09:02,800 Speaker 1: the strongest part of my tongue. So if you put 149 00:09:02,800 --> 00:09:05,280 Speaker 1: that drape too far forward, you just don't have you 150 00:09:05,360 --> 00:09:07,400 Speaker 1: just don't have any leverage. It doesn't seem like you're 151 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,200 Speaker 1: the tip of your tongues as strong as right in 152 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:11,160 Speaker 1: the middle. You put it too far back there again, 153 00:09:11,320 --> 00:09:14,160 Speaker 1: it's not very strong. So find that strong part right 154 00:09:14,160 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 1: in the middle that you feel like you can push 155 00:09:16,480 --> 00:09:20,080 Speaker 1: the best pressure. And that's that's where that that diaphragm 156 00:09:20,120 --> 00:09:24,240 Speaker 1: is gonna want to sit. And then you want to 157 00:09:24,520 --> 00:09:26,480 Speaker 1: you want to push it hard against the roof of 158 00:09:26,559 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: your mouth, and you want to seal off all the air. 159 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:32,160 Speaker 1: You want to exert a little bit of air pressure. Now, 160 00:09:32,160 --> 00:09:35,480 Speaker 1: we're not going to try to push so much pressure 161 00:09:35,480 --> 00:09:37,200 Speaker 1: that we're trying to like air up a tire with 162 00:09:37,280 --> 00:09:41,560 Speaker 1: our mouth. We're just trying to push enough pressure to 163 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:45,400 Speaker 1: where how much air would you blow If you're trying 164 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,560 Speaker 1: to just blow some air through like a straw for instance, 165 00:09:49,160 --> 00:09:52,320 Speaker 1: like a drink straw. It's not a huge amount of air, 166 00:09:52,320 --> 00:09:54,400 Speaker 1: but you don't want to push push a little bit 167 00:09:54,440 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: of air and you want to be able to seal 168 00:09:56,679 --> 00:09:58,959 Speaker 1: that air off. So seal it off with your tongue 169 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:01,880 Speaker 1: and also around the sides of your teeth and the 170 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:04,120 Speaker 1: sides you're the of your of your cheeks. Don't let 171 00:10:04,200 --> 00:10:10,280 Speaker 1: it escape around those places. Now, once you have things 172 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:13,720 Speaker 1: sealed off, you want to relax your tongue just ever 173 00:10:13,840 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: so slightly, and if you can. Some of us have 174 00:10:18,800 --> 00:10:22,600 Speaker 1: a very articulate tongue where you can, like you can 175 00:10:22,720 --> 00:10:26,360 Speaker 1: roll it up like a leaf. You can. You can 176 00:10:26,360 --> 00:10:30,319 Speaker 1: control how much pressure or strength you put into things 177 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:34,360 Speaker 1: depending on what part of your tongue you're using. So 178 00:10:34,840 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: I like to try to, like relax if I can 179 00:10:36,880 --> 00:10:39,880 Speaker 1: that middle part of my tongue to where the air 180 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:44,680 Speaker 1: would pass between my tongue and that latex. I'm gonna 181 00:10:44,720 --> 00:10:49,520 Speaker 1: relax just enough to let a little tiny bit of 182 00:10:49,559 --> 00:10:52,240 Speaker 1: air go across that late tex and it's gonna make 183 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:54,760 Speaker 1: a tiny little noise. It's gonna make a little noise 184 00:10:54,840 --> 00:10:58,400 Speaker 1: like a like a mosquito. And it's gonna sound something 185 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:08,520 Speaker 1: like this. Now I'm not pushing lots of air like 186 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: I said, you know, like we're just we're just getting 187 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,640 Speaker 1: some air flowing. It doesn't have to be loud, but 188 00:11:13,679 --> 00:11:17,000 Speaker 1: I just want to make that first initial noise. And 189 00:11:17,120 --> 00:11:20,760 Speaker 1: at first you may may not get that high note. 190 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 1: You may get a note like this. If you're getting 191 00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 1: a little a lower pitch note, that means you're not 192 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,200 Speaker 1: pushing hard enough with your tongue. Apply more pressure, and 193 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:37,240 Speaker 1: apply more pressure until you can raise the octaves of 194 00:11:37,280 --> 00:11:50,800 Speaker 1: that sound to this an experiment. You notice how I 195 00:11:50,840 --> 00:11:53,400 Speaker 1: went from low to super high to a little lower. 196 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,520 Speaker 1: You're just gonna have to to find that right pressure. 197 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:01,520 Speaker 1: And this is a little bit difficult the beginning because 198 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: your tongue's never done this before, or maybe if your 199 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:07,040 Speaker 1: seasoned vet, this is not how you normally typically do it. 200 00:12:07,320 --> 00:12:10,520 Speaker 1: But if you can find that high note every time 201 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,360 Speaker 1: you put your diaphragm in your mouth, then later when 202 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:16,319 Speaker 1: you try to bugle, it's going to be easier to 203 00:12:16,400 --> 00:12:18,160 Speaker 1: hit that high note. Because a lot of people struggle 204 00:12:18,200 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: with hitting that high note. You know, it seems like 205 00:12:20,600 --> 00:12:23,520 Speaker 1: some folks just they can't get that high note. That 206 00:12:23,679 --> 00:12:26,000 Speaker 1: high ringing note, which is what a lot of elk 207 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,000 Speaker 1: really respond to, especially when you're going to challenge them. 208 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:34,880 Speaker 1: So figuring this out right from the beginning will help 209 00:12:34,920 --> 00:12:39,520 Speaker 1: you later on. So once you find that note, then 210 00:12:39,559 --> 00:12:41,679 Speaker 1: we want to practice that mount. Now this is boring, 211 00:12:41,760 --> 00:12:45,640 Speaker 1: and this is not sexy. That's not these big sexy, 212 00:12:45,679 --> 00:12:48,920 Speaker 1: badass bugles. It's like, oh wow, you may press your 213 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 1: friends with right, this is just kind of annoying. And 214 00:12:51,520 --> 00:12:54,640 Speaker 1: little kids do this like you had a kid a diaphragm, 215 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,319 Speaker 1: and before you know it, that kid's running around making 216 00:12:57,880 --> 00:13:01,360 Speaker 1: all sorts of crazy noises, annoying, annoying you. Pretty soon 217 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:06,320 Speaker 1: they're trying to talk like a Donald ductor talking like 218 00:13:06,360 --> 00:13:08,679 Speaker 1: whatever they can with this stupid read in their mouth. Right, 219 00:13:09,880 --> 00:13:12,360 Speaker 1: that's why kids aren't pick this up so quickly, because 220 00:13:12,400 --> 00:13:15,600 Speaker 1: as adults, we're a little bit stoic, right, we don't 221 00:13:15,640 --> 00:13:19,280 Speaker 1: really typically act like that or do those kind of things. 222 00:13:20,520 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: And unless your baby a little bit of a character 223 00:13:22,920 --> 00:13:27,200 Speaker 1: and like to mess with people, But experiment, find the 224 00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:30,880 Speaker 1: boundaries of that diaphragm. You know, with just a little pressure, 225 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:34,160 Speaker 1: just barely touching your tongue to that diaphragm, you can 226 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:42,040 Speaker 1: get that really low note, and that really high note 227 00:13:42,240 --> 00:13:44,800 Speaker 1: takes a lot more pressure. So from the low to 228 00:13:44,840 --> 00:13:46,920 Speaker 1: the high, play with it. Try to make all sorts 229 00:13:46,960 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: of weird noises. Just finding the boundaries that this call 230 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: has will help out. It's like, Okay, I'm starting to 231 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:57,800 Speaker 1: see how this thing works, right, light time pressure, low notes, 232 00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:03,520 Speaker 1: hard tongue pressure, high note. So practice that mosquito noise 233 00:14:03,559 --> 00:14:06,040 Speaker 1: and it's gonna be boring. So I always say, take 234 00:14:06,080 --> 00:14:11,880 Speaker 1: a deep breath, let that air start seeping out, and 235 00:14:11,920 --> 00:14:15,200 Speaker 1: then hold that same note for the length that you 236 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: have a breath. And you know, towards the end it's 237 00:14:18,920 --> 00:14:22,480 Speaker 1: going to get weird because you're fighting for air number one, 238 00:14:22,600 --> 00:14:25,640 Speaker 1: number two, the air pressure. You're running out of air 239 00:14:25,640 --> 00:14:30,560 Speaker 1: pressure air volume, so you're gonna have to change how 240 00:14:30,560 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: hard you're pushing that air. And we're not gonna want 241 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,200 Speaker 1: to push the air with our lungs. We're trying to 242 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:38,680 Speaker 1: push this with our internal diaphragm b' bracing our core 243 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:42,880 Speaker 1: tight and using our internal diaphragm to push air across 244 00:14:42,880 --> 00:14:48,360 Speaker 1: that read or diaphragm. So that may take a little 245 00:14:48,760 --> 00:14:51,520 Speaker 1: little more tongue pressure, a little less tongue pressure, or 246 00:14:51,560 --> 00:14:55,360 Speaker 1: a little more push on air pressure. But as you 247 00:14:55,640 --> 00:14:58,760 Speaker 1: as you play with it, you'll under you'll understand it, 248 00:14:59,160 --> 00:15:03,800 Speaker 1: and pretty soon your brain, your tongue, here's your core. 249 00:15:04,080 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 1: All that stuff's gonna start working together. They know their 250 00:15:07,320 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: job at this point. That's where that muscle memory comes in. 251 00:15:11,320 --> 00:15:23,960 Speaker 1: So practice that that mosquito noise until every time you 252 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:28,120 Speaker 1: put that diaphragm in your mouth, you've got it. You know, 253 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: there's no hesitation. Just like what I did. I don't 254 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: have to search for the note. It just I put 255 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:35,880 Speaker 1: it in and my tongue knows exactly how hard to push. 256 00:15:36,240 --> 00:15:39,280 Speaker 1: My diaphragm knows how much air to push across the reed, 257 00:15:40,120 --> 00:15:47,000 Speaker 1: and everything comes out perfect. Now once you get that down, 258 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,760 Speaker 1: Now we want to learn variance, and you know, from 259 00:15:50,800 --> 00:15:53,200 Speaker 1: the high notes to the low notes. So I always 260 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:56,720 Speaker 1: tell people practice the siren sound. So it's going to 261 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:58,880 Speaker 1: sound like a siren. So you're gonna start at the 262 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:04,200 Speaker 1: low sound, barely any tongue pressure. You're gonna push, push, push, 263 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:07,480 Speaker 1: until you get that up to that mosquito sound, hold 264 00:16:07,520 --> 00:16:11,480 Speaker 1: it and then let it slide back down the other 265 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:14,680 Speaker 1: side to that low note. And if there's a lot 266 00:16:14,680 --> 00:16:17,280 Speaker 1: of work to be done, by your core here, by 267 00:16:17,280 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: your internal diaphragm. There's a lot of work to be 268 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:24,000 Speaker 1: done if you brace up and just really try to 269 00:16:24,120 --> 00:16:29,320 Speaker 1: articulate those those note changes smoothly all the way up 270 00:16:29,800 --> 00:16:32,960 Speaker 1: all the way down. That's that's where the key of 271 00:16:33,040 --> 00:16:36,960 Speaker 1: controlling your elk bugles comes from. So this is where 272 00:16:36,960 --> 00:16:40,120 Speaker 1: the old old veterans elk collors could maybe use a 273 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:42,400 Speaker 1: little help if they don't have perfect el calls already, 274 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:45,440 Speaker 1: because some of us, as we climb those notes, our 275 00:16:45,640 --> 00:16:50,080 Speaker 1: diaphragm may may crack or pop, it may break that sound, 276 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:52,760 Speaker 1: and then it'll kind of take back off. So this 277 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,560 Speaker 1: is where we practice that to get those really really 278 00:16:55,640 --> 00:17:01,400 Speaker 1: smooth transitions, and it's gonna sound something like this. M 279 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:37,560 Speaker 1: m hmmm mm hmmmmmmmmm. Start out slow in the beginning, 280 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,119 Speaker 1: and that once you get better at going up and 281 00:17:40,160 --> 00:17:44,600 Speaker 1: down that staircase, then you can speed up your sirens sound. 282 00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:48,360 Speaker 1: You notice mine kind of broke that little cracking noise right. 283 00:17:48,560 --> 00:17:50,639 Speaker 1: I tried to rush it a little too quick. So 284 00:17:51,400 --> 00:17:57,840 Speaker 1: let the call climb. Brace your brace your core, let 285 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:01,160 Speaker 1: it climb, and then let it descend. Just mood transitions 286 00:18:01,240 --> 00:18:04,520 Speaker 1: top to bottom, top to bottom, top to bottom, it's boring, 287 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:08,800 Speaker 1: it's a weird noise. And but the great part about 288 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:11,720 Speaker 1: it is you can practice these two exercise mosquito and 289 00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:14,320 Speaker 1: siren in the comfort of your car on the way 290 00:18:14,320 --> 00:18:18,159 Speaker 1: to work, and people won't look at you weird like 291 00:18:18,480 --> 00:18:31,399 Speaker 1: when you're practicing with a bugle. So, now, how do 292 00:18:31,480 --> 00:18:34,199 Speaker 1: these relate to calls? Right? Well, those are kind of 293 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,479 Speaker 1: fundamental sounds to call. So that mosquito noise we can 294 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:39,119 Speaker 1: put that to work in a cow call. We can 295 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,400 Speaker 1: put that to work in a locator bugle. The siren, 296 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:47,679 Speaker 1: we put that to work in a standard full bugle. 297 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:52,960 Speaker 1: So we're taking that that mosquito noise to a cal call. Now, 298 00:18:53,440 --> 00:18:57,280 Speaker 1: so hit that high note, that mosquito noise. You hit 299 00:18:57,320 --> 00:19:01,119 Speaker 1: that high note and then just kind of relax your 300 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,720 Speaker 1: tongue real slow and just let it and just let 301 00:19:04,760 --> 00:19:07,159 Speaker 1: it fall off the back notes there. Just let it 302 00:19:07,160 --> 00:19:10,240 Speaker 1: gonna go slow. And then as it goes lower and 303 00:19:10,280 --> 00:19:13,399 Speaker 1: lower on the note scales, as you get to to 304 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:17,520 Speaker 1: where your your tongue is barely touching that call, you know, 305 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:21,200 Speaker 1: the notes will get a lot deeper. So it's gonna 306 00:19:21,200 --> 00:19:40,639 Speaker 1: sound something like this. So practicing that now we can 307 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,880 Speaker 1: shorten that up. It doesn't really sound like a cow call. 308 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,399 Speaker 1: Just be by the speed and the tempo of the call. 309 00:19:46,640 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 1: But it's the same notes. So as we speed that up, 310 00:19:49,800 --> 00:19:51,720 Speaker 1: so we don't we don't linger so long at the 311 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:53,840 Speaker 1: high note, we don't linger so long in the no 312 00:19:53,920 --> 00:19:56,160 Speaker 1: Lo note. We just let it kind of. We can't 313 00:19:56,240 --> 00:19:59,399 Speaker 1: make that that cow call, and it's gonna sound like this, 314 00:20:06,000 --> 00:20:10,840 Speaker 1: And we want to do this with just light light 315 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:14,880 Speaker 1: air pressure. Right, we're trying to make cow calls right 316 00:20:14,880 --> 00:20:21,440 Speaker 1: now that are relaxed, that that aren't alarming, that aren't excited. 317 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:26,920 Speaker 1: We're just trying to make those super sweet, mature cow calls. Now, 318 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:29,520 Speaker 1: the more you let your tongue linger on the low 319 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,439 Speaker 1: side on those lower notes, the more mature it's going 320 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:35,040 Speaker 1: to sound. The less you let it linger on the 321 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,639 Speaker 1: low side, it's going to sound more like a calf. 322 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:48,359 Speaker 1: So here's a demonstration. That's a mature cow just a 323 00:20:48,400 --> 00:20:50,840 Speaker 1: little bit of high note, but a little bit more 324 00:20:51,160 --> 00:20:55,000 Speaker 1: low note. It lingered a little longer on that low note. 325 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:59,200 Speaker 1: Now the calf call is going to be slightly different. 326 00:20:59,240 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: We're just gonna give a little bit more of that 327 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: high note and we're just not even going to give 328 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:16,680 Speaker 1: the low note, we're staying that higher octave, so we're 329 00:21:16,680 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: not loosening our tongue all the way up. And calf 330 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:22,320 Speaker 1: calls they take even less air pressure than the cow 331 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: calls because the call is a lot longer. So this 332 00:21:25,440 --> 00:21:27,879 Speaker 1: is kind of a delicate procedure, and at first it'll 333 00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,680 Speaker 1: probably be a little bit tough to control that air 334 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 1: pressure because we'll tend to, like a lot of folks, 335 00:21:34,880 --> 00:21:37,879 Speaker 1: really have to work on that air pressure control a 336 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:40,720 Speaker 1: lot in the beginning, and tongue control, of course, but 337 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,520 Speaker 1: getting those to work at the right time together, it 338 00:21:43,560 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 1: does take some work. That's why back to that whole 339 00:21:46,560 --> 00:21:50,960 Speaker 1: mosquito the siren, we're learning that tongue control long before 340 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:54,560 Speaker 1: we're trying to learn how to make a call. That way, 341 00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:56,760 Speaker 1: it makes this a lot easier and you can make 342 00:21:56,800 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: a lot more realistic kind of sounds. Now, if your 343 00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:13,119 Speaker 1: calls are kind of harsh or squeaky like this, you 344 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:18,000 Speaker 1: may be tensing up your mouth too much. Oftentimes it's 345 00:22:18,160 --> 00:22:21,680 Speaker 1: almost the human nature to kind of like brace your mouth, 346 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,879 Speaker 1: like your cheeks and every part of your mouth to 347 00:22:25,960 --> 00:22:28,920 Speaker 1: make this call. And when you do that, it'll make 348 00:22:28,960 --> 00:22:32,800 Speaker 1: a squeaky or a kind of a less calming sound 349 00:22:33,640 --> 00:22:39,600 Speaker 1: of a call. So my cheeks are relaxed. The only 350 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: thing that's flexing is my tongue. Okay. And as I 351 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:46,200 Speaker 1: go from the top the high note to the low 352 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:50,679 Speaker 1: note on that cow call, I might even be slightly 353 00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:53,920 Speaker 1: relaxing my jaw, dropping my jaw down a little bit. 354 00:22:55,000 --> 00:23:00,959 Speaker 1: So experiment with that to see how it suit you. 355 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:03,440 Speaker 1: I know some guys will drop their jaw and let 356 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 1: a lot and let them create a larger cavity inside 357 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:10,080 Speaker 1: their mouth for the sound to resonate out of. And 358 00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,960 Speaker 1: they just do it all with tongue work. That takes 359 00:23:13,000 --> 00:23:15,040 Speaker 1: a lot of takes a lot of strength in your 360 00:23:15,080 --> 00:23:18,840 Speaker 1: tongue and a lot of practice and discipline and in 361 00:23:18,920 --> 00:23:25,760 Speaker 1: practicing in front of a mirror. But just to start out, 362 00:23:25,760 --> 00:23:27,920 Speaker 1: I wouldn't try to open your jaw too much. I 363 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: would just kind of let your tongue do most of 364 00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,359 Speaker 1: the work, and then slightly as you hit that lower note, 365 00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:40,919 Speaker 1: just slightly let your jaw relax. Now, Bugles, that's the 366 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:45,120 Speaker 1: one everybody likes to do, right. Cow calls calend caf 367 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:48,120 Speaker 1: calls are deadly. There's a lot of folks that love 368 00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 1: to use cow and CAF calls to call in bulls. 369 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,000 Speaker 1: I like to couple my calend CAF calls with bugles. 370 00:23:55,800 --> 00:24:02,720 Speaker 1: Whatever camp you're in, bugling is very effective. Now maybe 371 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:05,400 Speaker 1: you don't maybe you don't finish your elk with bugles, 372 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:07,439 Speaker 1: but you get them started right. You're trying to locate 373 00:24:07,480 --> 00:24:10,000 Speaker 1: a ball from a long distance. Bugles are loud. You're 374 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:11,879 Speaker 1: just trying to get that bold to sound off to you. 375 00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:15,360 Speaker 1: So it's important to bugle. If you want to call elk, 376 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:20,120 Speaker 1: you got to learn how to bugle elk. So for bugles, 377 00:24:20,119 --> 00:24:22,040 Speaker 1: we're going to go right back to our good friends 378 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:27,720 Speaker 1: Mosquito and Siren. First things first, though, when you bugle, 379 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:32,480 Speaker 1: I always recommend to practice with a tube. You can 380 00:24:32,520 --> 00:24:37,560 Speaker 1: definitely practice without one, but everything you learn without the 381 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:40,800 Speaker 1: tube changes when you put a tube to your mouth. 382 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:45,080 Speaker 1: I've conducted a lot of training courses with folks hands 383 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: on in person when we learn bugles, and if we 384 00:24:50,720 --> 00:24:53,880 Speaker 1: practice too much with how to bugle, then when they 385 00:24:53,880 --> 00:24:58,120 Speaker 1: put the bugle to their lips, it's like something changes, 386 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:02,000 Speaker 1: and then everything that their tongue and diaphragm and brain new, 387 00:25:02,240 --> 00:25:04,199 Speaker 1: it's all changed all about the window. Now we have 388 00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:07,080 Speaker 1: to relearn, so I like to recommend make sure you 389 00:25:07,160 --> 00:25:10,000 Speaker 1: practice your bugles with a tube. And also they're just 390 00:25:10,040 --> 00:25:14,399 Speaker 1: gonna sound better. And all tubes are not created equal. 391 00:25:14,720 --> 00:25:17,880 Speaker 1: You know, the old vacuum cleaner style that everybody grew 392 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,800 Speaker 1: up using back in the eighties, and even today some 393 00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:24,600 Speaker 1: people still prefer those kinds. Those sound good, but they 394 00:25:24,720 --> 00:25:31,080 Speaker 1: don't always sound as good as possible. I know hunters 395 00:25:31,119 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: who have been using those for a long time, and 396 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: you hand them like a new, newer style tube, the 397 00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,960 Speaker 1: ones that look like a baseball bat. Right here at Phelps, 398 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:42,879 Speaker 1: we have the Renegade, we have the Unleashed, we have 399 00:25:42,920 --> 00:25:45,000 Speaker 1: the Unleashed V two, we have the metal Tube, we 400 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,360 Speaker 1: have the Unrivaled. We've got a lot of different tubes, 401 00:25:47,560 --> 00:25:53,320 Speaker 1: but they're not those flexible vacuum cleaner style tubes. But 402 00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:55,640 Speaker 1: when you give somebody that's been bugle in their whole 403 00:25:55,680 --> 00:25:59,520 Speaker 1: life with one of those flexible tube styles, you give 404 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:03,040 Speaker 1: them one of these larger bat style tubes, it's an 405 00:26:03,119 --> 00:26:06,080 Speaker 1: immediate improvement. And what I mean by that it sounds 406 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:09,359 Speaker 1: more crystal clear. It's the back pressure is better to 407 00:26:09,400 --> 00:26:12,720 Speaker 1: where as they put air pressure into the tube, not 408 00:26:12,840 --> 00:26:16,399 Speaker 1: all of it leaks out. The opposite end, and it 409 00:26:16,480 --> 00:26:19,560 Speaker 1: lets them build those notes up of the octaves a 410 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:23,280 Speaker 1: lot easier without without putting pushing so so hard and 411 00:26:23,280 --> 00:26:25,760 Speaker 1: pushing so much air pressure in there. So it kind 412 00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:28,600 Speaker 1: of retains some of that air pressure. So it can 413 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 1: make a okay or decent collar into a great collar 414 00:26:32,320 --> 00:26:35,640 Speaker 1: just by switching tubes. That's just kind of a little 415 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,159 Speaker 1: pro tip. So back to learning how to bugle. So 416 00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:43,200 Speaker 1: our good old friend Mosquito. Right, so we're gonna for 417 00:26:43,240 --> 00:26:46,159 Speaker 1: a locator bugle. You just hit that high note, you 418 00:26:46,240 --> 00:26:49,200 Speaker 1: hold it for a while, then, just like the calcal, 419 00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:52,040 Speaker 1: you drop it off the backside. But this time, instead 420 00:26:52,040 --> 00:26:54,800 Speaker 1: of being slow and lazy with the way it comes 421 00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:56,679 Speaker 1: off the back end, what we're going to do is 422 00:26:56,840 --> 00:27:00,560 Speaker 1: come off pretty quickly, abruptly, and then we're gonna add 423 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:03,720 Speaker 1: our voice. We're gonna inflect our voice to it, and 424 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:05,840 Speaker 1: it's gonna sound like somebody punched us in the gut. 425 00:27:08,040 --> 00:27:11,320 Speaker 1: Now we're not gonna growl like a bear. We're not 426 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:13,399 Speaker 1: gonna do that. We're gonna take a punch of the 427 00:27:13,440 --> 00:27:20,719 Speaker 1: gut because that adds just the right amount of bass 428 00:27:20,760 --> 00:27:24,080 Speaker 1: in there that basse resonates in the tube and it 429 00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:27,399 Speaker 1: just sounds good, and it doesn't sound too grally if 430 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:29,880 Speaker 1: you if you growl too much, it just doesn't sound 431 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: quite right. But if you just add that to the end, 432 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:38,359 Speaker 1: then it will it'll sound a lot better. So practice 433 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,120 Speaker 1: this by starting out with your siren and then drop 434 00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:44,280 Speaker 1: it off abruptly and then a punch to the gut. 435 00:27:50,960 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: Now that didn't really sound like much like a no 436 00:27:53,800 --> 00:27:56,480 Speaker 1: bugle at all, but if we do it into a tube, 437 00:27:56,520 --> 00:28:07,320 Speaker 1: it's gonna sound a lot better. Sounds way better, and 438 00:28:07,359 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: you can feel that base with inside the tube, so 439 00:28:10,760 --> 00:28:13,800 Speaker 1: you get good feedback whether it's audibly, and you can 440 00:28:13,840 --> 00:28:16,560 Speaker 1: actually feel that bass in the tube. So your hand 441 00:28:16,840 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: picks that up and it say, okay, yeah, that felt right, 442 00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:25,200 Speaker 1: sounded right. I like it, So practice that. And the 443 00:28:25,280 --> 00:28:30,399 Speaker 1: transition from that mosquito noise down to the to the 444 00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:33,840 Speaker 1: punch to the gut can sometimes be challenging for people. 445 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:38,800 Speaker 1: So it's sometimes it's really hard for people to blend 446 00:28:38,840 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: those together. So I'll do this in slow motion, uh 447 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:47,640 Speaker 1: slow audio motion, I guess so, because there is kind 448 00:28:47,640 --> 00:28:53,360 Speaker 1: of a disconnect from the bugle to or from the 449 00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,720 Speaker 1: mosquito noise to that to that punch to the gut. 450 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:09,120 Speaker 1: H yeah. H. So some people have to break it down. 451 00:29:09,120 --> 00:29:11,720 Speaker 1: They'll have to do the mosquito noise and then let 452 00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: their brain reset and then go oh at the end. 453 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:16,200 Speaker 1: So even if you have to do that, that's okay 454 00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,560 Speaker 1: because as you do that over and over and over again, 455 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,360 Speaker 1: pretty soon you can connect the two a lot quicker 456 00:29:22,600 --> 00:29:40,280 Speaker 1: to where it sounds like this. H Okay, that's your 457 00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:45,760 Speaker 1: locator bugle. Now to do a fold bugle. That's where 458 00:29:45,760 --> 00:29:47,840 Speaker 1: you start at the bottom, take it to the top note, 459 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:49,720 Speaker 1: hold it for a little bit, and then drop off 460 00:29:49,760 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: the backside. Now that's where gonna where we're gonna use 461 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:55,920 Speaker 1: our old friend siren. Right, so in the beginning, when 462 00:29:55,960 --> 00:29:59,120 Speaker 1: that that diaphragm is barely touching your tongue, you're getting 463 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:03,720 Speaker 1: that first loan note. We're gonna inflect your voice. Now again, 464 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:07,880 Speaker 1: we're not gonna growl hard like this. We're gonna do 465 00:30:07,920 --> 00:30:13,120 Speaker 1: more of a like like you're clearing your throat. Like 466 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:15,680 Speaker 1: let's say, add some flem in your throat, or you know, 467 00:30:15,920 --> 00:30:17,600 Speaker 1: you get a little bit sick, or you got a 468 00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:20,640 Speaker 1: frog in your throat. Per se, it'd be almost like 469 00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,520 Speaker 1: clearing your throat. So it's not like an ought like 470 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,560 Speaker 1: a you're using your voice to growl, You're just you're 471 00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: just clearing your throat. So it's more just like the 472 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:37,560 Speaker 1: the you're tightening your throat to make that noise versus 473 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:39,960 Speaker 1: using your vocal cords. Right, we don't want to use 474 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,400 Speaker 1: overuse the vocal cords because then it kind of overdoes it. 475 00:30:43,520 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: And then once you get that first note started and 476 00:30:46,040 --> 00:30:50,600 Speaker 1: you start that that that wheeze or that that throat 477 00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:53,960 Speaker 1: clearing grawl at the beginning, once you get that established, 478 00:30:54,600 --> 00:30:57,720 Speaker 1: then we start climbing the octaves. So and it doesn't 479 00:30:57,760 --> 00:31:00,000 Speaker 1: take much air pressure. Some people kind of overdo it 480 00:31:00,160 --> 00:31:02,600 Speaker 1: and the being they like really do it super loud, 481 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:05,680 Speaker 1: like they do put lots of air across there, across 482 00:31:05,720 --> 00:31:07,840 Speaker 1: the diaphragm. They put a lot of air through their throat. 483 00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,280 Speaker 1: The problem is if you start out with lots and 484 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:14,680 Speaker 1: lots of air, as you climb the notes, it's harder, harder, 485 00:31:15,080 --> 00:31:18,920 Speaker 1: harder to control your diaphragm. It's almost like driving your 486 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:22,160 Speaker 1: car right whenever you pull out onto a street, if 487 00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:24,160 Speaker 1: you have a car with a lot of horsepower, if 488 00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:26,520 Speaker 1: you just mash on it from the from the red 489 00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,520 Speaker 1: light and you take a left or you take it right, 490 00:31:29,680 --> 00:31:31,880 Speaker 1: you can break traction. It's just kind of hard to control. 491 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,320 Speaker 1: Whereas if you just kind of put putt putt putt 492 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,160 Speaker 1: out into the intersection and once you get on a 493 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,520 Speaker 1: straight line, you gas it way easier to control. Right, 494 00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:43,240 Speaker 1: It's the same thing here. Start out with a modest 495 00:31:43,240 --> 00:31:45,560 Speaker 1: amount of air and then as you climb the notes, 496 00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:48,560 Speaker 1: put more air pressure behind it. So as you tighten 497 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: your your tongue, then tighten your core and push more 498 00:31:52,600 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 1: air pressure. So it's going to sound like this. This 499 00:31:55,360 --> 00:32:08,720 Speaker 1: is without the without the tube. So just like our 500 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,240 Speaker 1: locator bugle, once you get up to that top note, 501 00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,040 Speaker 1: you hold it for a little bit and then when 502 00:32:13,080 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 1: you drop off the backside, we come down quick. Come 503 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,880 Speaker 1: down quick, and add that punch of the gut. Now, 504 00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,760 Speaker 1: to add some variance to your call, you can draw 505 00:32:21,800 --> 00:32:23,800 Speaker 1: that out on the backside when you bring it down. 506 00:32:25,080 --> 00:32:28,480 Speaker 1: But just for for beginner purposes, just to start off, 507 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:30,680 Speaker 1: start learning how to do this right off the bat. 508 00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,120 Speaker 1: I would come off in the backside pretty quickly, because 509 00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:37,520 Speaker 1: it seems like once if you start out the other way, 510 00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,640 Speaker 1: draw it way out on the you know, draw it 511 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,200 Speaker 1: like a longer note coming off the backside it's hard 512 00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:46,200 Speaker 1: to kind of break that habit and then to gain 513 00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,440 Speaker 1: more variants. So the important part about calling elk is 514 00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:53,600 Speaker 1: like these, these first few calls I'm showing you, these 515 00:32:53,600 --> 00:32:58,080 Speaker 1: are just the basic call. Once you get those mastered, 516 00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,760 Speaker 1: then you're gonna want to practice adding some very to him. 517 00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,280 Speaker 1: So you can shorten up. You can shorten up the 518 00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:05,280 Speaker 1: first half. You can shorten up the back half of 519 00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,280 Speaker 1: the call of the bugle. Same with the cow calls, 520 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:11,680 Speaker 1: same with the calf calls. You can change how hard 521 00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 1: you push your dut with the tongue on the diaphragm. 522 00:33:14,920 --> 00:33:17,480 Speaker 1: You can change how much air you're putting across. You could, 523 00:33:17,520 --> 00:33:19,400 Speaker 1: like for cow callis and for instance, you can make 524 00:33:19,760 --> 00:33:22,000 Speaker 1: you know, push a little more air pressure, a little 525 00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,560 Speaker 1: more tongue pressure, makes some real loud calls, and then 526 00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:27,720 Speaker 1: kind of back it off, make some quiet, quiet quiet ones, 527 00:33:27,760 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: almost a whisper. This adds depth, It adds the illusion 528 00:33:31,240 --> 00:33:35,640 Speaker 1: that there's more than one cow elk there. The bugles. 529 00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: Not every bugle bowl bugles the same. Not every one 530 00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,080 Speaker 1: of them sounds like a dinosaur, Not every one of 531 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:43,960 Speaker 1: them sounds like a kid just hitting puberty that has 532 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,400 Speaker 1: a little bit of a weird kind of voice. They 533 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:51,200 Speaker 1: all sound a little different and at different times. The 534 00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:53,680 Speaker 1: same bowl may bugle differently. You know, if he's betted, 535 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,440 Speaker 1: he may just kind of groan it. If he's if 536 00:33:56,480 --> 00:33:59,680 Speaker 1: he's chasing cows and getting feeling frustrated and trying to 537 00:33:59,760 --> 00:34:01,880 Speaker 1: keep the East counts the line, he's gonna scream and 538 00:34:02,080 --> 00:34:05,880 Speaker 1: rip these huge bugles. So you just never know. That's 539 00:34:05,880 --> 00:34:11,200 Speaker 1: why it's so important to learn that variance to these calls. 540 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:16,479 Speaker 1: So back back to making this bugle. So start out 541 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,920 Speaker 1: on that low end of your bugle, barely touching your diaphragm, 542 00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:26,720 Speaker 1: getting that first note, add some add some throat clearing sounds, 543 00:34:30,560 --> 00:34:48,839 Speaker 1: and then climb up the octave. Yeah, that's what the tube. See. 544 00:34:49,120 --> 00:34:53,640 Speaker 1: Sounds so much better with the tube. So I encourage 545 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,319 Speaker 1: you if you can practice with the tube right off 546 00:34:56,400 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 1: the bat. Now, one huge important thing while using a 547 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:03,400 Speaker 1: tube is I see uh veteran callers do this. I 548 00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:06,200 Speaker 1: see new callers do this, but they don't see all 549 00:35:06,239 --> 00:35:08,640 Speaker 1: their lips around the tube. Right. We have to make 550 00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:11,240 Speaker 1: an air tight seal on that tube with your lips. 551 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,520 Speaker 1: We don't want any of the air escaping out the 552 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,000 Speaker 1: side of your lips and the cracks, right, So we 553 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:20,399 Speaker 1: want to form our lips to the tube in its 554 00:35:20,440 --> 00:35:23,719 Speaker 1: kind of a round fashion. That way we make a 555 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,000 Speaker 1: good air tight seal connection. That way, all the air's 556 00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:30,480 Speaker 1: going into the tube. It will help you articulate those notes. 557 00:35:30,800 --> 00:35:33,960 Speaker 1: Now some advance calling. There are times I do break 558 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:37,400 Speaker 1: that seal, like on a like on a like a 559 00:35:37,520 --> 00:35:40,640 Speaker 1: challenge bugle scream or something. I may hit that high 560 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:45,680 Speaker 1: note and have a little bit of air air seepage 561 00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:47,360 Speaker 1: on the on the sides of my lips. Just a 562 00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:50,239 Speaker 1: little little little bit air come out of there, just 563 00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:53,880 Speaker 1: so I can scream a lot easier. And then and 564 00:35:53,880 --> 00:35:56,239 Speaker 1: then I'll tighten up as I come down. It'll sound 565 00:35:56,280 --> 00:36:06,439 Speaker 1: something like this. But for most interstensive purposes, you're gonna 566 00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:12,120 Speaker 1: want to seal your lips off on that tube. So 567 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:20,000 Speaker 1: back to gaining good control and smooth transitions. The best 568 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:22,960 Speaker 1: thing to do is spend that ten fifteen minutes a 569 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:26,839 Speaker 1: day practicing that. On your commute with your tube. People 570 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:28,680 Speaker 1: are gonna look at you like, what is that guy 571 00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,960 Speaker 1: doing or gal doing? And some people might think you're 572 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,000 Speaker 1: drinking a bottle of wine. If you have at one 573 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,399 Speaker 1: of these tubes that looks like a baseball bat. I've 574 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,680 Speaker 1: it almost looks like a bottle of wine. Some of 575 00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:44,560 Speaker 1: them do, so you might get some funny looks from people. 576 00:36:45,280 --> 00:36:48,480 Speaker 1: I know a guy that told me he got pulled 577 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:50,640 Speaker 1: over by a cop one time, and he said he 578 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:52,880 Speaker 1: was turned in by somebody said he was drinking a 579 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:55,319 Speaker 1: bottle of wine and the cop pulled over. He's like, 580 00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: I had a report you were drinking and driving. And 581 00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:01,239 Speaker 1: he's like, no, I'm practicing my help. He looked over 582 00:37:01,239 --> 00:37:03,800 Speaker 1: in the seat and showed him the tube and he's like, okay, 583 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:05,680 Speaker 1: I get it. Yep, all right, I have a good day. 584 00:37:07,080 --> 00:37:10,960 Speaker 1: So be careful on that. You know, people, especially if 585 00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,680 Speaker 1: you live in the city, people kind of give you 586 00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:16,200 Speaker 1: some funny looks. But maybe that's part of the fun anyway. Right. 587 00:37:26,920 --> 00:37:29,640 Speaker 1: We want to practice that full bugle, so to get 588 00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:32,960 Speaker 1: that control, we want to bugle over and over and 589 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:36,880 Speaker 1: over and over again, kind of like our siren routine. 590 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:51,640 Speaker 1: So we're gonna do this, yeah, yeah, just over and 591 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,960 Speaker 1: over and over again. That just that same routine over. 592 00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,440 Speaker 1: You know, you go from the low to the high, 593 00:37:58,600 --> 00:38:01,160 Speaker 1: drop off, low to the high to drop off. Feel 594 00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:03,759 Speaker 1: free to take a breath in between, especially if you're 595 00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:07,160 Speaker 1: driving because you don't want to blackout, run out of air. 596 00:38:07,640 --> 00:38:12,640 Speaker 1: But that that exercise, that right there, will create so 597 00:38:12,760 --> 00:38:18,440 Speaker 1: much consistency on how good your bugles turn out. Because 598 00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,040 Speaker 1: if you do an over and over again, Let's say 599 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:25,200 Speaker 1: you did a hundred of them, right, that built such 600 00:38:25,239 --> 00:38:28,319 Speaker 1: great muscle memory to where there's no doubt you're doing 601 00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,239 Speaker 1: a hundred of them a day. There's no doubt every 602 00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,839 Speaker 1: time you put your die from your mouth you're gonna 603 00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,440 Speaker 1: be able to make the bugle that you want to hear. 604 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:39,680 Speaker 1: And then once you master that, play with it. You 605 00:38:39,719 --> 00:38:42,000 Speaker 1: know you don't have to hit that highest note. Maybe 606 00:38:42,000 --> 00:38:44,560 Speaker 1: you just want to do a lazy, lazy bugle to 607 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,800 Speaker 1: where you don't hardly climb off that very first note. 608 00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,440 Speaker 1: You just and then you put a little bit more 609 00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:54,799 Speaker 1: of that throat clearing noise or that voice into it. 610 00:38:54,800 --> 00:39:02,960 Speaker 1: It's gonna sound something like this. You know, a lot 611 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:06,120 Speaker 1: less air pressure you can do. You can do that 612 00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,479 Speaker 1: kind of a variance. You could give it a little 613 00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:12,280 Speaker 1: bit more on the back end instead of just dropping 614 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:15,799 Speaker 1: off the backside of bugle real abruptly. Then we can 615 00:39:15,840 --> 00:39:27,279 Speaker 1: come off longer. You can play with it, you can 616 00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:30,480 Speaker 1: add it, you can add whatever you want to it, 617 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,719 Speaker 1: but the most important thing is that it sounds like 618 00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:40,520 Speaker 1: a real ELK. Now it's fun to watch your favorite 619 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,839 Speaker 1: YouTubers and trying to emulate and trying to reproduce the 620 00:39:44,880 --> 00:39:49,400 Speaker 1: same exact sounds they are. But honestly, the best course 621 00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:52,760 Speaker 1: of action, the best practice you can get, is listening 622 00:39:52,800 --> 00:39:55,279 Speaker 1: to real elk and outside of the rut, it's really 623 00:39:55,320 --> 00:39:58,600 Speaker 1: hard to do that. So I recommend getting on YouTube. 624 00:39:59,040 --> 00:40:02,960 Speaker 1: Send your significance other or your family to the water park, 625 00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,080 Speaker 1: or send your significant other to the spa for the day, 626 00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:11,480 Speaker 1: whatever that way you have some time alone in the 627 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,239 Speaker 1: house unless maybe they want to be part of it. 628 00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:16,520 Speaker 1: You know, some families love to call together we see 629 00:40:16,880 --> 00:40:18,680 Speaker 1: you know, little kids, you know, they love it. They 630 00:40:19,040 --> 00:40:21,920 Speaker 1: want to be like dad or mom calling ELK. So 631 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,120 Speaker 1: whatever the case is in your household, you know, make it, 632 00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:28,319 Speaker 1: make it good and fun for everybody. But I would 633 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,840 Speaker 1: say turn on something on YouTube. There's a ton of videos. 634 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:33,040 Speaker 1: You can do some search like just elk bugling or 635 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:38,400 Speaker 1: elk elk. You can just get creative with your searches 636 00:40:38,440 --> 00:40:42,600 Speaker 1: and there's tons and tons of videos of rutting elk 637 00:40:42,800 --> 00:40:45,760 Speaker 1: in like national parks and places like that, or people 638 00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:50,280 Speaker 1: who just go out and record elk on the public 639 00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:54,440 Speaker 1: land even. But what we're looking for is just hearing 640 00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:57,440 Speaker 1: all those elk vocalizations, you know, all the cow calls, 641 00:40:57,560 --> 00:41:01,000 Speaker 1: all those bugles, and what you'll find is like, as 642 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:05,399 Speaker 1: you're listening to all these different elk, man, that one 643 00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:09,160 Speaker 1: sounds really good, like the typical elk call that we 644 00:41:09,239 --> 00:41:11,759 Speaker 1: all have grown to love. But man, that other one 645 00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:14,440 Speaker 1: sounds sick, he doesn't even sound like an elk. Or 646 00:41:14,440 --> 00:41:19,600 Speaker 1: that things sounds terrible. So the moral of the story is, 647 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:23,000 Speaker 1: you don't have to sound like that perfect cookie cutter 648 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:26,560 Speaker 1: three note bugle or some world champion ouk call. You 649 00:41:26,560 --> 00:41:28,080 Speaker 1: don't have to You don't have to listen to that 650 00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:30,080 Speaker 1: and be like, I have to really sound like that person. 651 00:41:30,520 --> 00:41:34,040 Speaker 1: What you have to sound like is a real elk. Now, 652 00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:39,560 Speaker 1: I will say, whenever I say you have to sound good, 653 00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:44,440 Speaker 1: that doesn't mean you don't have to like, sound like 654 00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:47,440 Speaker 1: a real elk. I've I had an accounter here a 655 00:41:47,520 --> 00:41:50,000 Speaker 1: couple of falls ago when I was calling a bowl 656 00:41:50,040 --> 00:41:53,120 Speaker 1: and I called in another hunter. He come and tried 657 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,359 Speaker 1: to move in on me and the bowl. He thought 658 00:41:55,440 --> 00:41:58,280 Speaker 1: we were real elk, and he was making these noises 659 00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:00,560 Speaker 1: that sounded like a like a puz be that was 660 00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:04,200 Speaker 1: getting hurt or something. It was so odd and weird 661 00:42:04,280 --> 00:42:06,920 Speaker 1: that I don't know why anyone would even try to 662 00:42:06,920 --> 00:42:09,520 Speaker 1: attempt to make those kind of noises because it didn't 663 00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:12,400 Speaker 1: sound anything like Elk. It didn't represent an elk whatsoever, 664 00:42:12,480 --> 00:42:22,360 Speaker 1: and it kind of was like, it sounded so weird. 665 00:42:22,960 --> 00:42:24,839 Speaker 1: I can't even reproduce the sound, but it was something 666 00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,879 Speaker 1: kind of like that. So you don't have to sound 667 00:42:27,920 --> 00:42:31,080 Speaker 1: like a world championhip caller, absolutely not, but you do 668 00:42:31,200 --> 00:42:34,080 Speaker 1: have to have Elk like sounds and that kind of 669 00:42:34,080 --> 00:42:36,319 Speaker 1: a sound, that kind of a call is absolutely not 670 00:42:36,360 --> 00:42:39,120 Speaker 1: an ELK sound, and that'll just scare them away. So 671 00:42:39,640 --> 00:42:43,640 Speaker 1: if you can't make Elk sounds and you've practiced and practice, 672 00:42:43,640 --> 00:42:46,160 Speaker 1: maybe you just have to put the calls away. But 673 00:42:46,239 --> 00:42:48,640 Speaker 1: if you can, you know, maybe it's not that perfect 674 00:42:48,640 --> 00:42:51,319 Speaker 1: cookie cut or bugle. But man, you were watching some 675 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,640 Speaker 1: of these ELK videos and some of those sick sound 676 00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:58,359 Speaker 1: and bowls, Yeah, I kind of sound like that. That'll work. 677 00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:01,560 Speaker 1: That will call Elk in. It doesn't have to sound perfect, 678 00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:05,399 Speaker 1: but it does have to sound like an elk. Now, 679 00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:11,719 Speaker 1: another tip for practicing is video taping yourself. So videotape, man, 680 00:43:11,719 --> 00:43:14,760 Speaker 1: I just dated myself. We don't have videotapes these days. 681 00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:17,520 Speaker 1: That's all digital. So take your phone. We all have 682 00:43:17,560 --> 00:43:21,760 Speaker 1: a smartphone. Take your phone, put it somewhere pretty close 683 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:25,480 Speaker 1: to it to your face or didn't see yourself from 684 00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,680 Speaker 1: your waist up or whatever, and then practice, hit your 685 00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,359 Speaker 1: record button on the video and practice and go through 686 00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,680 Speaker 1: your practice routine and stuff. And trust me, I think 687 00:43:35,719 --> 00:43:41,520 Speaker 1: we're all guilty of being our own worst critic. So watch. 688 00:43:41,560 --> 00:43:44,680 Speaker 1: When you watch it back, then you'll probably discover a 689 00:43:44,719 --> 00:43:48,400 Speaker 1: lot of different things, like how you maybe thought or 690 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: perceived how it sounded versus what it sounds like. When 691 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:57,960 Speaker 1: you play it back, sometimes you'll spot that you're doing 692 00:43:57,960 --> 00:44:02,200 Speaker 1: something odd or weird with your mouth or something that 693 00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:04,120 Speaker 1: you're not intending to do. And if you can't see 694 00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:06,640 Speaker 1: yourself do, it's kind of hard to spot. I don't 695 00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:09,799 Speaker 1: know if you remember back in middle school in gym 696 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:13,880 Speaker 1: class and we're learning how to do cartwheels right, and 697 00:44:13,960 --> 00:44:16,400 Speaker 1: I was I was not like the athletic kid in 698 00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,319 Speaker 1: when junior high school at all. So we did them 699 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,120 Speaker 1: and I'm like I did it, and they're like, you 700 00:44:21,160 --> 00:44:24,560 Speaker 1: didn't do it like, yes I did, dude, your feet 701 00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:27,840 Speaker 1: didn't come two feet off the ground, right, And until 702 00:44:27,880 --> 00:44:31,279 Speaker 1: you see yourself do it, sometimes it's really hard to 703 00:44:31,440 --> 00:44:36,160 Speaker 1: understand that feedback from someone else. So as you record yourself, 704 00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:40,440 Speaker 1: you will discover yourself. Maybe maybe you are letting some 705 00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,160 Speaker 1: air escape around your lips when you're bugling, maybe you're 706 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:47,040 Speaker 1: doing something with your jaw, or maybe you're tightening up 707 00:44:47,120 --> 00:44:49,640 Speaker 1: like maybe you're tucking your chin in, or maybe you're 708 00:44:50,040 --> 00:44:53,239 Speaker 1: maybe you're doing weird body movements. Like people really get 709 00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:55,360 Speaker 1: into this, Like I try to like not move my 710 00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:58,440 Speaker 1: body a lot. Now if you watch me chuckle and drunt, 711 00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:00,520 Speaker 1: you'll see my belly kind of bounce of bit because 712 00:45:00,680 --> 00:45:04,280 Speaker 1: I'm really working using that my core and my diaphragm 713 00:45:04,400 --> 00:45:07,279 Speaker 1: to get those chuckles out. That's okay, But we don't 714 00:45:07,320 --> 00:45:09,880 Speaker 1: we're not trying to like be too animated with their 715 00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,359 Speaker 1: calls because of course in the elk woods, we don't 716 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,040 Speaker 1: want to move around that much. So by recording ourselves, 717 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:17,560 Speaker 1: we can kind of see some things that may be 718 00:45:18,080 --> 00:45:22,640 Speaker 1: hampering or hindering good elk quality sounds. If you're kind 719 00:45:22,640 --> 00:45:25,840 Speaker 1: of hunched over and kind of tight in the in 720 00:45:25,920 --> 00:45:27,640 Speaker 1: the chest, or whatever. You may not be able to 721 00:45:27,719 --> 00:45:29,719 Speaker 1: hit all those high notes. Maybe you're not get enough 722 00:45:29,760 --> 00:45:32,680 Speaker 1: air going through your calls. Maybe if you stand up 723 00:45:32,719 --> 00:45:35,760 Speaker 1: straight and take deep breaths and really kind of open 724 00:45:35,840 --> 00:45:38,360 Speaker 1: yourself up, that's that's a better way to get a 725 00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:42,720 Speaker 1: little bit more air across the calls. But video yourself. 726 00:45:42,920 --> 00:45:46,839 Speaker 1: It's surprising. I can video myself even right today, and 727 00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,040 Speaker 1: I'll be like, oh, I look funny. You're it's almost 728 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:52,840 Speaker 1: like you're in yourself talked right. You listen to yourself 729 00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,759 Speaker 1: play back and anytime I've heard the podcast played back 730 00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:57,840 Speaker 1: and like, man, my voice sounds weird. It sound like 731 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,920 Speaker 1: a nerd. So we don't always like the feedback we 732 00:46:02,000 --> 00:46:05,560 Speaker 1: get from recording ourselves, but it's good if you're really 733 00:46:05,600 --> 00:46:13,560 Speaker 1: trying to increase how realistic your alk calls sound. Well, 734 00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:15,760 Speaker 1: that's going to be a wrap for today. Our next 735 00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:19,880 Speaker 1: episode that I'm going to cover on calling ELK is 736 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:24,200 Speaker 1: going to be chuckles, grunts, and barks. So that's going 737 00:46:24,280 --> 00:46:26,720 Speaker 1: to take you to the next level. Those are harder, 738 00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,160 Speaker 1: definitely harder, take a lot more effort. A lot of 739 00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:33,840 Speaker 1: folks message me on Instagram, Facebook or talk to me 740 00:46:33,880 --> 00:46:37,120 Speaker 1: in person, talk about man, I just really struggle with 741 00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:40,560 Speaker 1: my grunts and my chuckles. How can what am I 742 00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:44,280 Speaker 1: doing wrong? So I'll kind of go over those things 743 00:46:44,480 --> 00:46:48,120 Speaker 1: on my next episode and see if we can get 744 00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:50,920 Speaker 1: you guys chuckle and grunting. And if you want to 745 00:46:50,960 --> 00:46:53,120 Speaker 1: see this all, you know, if you want to see 746 00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:58,840 Speaker 1: me making these calls, then I have an ELK calling 747 00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:01,480 Speaker 1: series on my YouTube channel. My YouTube channel is called 748 00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:04,840 Speaker 1: the Bugler. It's just spelled out one word, the Bugler. 749 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:09,560 Speaker 1: And if you go to my YouTube channel and select playlists, 750 00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:12,600 Speaker 1: and you'll go down through the list and you'll see 751 00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:16,480 Speaker 1: learn to call Out and it'll start from the basics 752 00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,080 Speaker 1: of picking out a diaphragm all the way through the 753 00:47:19,120 --> 00:47:23,239 Speaker 1: most advanced calls. So if you need a little tune up, 754 00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:26,000 Speaker 1: you want to see visual on how I'm doing it, 755 00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,120 Speaker 1: which is really helpful sometimes to see somebody do something 756 00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:32,880 Speaker 1: instead of just hear them tell you over a podcast, 757 00:47:33,080 --> 00:47:35,600 Speaker 1: then you might give it, give it a look. See 758 00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:38,440 Speaker 1: there's also some good el hunting videos on there in 759 00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,040 Speaker 1: case you get bored and want to get amped up 760 00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:45,640 Speaker 1: for ELK season. So anyway, thanks for following along today. 761 00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:52,160 Speaker 1: Appreciate it man. Thirty one days thirty one days till September. 762 00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,160 Speaker 1: I can't wait, and I hope you guys and galas 763 00:47:55,200 --> 00:47:58,440 Speaker 1: are making the right preparations to have successful successful hunts. 764 00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,000 Speaker 1: So we'll see you next time.