Cow Elk Calls

[Sharp Shooter]

When using a cow call do you want to produce the high pitch sounds of cows or the low pitch sounds. What is each sound for and telling you?

[Roskoe]

If you have listened to the various tapes on what cow elk sound like (which I highly recommend), you will note that it is a two-toned sound that slides from high to low. Calves have a higher pitch, but essentially the same dual note sound. Mature cows are generally a little lower pitched - just like homo sapiens. It is great to listen to a herd of elk when they are talking - lots of different voices . . .

[121553]

Good question. Well since Elknut will be chequeing this out, I bet he would say, mix them them both up. Sometimes you never know between the lint and the spit, if its going to sound like a cow or a duck. Bobby

[huntnmuleys]

you need to get elknut's dvds, they will answer all of your questions concerning elk sounds.

[elknut1]

It all depends on the sound you're trying to make!! If you're trying to imitate a sound like the Hoochie Mama, then you're sounding like herd talk or cows being social.

But you have to take into consideration that cows make many different mews or sounds to communicate with. Some are more pitchy than others but all have meanings to other elk.

Cows can be social to keep in contact with one another such as a cow & a calf especially in feeding areas or moving from feeding to bedding or vice-versa.

They also have alarm mews, distress sounds, begging or pleading sounds, excited, estrus whines, seperated & lost sounds, come over this way sounds, nervous bark or grunt sounds for identification. So to ask how you give a proper cow sound, that would depend on which one you were talking about?

A standard social sound would be like saying eeeeaaaahh.---------------ElkNut1