RE: Cow Elk Calls
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