Okay...I'm down to the last week of the early elk season...my first elk season. I'm getting desparate. I went out tonight and bought a Hoochie Mama because of the raves I've read here. Now what do I do?????

I practiced on the way home tonight and got the feel of the unit down and how to use the three calls. My question is how do you use it...by that I mean intervals between calls and which call do I use?

From reading the paperwork with the call I'm going to guess that I don't need to use the mew call. I thought about the Lost cow call and I will explain why in a minute. The Estrus call sounds like it might be the winning call but the paperwork doesn't explain when to use this call. The instructions also don't tell you how to use it. By that I mean call...wait how long before you call again...how long to wait again and so on and so on?????

I'm hunting a lone trail on the side of a hill that goes along some timber and then disappears into the thick woods. I have fresh elk sign and droppings from one elk. I'm going to guess a lone bull (right?). So what would you suggest my calling routine should be? I'm by myself in a tree overlooking the trail.