RE: To high of a pitch with power bugle
If your serious about elk hunting and calling you simply must learn to use mouth reeds, there is no substitute. You have more flexability with your calling and can transition b/w bugling and cow calling seamlessly. for the record, I do subscribe to the theory that you must cow call to get a bull in. I get several in with the bugle every season and there is a time and place were the bugling is more effective. The theory that a bugle should be used for 'locating" only is absurd. The most effective way to call is to gage every encounter separately and call according to what you hear. I have simply harrassed herd bulls with a bugle until they couldn't stand it anymore while the cow call did zero. Every situation is different.