If you are hunting with Imyourhucklebeary, make sure you don't let him try to tell you that hunting wallows is a waste of time [8D]. Seriously, though, calling elk is a bit of an art but not all that difficult all at the same time. The philosophy of using the bugle to locate and the cow call to coax is pretty sound. I have hunted elk a long time, listened to a lot of elk calling in the wild,and killed 35 so far. Cow calling is something that you want to generally do pretty conservatively, and not too abruptly. I like to carry a regular collection of cow calls. It's amazing how a certain call can get an immediate response from a certain bull. Not sure what it is - maybe the bull's first "sweetie" sounded just like that. Although I haven't used one yet, I'm also planning to cart around a Montana Decoy cow decoy this fall just for fun. Might help give a bull something visual to key in on. Good luck. Roskoe.