From your description it sounds like a pretty good setup to me. Elk should be moving from feeding to bedding and vice versa. It appears you' re in a spot where they have to come near you, that' s a good thing, you know there' s elk around.
By all means do some calling to increase your odds not only to see them but get them in close. I' m assuming your bowhunting! I would stay away from any hard hit bugling, no challenging. Get to your ambush site, if you' re in a treestand that' s your setup, if on the ground, I like to use two guys a caller and a shooter, the caller should be about 50 to 70yds. behind the shooter, setup and give some spike to raghorn squeals and 2 or 3 different cow calls so you sound like a small herd moving thru. Give more cow calls than squeals, especially excited cow calls, those are ones with a little longer (1-2sec.) mournful or whiny mews. During early season sometimes I' ll really put up a fuss with such calling, again only a few squeals are necessary then focus more on the cow calls, give it time, at least 45min. with elk in the vicinity, you should see some action. We' ve taken elk with this exact setup. Good Luck Skeeter. elknut1