This is true....but there are some vidoes out there that will start you much further ahead of the game as a beginner or wanting to step up your game. Experience counts big time but learning from others will give you some options to start throwing at elk and learning how they respond.

The biggest thing you get from elk nut is not just the sound an elk makes but you also learn they're language. It's important to understand what they are saying and how to repsond. Making your response sound good is only part of the game.

I had a conversation once with Paul (Elk Nut) and he asked me if I knew what a "bark" meant. I told him that I believed to mean an elk saying, "What are you? Who's there?" He told me believed that to be the case and that he had asked that same question to dozens of hunters and none of them had them same answer. He said he was shocked how few elk hunters knew what an elk bark meant to an elk. This isn't meant to boast at all....just making the point that many can repeat their sounds but how many know what they mean so that they can return an appropriate response?

When you hear a bugle is he locating cows or is he trying to ward off competition? Knowing what he is saying and knowing the appropirate response can mean a lot of things. Simply copying his bugle only works in certain scenarios, you could bring him in ready to fight or blow him out of the country.

When you do a lost cow call and get a response do you keep doing a lost cow call because you got a response? No you are no longer lost. A regular mew is then appropriate to get closer.

And so on....