[I had intended this post as a reply to Muley69]

Funny how that works, huh? I really don't know everything about everything where calls are concerned. I started noticing strongly this year that with the Sceery call (the high-pitched one) that I was calling in lots of birds, those gray jays and such. I had begun to suspect that last year.

One thing we all have to watch out for in analyzing calls, or for that matter almost any hunting variable, is that sometimes we are drawing conclusions based on sample sizes that are too small. For instance, say I exchange bugles with two bulls one season and neither comes in. Then the next season I switch to a different call, and this time around both bulls I bugle at come raging in. Does this prove that the call I switched to is better? In fact, it obviously doesn't, because the sample size (2 bulls each way) is way too small to really draw a valid conclusion. Yet I think we hunters often base our opinions on just such paltry evidence, by necessity in some cases. (In this year's World Series, if Mike Matheny gets two big base hits and Albert Pujols goes 0 for the Series in the clutch, does that prove that suddenly Mike Matheny is better than Albert Pujols?)

The above is why I stuck with the Sceery call for four bow seasons. I had begun to question it as early as two seasons ago, but I wanted to give it time until I felt like I had used it enough times in enough different situations to be reasonably sure of my conclusions. I just don't think it fires up bulls that much, I think elk often identify the call as a bird, and ignore it. Birds come in to the call. At best, it sounds like a calf elk, which is OK in a way, but not as likely to fire up a rutty bull. (By the way, I deal with a lot more than two bulls a year. This year I fiddled with 17 different bulls in 16 days in the woods.) That said, if somebody else has the opposite opinion, more power to you. If it's working don't let me discourage you.