so how do you do the nervous bark in this video we're gonna break it down and
show you how right after this
hey everybody Michael Batease from the elk calling Academy where we give you
the blueprint for success in the elk woods welcome back to Wapiti Wednesday
Q&A tonight's question comes from our YouTube channel and was actually asked
by Mike m and Jesse Thomas and they want to learn how to nervous bark what do you
say in it what's the meaning of it and is it really a deal breaker when you
hear this sound so first off the nervous bark is basically an elk that is saying
I'm not comfortable with the situation there's something here that I don't feel
comfortable with you need to show yourself to me you need to prove to me
that you're an elk it's not necessarily that the setup is done or that Elks
gonna gonna leave it's just they're not comfortable learning how to do this and
be able to bark back to them you're kind of sending the same message back to them
well I don't think you're really an elk so maybe you need to come a little
closer to me or you need to present yourself to me it's a very effective
call and I've used it extensively over the years out in the field and I think
it is a very important call to learn how to do it and how to use it right so -
nervous bark it's basically it's it's just a quick force of urge oh oh so what
I'm doing is I'm placing my tongue on the Reed and kind of putting enough
pressure on it so I kind of get a mid note and then with my diaphragm I'm
forcing a quick burst of air at all oh so through a tube
and you can adjust the amount of pressure that you put on the reed to
kind of change that note a little bit make it a little lower make it a little
bit higher cuz help do bark at different levels they're all not the same so the
other thing is I never barked first you know I wait for that elk to bark at me
and then I go ahead and send that same message back and you may have to get
into it where you get into a bark fest with an elk I remember a few years ago
was hunting here in Idaho and we had been working a bowl for quite a bit in
the morning and we hadn't been close just really couldn't get any shots on
him the brush was really really thick and so we worked around the knob to try
to reposition well when we got on the backside of the knob we got into a
couple of cows and one of them just sat there and barked and for about 15-20
minutes we had a bark fest back and forth and you know she would
bark I would bark she would double bark I would bark am you or bark and bugle
and just back and forth to let her know we really RL get her nice and
comfortable the other thing that you'll find is if you're hunting high-pressured
areas where elk are getting pressured every day and getting called to every
day you may find that as soon as you bugle or you try to locate they hit you
back with a bark bugle they're basically saying I've been here before I don't
believe you're an elk you need to show yourself to me or you need to prove that
you're an elk so so the ability to do that back is really really beneficial so
so remember flex up on the reed kind of a middle note good force of air
and then you can roll right into other sounds alright Mike and Jesse I hope
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