hey folks i'm here with Brandon Mason of Eastman's hunting journal and i'm going
to teach him how to call moose it's just that simple I can even teach him it must
be easy
so every moose makes one basic noise and that basic noise if we were to put it in
letters would be EE R UGH. that's right EER UGH which sounds like
this [call noise] and that once you get that basic sound down I can then extrapolate
that into all the noises loose me so let's start with that eer ugh [call sounds] very
good very good and very simple isn't it yeah but anybody can do that now that we
know that basic call we've got to extrapolate that into a what cows do and
what bulls do so the cows put a lot of emphasis right out at the front of that
the EER side of that it's exactly oh that's right so they're putting more
Es and Rs in the front end than the ugh so a bull on the other hand he puts
his emphasis on the back end of that call which is the ugh and that er is
very short so it's
oh very good he's just a matter of seconds I've made you a moose calling
pro yes I got it you have to come work for me I'm going to bring out the secret
weapon now this is my horn my moose calling horn this is just a simple piece
of leather I used to make them out of birch bark but i sat on them and broken
so many of them I started making them out of leather so it really is just made for
amplifying the sound and it'll really help you to get your call out there
because moose cover great distances during the rut because remember their
solitary creatures they don't come in herds and so he's trying to find a cow
she might be three or four miles away and so you got to really project your
call in order to bring that bull in as each axis character so that moose call
the horn really helps you to do that let's try a couple of cow calls oh it's
definitely louder real you try yeah it really helps project that out there so
that the moose can hear it now let's try a couple of vocal
Excellent excellent so folks something like this of any nature some sort of
conical shape we're really help you to get your Moose calls out there so those
bulls could hear you calling now in any hunting situation especially when you're
calling your setup is really really important too. Here at crystal lake we hunt a
lot of lakes and meadows we always want to be conscious of where the wind is
going what the moose are doing I really enjoy hunting on the sides of the lakes
like grunt lake here and making those calls I'm talking to the moose for quite
it because I can really reach that call out across the lake I also really enjoy
hunting back in the meadows one of the basic rules of calling moose is you
always give it an hour it's really a mistake to sit on a lake shore make one
or two calls and think hey there's no moose here because they cover such great
distances you've really got to give that bull a chance to find you and sometimes
they can be so quiet that you have to strain your ears to hear them so you've
got to give it time it would have been really easy to go into that meadow call
for 20 minutes and leave and not realize that you had a bull commin. give them a
chance to find you so that they don't just run around the bush trying to find
some random cow that can't seem to make up your mind where she's going to be
moose are extraordinarily patient animals they're willing to stand there
and listen to you for hours at a time give it time be patient folks don't just
make a couple of calls and think it's no good you've got to trust that what
you're sounding like is like a moose and the more experience you have calling them
in the more confidence you'll be used basically yeah it's like anything
practice makes perfect and we've been kind of listening to you and you know so far
were like five days into a 10-day hunt and you're listening to you of
practicing ourselves along the trail and and yeah just get better better as we go
all right Thank You Brandon we're going to keep trying to call that big bull in
for this young man