when it comes to calling back in those days there's a couple outfitters that my
dad knew real well and one of them was named Keith Stillson and back in those
guys they made what commonly would call a flute and what they did was they took
like water pipe like an inch copper tubing and they cut a piece about this
big and another piece about this big where they could put them together and
what they did is on one end they took him and cut a piece of wood and stuck it
in there and then they notched they notched out that metal where that copper
is to make you know like like a little flute and Keith he'd put that
together and then he pulled one in and it was really tinny sounded but you know
you didn't realize back then those out warning bugle shy there was nobody doing
that this is in all 1960 62 63 so I was about 16 I went in the sporting goods
store and some some guy out of pot lash Idaho was making these calls and instead
of using that tinny you know water pipe he he had a piece of like black hose
this holds it and then on the end of that he put another piece and he made
the same kind of flute and you hold at the end and you could get maybe two
notes out of it but it wasn't a tinny sound it was a little better and I
turned that bugle I used the same part but I went across the street where I
lived through the plumbers house I got a great big piece it was like this big
around it was black holes about this long they stuck it on
into that but I couldn't reach it that's me so I went down to the hardware store
Benson's and got one of those corks like he'd put a cork in your bottle or
something and I rammed it in the into it and I used it on man it had a real
hollow sound and hey this sounds pretty good but trouble is the things like this
long so I made a little thing for it to hang on but when I on horseback I I put
it in my gun scabbard you know I just put it in his guiding it really did a
good job in fact it did so good that one day I was in Louis meadows and I was
Tooting away and had a hunter you know look down below me down the lee metals
went clear down like this almost to the Crystal Creek and I looked down here and
they see these two hats come along like this coming up like I stopped bugling it
and they come up and they looked at me and turn around and walk off and so I
get back to camp after dark and and there's Keith sitting there and he takes me
aside and he says don't you ever tell anybody that you called me in I go okay
Keith I'll never tell anybody that I called you in but it worked pretty good
you know so back in those days outfitters they never bugled they never
get was kind of the first flute or bugle youth yeah back then it was very few
guys had him most of guys and I knew a few the guides you know when I was in
high school and they just did what Dad did take out a spent cartridge and blow
on it and hope to hear something it is not like now or you know my dad he
helped invent the cow call and stuff all that stuff was never around
at that time of course and diaphragms didn't come until early 70s so that was
that was just about about it
you know we're like you we have a history of hunting over generations and
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