Calling Elk in the Pre-Rut & Peak-Rut with Corey Jacobsen
11-time World Champion elk caller, and professional hunter, Corey Jacobsen breaks down every aspect of calling in bull elk. You’ll learn how to select the best calls for your palate & style of hunting, and then master those calls, as well as gain an intimate understanding of his methods in the field.
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Ch. 1 - Introduction to Calling Elk in the Pre-Rut & Peak-Rut
There is nothing like the experience of calling in a screaming bull elk! 11-time World Elk Calling Champion Corey Jacobsen teaches you everything you need to know to use calls effectively to bring elk in close on a consistent basis.
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Ch. 2 - Selecting the Right Elk Call
Corey explains the manufacturing process of building a diaphragm elk call to give you a thorough understanding of how elk calls are made, as well as the differences in elk calls, to help you select the diaphragm elk call that’s going to work best for you.
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Ch. 3 - Using Elk Calls: The Basic Mechanics
A process simplified into individual steps is much easier to master, and Corey breaks elk calling down into its most basic and simplified form.
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Ch. 4 - Using Elk Calls: Making Cow Sounds
Making simple cow sounds is an important part of calling in elk, and it’s also the easiest elk sound to learn to make. Corey teaches you how to make the most realistic sounding cow sounds.
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Ch. 5 - Using Elk Calls: Making Bull Sounds
Corey simplifies the learning process to enable you to make high quality bugles and chuckles so you possess more confidence and can rely on your calls this elk season.
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Ch. 6 - Understanding Elk Sounds
Corey explains the meaning of the most common elk sounds made by cows and bulls, and how elk use those sounds to communicate.
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Ch. 7 - Locating Elk: Understanding Needs
Finding elk during different seasons involves understanding their needs within those seasons, and then knowing where those needs can be met throughout varying terrains.
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Ch. 8 - Locating Elk: Reading Sign
Elk leave clues about where they are and where they have been, and Corey explains how to read those clues to dial in exactly where the elk are while you are hunting them.
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Ch. 9 - Locating Elk: Using Calls
Even when you can’t see an elk, you can often still confirm they are in the area. Corey teaches how to use calls to help pinpoint the location of elk.
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Ch. 10 - Setting-Up: Getting in the Zone
The setup is the most critical piece of the calling process, and Corey explains how to get in the zone to set up in a way that will maximize your calling success.
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Ch. 11 - Setting-Up: 2-Person Hunting
If you want to create the most effective situation for being successful as an elk hunter, having a caller set up a short distance behind a designated shooter is the answer.
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Ch. 12 - Setting-Up: Solo Hunting
Calling elk alone can be difficult, but Corey shows how to overcome solo elk calling obstacles by using the terrain more effectively and using your calls more deceptively.
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Ch. 13 - Does Calling Really Work?
Corey teaches why calling elk based on a “language” isn’t always the best approach, and shares why he feels elk respond to calling and how you can make them respond more predictably.
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Ch. 14 - My Go-To Elk Calling Sequence
Corey’s proven tactic for bringing elk into his calls is simple, efficient, and effective, and he shares how he implements this tactic day in and day out during elk season.
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Ch. 15 - Other Tactics: The SlingShot, The Triangle, and Hybrid Calling
Corey shares the details of his Top 3 elk calling tactics to implement with a hunting partner.
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Ch. 16 - Other Tactics: Mimicking Bulls, Bump & Charge, The Silent Treatment
Elk have attitudes, and you can use these calling tactics to expose their weaknesses and take advantage of their attitude.
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Ch. 17 - Supplements to Calling Elk: Raking, Decoys, and Midday Madness
Corey details several tactics that can be added to your calling sequence to magnify the effectiveness of your calling.
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Ch. 18 - Calling Elk Top Ten Things to Remember
Corey shares the Top 10 things he feels you can do to increase your confidence when it comes to calling elk during the rut.