Makeshift Bugle Tube

[ToolMann]

About 5 mins from setting up base camp yesterday and had an oh-sh×÷ moment. Realized I forgot my tube and backup tube. Looks like an Evian bottle it will be. Cow and either sex muzzy tags so was mostly just going to bugle to locate herds if possible. It's driving me crazy thar I left it as I'm always planned and organized. Oh well. Should be interesting. Good luck out there everyone.

 

[MTMeneely]

Adapt and overcome! Good luck- I’m interested to hear how the bottle works!

 

[5MilesBack]

I've said it before, I'd rather leave my bow at home than my bugle tube.

The other day I still hadn't really gotten into my normal routine yet and my buddy and I started away from the truck and then I realized that my bow was still in the truck. But I had my bugle tube.

 

[camelcluch]

Leave a little lip of plastic on the bottom when you cut it and put a sock in it. The sock does make it a little quite but take the plastic ring out.
At least that’s what a friend told me.

 

[Mike1187]

I left mine at the bottom of a canyon and wasn’t going back in after it once I made it back to the top and realized I left it. I used one of the large water bottles (30oz ish), wrapped in gorilla tape to help tone it a bit.

Pointer…
cut the mouth hole small at first and try it. You can always cut more

 

[Legend]

We lost one in the backcountry. Ended up using a BBQ pringles can. Worked fine at calling bulls but always smelled like bbq.

 

[grfox92]

If it makes you feel any better I drove 5 hours in Wyoming last weekend only to realize when getting dressed in the morning that I forgot all of my camo in the dryer back at home. Luckily my partner had one t shirt and one 1/4 zip one size too small. Fat guy in a little coat.

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[ToolMann]

No elk yet. Back at base camp and moving to new spot in the AM. Bears are thick but the elk are quiet. That said, the Evian bottle sounds better than my original Primos with the blue "reed". Appreciate the tips. I did leave a lip on the end. Sort of wish it smelled like those bbq chips though

 

[Danny Hoey]

First bull I ever called in was with a turkey reed and a piece of 1" sprinkler pipe.

 

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

Guide forgot bugle tube in camp and called in bull in my profile pic with a Gatorade bottle he cut the bottom out of on top of the mountain.

 

[philson208]

my best elk calling trick is to sit down and rest and leave my tube right there! I have backtracked an hour to grab my tube, and I have left tubes to be retrieved on later hunts!

 

[Seeleylakehuntr]

If you have a paper towel roll. Try that . You can kinda smush it a bit and get a little help with the tone changes

 

[Huntnfish89]

Well I guess I'm not alone then. I lost my tube working through some snowberry just the other day. Ended up jumping a herd shortly after. My poor attempts at barking back with an open reed ultimately failed. Maybe one day I'll find it again, most likley not though.