Novice ... Bulge Tubes, are they any different?

[atmat]

Philcox, your present Bugle will suit your needs just fine. The most important factor is you! With enough practice you can be proficient enough with about any quality bugle tube.

As far as your last question, the Elk-101 tube has the better sound quality, it's up to you to do it justice. Good luck!

ElkNut

Glad to see you here posting.

 

[ndbuck09]

In my opinion, if you have a musical background, musical ear or understand pitches and notes, then you will start to hear differences in tubes. All human based. But, I do believe 100% that Elk also are in tune with pitches, resonance and the like, and this is why people will say that elk run from calls when they call (people suck and don't create the right pitches/resonance). There's a definite correlation to how good someone calls, to calling working these days. That and people get so amped up they got 1 bugle response that they start trying to force the issue like human nature wants to do and they forget about Elk nature in that Elk rarely start piping off bugles on 20-30 second intervals. So the human does this and tells their hand to the elk. And voila, "bugling doesn't work."

This plays right into the people that buy into the, "i'll keep moving until I find an elk that wants to play" mentality. They're too impatient to bugle and sit for 15 mins waiting, then slowly ramping a bugling bull up.

 

[Indian Summer]

I use a Chuckler from Elknut. I definitely like it better than a lot of other tubes. It has a big bell on the end, which makes it sound deeper and more realistic. Whatever you are using, I would say choose a tube like that instead of just a straight pipe.

 

[fatlander]

We found a bull one year that would only answer one tube. It didn’t matter who was blowing in it, he’d only answer that tube. We had a Rocky Mountain bully bull, a short and long Phelps tube. He only answered the bully. We ended up finally getting on him, and he was without a doubt the biggest bull we’ve ever seen.

Sample size of 1 really big bull, it mattered; it still wasn’t enough to convince me to buy a bully tube.


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