Hello! First time poster long time creeper.
I was drawn for a fairly desirable elk tag in Saskatchewan Canada. I've spent the last couple months tirelessly researching everything from water filtration to backpacks to elk calls, and every time I hit the Google search, at least one thread from these forums came up, so I finally decided to join.
When I got news of my draw tag, I went out and bought an elk101 calling kit with the bully bull tube, green all star 2.0 diaphragm and the open reed cow call. I've since been practicing about 20 minutes per day and believe I've made huge strides. I'm fairly confident that I can now consistently make a wide range of cow calls with the diaphragm.
With the all star diaphragm I found it was rather soft and whiny which seemed to be great for cow calls but I wasn't sold on it for bugles, so I went and picked up a dual reed call from Canadian tire (can't remember the name as it was not a common one but it was all that was local) and started using it and found it produced a much meaner bugle, but still something missing.
Long story short, what I'm struggling with is achieving that raspy throaty sound when bugling, I can hit high notes and hold them well and achieve good volume. But it's missing raspiness. I've tried using my voice like growing while calling and such but with mediocre results.
So is this the fault of the calls? Do I need to bump up to a triple reed? Or is there something I'm not doing with my voice to achieve those sounds? Or even something I need to be doing differently with my reeds?
Thanks, Tiffin
I was drawn for a fairly desirable elk tag in Saskatchewan Canada. I've spent the last couple months tirelessly researching everything from water filtration to backpacks to elk calls, and every time I hit the Google search, at least one thread from these forums came up, so I finally decided to join.
When I got news of my draw tag, I went out and bought an elk101 calling kit with the bully bull tube, green all star 2.0 diaphragm and the open reed cow call. I've since been practicing about 20 minutes per day and believe I've made huge strides. I'm fairly confident that I can now consistently make a wide range of cow calls with the diaphragm.
With the all star diaphragm I found it was rather soft and whiny which seemed to be great for cow calls but I wasn't sold on it for bugles, so I went and picked up a dual reed call from Canadian tire (can't remember the name as it was not a common one but it was all that was local) and started using it and found it produced a much meaner bugle, but still something missing.
Long story short, what I'm struggling with is achieving that raspy throaty sound when bugling, I can hit high notes and hold them well and achieve good volume. But it's missing raspiness. I've tried using my voice like growing while calling and such but with mediocre results.
So is this the fault of the calls? Do I need to bump up to a triple reed? Or is there something I'm not doing with my voice to achieve those sounds? Or even something I need to be doing differently with my reeds?
Thanks, Tiffin