After completing Butt Head, some friends of mine took Butt Head and put her in the corners of their offices and they said, “The people who have come into my office for the first time jumped back away from her.” I got the taxidermist Foster Butt of Nashville, Tennessee, to sculpt an elk’s face with bright eyes to look exactly like a cow elk’s face. I imagined what Butt Head would look like if I could get a digital image of a cow’s head and neck printed on a piece of carpet that resembled the real thing – a cow elk. I developed a method to make Butt Head light enough and compactible enough to fit in the back of an elk hunter’s daypack. Some bulls got so excited when they saw the prototype shaking, that they would start running at me and the decoy.Ī problem I had with using elk decoys previously was that they were big and clumsy. Once the bull looked at my decoy, I’d turn the decoy’s head towards the bull, shake her head from left to right, just like I’d seen a cow elk shake her head to get rid of flies gnawing on her ears. If you’ve ever seen a bull elk look at the spot for the hunter where a call is coming from, get excited and start shaking his head, now that’s true excitement.for the hunter I tried cow calling. I became very excited about all the possibilities that this dummy-like decoy could open up to the world of elk hunting. I knew I had more to learn about the effectiveness of a cow elk decoy that could be carried in a pack and used to lure in bulls. However, I quickly realized that I’d never seen a cow elk come in and lick a decoy. Now I thought I’d seen everything there was to see in the world of elk hunting. Next one of the cows coming from my right licked the prototype. I was holding the cow elk decoy prototype in front of me and leaned the decoy further out in the front. I looked off to my right and spotted two more cows coming toward me. That 5-point bull came in and tried to mate that cow while she was on the ground. About that time, a cow came into my left and laid down. I was in black timber, facing north, at 11:00 am during elk season. Īfter building a prototype of a cow elk decoy with her head on a stick, I took her with me afield to test her effectiveness. Wayne Carlton plays a very-active role in the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation (RMEF).
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Wayne has been on TV shows and featured in videos, and he’s one of the most well-known elk hunters and elk guides in the nation. We’ve hunted turkey, deer and elk together. Wayne and I have been friends more than 30 years, and he’s built calls for 33 years with his latest, the Native by Carlton calls and hunting accessories available at.
Editor’s Note: When I think about elk and elk hunting, the first person I think of is Wayne Carlton of Montrose, Colorado.
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