WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERS

What Makes the Best Moose Call

“Best” depends on what you are asking a call to do. Here is what actually separates one from another.

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Criteria, not claims

“Best” depends on what you are asking a call to do. Here is what actually separates one from another, from a man who has been making them since 1993, and how his own measures up. The full comparison of types of moose calls covers birch bark, horns, electronic and homemade.

SEVEN THINGS

What actually matters

ONE

How far it carries

This is the whole point of a horn. A megaphone projects your vocalizations two to three times further out than your voice alone. With the right wind, a long cow call reaches two miles.

TWO

Whether it works in reverse

Put the small end to your ear and you hear a bull answering from two to three times further away than you would otherwise. Most callers never think to ask this of a call.

THREE

How many jobs it does

A call you can also thrash brush with, flash like an antler, and scoop and pour water from is one item instead of four. Wayne’s does five things: call, thrash, listen, flash, drain water.

FOUR

What it weighs

You are carrying it for ten days. His is 11 ounces.

FIVE

Whether it survives

Weather, being struck, being packed. A call that changes its sound when it gets wet, or cracks when struck, is a call you replace.

SIX

What it costs against what it saves

A call costs less than a single box of ammunition for many big-game calibers, and calling a bull two hundred yards closer saves you packing him several miles.

SEVEN

Whether it can be improved on

Wayne’s is on its second material in thirty-two years, after nine Alaska guides tested five candidates down to −5°F. That is the standard to hold any maker to.

THE HONEST PART

The sounds are free

Your own voice, cupped hands and a dead spruce branch will call moose, and always have. A horn does not make you a caller. It carries what you already do, further, and gives it the nasal quality a bull is listening for.

So the honest answer to “what is the best moose call” is: the one you will actually carry, that does more than one job, and that is still working at the end of the season.

WHAT HUNTERS SAY

From the letters

“I purchased your Moose magnet because it looked strong, but more so because you give the information and guidance and advice on your website freely… my first moose shot here in British Columbia in area 7 — it was a dream come true.”

W A

British Columbia

“I was the one that ordered your call and I was the caller. It worked great. I called in 2 bulls and Dave shot the 2nd one! Later in the week I actually called in a Grizzly bear, a very large Grizzly.”

S P

Montana

Wayne Kubat, Alaska Master Guide #147. Assistant guide from 1981, registered guide since 1986, and the designer of the Bull Magnet® moose call. About Wayne

Born in Alaska in 1993 and made in the USA

14.5 inches, 11 ounces, and it does five jobs.