Increase your Moose Hunting Success Rate
Use Moose Calls.
In my opinion birch bark moose calls are the best and they are simply a megaphone. You must use your own voice to recreate the sounds of a moose to attract them. The sounds are simple enough to mimic once you hear them. Dr. Vince Crichton has put out a CD entitled "Moose Music". On the CD you will hear sounds of moose vocalizing to one another in their natural environment. I like to listen to this CD on my way to Moose camp, it is a great way to get pumped about the upcoming hunt as well as refreshing your memory to what moose sounds are like. Practice mimicking these sounds. That way when you use your birch bark call to call moose, you will have it figured out in advance. I personally use birch bark moose calls exclusively to call Bull Moose in close. Over the many years I have hunted moose I have called in a large number of bulls. Every year I learn a little more about the sounds a moose make and I try to commit those sounds to memory so I can recreate them when I call. There does not seem to be a wrong way to call moose, so I encourage you to get out into moose country during the rut and give it a try. During the 2009 season I was successful in calling in five separate bull moose for my partners and I using my birch bark moose call. Although we harvested only three (that is all we wanted) of those bulls it shows the effectiveness of the call.  This is me using a birch bark moose call, calling out over a meadow in hope of enticing a bull to answer. I did not get a response here so I moved on, to try another area.
During our moose hunting trip this year (2010), both my partner and I were successful in calling bull moose using this method. The birch bark calls really make a difference. It is very exciting to have a bull moose answer your calls and then come to investigate you too! I can guarantee you will have the time of your life.
Birch bark calls are very basic in nature; a birch tree is stripped of a section of bark and then is rolled into a cone shape. The cones are the sewn together using softened strips of rawhide or bark. When dried the cones are very durable and with a little care will last a hunter a lifetime. If you have access to a forest with good birch trees you could try and make your own. They look simple enough if you can get the bark. I modified one of our calls this year, using a standard leather hole punch to make holes and leather boot laces to sew it.
This Ojibwa Moose Horn used for moose hunting is bound with imitation sinew and measures 15" long. Native Made in Canada. I saw this call available at Canadian Tire this year. After he had seen how well they work, one of my hunting buddies ran down and bought one of these moose calls as soon as we returned from moose hunting! (I think it was about $20.00 CDN)
 This Ojibwa Moose Horn used for moose hunting is bound with imitation sinew and measures 12" long. Native Made in Canada.
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