# @outdoor_life on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DGTZw-4ptay
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/26806406-outdoor-life-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-02-20T17:33:46.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Outdoor Life (@outdoor_life) — https://gondola.cc/outdoor_life

## Caption

Wayne Carlton was a diaphragm call maker who discovered he could use turkey calls to communicate with elk. He died at his home in Colorado last week.⁠
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He is survived by his family, a collection of trophy big-game mounts, and generations of bulls in Colorado’s West Elk Wilderness who knew him by bugle, chuckle, and mew. He also leaves behind a couple generations of elk hunters whose vernacular of calling was shaped by Carlton’s diaphragm calls, which he first built by hand in his workshop in his native Florida and later sold to Hunters Specialties and then sold under the name Carlton Calls before reconstituting his business in Montrose under the name Native By Carlton.⁠
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#hunting #huntingtrip #elkhunting #elkbugle #elkcalling #turkeycalling #diaphragmcall #outdoors #outdoorlife⁠
📷: aemckean⁠
Story by: aemckean

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diaphragmcall, outdoors, huntingtrip, elkbugle, elkhunting, turkeycalling, hunting, elkcalling, outdoorlife

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