In the highly competitive professional division, Joe McCarthy, Slayer Calls’ product innovation lead and father of 2021 world elk calling champion Cody McCarthy, blew away the seven judges with the ArchAngel acrylic elk bugle — featuring a mouth piece and back pressure system he and his son helped develop when they joined the Slayer team. A run for their money is exactly what McCarthy, an elk hunter with four decades of experience under his belt, gave his fellow professional competitors. The Caldwell, Idaho, representative for Slayer Calls placed fourth in the finals, producing cow and calf sounds for 30 seconds, bull sounds for 30 seconds, then his own freelance sequence for a final 45 seconds.
