Peak Elk Rut in SW WA

[Little Fish]

Well that sucks. Nothing like arriving an hour before daylight and biking/hiking in before light only to have half a dozen trucks show up when the sun comes up.

[Wild Bill]

BTW, the peak of the rut is at night when we are all sound asleep, we just get a tiny feel for it during the day 

O so very true! Beware of the 3 Am playboy bugle hunters though. They'll put a canyon on mute just as fast as the Slamthedoorbugledriveoff truck bugler!

[Wild Bill]

coldsteele3d,
Pm'd ya.
WB

[Wild Bill]

the gate at the end of zillig road was open and there was a steady stream of trucks, then you were wide open to drive into weyerhauser land, in there on our mountain bikes and talked to a weyerhauser truck about getting there gates shut and locked, he said they couldn't do that and they were open only on the weekends, but their internal gates stayed open all week so anybody could just drive in.  You just had to drive in from longview timber land. 

Need to report those lazy P.O.S. M.Fr's. You dont hunt archery for the right reasons if your looking to drive in!
Cant do much on the weekend, but during the weekday, call weyco, and theyll send a guy out to get em! If its not the first time, it is a $400+ ticket. They were handing em out like candy the 1 day i went to Headquarters before say screw the zoo.

I had a dandy 5x5 come in to me this yr only to be shot and lost by 2 (both shot and swore a hit) dudes who drove in and were sitting in a truck I didnt see when my work came strutting by them looking for love.
I bit my tounge and tried to help (for the critters sake) find him. After 8 hrs of my waisted daylight, we didnt get a drop of blood. On the way out I shined a bull with my sure fire, head hung low, moving to a crk bottom. Came in the next day, nowhere to be found, but his 12 cows were solo.
AHH!
Sorry for the tangent!

[Huntbear]

We have the same issues with Weyerhauser during rifle season.      Reason enough to go back to the high country and leave that mess behind.

[funkster]

BTW, the peak of the rut is at night when we are all sound asleep, we just get a tiny feel for it during the day 

+ 1!

The big problem last season was Wey co. opened the gates weeks before the elk season for deer hunters which wouldn't be so bad if guys would leave the bugles tubes and hoochie mammas in the truck. There is no need to to call and educate the elk before you can even hunt them esp when you are hunting deer. Get out of the truck and into the woods and you might have better success and give the guys putting in the miles a break. With that said we had bulls going almost every day but we had to work them harder than the year before.

[bucklucky]

That sucks WildBill  *censored*s!

[Wild Bill]

BTW, the peak of the rut is at night when we are all sound asleep, we just get a tiny feel for it during the day 

+ 1!

The big problem last season was Wey co. opened the gates weeks before the elk season for deer hunters which wouldn't be so bad if guys would leave the bugles tubes and hoochie mammas in the truck.

They do, hence the Slamthedoorbugledriveoff truck bugle!
I mean come on fellas, primos toots on those things with all their might, and the elk run from two canyons over, so why waist your time of turning off the truck, beating the brush and calling, when you can call em up to the tailgate!
Who'd uh thunk such a thing as werkin fer em!

[BLKBEARKLR]

I had a dandy 5x5 come in to me this yr only to be shot and lost by 2 (both shot and swore a hit) dudes who drove in and were sitting in a truck I didnt see when my work came strutting by them looking for love.
I bit my tounge and tried to help (for the critters sake) find him. After 8 hrs of my waisted daylight, we didnt get a drop of blood. On the way out I shined a bull with my sure fire, head hung low, moving to a crk bottom. Came in the next day, nowhere to be found, but his 12 cows were solo.
AHH! 


Good of you to put the feelings aside and trying to help the ctitter out. I would have done the same

[bucklucky]

BTW, the peak of the rut is at night when we are all sound asleep, we just get a tiny feel for it during the day 

+ 1!

The big problem last season was Wey co. opened the gates weeks before the elk season for deer hunters which wouldn't be so bad if guys would leave the bugles tubes and hoochie mammas in the truck.

They do, hence the Slamthedoorbugledriveoff truck bugle!
I mean come on fellas, primos toots on those things with all their might, and the elk run from two canyons over, so why waist your time of turning off the truck, beating the brush and calling, when you can call em up to the tailgate!
Who'd uh thunk such a thing as werkin fer em!

Dont you love retards 

[Grizzly]

I find that the rut is usually kicking off around the 15th of september, but it varies almost every year.

[matlockmike]

Last year I watched a the best one yet......  Guy pulled up to a landing, seen a small group of cows on the hillside I was on and began to bugle from the truck???WTF

Stupid road hunters.

[Grizzly]

Never surprised by road hunters. I was deer hunting last year and parked my truck at the beging of a landing walked up hill to the end of the landing and went down the hillside about 50 yards to start glassing and was watching a small 2x2 chasing a doe when i heard a vehicle come up the road. 2 guys got out right above me and started using a bear call never new i was there, until i happened to state that i was directly below them

[h2ofowlr]

Buggled in a nice bull about 3 days into the season.  He came up making lots of noise.  He just got into a spot where we couldn't get a clean shot on him.  Had the bull at 17 yards neck and head only before he took off on us.  Wasn't going to chance the shot with a bow. 

[bolsen]

3rd or 4th day of season i bugled a bull in 4 times in the re-prod before i finally got a shooting lane and got him. he was hot. came in to 5 yards once straight on and looked right at me, bugled in my face and walked away. never did cow call. stuck him at 11 yards.