I did call in a buck today to 40 yards, he was grunting and stomping and came in hot but would not cross out of the thicket he was concealed by in the timber patch I was hunting. I think he was wanting me to expose myself and make the next move. He trotted off after about 30 seconds of back and forth grunts, I never actually got to see him but he had a good size track.
Then an hour later I heard the unmistakable sound of two bucks locked up sparring. I covered as much ground as I could during the loud parts of their fight and made it to about 80 yards of them, as I was about to crest the knob and get a view of them, the wind completely swirled and did a 180 and blew my sent right into them, and I heard them disperse. Never got to lay eyes on them either. A super fun day to close out regular season and I look forward to late buck. All the modern elk hunters please report back here with all the big bucks you see while hunting and send their coordinates my way
