A bugleing question?

[GrainfedMuley]

 A friend that I work with asked me a question that I don't know the answer to. Do elk bugle around the end of May or the First of June? At about 10:30 at night? Very very dark. My friend was camping around MT Adams on Father's day weekend and he heard elk bugle in the dark. Is this typical?  Is that the right time of year? Do they bugle all year round? I am not an elk hunter so I don't know the answer to his question. Any help would be great...Thanx

[Huntbear]

No, elk only bugle during the rut, in Sept/Oct.   Sounds like someone may have been up there practicing.  Either that or Bigfoot was there. 

[WDFW-SUX]

Do elk bugle around the end of May or the First of June? At about 10:30 at night?

YES.

[Ranger91298]

I was surprised when I was a kid with the fact that elk do bugle even throughout the summer. We went up into the mountains of Idaho to set up some treestands for the upcoming season. I grabbed my bugle and gave a few calls and right away I had a bull answer. Next thing I knew I had five answering me from all directions.

[GrainfedMuley]

No, elk only bugle during the rut, in Sept/Oct.   Sounds like someone may have been up there practicing.  Either that or Bigfoot was there.  

 It's funny that you mention Bigfoot. There is a little more to this story. He was in the so called triangle from Mt. Rainier to Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens. Where the majority of Bigfoot sightings in this state have taken place.  At about 10:30 at night my friend walks up to a log that was across the road and with a large 2x4 starts to smack this log a few times.  This is supposed to be something that Bigfoot does.  After he smacked the log is when he heard what he thought was Elk bugling. Then a couple of seconds later another bugle like sound from another direction. He or I have never heard of Elk bugling at night.  So he really wasn't sure of what he had heard.    

[NWWABOWHNTR]

locater bugles do happen ... of course I like the bigfoot idea more   

[Elknut1]

 Yes, both Bulls & Cows both can & do bugle year around, bulls are just mostly known for it!

  ElkNut1

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

I was going to say it, but Elknut beat me to it...

[Alchase]

I have video (in quicktime) from Valentine's day 2007 at Oak Creek Station that has at least 20 elk bugling, sparring, and does vocalizing like crazy.

[elksnout]

I've heard bulls bugle in November at night....two different times in my life.

[boonerboy]

have heard elk talking and bugling year round. not typical for bulls to full on bugle when not in rut but definitly not unheard of. also elk do bugle at night...probably more so than in the day.

[Pathfinder101]

 

He was in the so called triangle from Mt. Rainier to Mt. Adams to Mt. St. Helens. Where the majority of Bigfoot sightings in this state have taken place.  :

...didn't realize there was a "Bigfoot Triangle"...

[GrainfedMuley]

 Before Mt. St. Helens blew. That area was the hot spot for sightings. I have a book that was published in the mid 70's showing a map of high concentration of sightings around the mountain.  If I remember right it had something to do with a densly grown over valley going from west to east. It has been a long time since I looked at the book.

[Pathfinder101]

Before Mt. St. Helens blew. That area was the hot spot for sightings. I have a book that was published in the mid 70's showing a map of high concentration of sightings around the mountain.  If I remember right it had something to do with a densly grown over valley going from west to east. It has been a long time since I looked at the book.

Nothing to do with the close proximity to Seattle weekenders and the fact that in the 70's bigfoots (and tracks) were "popular" to find (from the coast, to Northport, to the Blues)...

[GrainfedMuley]

 Thanx Pathfinder...every party has to have a pooper