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Title: calling in other hunters
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 09, 2013, 04:49:16 PM: Lets hear your "successful" calling setups :chuckle:

i called in a few different hunters this weekend....completely fooled the first one....the look on his face when he came down in the timber and seen me and my partner was priceless....I was pretty sure it was a hoochie momma and terminator bugle he was using and not a herd of elk and I was right....I called him right to 20 yds hoochie momma in one hand and terminator on his back...he looked at me and said your good and smiled and turned around :chuckle:

The second one I was surprised to see this guy....I knew there was a herd in the area and didn't know anyone else was hunting them...I called him up from the bottom of this timber patch...he said he thought it might be a person calling but had to check it out...he was on the elk I was looking for.....so we shared info from that day and the day before and we split up to look for them
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: Smossy on September 09, 2013, 04:51:22 PM: Quote from: deerhunter_98520 on September 09, 2013, 04:49:16 PM
Lets hear your "successful" calling setups :chuckle:

i called in a few different hunters this weekend....completely fooled the first one....the look on his face when he came down in the timber and seen me and my partner was priceless....I was pretty sure it was a hoochie momma and terminator bugle he was using and not a herd of elk and I was right....I called him right to 20 yds hoochie momma in one hand and terminator on his back...he looked at me and said your good and smiled and turned around :chuckle:

The second one I was surprised to see this guy....I knew there was a herd in the area and didn't know anyone else was hunting them...I called him up from the bottom of this timber patch...he said he thought it might be a person calling but had to check it out...he was on the elk I was looking for.....so we shared info from that day and the day before and we split up to look for them

Lol this is funny you bring this up. It was a funny topic me and another guy from camp were discussing this weekend. I guess it happens quite alot. haha. So funny.
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: TheHunt on September 09, 2013, 05:02:30 PM: Our younger days we would lay down and let them walk right by and they never knew the difference.
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: Taco280AI on September 09, 2013, 05:09:08 PM: I thought a bull was another hunter once. Thing wouldn't shut up, kept calling, didn't even sound very good, but was a bull :chuckle:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 09, 2013, 05:25:18 PM: I almost forgot the third one....this guy comes driving down the road as were coming out of the timber and he stops, gets out without a bow and cow calls 3 times then gets back in the rig after a minute or so then turns around and right when he got in front of us I rip a big loud nasty bugle and then I hear the truck come to a skidding stop and he jumps out ready to chase the big bad bull standing next to the road bugling at a truck driving by.....I thought if that's how he's gonna hunt might as well get a little excitement :chuckle: not sure if he thought it was funny though :chuckle:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: SemperFidelis97 on September 09, 2013, 05:31:45 PM: I had a similar experience to Taco two years ago on some private land I hunt. I had what I thought was another hunter because of the frequency of the bugles, and cow calls. He was on the other side of some real thick cottonwood, and alder so I couldn't sneak up to surprise the hunter. The next day I came in from another property to the other side of the timber, and there was fresh poop all over as well as trees raked up higher than I could reach. I guess you never really know until you see them sometimes real elk are really that stupid.
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: sirmissalot on September 09, 2013, 06:21:49 PM: Quote from: Taco270 on September 09, 2013, 05:09:08 PM
I thought a bull was another hunter once. Thing wouldn't shut up, kept calling, didn't even sound very good, but was a bull :chuckle:

Same here
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: turkeyfeather on September 09, 2013, 06:25:28 PM: Quote from: Taco270 on September 09, 2013, 05:09:08 PM
I thought a bull was another hunter once. Thing wouldn't shut up, kept calling, didn't even sound very good, but was a bull :chuckle:
I've had that happen with a turkey.
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: TommyH on September 23, 2013, 10:41:37 PM: On day 7 or so we heard a bugle that was pretty far away, we were thinking it was a couple hunters but on day 7 with nothing to lose we tried to move in but it got dark, the next morning we blew it off as other hunters. Hunted the same area we were in and ran into a really nice guy and his to sons. They had moved over to where they had heard us :chuckle: We B.S.ed with them for nearly a hour, super cool people with lots of stories exchanged. I forgot to ask if he was a member so if you ever read this I do plan on coming by sometime to check out the bull in your shop. :tup:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: BUTTER on September 24, 2013, 07:19:06 AM: The Best Bugle I have heard was a big bad bull, the worst bugle I have heard was a big bad bull, I now get ready know matter what for at least a while. I have had bulls run in with no arrow knocked thinking it was a hunter and watch them run the other way while getting an arrow ready. Where I hunt there isn't a whole lot of other hunters but it happens time to time where you here one bugling. The whole bugling from he road thing probably sounds funny but it works the biggest bull I ever called in came right into the road you never know
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: Jonathan_S on September 24, 2013, 03:24:10 PM: Last year during muzzleloader season, this guy had the gigantic Primos bugle that is like 3' long. He stood in an open field at about 1000 and did about a five second bugle with no rasp, two-notes and no chuckle. He did it again in less than ten seconds.

I was watching him from atop a ridge about 500 yards away. I pulled out my tube and did a slightly more realistic bugle. It was so funny watching him signal to his partner back at the truck, about 200 yards behind him, who came sprinting out of the truck and they set up in the middle of the field and started calling like men possessed.
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: Okanagan on September 24, 2013, 03:40:17 PM: Quote from: Taco270 on September 09, 2013, 05:09:08 PM
I thought a bull was another hunter once. Thing wouldn't shut up, kept calling, didn't even sound very good, but was a bull :chuckle:

+2

I've decided that if it is a really lousy sounding bugle then it is probaby a real bull because no hunter would deliberately make a noise that different from a classic elk bugle. :chuckle: A novice friend of mine stopped at the end of a road in timber and bugled once to see what would happen. He heard what he was sure was two hunters on a hill above him laughing at him. He was so embarrassed that he started to get back in his truck when a 6 point bull charged into the road. I killed an ancient old wizened bull that was wheezing like an old man with bad emphysema. There is a HUGE range of difference in individual animal voices, just like humans. FWIW a very good bull last week made a perfect classic bugle. :dunno:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: gasman on September 24, 2013, 06:22:55 PM: The first morning of our hunt this year in a new area, we pulled up to the end of the road. got our self together and waited a few min. I let out a bugle and we listened.

After a few min, no response, so we started to head out to the woods. A truck pulled up right before we left and they asked me if we heard teh bugle, nope :dunno: didn't hear a thing :chuckle: :chuckle: They bailed out the truck and headed the opposite way of us, making there plan of attack
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A few days later Repete and I were walking along this old skidder road and we herd a bugle, I mewed back waited. Repete started up the hill and I told him I was going to wait a few min and follow. Not more then a min later two hunters come walking around the corner.... You hear that cow? nope, have not heard a thing all week I replied :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 24, 2013, 06:35:39 PM: :chuckle: oh the fun of elk hunting
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: Button Nubbs on September 24, 2013, 06:41:38 PM: Two years ago I tagged out on the opener so I decided to go for a hike and do some calling for him. We end up making a big loop and popped out in some jack firs. We stand there for a minute and hear a hoochie mama going off in even sequence mew1...2...3... Mew 1...2...3... Mew, you get the idea. I look at my buddy and say wanna mess with this guy? He agreed. So he lets out a cow chirp and the dude responds with 3. Following up his cow call I bark, followed by 7 punches from the hoochie mama. My buddy starts running circles in the jack firs cow calling and breaking anything he can find. Then I let this dude have it, full out bugles with chuckles raking trees the whole 9. I never knew a finger could hit that hoochie mama so fast :chuckle: I would have paid to see this guys face. :chuckle: We eventually snuck out the back side of those jack firs leaving him to think it was elk.
A couple days later another guy at camp runs into the hoochie mama guy punching that thing like he's playing a band and filled him in on what happened. :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: gasman on September 24, 2013, 06:47:28 PM: A few years back I was down in a ravine and heard a bugle come from above, I know there is a road up there so I mewed back and heard the hunter running thru the woods above. he steped out on a rock over the ravine and fired off another bugle.

I just walked away laughing and guy was still up there calling to the cow he heard :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:

And it was one of the infamous Nile Road hunters :chuckle: :chuckle: :chuckle:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: coachcw on September 24, 2013, 06:48:17 PM: I like to call them in then give them the slip. better when its my buddys
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: 10thmountainarcher on September 24, 2013, 07:30:12 PM: I've heard some really good hunters that people would swear they're bulls. I've also heard some really bad bulls that you'd swear they're people. This season a dude stopped in his dirtymax stop and let out a 30 second bugle.. All one note, needless to say the bull we were goin to work didn't answer and I later had 3 bulls goin all in ear shot of where that idiot bugled... I wanted to mess with him but I knew elk were there so I didn't want him ruining our hunt.
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: norsepeak on September 24, 2013, 07:37:40 PM: done it more times than I can count, but the one that stands out was in Idaho about 11 years ago. I'd backpacked back into a great drainage that I knew held bulls. Just as I was getting my camp setup, I hear the jingle of a bell headed up the pack trail to the top of the ridge. The next morning, I hear a bull down in the canyon, so off I go to put it on this bull. I get down in the canyon and start working the bull and low and behold, I hear the bell coming back down the pack trail. My wind swirled and bugered the bull out, so I thought, what the heck, I'll see if this outfitter really knows what he is doing. So I start doing my best herb bull impression and sure enough, the outfitter and his city slicker client fall for it hook, line and sinker. The look on the client's face when I came walking out into the clearing he was sitting on was priceless. :chuckle:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: usmc74 on September 24, 2013, 07:40:17 PM: Years ago, buddy and I hiked into a hole to hunt, only to hear another lousy bugling hunter. Same guy was there that night, so we worked him.

He turned out to be a 5X6. Didn't get home til after midnight that night :IBCOOL:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 24, 2013, 07:43:43 PM: Anyone got a video calling a hunter in? :chuckle:
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: lokidog on September 24, 2013, 08:24:52 PM: Hunting some Weyrhauser land down neer Coos Bay, OR, I was working my way up a road system calling and listening when I heard a hunter (pretty obvious) bugle back from about 1500 feet below me. So I called back and worked him all the way up. When he got where I could see him I stood up and said Hi and got in my truck and continued on. I felt a little bad about that, but his call was exactly the same EVERY time....
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: bullcanyon on September 24, 2013, 08:48:50 PM: Roughly 4 years ago a buddy and I were hunting in the high country and we were being followed by a "hunter" that ended up being a bull. We went over a mile before we got fed up and decided we were gonna point out to this "hunter" that the cows he was following were hunters. Boy did we feel stupid!
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: JJB11B on September 24, 2013, 09:02:48 PM: I get so eager to kill an elk that anything sounding like elk deserves my attention. Its not working. Maybe Ill try a different tactic next year. The most fun is when you are ARCHERY ELK hunting and you call in a bull that is packing a rifle. WHY THE HELL is a bear hunter running around bugling in my honey hole?
Title: Re: calling in other hunters
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 25, 2013, 05:23:02 AM: Maybe he thinks bears bugle? :chuckle: