Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: gonehuntin68 on September 15, 2015, 07:02:10 PM
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Man, seems slow where I'm at. Good first two days.
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Not yet. I think we are in the calm before the storm.
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They aren't to far off from getting really cranked up, The light switch is about to get flicked!!!
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Sounds good to me
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I watched a herd of 50 in 368 Cowiche unit last friday. I saw a small bull breeding a cow and a larger bull chase him off. T hen another bull hit it. The big one then chased him off too. Lots of bugling at twilight in the morning.
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Hope they didn't miss the memo on the west side. :chuckle:
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I watched a herd of 50 in 368 Cowiche unit last friday. I saw a small bull breeding a cow and a larger bull chase him off. T hen another bull hit it. The big one then chased him off too. Lots of bugling at twilight in the morning.
I was in 368 with a buddy with a bull tag and they were dead silent where we were. Only heard 2 bulls on opening night. Nothing both opening morning and Sunday morning.
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I was in the sagebrush.
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Dead silent in the high country.
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I saw 5 bulls this morning all together. The smaller bulls were mock fighting but not getting into it. There were a few cows.
I have seen 25 cows and calves with one big bull screaming his head off.
So I think this year is kind of different...
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Going hard!
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I CALLED IN A FIVE POINT THIS EVENING, AND WATCHED THIS NICE 6 POINT BUGLE BACK AND PUSH HIS COWS. I HAVE A MUZZY TAG AND WISH I HAD A BOW TAG, I THINK ITS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
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I also have an anybull muzzy tag. I'm also concerned its going to be done when we start. This is my first year shooting muzzy for elk. I usually bow hunt.
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They were screaming on Monday. Had 5 different bulls bugling at us. Saw lot elk. Just waiting for the Oct. 1 permit.
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THE BULLS AROUND MY PLACE ALL PRETTY MUCH HAVE A FEW COWS, THE BIGGER BULLS WILL ULTIMATELY END UP WITH THEM THE NEXT 2 WEEKS. THOSE HEARD BULLS WILL STILL BE ACTIVE BUT WONT COME INTO YOUR CALL, THEY WILL PUSH THE COWS AWAY FROM YOU BUT THAT DONT MEAN YOU CANT GET A NICE SATELITE BULL COMING IN TO YOU TRYING TO CUT A LOOSE COW OUT
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I've been on the Melbourne A Line in Minot since Friday and haven't seen an elk yet let alone hear one bugle! Seen a few fresh tracks but that's it. I was cow calling yesterday morning and my kid could hear movement down in the brush and we nocked arrows twice but nothing ever showed. My hearing is so bad I never heard anything even with my hearing aids!! My kid went home yesterday so now it's spot and stalk for me. I think with the hot weather they went nocturnal but maybe things will change now with the rain today. You guys with good hearing got it made, I envy you.
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I CALLED IN A FIVE POINT THIS EVENING, AND WATCHED THIS NICE 6 POINT BUGLE BACK AND PUSH HIS COWS. I HAVE A MUZZY TAG AND WISH I HAD A BOW TAG, I THINK ITS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW
Is This in Cowiche?
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My area has been pretty quite. Called one came in silent
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Yep, it was early this year so might as well quite hunting for elk it's just a waste of time now. :twocents:
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I think that the Elk are just getting going hard and near the peak of the rut. Should be great hunting the next week. Good luck to archers with an Elk tag.
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Yep, it was early this year so might as well quite hunting for elk it's just a waste of time now. :twocents:
You must be having a bad year so far? :chuckle:
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Over :lol4:?
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They haven't even hit the prime rut yet
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Rut is going strong, just a bit call shy from all the pressure.
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From most replys it sounds like the East is in it pretty heavy right now and on the West it might be towards the end?
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The sign we ran into last Friday, the stink from the animals was still there!! Never did see very many rub trees to speak of though. Maybe they'll be at it by the time muzzle stuffer comes along. Glad I have the multi tag.
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They were cranked up last night
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Haven't heard from too many Westside archery hunters. What have you guys been seeing?? Has the rut hit it's peak? Or is it just in its beginning stages?
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right after the full moon on the 28th threw first week of october is when its gonna get rippin
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Seems with the drought conditions the rut was real quick and done this year.
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I have been out camping in pe ell tree farm. I set out 4 cams in prime areas. (Hell holes) I had elk on every camera and 4 different legal rag horns on Friday the day before it opened. I had Bulls answering me back every time I cow called for the first four days, but the were hearded up. The only sati lite bull I could pull hung up at 80 yards and was smoked by another hunter 2 hrs later. From Wednesday to today I have only located 2 cow elk and had them in at 40 yds and spent 30 minutes cow talking to the likes that I have never experienced before. It was like an agrument. "No you come here, no I said you come here and on and on. I spent countless evenings in the woods prior to start of seAson and it was on! Now it seems to hVe ended its quite for the most part.
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I was down at the St. Helens Monument and they were bugling Thursday night, all day and night Friday, and today was pretty good too. Friday was insane though.
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FWIW the rut is later this year down in Arizona.
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It is starting to get hot here, it is going to be a good year. so pumped my first year hunting muzzy and I think it is going to be a good one.
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My buddy and I had bulls SCREAMING today. At least 5+ in this canyon non stop for probably almost an hour. Saw two of the bulls. Really nice six points. Then jumped a heard later with another big six, but he wasn't a talker. Fun day.
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Yesterday the elk where just HOT.. They where screaming there heads off all day. While I was packing out my true spike the heard of about 50 that I took him out of where just down the drainage from me 3 different bulls going at it. Yesterday was so much fun. Just being in the middle of all that.
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Was in the backcountry yesterday and didn't hear a single bugle in many different canyons. I don't believe it's over by any means but it sure is a weird year in the white river.
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I'm in SW and it's silent. Had one bugle opening morning. Nothing else.
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In stampede pass..haven't heard back besides cars up n down the roads.
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This week should be prime time !
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I've hunted three spots in Colorado so far and I'm finding the elk are either down low on private property or WAY up high still because it is so hot. One of the three bulls I saw on private was bugling, the other two weren't.
This weekend I was around 9000 feet and talking to some guys who have been there every year for five years said it was unusually quiet. Normally you would hear bugling all night long. I didn't hear a single one during the night or morning.
Came across another guy who was camped six miles in who had to go another four miles to find the elk. Once he did he said they were bugling, but 10 miles back and at 11,000 feet. He had a cow broadside at 30 yards and didn't let it go for the same reason I didn't go back that far - getting it out.
So I guess the elk are talking, but not much and they are really far back and high up, unless on the private, but then they're still fairly quiet. Hoping to get an elk this coming weekend.
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How bout now? :chuckle:
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Just got back from a two week hunt in Montana.....It was dead. Very few bugles and most the elk were down on private. From the sounds of it, the rut really kicked off early where we were. Locals say the bulls were going crazy the first two weeks in Sept. and got hammered by hunters shutting them up and moving them to private. We counted over 200 head on on ranch. :bash: :bash:
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Yes, the elk vocalization activity seems to have highs and lows throughout the rut but remember, "the rut" will continue as long as there are cows in the area coming into their second and even third estrus cycle (this can and oftentimes goes into mid October). It's all about the ladies! The rut coming "early or late" is really a misnomer as it happens during the same general time frame each year (triggered by the amount of light let into their eyeballs/length of day, the bulls testosterone level rising, and the cows coming into their estrus cycle/cycles). It seems there are always lulls in the vocalization activity each year. There are numerous factors that can trigger tongue tied bulls for a few or many days at a time (a weather front moving in to the area, a wolf pack moving into the drainage, excessive hunter calling/pressure, etc., etc.). With the herding up activity accomplished now, it's recommended to keep your calling under your hat until you get in tight to a herd bull. At that point (under 70 yards ideally) it's very possible to tick the herd bull off enough that he'll come to clean your clock. Using Elknut's "threat" levels/method has resulted in many herd bull noses hitting the dirt. Remember also when in tight to a herd, some quiet cow calls can result in a love sick satellite walking in. Go get em smoke pole hunters!
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Had three screaming this morning, wouldn't say it's over yet.
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I bulged a bull in yesterday. And killed him at less then 40 yds. I haven't posted the story yet, it was a long night. Back in the day archery season opened Oct. 1st, I could always call in bulls.
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We were working one in Naches on Friday, and my reports say they are moving in WY. No time to waste now.
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We called in and killed a screaming bull yesterday morning, and on Wednesday morning killed another bugling bull, and heard/saw 7 others rutting like crazy :tup:
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I bugled In a bull last night right at dusk, down on the creekbottom.
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I did my first year of archery down here in the 660 and nothing going on then and doing the front stuffer now. We've seen a total of 3 cows since the opener. Been hitting the timber real hard every day from day light til dark and nothing happening. Been cow calling and not getting any answers from the bulls at all. :bash: Found a really fresh rub the other night so we hit that area yesterday and I think they grow wings and leave!! Got today and tomorrow to get one and then it'll be modern next month. This is gonna be embarrassing to eat multi tag soup. :yike: The first rub an alder is in a different area and probably a couple weeks old now but the second one is the one I found the other night. There were probably a half dozen firs that he trashed down in this hole. Getting ready to hit again.
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I live in Snoqualmie right next to the big fields they dedicated to the elk. There are about 75 elk in there with 10bulls over 300 inches. Last Saturday they were rutting really hard. Watched 4 cows get dominated. Lots of chasing bulls around and bugles. Last night they were all out again and no calling or chasing. They were just feeding and most of the Bulls were close together. Seems like it's over to me
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I bugled with 2 bulls this morning. One exposed himself to us and the other one was out on an open hillside with 5 cows.
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Had a few cows behind my place Monday night. Woke up at 1:30AM when two nice 6x6 bulls crashed into the side of my house while fighting. Scared the crap out of me until I figured out what it was! Lol
The fighting and bugling went on all night until I left at 5:30AM.
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on the west side it seems pretty dead. :'(
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I bugled with 2 bulls this morning. One exposed himself to us and the other one was out on an open hillside with 5 cows.
Are you on the east side?
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I bugled with 2 bulls this morning. One exposed himself to us and the other one was out on an open hillside with 5 cows.
Are you on the east side?
I am. 30 minutes from yakima.
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heard one bugle this morning
