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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: huntnfmly on October 11, 2020, 03:02:47 PM

Title: Bulls still bugling ?
Post by: huntnfmly on October 11, 2020, 03:02:47 PM: Hey guys how late in the year are bulls normally bugling?
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Post by: elkboy on October 11, 2020, 03:11:03 PM: As of this last weekend, still bugling hard in the east Cascades! Activity was dying down around 9 or 10 am, and bulls were screaming again around 4:30 or 5:00 PM. We were in a spike only unit, but man, we saw some nice bulls.
Title: Re: Bulls still bugling ?
Post by: WapitiTalk1 on October 11, 2020, 03:12:50 PM: Yes, area dependent. As long as there is a hot cow in the mix, the bull vocalization will continue.
Title: Re: Bulls still bugling ?
Post by: huntnfmly on October 11, 2020, 03:21:46 PM: Thank you for the replies
I heard of cows coming into heat 30 days after their first cycle if they were not bread the first time
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Post by: Hilltop123 on October 11, 2020, 03:36:39 PM: Yup, night before last. One was ripping it up in our pasture, woke me up! That didnt make me happy. :chuckle:
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Post by: buckcanyonlodge on October 11, 2020, 05:59:48 PM: I was showing a 200 ac parcel yesterday and we jumped some elk. After a couple minutes they started bugling about 500 yds away.. Just enough bugling to help me write up an offer for an excited buyer/hunter.
Title: Re: Bulls still bugling ?
Post by: Bango skank on October 11, 2020, 06:11:14 PM: Bet ya wish you had some bugling bulls on every property you showed.
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Post by: Buckhunter24 on October 11, 2020, 06:26:47 PM: Boy I could hide in the brush and bugle at your next property for a reasonable fee...
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Post by: Bango skank on October 11, 2020, 07:27:25 PM: Get some big sheds and stash them on the properties youre showing :chuckle:
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Post by: buckcanyonlodge on October 11, 2020, 07:35:35 PM: I showed one property and as soon as we drove up the drive way a couple deer crossed in front of us and when checking out the sellers ground blind area a flock of turkeys flew in from uphill and practically landed at our feet. "OK, turn the turkeys loose" I yelled up the hill. No offer from those buyers but I do have one now on that parcel..
Title: Re: Bulls still bugling ?
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on October 11, 2020, 09:06:15 PM: Quote from: WapitiTalk1 on October 11, 2020, 03:12:50 PM
Yes, area dependent. As long as there is a hot cow in the mix, the bull vocalization will continue.

Seen cows in heat at oak creek in January with bulls bugleing and mounting as if it was September.
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Post by: elkchaser54 on October 12, 2020, 12:05:49 AM: Definitely had 3 bulls bugling last day of deer rifle season last year down in the blues .
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Post by: snit on October 30, 2020, 09:32:50 AM: Still bugling early this week at my place, about 10pm, Central Wa.
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Post by: huntnfmly on October 30, 2020, 11:09:14 AM: Thanks guys
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Post by: elksnout on October 30, 2020, 04:43:43 PM: Bull bugling this week two days in a row in 574.

Elksnout
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Post by: hunt3636223 on November 04, 2020, 10:10:19 PM: Two bulls bugling and cows talking as we speak. Fifty yards behind my house in 329.
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Post by: huntnnw on November 04, 2020, 11:16:53 PM: friend in ID deer hunting saw a big 6 bugling and trying to mount cows today
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Post by: yakimanoob on November 05, 2020, 03:09:04 PM: The Yakima herd was pretty noisy the week before season - I even got to watch two mature bulls fight each other.

I haven't heard so much as a cow mew since the opener. I was out for four days straight and (thankfully) was within earshot of plenty of elk. Still looking for that spike though...