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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: norsepeak on July 21, 2011, 10:24:36 PM

Title: Heard the first bugle of the season tonight!
Post by: norsepeak on July 21, 2011, 10:24:36 PM: snuck into one of "secret" spots and found this little guy, followed him into the timber where there was another bull and about 10 cows, sat there and watched them for a few minutes and then the other bull bugled twice! Good bugles too...must be horny! :yike:
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Post by: 50CalJim on July 21, 2011, 10:38:30 PM: I was hiking in the Nooksack last weekend & I heard a couple Bugles myself. :tup:
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Post by: Kain on July 21, 2011, 10:38:59 PM: :tup: :drool: :drool:
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Post by: carpsniperg2 on July 21, 2011, 10:43:48 PM: With it being so cool this year they might kick into things sooner. We will have to wait to see :drool:
Title: Re: Heard the first bugle of the season tonight!
Post by: fair-chase on July 21, 2011, 10:48:27 PM: Quote from: carpsniperg2 on July 21, 2011, 10:43:48 PM
With it being so cool this year they might kick into things sooner. We will have to wait to see :drool:

Oh no, do I feel an early rut thread coming on. :chuckle:
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Post by: huntnnw on July 21, 2011, 11:27:05 PM: awwesome! Ill be in ID in unit 18...deffinatley keep the ears open
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Post by: brianmtsinc on July 21, 2011, 11:45:21 PM: I was out riding my mountain bike, checking some trail cameras and was stopped by two bugles. I stopped, made a couple of cow calls, and another bull bugled back. :IBCOOL:
It was a full bugle with no chuckles.

45 minutes later, I was stopped by ANOTHER bugle! Seems strange for them to be sounding off so early :dunno:

It definitely gets the blood pumping! Can't wait till Sept!!!
Title: Re: Heard the first bugle of the season tonight!
Post by: briancorneal on July 22, 2011, 12:18:52 AM: Isn't that bad news for us elk hunters? I sure hope my tag gets put to use this year, and I'm counting on rutting bulls in september. I'm also counting on the dumb 6x6's too...lol
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Post by: dreamingbig on July 22, 2011, 05:06:42 AM: Not too unusual given that they usually establish who is in the area in early August; a roll call per say. They do bugle all year.
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Post by: rasbo on July 22, 2011, 05:14:46 AM: the shorter light in a day will kick the rut in,temps will only be a factor on how much activity during this period if that makes sense..The same works for me,nuts will drop around Sept 1st,urge to chase the wife around the house with a curled lip,Sept 4Th then its game on...well sort of,denial by the spouse will activate my urge to rub,and the of course urinate on the belly,roll in the mud,then bugle about the area with great despair.. :chuckle:
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on July 22, 2011, 05:27:12 AM: Yea then have some guy come along and stick ya :chuckle:
Title: Re: Heard the first bugle of the season tonight!
Post by: rasbo on July 22, 2011, 05:32:02 AM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on July 22, 2011, 05:27:12 AM
Yea then have some guy come along and stick ya :chuckle:
better be with an arrow :chuckle:...Im headed out in a few to grab some firewood and check out some elk
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on July 22, 2011, 05:48:40 AM: Nice picture. Helps to have a nice spread when it come to scratching yourself.
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Post by: boneaddict on July 22, 2011, 06:06:31 AM: Good pic Norse. One of these days I'll have these kids raised and we can get out. LOL
Title: Re: Heard the first bugle of the season tonight!
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on July 22, 2011, 07:57:12 AM: Quote
They do bugle all year.
:yeah:
A bugle is just a form of communication, they do it all the time, even cows bugle sometimes.
Title: Re: Heard the first bugle of the season tonight!
Post by: PlateauNDN on July 22, 2011, 08:43:03 AM: Quote from: STIKNSTRINGBOW on July 22, 2011, 07:57:12 AM
Quote
They do bugle all year.
:yeah:
A bugle is just a form of communication, they do it all the time, even cows bugle sometimes.

:yeah: We hear them all the time when we start spring and summer food gathering chatting away with one another.
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Post by: bankwalker on July 22, 2011, 08:20:07 PM: i was down in oregon by reedsport a few days ago. and got a couple bulls to buggle back. i thought it was a little early and was kinda caught off guard. i had my back turned and they were about 30yds off the highway :chuckle:
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Post by: akirkland on July 22, 2011, 09:20:47 PM: I heard a bull bugle 4 weeks ago today. In the toutle.
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Post by: wsucowboy on July 23, 2011, 12:49:39 AM: Camping out at bumping lake about a month back I woke up to an elk bugle bout 4 in the morning. Heck of a lot better to wake up to than the alarm clock
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Post by: TheHunt on July 23, 2011, 08:15:15 AM: I am excited to kill one this year. I went scouting to some of my spots saw lots of elk but no bugles. I like to hear that they are getting vocal.
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Post by: PA BEN on July 23, 2011, 08:34:25 AM: 17 years ago the weekend after the fourth of July we were camping at Pierre Lake in the N E corner, hotter then hell out and we heard bugles up on the Mt. above the Lake. I think it just feels good to bugle some times. BTW, it was in the evening when it started to cool down for the day.
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Post by: NWWABOWHNTR on July 23, 2011, 11:01:48 AM: You can hear "locater" bugles year around... I have heard them in December, June... you name it.
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Post by: piledup on July 23, 2011, 08:54:39 PM: You guys sure it wasn't just someone practicing bugling :chuckle: ;)
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Post by: mulehunter on July 23, 2011, 09:39:48 PM: Never hear one a sound whole my life. :bash:

Mulehunter. :chuckle:
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Post by: puyallupaul on July 24, 2011, 10:42:16 AM: Norsepeak, you found him on my birthday. (76CJ7)
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on July 24, 2011, 03:22:26 PM: I was up in the hills this week and I heard some bugleing myself..
Title: Re: Heard the first bugle of the season tonight!
Post by: norsepeak on July 24, 2011, 10:29:45 PM: It might have been a sasquatch too, :dunno: not real sure, but there are a lot of them around. :yike: :chuckle: