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Big Game Hunting => Elk Hunting => Topic started by: deerhunter_98520 on September 05, 2011, 08:45:23 AM

Title: called in an animal..not sure what
Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 05, 2011, 08:45:23 AM: went out scoutin for deer and elk yesterday and first thing in the moring i was on a landing fairly well hidden in a root wad and i could hear 2 animals messin around in the brush about 150 yds apart..one on my left and one on my right....they both sounded big and coming towards me...the one on the left stop makin noise but the one on the right kept on goin...i thought it was a bear tearin up some brush possibly so i had my cow call and thought id try to call him in...i make a few chirps and it made a "huff"..it was kind of like snort/huff combo...not sure how else to explain it...never heard the sound before...but everytime id call this animal would make this sound....then i heard what sounded like horns raking a tree..or maybe a bear tearin bark?....now im thinking a bull might be down there....so after an hour of this i slowly made my way over to the end of landing to peek over since it was hung up just over the edge and theres nothing there that i can see...so my cuz stand up on a stump and we hear a big crack from a branch and somthing run off for about 5 seconds and everything went silent...still no clue what it was....u guys think it was a bull or a bear that came in?...would a bull make this sound...ive been barked by one but just never heard one make a sound like this...i dont have to much expierence with bears so thats why im askin
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Post by: wayner on September 05, 2011, 08:47:50 AM: could have been a bull moose :dunno:
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Post by: PA BEN on September 05, 2011, 08:48:12 AM: Bears well huff. Elk bark. :tup:
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Post by: 270Shooter on September 05, 2011, 08:52:40 AM: Bigfoot most likely
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 05, 2011, 08:55:03 AM: Quote from: PA BEN on September 05, 2011, 08:48:12 AM
Bears well huff. Elk bark. :tup:

yeah ive heard both....but this wasnt like either sound by itself....it was kinda like combining the 2...it was wierd
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 05, 2011, 08:56:11 AM: theres no moose on the washington coast...yet
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Post by: wayner on September 05, 2011, 11:20:20 AM: sorry I didnt pay attention where he was from. :sry:
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Post by: kalamasasquatch on September 05, 2011, 01:02:33 PM: sorry...you caught me chasing Mrs. Kalamasasquatch around. Its our rut too.......
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Post by: Heredoggydoggy on September 05, 2011, 01:11:47 PM: The description sounds more like a buck deer "wheeze-grunt".
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Post by: PA BEN on September 05, 2011, 01:43:23 PM: Could have been an elk. They do make different noises. I herd a range cow ended up being a bull elk.
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Post by: PlateauNDN on September 05, 2011, 01:58:59 PM: Bigfoot, definitely bigfoot!
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Post by: RadSav on September 05, 2011, 02:16:54 PM: Ever see any of those pigs that are suppose to be over there? Bulls will cough when excited and a younger bull is near. First time I heard that I thought another hunter was coming in - weird noise.
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 05, 2011, 02:46:59 PM: Quote from: RadSav on September 05, 2011, 02:16:54 PM
Ever see any of those pigs that are suppose to be over there? Bulls will cough when excited and a younger bull is near. First time I heard that I thought another hunter was coming in - weird noise.

funny you mention that cause that was the first noise it made it sounded like someone caughed....no i havent seen any of the pigs...those are up in the wynoochee valley...a good hour away from where this happened...well it sounds like i had a bull comin in then...you learn new things everyday
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Post by: denali on September 05, 2011, 03:59:16 PM: Quote from: kalamasasquatch on September 05, 2011, 01:02:33 PM
sorry...you caught me chasing Mrs. Kalamasasquatch around. Its our rut too.......

Toooo much information :chuckle:
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 05, 2011, 04:41:26 PM: Probably a good thing i didnt see u then...i dont need to see a naked hairy beast running around all excited :chuckle:

Quote from: denali on September 05, 2011, 03:59:16 PM
Quote from: kalamasasquatch on September 05, 2011, 01:02:33 PM
sorry...you caught me chasing Mrs. Kalamasasquatch around. Its our rut too.......

Toooo much information
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Post by: buckhorn2 on September 05, 2011, 04:58:49 PM: Could have been Rasbo but he is in eastern wa.
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Post by: dscubame on September 05, 2011, 05:00:56 PM: Mountain Lion.
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Post by: Heredoggydoggy on September 05, 2011, 06:00:48 PM: This calls for a Poll!
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Post by: deerhunter_98520 on September 05, 2011, 06:50:48 PM: poll added
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Post by: christopheri on September 05, 2011, 07:12:41 PM: Well it coulda been kalamasasquatch chaseing his wife but I think from what you described it was a bear. I am just guessing. :dunno: