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Just returned from a family vacation at a remote cabin in the Southern San Juans near the NM-CO line. I heard an elk bugle early yesterday morning. Having rarely been in elk country during this time of the year, I have no idea: Do elk normally bugle this time of year? | ||
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They will bugle all year long, but its getting to be that time of the year. The first cows will be coming into estrus in the next couple weeks. Basically coming up on the Pre rut. The bulls will be rubbing off thier velvet really soon too. While they say they bugle all year long, I've never heard one talk in the late winter or early spring, but have heard them all summer long and into November. | |||
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That's about what I figured. We saw a large group of cows (with only a yearling spike bull). However, a few hours later and in the same vicinity we saw a single multi-point bull. I assumed that he was "studying" on trying to round up that group of cows for his own, and no doubt has some competition in the neighborhood. I hear that much of the West has been very hot and dry this year, but S. Colorado, at least east of the divide, has had a lot of moisture -- grass is still green and waist-high in places. The cows we saw were as fat as mud. Mule deer does had spotted fawns with them that looked to be June products. | |||
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We always schedule a vacation to the ranch I elk hunt on the CO/NM line (Colfax County, Eagle Nest) during my wife's birthday....July 20th. It never fails...we have elk bugling and usually snow on the mountains at that time of year. Last year as we were pulling out to go home, we were slipping and sliding on the snowy/icy roads!! Man, I sure do miss it out there, but will be there the week before Thanksgiving this year. | |||
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Stonecreek, it sounds like you were near Units 80-81, Negril Gulch, Cat Creek. Sound familiar? I'll be hunting there the second week of October. One of my cousins is bowhunting there in a few weeks. They just sent back pics of our hunting area and I could NOT believe how green it was. Say, we ran into a group of crazy Texans last year in a Ford SuperDuty... That wasn't you was it? MKane160 You can always make more money, you can never make more time...........LLYWD. Have you signed your donor card yet? | |||
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Its been my experience that the younger non-breeding Bulls are more vocal in non rut times than the big daddy's, then when the rut is on the big ones take over and sometimes the younger bulls just shut up if the big ones are around for fear of getting their butts kicked. | |||
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I just got back from 3 days in a secluded canyon behind Purgatory....never heard a peep!.......wapiti7 P.S. We're off to Afrika in the morning! | |||
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One was bugling in northern Co last week as well. First one I had ever heard, that wasn't on tv. Walk softly and carry a big bore! | |||
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Nope, we're Chevy types  We're located between Antonito and Chama. | |||
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My guys leave next week to open up camp in NM. Some of my friends are hunting with them this year, so I should get updates once the archery season opens. I hope for them to get some early weather this fall. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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I got an email from a friend in Arizona and he says a pending new world record bull was shot with a bow already, and it came in to a bugle. He said it scored 423. That's about all I know. We were up Kirwin this weekend and I heard a two bulls bugleing. | |||
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