RE: Montana Elk hunters.....
Just across the border here in N. Idaho, bulls are talking some, but mostly late at night, not much talk during daylight. I had one bull chuckling about 50 yards from my whitetail stand, no bugles though. Not yet up here. My brother in the Salmon river area had 6 different bulls answer but didnt get much more than one or two return bugles and that was it.
Good luck
shed