Montana Elk hunters.....
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Beautiful Western Montana
Posts: 2,308
Montana Elk hunters.....
I still am not hearing any rutting activity, just started seeing rubs last weekend. How are all of you doing? My buddy confirmed no activity in his area either. What gives?
#3
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Join Date: Jun 2003
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RE: Montana Elk hunters.....
I did hear one bull bugle in the early morning one time on 9-12-04. I bugled back, but did not get a reply. That was the first bugle of the year for me.
I looked back in my hunting journal & the most productive time for my friends & I has been September 19th. thru the 25th. The 21st. is are best day for some reason? Someone in our group has killed a bull on September 21st. for the last eight years in a row.
I looked back in my hunting journal & the most productive time for my friends & I has been September 19th. thru the 25th. The 21st. is are best day for some reason? Someone in our group has killed a bull on September 21st. for the last eight years in a row.
#4
RE: Montana Elk hunters.....
Mulie, I haven't heard any bulls yet but within the next two weeks they should be bulgling real strong. Some people around here have said they heard some bulging but I personally have not as I have been spending about 5 days a week in the bush. SOON. Good Luck, Bobby
#5
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
Good luck
shed
#6
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Billings, Montana
Posts: 105
RE: Montana Elk hunters.....
Muley, I just went out this past weekend and on Sat. the 11th I heard one bugle in the morning. On Sunday it was another story, I watched a 330 class bull bugle his head off and chase his cows around for about 20 to 30 min. There was another bull in the area and he was bugling also. I was about 30 yards from a bull ripping up a tree with his antlers and when I tried to just sneek in a little closer I was 20 yards from a spike. I walked about 75 yards down this ridge and jumped a 4x4 raghorn. I bet you are wondering why I didn't try for a shot and that is because I was hunting mulies and I didn't have the special permit for this area. Of course it was in the breaks but not down by the river. I know next year I will make sure I get a permit for this area. It was awsome just watching them.
#7
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Beautiful Western Montana
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RE: Montana Elk hunters.....
I'm finsihing up a job tomarrow and I plan on taking rest of the week off. Going to camp up in my area wednesday & thursday so I can hear what's going on at nite. Bear season opens tomarrow here, so maybe I'll get in on some of that as well.