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    My 2021 Elk Hunt: the challenge bugle

    Please have patience with me to write this, as I'm trying to get it done around lunch/coffee breaks at work and after I put my son to bed........

    My partner and I decided to hunt a place that I scouted in past years and I knew had elk in region 4...we would be hiking in camping & hunting from our base camp...we headed up on Sept 8th to hunt the last day and a half of bow only season, & if elk were located, continue hunting into the 6 pt GOS rifle hunt...

    So we loaded up our packs and headed up the mountain, seeing somewhat fresh elk sign as we headed up the mountain...we saw sign in our hunting area but nothing super fresh, and after we set up our camp we covered ground looking for sign and sending out location bugles at various intervals as we travelled on the 8th, but got no replies....our plan was to hunt the next day and if we got no responses and/or saw no fresh sign, we'd head back down.....

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    Re: My 2021 Elk Hunt: the challenge bugle

    Looking forward to this one!!!!

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    Re: My 2021 Elk Hunt: the challenge bugle

    What? Hunting posts? Sorry this doesn’t happen anymore. Please proceed to the covid thread.

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    I will refer to my hunting friend/partner as 'buddy'...

    So we wake up before first light on the 9th and about 10 minutes before first light I'm taking a leak, my buddy is rustling around in his tent, and as im doing my business I hear "EER eeeeeeoooooooo" - nice big bugle from several hundred yards down below our camp - "buddy, get out of your tent I just heard a bugle, let's go! - "yeah right sure" he replies.." I swear to you dude I just did" I say....so he gets his crap on steps out of his tent, we start making our way there with his bow in hand (I shoot recurve and I didn't bring mine up the mtn)...within a couple minutes we hear the bull sound off again - I look at my buddy at the tail end of the bugle and I can see his eyes bugging out of his head - "see told ya!" I say... now it's on - we run closer while paying attention to the wind and proceed to a tree that I believe is in the area of the bull, then I let out a screaming challenge bugle, while trying not to sound tooo big...now it's on - we see antlers crest this hill....

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    THis bull is looking for the challenger, and even though it's any bull GOS with a bow, my buddy is at an angle that he can't help himself from counting 6 tines on each antler as they are glistening in the early morning light...were also throwing out several cow calls in the mix...but, either the wind changed or they spotted us because all of a sudden, a whole herd gets up and starts hauling ass out of the area - about 20 - 25 cow & calf elk.....the bull is still just out of range of my buddies bow so I let out a real emotional bugle right in this guy's face, but his desire to stay with his cows was too great - as he vacates with them he counters to my bugle and let's us know who's boss...aw crap we think to ourselves...

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    Later that evening, I'm glassing this basin, while buddy is tending to bathroom matters...about the last hour of light or so to my right down in the basin I hear EEERRRRRRRR eeeooooooo....this time I can tell it's a different bull, & he's looking for action....I quickly rip over to our hunting camp not 50 yards away - "buddy! where the hell are you"? PPPPPssssst wwhheerrreee are you we need your bow! but I want to keep this bull in the area so I run back to the ridge and let out a bugle myself, he replies with authority with an even longer bugle with several chuckles....I make out his body through the trees - big - I think to myself maybe I can get buddy to come up with my own cow calls they travel - sure enough buddy comes back and askes what the commotion was...."we have another bull down here let's go!" so we grab our bare essentials and make our way toward him, with light fading away now.......

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    Re: My 2021 Elk Hunt: the challenge bugle

    FFS Harry you're letting work get in the way of your great story! Keep it coming bud - you're doing a great job so far
    "It is the first responsibility of every citizen to question authority." - Benjamin Franklin

    "The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it" - George Orwell

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    Re: My 2021 Elk Hunt: the challenge bugle

    As we make our way towards him we exchange bugles & throw out some cow calls, as he bugles back and destroys several smaller trees/bushes as he makes his way towards us....this bull is fired up, we exchange 6 - 8 bugles each, each one echoing out of the timber he resides in, sending waves of excitement and awe our way every time he sounds off...as he draws closer, each bugle gets more intense as we challenge each other, I'm trying to get him within buddies bow range but light is fading...we think we count 6, it would be a downhill shot with a bow and buddy isn't comfortable with it so he says " it's almost dark and I'm not comfortable with this shot, lets get out of here & try to count 6 and get him with the rifle in the morning" - I agree, we quickly proceed up the hill towards camp....as we're part way back up the hill, it's now basically dark and we hear "EERRRRRRR eeeeeooooooo! He sounds off right where we just left! We make our way back to our camp, with the hair standing up on the back of our necks from that last encounter..... as were eating dinner in the dark we can hear him still sounding off....

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    Re: My 2021 Elk Hunt: the challenge bugle

    Quote Originally Posted by Harvest the Land View Post
    FFS Harry you're letting work get in the way of your great story! Keep it coming bud - you're doing a great job so far
    Thanks pal...................

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