Only had a couple days off between jobs but was onto 3 different bulls in 2 separate areas, had a look at 2 of em. The bulls actively firing off were 6000’ elv with the one exception being a valley bottom cutblock. He had found a stray cow the day prior, tracks all over the road until they bailed off the road. Fired a quick bugle and he let me know where he was, pretty content tending to her in the thick shit so I came back the next day in a cutblock below that point. We had a 2.5hr scream fest trying to get him out of the timber until he finally got a whiff. Sept 17 ish.
The bugles I heard unprovoked were late afternoon, quiet, and short. Came back in the morning with a rough idea where they are, bugle to locate and I’d get a response right on top of my call.