streetdoctor
WKR
I've ran into the same bull (a good sized 6x7) 4x and have been unable to close the deal.
One time I slow played quiet when I found them in a meadow one morning. Instead of working the treeline to get closer (I ranged him at 90 yards). I set up in a good spot hoping they would graze within 60. They grazed the opposite way.
The next encounter was at last light and we were within 50 yards in heavy timber. The bull was able to circle and wind us. He responded to a location bugle.
The last two encounters I've gotten within 100 and to me it seems like calling has bumped them. Both in dark timber out of their bedding spot. Both times I saw them before they saw me as they were up slowly walking the opposite direction of my calling.
I know it's not my calling... last year I called a bull in with a sequence like he was on a string.
Every time this is the same bull with 4 cows. Cow calling I've done is everything from regular cow calls to lost calf mews to contact buzz's. Bugles have been location bugles and advertising sequences.
Getting down to crunch time again. I figure I can reliably get into them one more time...
At this point I'm convinced they're the only elk in this entire drainage or I would have killed a satellite by now.
One time I slow played quiet when I found them in a meadow one morning. Instead of working the treeline to get closer (I ranged him at 90 yards). I set up in a good spot hoping they would graze within 60. They grazed the opposite way.
The next encounter was at last light and we were within 50 yards in heavy timber. The bull was able to circle and wind us. He responded to a location bugle.
The last two encounters I've gotten within 100 and to me it seems like calling has bumped them. Both in dark timber out of their bedding spot. Both times I saw them before they saw me as they were up slowly walking the opposite direction of my calling.
I know it's not my calling... last year I called a bull in with a sequence like he was on a string.
Every time this is the same bull with 4 cows. Cow calling I've done is everything from regular cow calls to lost calf mews to contact buzz's. Bugles have been location bugles and advertising sequences.
Getting down to crunch time again. I figure I can reliably get into them one more time...
At this point I'm convinced they're the only elk in this entire drainage or I would have killed a satellite by now.