Bugle Report

cmbbulldog · Aug 30, 2020

What are you all hearing out there? Hearing some reports here and there....

Houndsman77 · Aug 30, 2020

They aint making noise from what I have heard.

deerkiller · Aug 30, 2020

I heard a spike bugle this morning at 9. That’s it. And I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in the hills so far this year.

txhunter58 · Aug 31, 2020

Still pretty early and its been hot. Once we get a few fronts coming thru, they hopefully will get fired up!

ruger1022 · Aug 31, 2020

I have an UT archery bull elk hunt. All the bulls I ran into this weekend were still grouped up, and some were still packing velvet. It is extremely hot and dry here, and the elk are in really rough shape.

Dconcrete · Sep 1, 2020

What unit do you have ruger?

cmbbulldog · Sep 1, 2020

Well, it’s supposed to be 98 in Denver on Saturday, does that help?

SanJuan · Sep 1, 2020

I heard a few bugles over the weekend. I was over 12,000' and it had been raining/hailing off and on.

ruger1022 · Sep 1, 2020

Dconcrete said:
What unit do you have ruger?

SW Desert

Houndsman77 · Sep 1, 2020

ruger1022 said:
SW Desert

I bet all the horses are doing good tho

ruger1022 · Sep 1, 2020

Houndsman77 said:
I bet all the horses are doing good tho

I stopped and talked to the BLM Conservation officer. They had a road closed down that I was hoping to go up. They just rounded up 400 horses off the HMA. I told him if they were pulling horses off the unit, I would happily find a new place to hunt.

He told me the horses are actually in pretty good condition, which is interesting because the elk look extremely poor. Most antelope does don't have fawns this year. I haven't seen very many deer with fawns this year. This drought has been HORRIBLE.

Houndsman77 · Sep 2, 2020

Thats to bad. Its good they are gathering some of them up. I hope we get some moisture. And good luck on your hunt.

Bwht4x4 · Sep 2, 2020

ruger1022 said:
I stopped and talked to the BLM Conservation officer. They had a road closed down that I was hoping to go up. They just rounded up 400 horses off the HMA. I told him if they were pulling horses off the unit, I would happily find a new place to hunt.

He told me the horses are actually in pretty good condition, which is interesting because the elk look extremely poor. Most antelope does don't have fawns this year. I haven't seen very many deer with fawns this year. This drought has been HORRIBLE.

Ruger,

I had the SWD archery tag in 2014 and can remember hearing my first bugle on that hunt on August 28 and killed my bull over water on August 30 over water . Good luck