earliest elk bugle

hhunter23 · Jul 8, 2014

we were up setting some trail cameras in a new area Saturday (July 5th) and come into this area that held a lot of elk. we didnt think much of it as we were looking for deer, so we started to leave when we heard a bugle. all three of us stopped and looked at each other and kinda chuckled and thought no way. we stood there 15 minutes and heard him bugle 3 more times, he would never "chuckle" towards the end, but no doubt that it was a bugle. it was 7:00 am. i still cant believe it. so i just wanted to ask everyone what the earliest you have ever heard a bull bugle?

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highpeak · Jul 8, 2014

August 1st, while changing a tire a few years back, I thought I was hearing things? After I was done I hiked a ways up the draw and listened for about a half hour, didnt try to provoke an answer just listened. Sure enough he fired off again, it definitely wasn't a person, it was a bull. I just backed out and went back during the rut when the bulls were in a frenzy in the same canyon.

ElkManDan · Jul 8, 2014

Cows will make bugling sounds all spring long, especially when communicating with calves. Several times both last spring and this spring I heard bugles, swearing that it came from a bull and it wasn't until I actually saw a cow tip her head back and rip one out that I could believe it came from a cow.
As for a bull bugle I have heard them mid July while scouting, none of them had the intensity of a full on rut bugle though.

Roy · Jul 8, 2014

March 23rd. Watched a bull who had only just dropped his antlers about a month earlier call to the rest of the herd on the other side of the hill. They all stopped, heard cows bark back. They bugle all year long.

As far as hearing a bull bugle as if he is ready to rut - mid August.

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goofyelk · Jul 8, 2014

Elk are very vocal animals ...

Bulls dont bugle just because of the rut..

I've hear bulls bugle during every month of the calander year.

nfh · Jul 8, 2014

Elk are vocal all year. I have heard bulls from hunting season to winter to spring to summer. they are just a lot more vocal during the rut..

hank4elk · Jul 9, 2014

I hear them from lead cows all year,bulls not so much.
First full bull bugles I hear are end of July to Nov. where I am. Heard a runt early this morn

Vanilla · Jul 10, 2014

Scouting last week on July 4th for my brother's Wasatch muzzy tag we listened to a bull rip some bugles about 100 yards away from a group of about 35 mixed with cows, calves, and spikes that we watched run around in the trees.

The cows were going crazy physically and vocally. Finally after a while i guess the bull had enough and let a few loose at them. It was pretty cool to watch unfold.

c3 · Jul 10, 2014

On the summer solstice, I filmed about 150 elk and they bugled all around me all evening, that night and the next morning. I have a number of the bugles recorded when I was filming cows and their newborns in he morning.

Pretty crazy to have a bunch of little bulls going at it on June 21st. Thought I was back on the san juan in the middle of the rut for a minute

Cheers,
Pete

pmixmaster · Jul 15, 2014

Scouting this past weekend and heard 4 bugles in the early am was nice sound but pretty sure they were just cows talking

LoneWati · Jul 15, 2014

Middle of January a nice 6x6 was bugling and 2 rag horns were answering back. They bugle all year. Seen some good fights in early March and as long as they are hard horned will rub and scrape up the trees.

WoodsD9 · Jul 16, 2014

Checked the Cameras the other day and found this bull bugling into the camera on July 8th!

2rocky · Sep 9, 2014

>Middle of January a nice 6x6
>was bugling and 2 rag
>horns were answering back. They
>bugle all year. Seen some
>good fights in early March
>and as long as they
>are hard horned will rub
>and scrape up the trees.
>

+1 to this. Watched a 6 point on the Jackson Elk Refuge bugling January 10th or so.