is the season over today? damn time fliesOriginally Posted by Basman1313
They have that cow elk hunt for a while during bull season(dont know about unit 1. it never hurt anything an doesnt effect anything. cant blame AZG&F for that.
PSST maybe you suck at calling LMAO bugles work great I dont have good luck with cow calls
Get on my level.
Delbert,
I had no problem calling in bull after bull. Bugling went out in the 80's. There is a time and place for it but cow calling is much more effective.
And by putting the cow hunt on top of the bull hunt they doubled the amount of hunters in the woods. I had 3 different Cow hunters come in to my set up and ask if they could shoot a cow if it came in with a bull...2 of the groups came in UPWIND.
yeah same thing happens with bull hunters to other bull hunters its public land. it sucks sometimes but cant blame G&F for it. at least they were polite enough to ask. I always say hell yeah kill it if you see it but thats me.
sounds like your hunting too close to the roads. or over water which means a road is nearby. dont need to do that stuff when the rut is close or full on. elk are everywhere and will come to anything.
kid in I hunted for certain bulls in heavly accesed areas. we called in bulls and people one group a few times in the same day. they never saw us and were both wearing street clothes its a crack up. when we dont want to see people we just hike a few miles off the road and we see no one for days. hell for that matter hunting on any major road you really see any one unless there is a pond nearby. I never understood why people hunted water. its a waste of time and a waste of patience. especially during the rut get out find them and hoof it to them or call them to you.
some people go up there to call during the rut just to have a good time. I say more power to them. one guy last year we met out of wickenburg was doing that. he called a bull in right to our camp. we pulled up the dude was bugling across the road and a bull was laying behind the tent bugling back cool as shit. he had no clue he called it in. we told him a few days before he wasnt bothering us and to have fun, told him a few spots to check out in the area as well.
your too nit picky you should hunt private land that way you wont have complaints bout other hunters.
oh yeah dont rule out unit 1 some extreamly nice bulls come out of that unit in the last week I heard one was pushing green 400. it was shot not more than 500 yards from a main road on the guys walk back in the middle of the day. so the story goes. of coarse its all second hand info but like every year it happens some get them some dont.
Unit 1 and 27 have been on the decline the last few years due to increased tags . Also lots of bulls were killed in the burn areas on the rifle hunts since they stick out like a sore thumb.
Horn growth is definitely down this year state wide including the Rez.
I got friends and family that got rez tags and are eating their tags this year due to horn growth.
Unit 1, 27, 23,9 and 10 will always produce a 380-400 even on a drought year but those 380-400 bulls would be a 420 plus on a normal year.
Cow calls and bugles both have their time and place. Just depends on the year, the rut activity and the pressure.
isnt the cow hunt always the same time as the bull hunt?
I dont know about units 1 27 or anything east of heber. but the units I hunt alwasy had the same cow hunts during the bull hunts
I spent my time either in the Baldy wilderness area or the burn area east of Greer.
Got a buddy of mine that told me there's a few families struggling to make ends meet that are affiliated with a church in Springerville. I'm going back up Tuesday morning and hunt through Thursday. I'll be selective through Wednesday evening. If the right bull doesn't come in I'm going to kill the first bull I call in Thursday morning and donate the meat.
Nothing wrong with that at all. good luck
I give it all away if I decide to shoot one. as I dont like elk or deer meat
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