Interesting

[Swede]

On Wednesday 09/09/15 at approximately 4:30 PM I was alone. There were no people with me or in my camp. I shot what I believe was the lead cow from a pair, or a small herd. The elk included a bugling bull that wallowed nearby just out of sight. The only sounds I made all that evening and night was the one shot, walking and butchering. Actually I was very quiet. About an hour after I shot the cow, the bull bugled for the cow. Three to four hours after she was shot the bull gave out a lengthy set of chuckles just down the slope a ways.
I have had bulls bugle for a dead cow several hours after she was shot on hunts before. I have had them walk by the downed cow.
It sure seems to me that a person could use that kind of information in the future, if you or a friend kill an animal, and still have an unfilled tag.

How can a person take advantage of this information? If you still have unfilled tags, how should you celebrate at a kill site? Would you tree stand hunt the same place the next morning? I left about midnight.

 

[iccyman001]

Swede,


I have never once seen a kill affect an area in a bad way and it sounds like with same with you.
I\'ve killed bucks in an area before, sat there the next day and had does come in.

We also had someone in our camp kill a cow this year. The cow was with an older calf and spike.
We were wondering if the cow kill would make them not come in the next day, but someone sat there and sure enough the spike came in.


Whenever we are assisting someone gut, quarter or cape, we make sure weapons are close because we too have had animals come in during this.

 

[Pop-r]

I chased a couple bulls a couple days last year & finally killed the lesser of the two. The whole time I wrkd the one up the other one stayed ab 100 yds circling me & bugling his head off! He had lost his friend. Very smthng but I\'m not finding the word for it. It touched me!

 

[cohunter14]

I have also had cows come back looking for a cow that I took from the herd. It almost lead to my dad and I doubling that year as he had come to help me gut my cow. I think it\'s definitely something that you can use to your advantage if you or another person have another tag.

 

[Stringunner]

A couple years back I shot a bull around 7:30 am. I was solo and was a very steep hill that he fell on. It took me several hours to break him down completely and ready him for packing. Swede was sitting in a different stand very close by, how far swede are green and skeleton apart? I think about 125 yards? Any way my dad and I took 4 trips to pack out the bull and my gear. I saw swede while packing out my first load. We spoke and he elected to sit a different stand that afternoon/evening because we figured I had or would disturb the area with multiple trips in and out throughout the day. Low and behold, that same evening swede had a different bull come to the stand he elected not to sit. The timing was such that my dad and I were packing out the last load around the same time. This doesn\'t match this scenario exactly other than to say that A kill site and the activities afterword doesn\'t always ruin a location.

 

[Swede]

Stringunner, I remember that day, and am still bummed that I left. My trail cam showed the elk came in just after you and your dad finished packing out your bull. The point is that bulls were around that area, that day, and I gave up too soon. Your reminder is spot on.

BTW, Have you or your dad been seeing any elk over there?

 

[Stringunner]

We went back last weekend, the weekend you started home....no elk spotted. I missed another buck, only this one was a big 4 pt. pretty bummed about that, definitely not my year for deer. :-/ my dad sat the same stand he has been sitting, no elk but a bear did come in on that Saturday evening..... He had to lean out to shoot a pretty steep angle from his stand and when he released his bow string caught a strap on his tree stand harness, sent the arrow wrong but he did hit the bear unfortunately. We tracked it in the dark for three hours that night then came back Sunday morning for another 4 hours, the blood stopped and never found it. It was a very bad day for dad. My dad and brother are up there this weekend again, spoke to my brother yesterday and he had two bucks come in but neither presented him with a shot. We have a pop up ground blind there that we are going to trash and put in a tree stand next year with better shot angles. That is 4 bucks that we could have shot if we move to a tree on the other side of the water that will give better angles. Anxious to hear from them this afternoon.