Raking....

[iccyman001]

In your experience, when did you find bulls raking trees?

I know people use raking within there call set ups, so it\'s only right to do it at times that make sense.
I\'ve only heard one bull raking a tree and it was about 6pm. He woke up, stood up and killed a poor helpless tree.


How about you?

 

[KHNC]

I killed a bull in Idaho sept 3rd one year. He had his head in a spruce tree destroying it! Didn\'t even know the arrow hit him. Another bull I shot on Sept 1 in CO, after I watched him rip a 15` pine tree to shreds in a meadow. So I would say pretty early in the season in my opinion. Last year in the Gila, I saw shredded trees all over on sept 16.

 

[Eyeeyecaptain]

I\'ve only seen it once too. Day before muzzie season, right about 5-6pm after getting up from bed. Destroyed a little aspen tree right after the cows started talking.

 

[bnsafe]

ive never seen em do it, but, on sep 25 i raked a tree really loud with a huge limb. 5 minutes later i shot my bull. he was a sattelite, im sure lookin for the newest sattelite.

 

[colorado russ]

Only one occasion for me as well. First half of season had a bull answer my buddy\'s bugle. We closed the distance. Bugled again, got reply. Close enough to see big tree swaying from the ambush and hear it raking but he wouldn\'t leave that tree. Buddy picked up an old dead tree branch/log stepped back down a few feet away and proceeded to beat the living hell out of a nice spruce then added in a bugle. That bull came in on a string and stopped about 3 feet from where I was hunkered down behind a little Charlie Brown tree. So, I did what any inexperienced bowhunter would do - soiled myself and bull ran off! The End.

 

[cohunter14]

Only one occasion for me as well. First half of season had a bull answer my buddy\'s bugle. We closed the distance. Bugled again, got reply. Close enough to see big tree swaying from the ambush and hear it raking but he wouldn\'t leave that tree. Buddy picked up an old dead tree branch/log stepped back down a few feet away and proceeded to beat the living hell out of a nice spruce then added in a bugle. That bull came in on a string and stopped about 3 feet from where I was hunkered down behind a little Charlie Brown tree. So, I did what any inexperienced bowhunter would do - soiled myself and bull ran off! The End.

:haha: :haha:

 

[Zpd307]

in 2014, in Idaho, I had the pleasure of hunting bulls from rubs to rubs. almost everyday, all day long! I shot my bull in a wallow, after he just got done rubbing..... I snuck in while he was doing it, but he presented no shot, so I backed off and got him in the wallow. I still cry because I never recovered him.....
oh, and I was hunting early season

 

[retired112000]

Day before 1st rifle in CO watch 2 different bull kill a couple of trees. I backed out and was back next morn. Got a raghorn 5x5 at 7am. Short hunt but had a blast all week.