Man, I heard some real horsesh!t elk callers in the woods this past week.
I mean they were TERRIBLE. [And yes, it was hunters not elk]
They moved the elk out of the area!
I really wanted to go talk to them, but we just went and found the elk again.
Should a person approach another hunter and take their bugle tube away?? lol
haha....
one general rule i see is most people should NOT chuckle.... but they do anyways

i don't chuckle very much when working a bull (NEVER when not working a bull) and i rarely need to, even calling a bull that only chuckles.... rarely need to, and most people are really bad at it.
i heard some calling this morning that was bad enough i wondered if maybe it was a spike, then after hearing it again i figured it was either a hunter, or a spike laying on it's back trying to pleasure himself and was frustrated because his hooves were too cold and dirty.... pretty sure it was a dude though, haha.
the other day i walked into an area early, slowly walking my way in and listening, and after daylight hunters start coming out of the woodwork, so being a weekday i assume it was chaos around there the past weekend so i decided to just distance myself from the obvious area, climb a bunch of elevation and drop back in through the timber and check out the sign scenario.
i was getting back lower, coming into a swampy area with a logging road across the swamp, no fresh sign anywhere so i was trying to get out of there and go check another big timbered ridge a couple miles away, i wasn't being purposely loud, but not silent in the dry timber, and someone must have heard me because they were trying to call me in with a primos bugle (for sure) and it was pretty funny... classic flute note bugle, with the whistly chuckle that doesn't resemble any elk sounds, then a few seconds later (the time it takes for them to set the bugle down and pick up the cow call, you get hit with a barrage of cow calls, haha.... textbook! like perfectly fitting the stereotype.... now i'm trying to be quiet, but they are on to me, and were running me down trying to call me across the swamp and the road with their wind blowing to me.... i finally had to hold tight for a few minutes, wait to hear their bugle down the road, back track and sneak out of there.
even the woods are turning into the twilight zone in 2021! it's not really a big deal, it's nice knowing where other people are, and most guys in the woods this year let you knowing with their primos locator beacon, and it never fails to entertain me. i personally don't mess with them, but the potential is there... my luck would be i start screwing with those guys, get a bull to answer, then get that bull fouled up from the guys i was messing with... i just leave them be.