Calling 2nd season

[Roosterstraw]

What's your all's advice on calling in second season OTC? I'm assuming location bugles are out the window. What about cow calling during this time? How often, if at all?

 

[wannakillabigbull]

I don't recommend calling at all that late in the year. I personally bring a cow call during second season or later only for stopping an unaware elk for a shot.

 

[Roosterstraw]

Do they not respond to cow calls at all during this time?

 

[Bulldawg]

Not really too much. There isn't a ton of vocalization going on during this time frame. I'll hear a handful of bugles during the first few days of the season but not a whole lot. I reckon I've heard around 2-4 bugles in the morning and again in the evening lol, so not much, if I were to use calls it would be to stop an animal for a shot.

Do they not respond to cow calls at all during this time?

 

[ElkNut1]

100% have a bugle, it would be for locating elk the same as your optics, bugling dark timber & glassing open country! If you can use a mouth reed a single one will produce cow calling or bugling!

ElkNut/Paul

 

[Elkfitness]

I agree with use of the cow call to stop a bull for a shot. In Colorado, in any real pressured unit, you likely won’t have a lot of success with a bugle, and may just call in other hunters. You might have some flexibility in a private unit, but not on otc public. I’ve glassed bulls go the opposite way when they hear a bugle from a hunter further down the canyon. 2nd/3rd season you need to hunt the hiding spots where pressured elk go and the routes they might take to get to those spots. Snow helps move elk as the seasons get later, but the 2nd/3rd season can come down to hunting the sanctuary spots.


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[Roosterstraw]

I agree with use of the cow call to stop a bull for a shot. In Colorado, in any real pressured unit, you likely won’t have a lot of success with a bugle, and may just call in other hunters. You might have some flexibility in a private unit, but not on otc public. I’ve glassed bulls go the opposite way when they hear a bugle from a hunter further down the canyon. 2nd/3rd season you need to hunt the hiding spots where pressured elk go and the routes they might take to get to those spots. Snow helps move elk as the seasons get later, but the 2nd/3rd season can come down to hunting the sanctuary spots.

So if my plan is to hunt sanctuary spots glassing is the only technique you would recommend me to try?

 

[Elkfitness]

That is what I would do. Be in your spots before first light. Don’t camp where your scent might flow into those sanctuary areas. Hunt the fringes, don’t walk through the sanctuary areas during the mid day in case they are bedded. If you blow them out that area, you might not see them again. Just hunt them smart, more ambush style hunting to start, and maybe still-hunting the fringes the last few days of the hunt.


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