Hot Weather - Opening Week of Archery

[cnelk]

Forecast says hot weather for the first week of archery season for most of the West.

What’s your game plan?

 

[sndmn11]

Game plan: make elk appear in front of @KickinNDishin at 30 yards prior to it's knowledge of our presence and while we/she are paying attention. Also while she has her bow. Calling in dark timber and being sneaky.

 

[rclouse79]

This is by where I hunt, in town is mostly over 100. It is depressing. I am sure I will be doing more sitting in the shade and watching than hiking. Not as much fun but probably more effective than my usual bumbling around the woods.
It wasn’t that many years ago I got snowed on opening morning.

 

[Coveyleader]

Every year I go through same pre hunt emotions…..

How many people will show up?

Colorado or out of state?

Where are the sheep herds?

The weather really is the last thing I think about, but this is exactly the weather I want and prefer. Won’t /can’t comment on tactics.

We shall see!, now it’s all about crowd management.

 

[4rcgoat]

Search high......search low....and everything in-between.

 

[trophyhill]

No changes for me. Pretty typical. I anticipate silent elk early and often the first week with the possibility of screaming bulls on occasion. I would love to put a cow in the freezer early.

 

[MallardSX2]

I'm going to follow the advice of the pros:

"Most of the time, bugling during the day is less effective early on unless you find a bull that is really fired up. However, anything can happen when you are in the elk woods so if all else fails, start ripping on that bugle tube. "

LOL

 

[5MilesBack]

I'll mostly just be hiking with my bow, scouting some new areas, checking stuff out. And fighting off all the flies and yellow jackets that I've already experienced this week. Tons of them. But ya, supposed to be hot. You'll be covered up in them if you shoot something anytime before evening. I will resist shooting early in the season as well if possible.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Have scouted some good looking wallows in a dark timber basin, play is to head there first and sneak around with the wind in my favor. I anticipate it to be quiet out the gate, maybe some soft cow/calf calling and waiting for that bull to creep in silently

 

[ManyBullets]

Ripping bugles everywhere just like BRO
Mixing in the hoochie mama b/c no one else has one now that the supply chain is wrecked

Wind at my back, sun in my (painted) face, ready for action

 

[KHNC]

Ripping bugles everywhere just like BRO
Mixing in the hoochie mama b/c no one else has one now that the supply chain is wrecked

Wind at my back, sun in my (painted) face, ready for action

You will fail, unless you add a flat bill to the equation.

 

[Hnthrdr]

You will fail, unless you add a flat bill to the equation.

People don’t realize that the flat bill is the ultimate in scent jamming technology

 

[Laramie]

I'll be at work sulking because I don't get to hunt until October. My guess is every Tom, Dick, and Harry will be sitting wallows and water.

 

[KHNC]

I'll be at work sulking because I don't get to hunt until October. My guess is every Tom, Dick, and Harry will be sitting wallows and water.

Exactly

 

[Poser]

I’ll be backpacking a high elevation stretch of the CO trail through unit 76 just for something to do until bears start hitting acorns.

Temps don’t look bad. Closest town at 9200 feet is mid 70s, I’ll be above 12k the whole time so should be 6 degrees cooler.
Durango is supposed to hit 90, though.

 

[Dakota Dude]

Sitting water in the mornings and afternoons!

 

[PNW bow hunter]

Closest town to where I’m hunting is near 100 degrees friday

I made a game plan for 4 days that will keep us in dark timber near water for the whole trip. Have enuff different locations to not hunt the same stuff twice during the trip.

Every 300 yards or so we’ll hang out and do some cow and calf calls for 20-30 minutes.

It’s going to be a hot, monotonous trip doing this over and over. On the bright side I think it will be pretty much impossible to not call in a couple bulls if we stick to the plan. It will just be a matter of getting a shot in the thick timber and blowdown.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Closest town to where I’m hunting is near 100 degrees friday

I made a game plan for 4 days that will keep us in dark timber near water for the whole trip. Have enuff different locations to not hunt the same stuff twice during the trip.

Every 300 yards or so we’ll hang out and do some cow and calf calls for 20-30 minutes.

It’s going to be a hot, monotonous trip doing this over and over. On the bright side I think it will be pretty much impossible to not call in a couple bulls if we stick to the plan. It will just be a matter of getting a shot in the thick timber and blowdown.

It’s monotonous, and not as sexy as screaming bulls, but I’d venture that this tactic kills more big bulls the first week of season when hot than anything else

 

[IdahoHntr]

Spottin and stalkin.. I'm tired of getting spanked by velvet bucks. I need to stalk one of these big dumb elk and remind myself that I can actually kill something.

 

[PNW bow hunter]

It’s monotonous, and not as sexy as screaming bulls, but I’d venture that this tactic kills more big bulls the first week of season when hot than anything else

Not sure why, but where I hunt it produces raghorns and spikes. The big bulls show up sometime after the 10th. We pretty much never have them sneaking in quiet. The big bulls we get on respond to a call and then we go after them.