How far can you hear a bugle in thick timber?

[Npike4040]

In your own experience, whats the max distance you can hear a bugle in thicker timber?

 

[D_wit22]

Buddy and I watched a bull on an opposite hillside from a mile away this past week. Could still hear him when he disappeared into the dark timber. I think there are a lot of variables to answer this question! All depends on the topography in my opinion.

 

[Scoot]

Topography, temp, wind speed, wind direction, direction bull is facing, how loud the bugle actually is (some are booming and carry very far and some are soft and subtle), and more... So many things factor into an "it depends" answer.

 

[insanelupus]

I always just "ball park" it as s strong bugle in heavy timber is probably within 500 yards.

If we start talking about across drainages and "distant" bugles, I'll figure 1/2 mile.

Open ground, can be further than that and it depends on how clear, but a clear but distant bugle, for my ears, is probably within a mile or so.

It depends is probably the "right" answer, but those are the rule of thumb I default to for my hearing. And those were developed over 20 years plus of hunting. They come into play when i face a bugle and draw a line on my OnX toward the bugle. I'll draw a straight line further than the distances above and try to figure where it came from. Further bugles I plot as I move. IF he's bugling from the same place it almost serves as triangulation as I close in to figure out where in the terrain he is. If he's moving, it can sometimes show a direction of travel if he goes quiet.

But it depends is probably the correct answer here.

 

[insanelupus]

I always just "ball park" it as s strong bugle in heavy timber is probably within 500 yards.

If we start talking about across drainages and "distant" bugles, I'll figure 1/2 mile.

Open ground, can be further than that and it depends on how clear, but a clear but distant bugle, for my ears, is probably within a mile or so.

It depends is probably the "right" answer, but those are the rule of thumb I default to for my hearing. And those were developed over 20 years plus of hunting. They come into play when i face a bugle and draw a line on my OnX toward the bugle. I'll draw a straight line further than the distances above and try to figure where it came from. Further bugles I plot as I move. IF he's bugling from the same place it almost serves as triangulation as I close in to figure out where in the terrain he is. If he's moving, it can sometimes show a direction of travel if he goes quiet.

But it depends is probably the correct answer here.

 

[Poser]

I was once watching my buddy close in some elk in scrub oak. I was .6 miles away from the elk watching through a spotter. I could hear my friend bugling very clearly from the bottom of the drainage, but, watching the bulls through a spotter, I could see their mouths opening to respond, but couldn't hear them at all up on the slope about even with me elevation-wise.

 

[fatlander]

We discussed this a lot during our hunt a few weeks ago. As many have already said, elk can really tone it up or down. If you’re on the same hillside as the elk, I think ~500 yards is the top end of what you’re going to hear if he’s cranking them out.

The bull my hunting partner killed was bugling a good bit, 350 yards down the ridge from where the two of us were tagged out waited while he slipped in. Partner said his bugles were soft, and we could not hear him at all from our position. While all this was going on, we could hear one clear as day bugling 1/2 a mile, as the crow flies, across the canyon. Their bugles carry a long way across open air.


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