Instead, he prefers to continue creating the mood of a restless herd. It’s a move he’ll reserve for the final closing, especially if it appears things may be going south. For him it introduces too much risk into the success of the setup. Rarely does Cremeans embrace a cavalry charge from the get-go. The only time I walk away and look for another opportunity is when I am sure the target bull has left the area or I see the bull, and do not want to harvest him with my bow.” This assures the hung-up bull there is something to fight for. He continued, “I will continue to press the bull with challenge bugles while slowly introducing herd sounds and even the sounds of a second bull in addition to my initial bugle. “That aggressive, fighter bull is the easiest one to call should you catch him in the right mood,” stated Cremeans.
Cremeans wants to determine a bull’s intentions as well. Your job is to determine quickly if the bull is a hard charger or a wait-and-see fella in no hurry to make a mistake. Or it could embrace a Mike Tyson persona and storm in for a fight before you even put down your bugle. It could hang up faster than you do on robo calls. The bull could be just a loudmouth that won’t back up its initial challenge. Is that the green light to bugle and charge in like a cavalry unit of yesteryear? Hit the brakes soldier! Before you take off with a defiant attitude and sword drawn, be sure to read the mind of your intended target. Some bulls just give you a vibe that screams they are in charge with their first scream. Some are fearful thanks to past hunting pressure, others are fearful of a butt-whooping. That’s why it is important that you know the surrounding terrain and use obstacles, when possible, to make bulls approach the setup directly before they can circle.”īulls will sometimes hang up after hearing your calls. Your number one enemy is the wind, and every other elk in the woods will approach downwind. “If the bull has not returned to a herd, and you will know this because he’ll bugle as he herds his cows in the opposite direction, he may still be around.
“The hung-up bull may take all the patience you have as a bowhunter,” explained Cremeans. With more than a quarter century of archery elk experience to call upon, he knows reading an elk to determine if they have shifted into neutral in the hung-up zone is critical for success. Cremeans understands elk have personalities as varied as the coworkers that surround you in the breakroom. His passion for elk includes operating Just for Hunting Outfitting along with his partner, Steve Boero.
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Parrey Cremeans, a native of northern California, is a Mossy Oak big game regional pro staff manager for the northwest United States. Mentally repeat that credo as you approach your next hung-up bull. Marines oftentimes repeated phrase of “Adapt, improvise and overcome” has merit in the elk woods. Your strategy needs to be fluid, flexible and adaptive to account for the changing exhibitions of elk herds. How do you combat increasingly educated elk when you finally do get a window to hunt? You can’t follow standard protocol. Fortunately, elk inhabit many of those properties, but increased hunting pressure educates the elk to the sounds of elk calls quicker than grade-school kids understand the liberty of having a smartphone. As access to more and more ranches close to the average hunter, it pushes you and me onto available, and ever more teeming public lands. Hung-up elk are as everyday as using your smartphone.
Sometimes a bull resounds a challenge immediately, but before you take off, remember to survey your surroundings to chart a well-concealed course.
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