Dinkshooter
Well-known member
So here is my deep thought for the day, okay I used it all up let’s say my deep thought for a month.
I saw a brand spanking new elk calf May 26th, it was several hundred yards off and although not wet, it was still getting use to its legs. Only a couple hours old I’d guess. On the 27th I also noticed several yearling elk walking around looking lonely.
Handy Google gives me a gestation period of 240-262 days for the lovely Wapiti. Let’s make it easy and pick the middle at 251 days. Some elk breeder’s web site list 255 days so 251 days sounds reasonable.
So with some fuzzy math that makes the conception date of September 17th. Now September 17th I was in the same area packing out my elk. I was done around 2:30pm in the afternoon so I was not there in the evening. But the night of the 15th, 16th and morning of the 17th you could have heard more bugling in downtown Denver. It was near silence with just a couple really early in the morning. The only bull I heard going bonkers was on September 15th at 11:15am and that rukus got him a Carbon Express through the lungs and yes, sadly he was not a herd bull.
September 16th was the new moon. Although the weather was not hot I wouldn’t say the temps were cool.
So what is my point? I’m guessing that if you were there hunting on the 17th you would have proclaimed there is no rut, or the rut is late, or the rut is over and posted it all over the WWW
I wish I would have stayed the week instead of going back to work and I’d have more deep thoughts!
I saw a brand spanking new elk calf May 26th, it was several hundred yards off and although not wet, it was still getting use to its legs. Only a couple hours old I’d guess. On the 27th I also noticed several yearling elk walking around looking lonely.
Handy Google gives me a gestation period of 240-262 days for the lovely Wapiti. Let’s make it easy and pick the middle at 251 days. Some elk breeder’s web site list 255 days so 251 days sounds reasonable.
So with some fuzzy math that makes the conception date of September 17th. Now September 17th I was in the same area packing out my elk. I was done around 2:30pm in the afternoon so I was not there in the evening. But the night of the 15th, 16th and morning of the 17th you could have heard more bugling in downtown Denver. It was near silence with just a couple really early in the morning. The only bull I heard going bonkers was on September 15th at 11:15am and that rukus got him a Carbon Express through the lungs and yes, sadly he was not a herd bull.
September 16th was the new moon. Although the weather was not hot I wouldn’t say the temps were cool.
So what is my point? I’m guessing that if you were there hunting on the 17th you would have proclaimed there is no rut, or the rut is late, or the rut is over and posted it all over the WWW
I wish I would have stayed the week instead of going back to work and I’d have more deep thoughts!
