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Sage of the Sage
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Location: Butte, MT
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| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 1:55 pm Post subject: Wallowing... |
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| What time of year do the elk start wallowing? In the spring-summer-fall? Or is it more of a pre-rutting behavior in the late summer? |
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Hiker
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| From my experience they will start making wallows in late summer (mid-August) and continue throughout the rut. |
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Sage of the Sage
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject: |
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| So do you think it's more of a pre-rut/rut sort of behavior? |
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Hiker
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| Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 8:00 pm Post subject: |
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| From my experience, I would say yes. Sometimes when it's hot out they'll roll in those wallows to cool off. |
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Mauser3006
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Location: Yakima
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| Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 12:08 am Post subject: |
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| what is a wallows? |
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Sage of the Sage
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| Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: |
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A wallow is a basically a mud hole, usually in or around a mountain spring, that bulls "wallow" or role around in.
I've located a lot of wallows while hunting and scounting, and I always seem to find bulls in those areas, but I've yet to ever actually SEE a bull in the act of wallowing. I think it would be a cool thing to see. |
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Full Draw
Joined: 05 Sep 2007
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Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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| Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Here in Arizona, they start about August, but I have seen them earlier. If you can find one in summer, try to keep it a secret. I have seen them stop using busy one's right when the hunters start snooping around. |
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NH Hunter
Joined: 13 Sep 2006
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Location: Southern NH
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 6:03 am Post subject: wallow |
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| This is a wallow: |
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Hiker
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Location: Colorado
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| Posted: Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:29 am Post subject: |
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| NH Hunter, Great photo. :thumbsup1: |
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