Predicting the elk rut peak by counting 25 weeks from Easter each spring is a waste of time. There is a much easier way to predict when the largest number of elk in rut at one time will occur during the month-long approximately elk breeding season.
Otherwise known as Elk recipes that are delicious and healthy, by a registered dietitian. Properly handled elk does not taste gamey. I wanted to get an authoritative answer on when the peak of the rut occurs, because there are many conflicting opinions in the elk forums and websites.
It is somewhat daunting in volume, but it is considered the authority by wildlife biologists. There is no point in recalculating the elk rut peak for each year.
Of course, there are variables that will affect what we see and hear, but the rut will go on with or without our hearing and seeing it. The most active elk rut peak lasts 5 to 10 days and happens primarily because of a precise ratio that occurs each fall between daylight and dark. That ratio of light and dark causes hormones in cow elk to flow that result in an estrus cycle. Regardless, each cow comes into estrus at different times of the rut. Some cows go into estrus earlier, young cows perhaps much later.
Some do not get bred during their first estrus cycle and have a second estrus period throughout the first three weeks of October. There is some evidence that a third phase may sometimes occur during the end of October and first part of November. But the peak period of elk in rut occurs within five or ten days of September 22nd or 23rd, the autumnal equinox. The elk rut, in general, lasts from September through October, with some breeding activity continuing into November. The peak of the rut is when the most elk breeding activity occurs.
It can be quite frenzied, with lots of bugling, cow talk and elk movement when other circumstances align themselves. Weather influences the daytime rut activity, as does hunting pressure, wolf and other predator presence and, of course, location of food and bedding areas.
If you are in prime elk habitat and the elk are there, knowing when the peak of the elk rut will occur is just a start. During a full moon a lot of activity, including feeding and rut action, will occur at night. Then elk will rest more during the day because of the overnight orgy. Be advised, however, that rut activity might continue into the early dawn before the silence sets in.
More elk activity occurs during the day after a dark night. In the dark of the moon occurs on Thursday, September 5th. I will definitely be riding my mountain bike in the dark mornings up toward my favorite spot that week. Usually the elk will quiet down when they hear wolves to avoid giving their location away.
The wolves will usually move on in nomadic fashion. So the very next day might be back to normal. Be prepared to participate with the elk rut using estrus cow talk, or bugles when the night starts to fade into legal shooting time. Check out the Elk Calling pages here. There is a problem with the peak of the elk rut, though. Bull elk in rut are not only facing hunters and weather conditions, but each other. Once a big herd bull has an established harem why would he leave to fight a distant challenging bull?
If you want to pull a herd bull away from his cows, you will have to be up close and in his face. Many hunters are well satisfied with that. Getting in close to a big herd bull takes a lot of skill and luck.
Usually the herd bull will simply move his harem away from a challenging bull, rather than risk the loss. Often he will even ignore a hot estrus call. Now, if you have an opportunity to hunt during a rifle season when a bull is bugling, your chances of seeing him in range are good. There are several rut phases you should be aware of when deciding when you want to focus your elk rut hunts. Yes, you have to move fast after the kill, but click here for that process. Weather has nothing to do with it, they are going to rut no matter what.
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