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Right you are, GreenMT... 100yd is a long shot in forested,
hazel-alder-dogwood underbrush environment.
Thirty yds is perhaps the average range in this stuff.
One hot september I had worked my way into this cool, wet river lowland where elk like to bed down to escape the heat.
The musky aroma of a rutting bull told me that he was NW of me and near.
When I bugled & proceeded to break every branch and tramp underbrush, his answer was so near that I heard the air expelling from his lungs before he broke into a bugle.
The speckled alder was so thick you couldn't see 10 feet.
I managed to scramble up on to a hung-up deadfall, find footing on a branch and look up to see a set of huge 6x6 antlers pushing through the brush, coming straight at me. Try finding that in your scope!
When I jumped off that deadfall, it was exactly SIX paces to his nose.
I even kept that rack, can take pic if anyone wishes.
Would like to hear vignettes from various folk in different areas.
Sorry for the derail, ramblings of an old man.
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