October 24th I woke up in my camper I had parked in my traditional moose camp spot along a quad trail in Saskatchewan zone 68S to the sound of wind gusting through the trees, not ideal weather for calling. I thought about sleeping in and running into Lloyd for the day to get my running around done before the weekend, but finally decided to make a couple mile walk around a series of beaver ponds to see if i could catch one in the open nibbling willows.
After walking for about 45 minutes and around ten minutes into legal light, I was skirting the edge of a larger beaver pond, holding a few yards back into the trees when I saw two moose up ahead on the opposite bank, about 400 yards away. I confirmed that it was a bull and a cow together, something that surprised me as i figured the rut was all but over by that point. I closed the distance to about 200 yards and called it good enough. From a sitting position I double lunged the broadside bull with my M700 in .416 Rem Mag with a factory 400 gr DGX round. I shot again as he staggered into the willows, later I found that a 4" poplar had got in the way and deflected the bullet causing me to just graze his belly. He still only made it 10-15 yards. 39" spread on his rack, I estimated him at 1200 lbs live weight, I'm happy. Heres a few pics!
He had this big scab looking wound on his chest, looked like it was from an antler jab during a fight or something.
Was interesting loading him by myself.
Stuck a couple times.
After walking for about 45 minutes and around ten minutes into legal light, I was skirting the edge of a larger beaver pond, holding a few yards back into the trees when I saw two moose up ahead on the opposite bank, about 400 yards away. I confirmed that it was a bull and a cow together, something that surprised me as i figured the rut was all but over by that point. I closed the distance to about 200 yards and called it good enough. From a sitting position I double lunged the broadside bull with my M700 in .416 Rem Mag with a factory 400 gr DGX round. I shot again as he staggered into the willows, later I found that a 4" poplar had got in the way and deflected the bullet causing me to just graze his belly. He still only made it 10-15 yards. 39" spread on his rack, I estimated him at 1200 lbs live weight, I'm happy. Heres a few pics!
He had this big scab looking wound on his chest, looked like it was from an antler jab during a fight or something.
Was interesting loading him by myself.
Stuck a couple times.
