Okay, Yay! You got your moose, but it's in a swamp a km from the road. Now what?

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The BC moose hunting thread got a couple of us thinking:

So you've followed the advice of the experts and got away from the road warriors, done your research with maps and Apps and Google Earth and everything else at your disposal, hiked a 1000 metres along a boggy stream away from the road to a cute pocket moose meadow with a little pond and a huge moose in it and you shoot the moose.

Now what?:confused:
 
Hopefully you are kidding right? I will assume that the moose is in only knee deep water. If it is deeper I think you are breaking the law. So here is my serious response:

1.) Get the animal gutted and skinned ASAP. You need to get the meat cool as quickly as possible.

2.) Quarter or the cut the animal into multiple parts and pull out the organs you want to retain (i.e. heart, liver, etc). Hang the quarter into tree limbs to keep them off the ground or just pile them on a rock if the beast is really huge. Obviously away from the water.

3.) Wrap in a hunter's bag and pack out to your vehicle. Hope you are fit and capable to haul the beast. Another option is to get a friend with and ATV in to haul the meat back to camp.

If you are shooting a moose over km away and don't have a plan to bring it back than you shouldn't be hunting them...
 
Looks like you would have a long day of cleaning it up and cutting it to manageable pieces and humping that thing out. Unless your rich and have a helicopter to lift it out. :)
 
turfers and snatch blocks are your friend. we have 2 and can pull a whole animal as far as we need to and have done it. It's all hard work but that's the way we do it.
I recently added an ice fishing plastic sled with the high sides to the mix and let me tell ya, big heavy quarters slide real nice in one of those ;) no ice or snow required btw.
but ya, snatch blocks and turfers , we don't leave home without them.
I also bring chest waders and one time I even used a fly fishing float tube and my waders n fins to float my way out onto a big beaver pond to slip a rope around the neck of a small bull we had dropped and it was floating in the pond. floated out, rigged it up and we used the turfer to pull it right up to the side of the slash for field dressing.
Turfers come in real handy when yer stuck in the mud too hehehe
 
What about not shooting a moose in a pond? If you saw a swamp donkey in a bar, you wouldn't necessarily take her home either, no? Just evaluate beforehand, into how much trouble you are going to get yourself. cou:
 
5point9straight6 said:
What about not shooting a moose in a pond? If you saw a swamp donkey in a bar, you wouldn't necessarily take her home either, no? Just evaluate beforehand, into how much trouble you are going to get yourself. cou:
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What is wrong with shooting a moose in a pond?..... Please tell me this isn't going the way of the "ducks on the water" thread.... (Although that was amusing)....
 
Give Ardent a call, he can help you....helicopter. :)

or a Gas powered "Portable Winch" capstan type....can pull from what ever distance your rope will reach!

http://www.portablewinch.com/
 
MD said:
The BC moose hunting thread got a couple of us thinking:

So you've followed the advice of the experts and got away from the road warriors, done your research with maps and Apps and Google Earth and everything else at your disposal, hiked a 1000 metres along a boggy stream away from the road to a cute pocket moose meadow with a little pond and a huge moose in it and you shoot the moose.

Now what?:confused:
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Just to verify, you mean the moose is in a meadow that has a pond, not that hes is in the pond itself right?

1km is a pretty short walk. You cut that sucker into manageable pieces and start packing it out.

Now if you've walked 10 km, prepare to spend the next few days packing moose meat lol.
 
Suther said:
Just to verify, you mean the moose is in a meadow that has a pond, not that hes is in the pond itself right?

1km is a pretty short walk. You cut that sucker into manageable pieces and start packing it out.

Now if you've walked 10 km, prepare to spend the next few days packing moose meat lol.
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Why not in the pond?..... Don't get this?....
 
it's a tool that uses 1/2" steel cable and is adjustable to either crank in or out. the cable passes thru the turfer. you are only limited by how long the cable is. we have LOTS of cable.
google "turfer jack"
 
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