My First Moose
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Love these Q's.
The one we worked to find and don't share on the Internet is the general answer. 
Nice moose and congrats OP.
Isn't that the truth.....
We were bow hunting Moose and traveling to a new location on our 4 wheelers when we came across a bull and cow. They both ran into a large marsh and the bull went up on a small nole, stopped and looked at us. He was huge and I range finder him at 330 yards. One guy in our group piped up and said, glad it's not rifle season. We all agreed.....
Bit more to the story.
I woke up after a snooze and sat up and lo and behold there stood a Bull, cow and calf on the other side of the lake. I jumped in my boat and slowly cruised over. He looked up at me a few times but continued eating the new browse. I stopped the boat after sticking it on shore a bit and got set up for the shot. I swear everyone within 100 yards could hear my heart beating. First shot was a double lung shot. He ran and I nailed him in the front shoulder and then one behind the head and down he went. Took maybe 4 seconds for all this to happen. Then I watched to see if he got up for 20 minutes. Then I went back for the rest of the gang. The access to the moose we though would be to skirt around on the mainland and come out to him on the muskeg. Moose was shot at 7:15pm and we got to him at 8:30pm through the worst deadfall I could find. Now in the dark with headlamps on we set to gut this big guy in the muskeg. It took 2 of us just to pull his stuck rack out of the muskeg. We rolled him on his back and I gutted him. Sawed the brisket and the bone above his bladder and cracked him in half and pulled out the entrails. Accomplished that in less than an hour. Then in the dark with fading lights we set out to get back to the boat. That took over an hour and a half. Got turned around so many times it wasn't funny. Found some of my markers and got back to the boat and headed home. Then the next morning we set about getting him home and found that we could walk straight across the muskeg to the moose. I cut him up in 7 pieces and we packed him in a flat bottom boat and drug him out with the two 10 hp Honda outboards. 5 days later we still are reminiscing about the hunt. Moose is butchered and bagged. Split 8 ways. Close to 400 lbs of just meat, no bones. Good times.
I woke up after a snooze and sat up and lo and behold there stood a Bull, cow and calf on the other side of the lake. I jumped in my boat and slowly cruised over. He looked up at me a few times but continued eating the new browse. I stopped the boat after sticking it on shore a bit and got set up for the shot. I swear everyone within 100 yards could hear my heart beating. First shot was a double lung shot. He ran and I nailed him in the front shoulder and then one behind the head and down he went. Took maybe 4 seconds for all this to happen. Then I watched to see if he got up for 20 minutes. Then I went back for the rest of the gang. The access to the moose we though would be to skirt around on the mainland and come out to him on the muskeg. Moose was shot at 7:15pm and we got to him at 8:30pm through the worst deadfall I could find. Now in the dark with headlamps on we set to gut this big guy in the muskeg. It took 2 of us just to pull his stuck rack out of the muskeg. We rolled him on his back and I gutted him. Sawed the brisket and the bone above his bladder and cracked him in half and pulled out the entrails. Accomplished that in less than an hour. Then in the dark with fading lights we set out to get back to the boat. That took over an hour and a half. Got turned around so many times it wasn't funny. Found some of my markers and got back to the boat and headed home. Then the next morning we set about getting him home and found that we could walk straight across the muskeg to the moose. I cut him up in 7 pieces and we packed him in a flat bottom boat and drug him out with the two 10 hp Honda outboards. 5 days later we still are reminiscing about the hunt. Moose is butchered and bagged. Split 8 ways. Close to 400 lbs of just meat, no bones. Good times.
One gentleman in our hunting group has had some terrible luck over the years with noose. It's the 6th year I hunt with this particular group and in all that time he's had nothing but bad luck... people have shot on the road next to him at about 100- 150 yards at moose that were definitely heading to him. Last year he Had a 180 yard shot on a 40-48 inch bull. He got off 4 shots and missed clean with each round... he had a scope mount loose. This year at camp after our group had taken a small 36 inch bull he accidentally took my rifle off the rack instead of his. He didn't notice until he was an hour from camp. Moose hunting can be rough...
