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Gearing up for what should be my first bull moose season - typically a 5-7 year wait in my zone.

Going to try for archery, as season opens much sooner and should coincide with rut.

Have a pretty decent swath of land to hunt on, with solid moose traffic throughout the year.

Looking for tips, suggestions, helpful youtube videos on the subject of calling/hunting
 
Rackman on you tube.
He speaks French, but he is Canadian and his videos are impressive to say the least.
Fling them sticks!!!
Rob
this union thug needs to learn to spell or at least spell check himself before hitting Save.
Thank you savagelh.
 
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Check out the many YouTube videos on calling moose.
Pay heavy attention to the cow calls.
Then immature bulls.
Mature bulls should be last on your list.

Then get a jug of Buck Expert Mare In Heat scent.
It is a actually a synthetic cow moose scent, and it works VERY well.
(I have no affiliation with them, but have a lot of experience with that product).
Pick up some unscented tampons and a bit of butcher's string.
Soak the tampon in the attractant, and hang from a tree in your calling area.

Our crew has used this exact method successfully for years.
I called this one in to 27 feet in the thick 2 years ago:

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My partner and his crew collected 3 last season with this method.
And he had a young bull try to get inside his car port where he had stored the double bagged bottle of attractant.

I always and chiefly start with cow calls. A series, 15 minutes or so apart.
If I hear an approaching bull grunt, I will continue that but add in the odd immature bull grunt.
Makes them think some junior has the lady's attention.

Sometimes you hear them coming, sometimes not and they simply appear - often close.

Good Luck on your impending hunt!
Hope to read about your success here down the road...

Cheers,
Nog
 
Yeah patience is key in that game. Call were you want to see the moose at, we hunt a small river and at night we will cross the river and call from the other side where it is more open and where we have good sight lines. If you call from where you stand for a shot, you need to be a bit more careful cause they can show up from anywhere, always best to have the caller a little ways back from the shooter, that way the moose is focus on the call that comes past you and not so much on you!
We use our hands 99% of the time. In the rut bull moose are not too picky how you sound as long as you are somewhat constant. We had occasion where after 4 days of doing cow call and seeing nothing I went after our last supper at my usual spot and started to be quite aggressive with grunts and raking and braking branches, and from the time I started that to the time the bull was down was less than 5 minutes. That bull came out so fast and so hard, the best day before we left we went on to look where he was coming from, he had most likely been in the willows all that time, there was multiple beds, probably had a few cows with him and didn’t bother with one more cow but a bull challenging him wasn’t ok!

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I'm jealous; the first time you call in a moose has to be one of the highlights of any hunter's life.

Don't overdo it...practice to get the tone right but be aware that you don't have to sound perfect...following up a "bad" call immediately with a good one pretty much cancels out the bad. :) If you can see him in the distance coming in, stop calling as long as he's still coming. If he hesitates or stops, call again.

Think of moose as turkeys when it comes to calling; lots of the same principles apply. That will work until you call one in, at which point the excitement of talking to and seducing a critter that big is gonna hit you like a ton of bricks. Good luck!
 
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The time of year makes a big difference in how you call and whether you bother calling at all.

General advice is stay out of the woods where the moose live. Find a few strategic spots downwind or crosswind from those woods, preferably across a clearing, swamp, cut etc. Try not to hunt with the wind at your back.

Call sparingly. When you get to your spot, let things calm down for 20 or 30 mins then let out a couple of chewbaccas every 30 minutes or so. If you get an answer, keep calm and slow down. The bull might try to get down wind of you, so pick your spot with that in mind. Also, sometimes if the bull is cowed up already, he'll push the cow out ahead of him. Just because you see a cow doesn't mean there isn't a bull behind her in the bush.

Practice, practice and practice some more. Learn a few basic calls (cow moan, bull grunt, etc. - nothing fancy) and you're all set.

Have fun and good luck.

P.S. most mechanical calls are garbage. It's not hard to learn and how awesome will it be when you call one in yourself?

Happy hunting!
 
The place we mainly hunt on a river with some nice sloughs, we camp on a high bank in the trees facing a gravel bar, we have about 300m up river and basically nothing down stream( tick forested shore lines). We hunt the rut in that area and we are not particularly careful of sent, noise etc, we cook on the fire and we hang out lots in camp. Shot 2 moose within 200m from camp and one at about 300m from the kitchen( the first two were around 100m shot the last one was 280m). Calling we do quite a bit at night and morning, we don’t have a set routine of calling, as little as a few cow call at night to calling for 1/2hr to 1hr straight( my buddy is a bit crazy about calling and sometimes get carried away hahaha). We shot moose at 8pm last light, we shot moose at 8am and shot moose at lunch time… no real patterns.
In the rut bull moose don’t really give a ####e, don’t do crazy things but don’t go crazy on no noise no smell and full on camo, it won’t make a difference hahaha
 
The Rackman is okay but there's better Youtube moose callers.

https://www.youtube.com/@PierresAdventures
This guy has several awesome videos on using a bull moose call. You won't hear a better bull moose call by another hunter than this guy.

https://www.youtube.com/@steveakamooseman7786
Steve 'the Mooseman' is another guy that calls almost exclusively using a bull call, and even better, his Youtube channel has a bunch of successful hunts video taped, so you can see how he does it.

https://www.youtube.com/@HOTRhuntinontherock
Huntin on the Rock has tons of good videos.
You have to understand that both HOTR and Rackman are hunting in pristine wilderness with huge trophy bulls that have never heard or seen a human, for the most part. I'd give my left nut to hunt moose where they do...

https://www.youtube.com/@MooseManNaturePhotos
And if you want to see videos of actual moose, rutting and calling, this guy's channel is the best for that.

There's a lot of really good moose hunting videos shot in Maine, where moose hunting is a passion. But I don't have specific video links.
 
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PinnedTo5ive said:
Plenty of videos on the net. I still have a rolled up crazy carpet I’ve used as a moose call since I was 10 years old. Squeeze your nostrils closed with both hands to help with getting the tone/bass and giver, toss some grunts in. The key is to not over call.
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I use the same thing, except I have a roll of birch bark inside which gives me a great sound. Sounds silly but it really works well. I put hockey tape on the outside of the crazy carpet as well.
 
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