Opening Day Northern Ontario Moose

[CoryTheCowboy]

About 20 minutes into legal shooting time (and after 3 cow calls), my Mom whistled at me and pointed back towards where had walked from. A few minutes later I could see this guy swaggering through the trees like he owned the place. Mom shot and I saw him shake. He started walking away and she yelled "Hit'em if you can!" He swung his head back towards her and at 90.14 meters (according to my GPS) I put an offhand shot into the neck and he dropped on the spot.

We found out after Mom's shoot was a bit low, so it's a good thing I gave him an insurance shot.

9.3x57 Husqavarna and a Mauser 98 action .35 Whelen - Some classic moose rifles

40" Spread, I'll take it for a first moose

It's a family affair up here

Luckily, we had a fellow forum member (who wishes to remain anonymous ) on speed dial and he had an Argo

The .35 went right through. After doing some poking around, I'm sure the 9.3 bullet's in there somewhere...if I can find it I'll post results.

It's skinned and hanging in the shed now.

Cory

 

[zamboniman]

What's with the two shooters bit? You can have two shooters on one Moose Licence in Ont.?

 

[blasted_saber]

What's with the two shooters bit? You can have two shooters on one Moose Licence in Ont.?

Both of them are licensed and they're party hunting

nice bull!

 

[wdh662]

On a quick glance at the wording and before the pictures had loaded I thought "this guy" referred to another hunter not a moose....I was a bit worried for a second.

Nice moose! Congrats.

 

[the spank]

Great job Cory! Congratulations, that will be some fine eating this winter.

 

[WhelanLad]

Way to go Mum!! nice rifles for moosen around!

Congrats

 

[Runningfool]

Killer beard and hat man!

 

[Demonical]

Nice rifles man. Nice moose. Great family.

Kudos...


Oh yeah... that's one ugly ****ing beard.

 

[longbranch*]

Nice bull and nice classic old-school Mauser's. Seeing all that orange clothing brings back memories of my early hunts in Ontario and Quebec when I lived in Ottawa. Glad I moved to BC. No offence intended. Again, nice bull.
Geoff

 

[upnadam]

The moose came in to the beard not the call. LOL. Just kidding. I'm just jealous I can't go this year and it's been bumming me out latley.

 

[meatsticks]

Epic beard man!! Nice moose too! Congrats!

 

[Slooshark1]

Awesome! What part of Northern Ontario are you in?

 

[CoryTheCowboy]

Thanks everyone! I'm much more of a waterfowler than a big game hunter, but seeing that moose drop was pretty exciting.

Awesome! What part of Northern Ontario are you in?

I'm in Atikokan, two hours West of Thunder Bay.

Cory

 

[Longshot]

Do bigfoot sightings go up when your out? Just kidding mate nice moose!

 

[jadla]

Nice catch. Congrats

 

[CoryTheCowboy]

Do bigfoot sightings go up when your out? Just kidding mate nice moose!

I wouldn't be surprised

Cory

 

[mveniot]

Great eater, Cory. First of many to come. I like the family deal, they are the most memorable. Say hello to your mom and dad for me. Mike

 

[Underthegun]

Looks good Cory. I can't wait to get back to the "choke" and do some moose hunting.

 

[Why not?]

Congratulations Cory. The first of many to come. That will be some fine eating!

Now, all we need is a picture of the bullet. Did you use the cruciform core Matrix?

Ted

 

[CoryTheCowboy]

Thanks again everyone! It still looks mighty big hanging in the shed.

Congratulations Cory. The first of many to come. That will be some fine eating!

Now, all we need is a picture of the bullet. Did you use the cruciform core Matrix?

Ted

Hey Ted, as soon as I saw the moose was dead I thought, "I hope I can recover the bullet to show Ted"

The bullet is still missing right now, but I think it's inside the skull somewhere. (I'm planning to do a Euro mount with it, so I've gotta get all the stuff out of there anyways.) If it's not in there...I have no idea where it went. I'll keep this updated if I find anything.

Cory