It is when you have to do it 3 time in a week.... lol
234 Wildcat Family....ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY
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It is when you have to do it 3 time in a week.... lol
Johnn Peterson
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I've got a couple during the peak of the rut, that while edible, were a little 'less than prime' table fare. The best in my experience were those taken as early as possible at the beginning of the season.
In Ontario, the early season is the bow season which also corresponds with the rut... all fifteen or so archery bulls I have taken, were called in during the rut... and they were all excellent table fare... JME.
Johnn Peterson
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- Chemainus B.C.
I haven't hunted Moose with a bow
yet, but perhaps one day. I have a Hoyt Ultratec I use for target and a Hoyt Cybertec for 3D and hunting.
However, if I did go for Moose, a check of the regs for the B.C. central interior where I hunt shows the archery only season starts Sept. 1st and for firearms it opens on the 10th. If I recall correctly, from when I lived in that area, it was 'suggested' the rut started on or close to the beginning or 1st week in Oct.
Moose will come to a call well before they are really rutting. I have seen them come to a call the first week in September, while here in central BC they are really going strong until close to October. It is the late comers that are completely wore out and in my opinion certainly not fit to eat.
I have had two different bulls, each of which thought I was the cow of their dreams and I had a hard time getting away from them. The one in particular, if I hadn't had a rifle with me I would have been scared poopless. At that stage they are a horrible looking animal, thin, smacking their lips with slobber running down all over them.
Try standing perfectly still, a bit hunched over, don't move a muscle, while such a creature stares at you from thirty feet, slobbering and making light noises, but with their poor eye sight just can't get you figured out. If he would turn side ways, you try to get a few steps further away, but the sound you make pivots him to you again.
In my first post I should have said "late in the rut they are not fit to eat."
Johnn Peterson
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The meat definately gets a little 'stronger tasting' at that time.
A bull shot early is delicious table fare, but as observed by those with experience, the "late in the rut" Bulls are somewhat less desirable. IMHO.
After a large number of Moose eaten in our household, I must say that a Yearling bull [spike/fork] is very hard to beat.
Regards, Dave
After a large number of Moose eaten in our household, I must say that a Yearling bull [spike/fork] is very hard to beat.
Regards, Dave
Johnn Peterson
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Chemainus B.C.
Well I'm likely going to give most of my meat to people who need it worse than I, and to be totally frank I'm hunting for the horns exclusively...............all the meat will be cared for and retrieved of course, but that is not why I'm looking for moose. If meat were my prime concern I'd have been out all last month looking for an 18 incher, not an 81 incher during full rut..........
81 would be impressive.... How big is the current one on the wall (or in the seacan)?
He's 65", but a weak 65 incher, I've seen a couple high fifties that outscore him............If I had it to do all over again, I'd still shoot him though.
Well Douglas, since you were on a moose hunting trip I thought talking on here about moose would be a legitimate way to keep the thread going.
So I started on the moose-to-eat bit, which got things going, then everybody seemed to agree on something and the thread quit!
Now, who can come up with something in line with the thread to keep it going?
So I started on the moose-to-eat bit, which got things going, then everybody seemed to agree on something and the thread quit!
Now, who can come up with something in line with the thread to keep it going?
