How to properly(and easily) haul moose out of the bush

[Hurketthunter84]

This helo was not used to hunt with, in fact it was a MNR helo enlisted to help retrieve the moose from a remote island that cannot easily be accessed by anything but air transportation.

I know the owners of this meat locker as well and I heard the first hand interview with the lucky hunter and by his own admission that is NOT and MNR helicopter. He hired the bird to get the moose out but it isn't an MNR chopper.

Hurketthunter84

 

[Wendell]

[youtube]AEcbIBK1JSA[/youtube

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a ...MOOSE?

It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a ...MOOSE?
Uploaded by 27chalifoux on Oct 3, 2011

Only at Hurkett Cove lodge will you find the flying moose! Today at the lodge, owner Anita Renaud is proud to say that 'This is the first time we've had a moose flown in by helicopter." Hunters come from all over the world to hunt in this area and to take advantage of Anita's amenities. The business has been up and running for years and it continues to grow more and more with each new season. "I never would have imagined tat this would be happening, here, at my business," says Anita. With a Walk-In-Cooler, Butchering services, Skinning pole, Indoor & Outdoor Saunas, Outdoor Firepit, Lodge (sleeps 12), Kitchen and Laundry facilities, this place is really a HUNTERS DREAM! Open all year round, feel free to call Anita Renaud at 1-807-857-2456 (Home) or 1-807-708-8972 (Cell) for more information or to make your reservations!

[YouTube]AEcbIBK1JSA[/YouTube]

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[Wendell]

I don't see how one is right and one is wrong?

A Fudd has no difficulty making the distinction. "I don't approve of it, therefore it is vile and detestable and should be banned!"

 

[Superbrad]

Dude shot a moose... Said dude either called the ministry for help or paid huge bucks to ensure the moose git hauled out... No worries.. No evidence to say he shot the moose from the copter...

 

[thebigslide]

It's specifically named in the BC Wildlife Act as unlawful to use helicopters to transport wildlife

I have no idea, but is it possible that the regulation you're thinking of concerns only live wildlife, and not harvested game?

 

[H4831]

I have no idea, but is it possible that the regulation you're thinking of concerns only live wildlife, and not harvested game?

Very strict regulations in BC regarding helicopters and hunting.
One example is if hunters hiked into mountainlus country, one was injured or seriously ill and a helicoper was called to get him/her out.
Legally, the helicopter could take out the injured party, but could not bring the injured persons rifle with him!

 

[riden]

Very strict regulations in BC regarding helicopters and hunting.
One example is if hunters hiked into mountainlus country, one was injured or seriously ill and a helicoper was called to get him/her out.
Legally, the helicopter could take out the injured party, but could not bring the injured persons rifle with him!

It was also metioned in this thread it is illegal in AB too. I just saw in the regs the other day that it is illegal in WMU's 400-448 (don't quote me exactly). I take that to mean fair play in all the other WMU's.

 

[Engine10]

The Flying Moose Explanation

I felt compelled to respond here........not that I expect it'll make a difference to anyones opinion.

When I arrowed this moose I was hunting alone in a very remote area (fairly inaccessable my most accounts). Thats why I went there!

I was prepared to bring a moose out alone, I had bulk pepper to eliminate blow-fly problems, 20-45kg new mesh feed bags to pack the boned meat into managable sized pieces.
Salt for the hide.
My aluminum pack frame and also a 2'x5' feed sleigh (from the Poly-dome Calf Hutch Co.) with a pack harness to drag the sleigh with the bagged meat over rough terrain.
I figured I could fly a moose out in 3 loads, 2 loads of meat and one load with the cape and antlers in my homebuilt floatplane.

I had dressed and packed out the bear several days earlier. Hiking on a ridge I'd been surprised by two 100lb cubs. I nocked an arrow thinking, where was their mother? And before I could back away she appeared, spotted me began aggressive posturing and quickly closed from 60yds to inside of 20yds before I drew and shot her straight-on in the throat (arrow exited her hind-quarters). After she expired over the side of the rock face, hung up in a tree root I climbed down on a rope, tied her off to the root and skinned and butchered her there. Climbed back up and pulled everything up with the rope, packed it out 3/4 of a mile over a fire-burn back to camp. That was the occassion of my 57th birthday, very unforgetable.
Taxidermist aged the bear at 12yrs.

A few days later I called in and arrowed the big moose 380 ft across a fire-burn from my plane, there was ice on the water, heavy frost and it was cold. Later in the day the temperature turned uncharacteristically warm and I knew I couldn't process and haul that much animal out fast enough to prevent spoilage and I hurt a knee so I got on my rented satellite phone and called a company I used to fly crop-dusters for and made arrangements for a helicopter to fly the moose to cold-storage...

That's all! Didn't spot the moose from the air...didn't arrow the moose from the air... and.....did not contravene any existing laws where I was hunting.

It was all good and seemed like the responsible thing to do, nothing else.

I'm just a blue-collar guy, drive an old diesel pickup, raise some work-horses and have a personal-line-of-credit that had enough spare room on it to pay the bill for flying a moose

Thanks for hearing my side

 

[SteveM]

I felt compelled to respond here........not that I expect it'll make a difference to anyones opinion.

When I arrowed this moose I was hunting alone in a very remote area (fairly inaccessable my most accounts). Thats why I went there!

I was prepared to bring a moose out alone, I had bulk pepper to eliminate blow-fly problems, 20-45kg new mesh feed bags to pack the boned meat into managable sized pieces.
Salt for the hide.
My aluminum pack frame and also a 2'x5' feed sleigh (from the Poly-dome Calf Hutch Co.) with a pack harness to drag the sleigh with the bagged meat over rough terrain.
I figured I could fly a moose out in 3 loads, 2 loads of meat and one load with the cape and antlers in my homebuilt floatplane.

I had dressed and packed out the bear several days earlier. Hiking on a ridge I'd been surprised by two 100lb cubs. I nocked an arrow thinking, where was their mother? And before I could back away she appeared, spotted me began aggressive posturing and quickly closed from 60yds to inside of 20yds before I drew and shot her straight-on in the throat (arrow exited her hind-quarters). After she expired over the side of the rock face, hung up in a tree root I climbed down on a rope, tied her off to the root and skinned and butchered her there. Climbed back up and pulled everything up with the rope, packed it out 3/4 of a mile over a fire-burn back to camp. That was the occassion of my 57th birthday, very unforgetable.
Taxidermist aged the bear at 12yrs.

A few days later I called in and arrowed the big moose 380 ft across a fire-burn from my plane, there was ice on the water, heavy frost and it was cold. Later in the day the temperature turned uncharacteristically warm and I knew I couldn't process and haul that much animal out fast enough to prevent spoilage and I hurt a knee so I got on my rented satellite phone and called a company I used to fly crop-dusters for and made arrangements for a helicopter to fly the moose to cold-storage...

That's all! Didn't spot the moose from the air...didn't arrow the moose from the air... and.....did not contravene any existing laws where I was hunting.

It was all good and seemed like the responsible thing to do, nothing else.

I'm just a blue-collar guy, drive an old diesel pickup, raise some work-horses and have a personal-line-of-credit that had enough spare room on it to pay the bill for flying a moose

Thanks for hearing my side

sounds like a ####in awesome time

 

[firemachine69]

You can just hear the chopper screaming "I'm hurtin' I'm hurtin' I'M GODDAMN HURTIN'!"

 

[Crashman]

Engine 10...Thanks for the awsome story and for clearing up any and all misunderstanding about this situation. And, congratulations again for such an awesome harvest of both you bear and your moose. I hear it was a BIG boy and might make it to the top of the record books for Ontario. Good for you!

 

[Ardent]

I felt compelled to respond here........not that I expect it'll make a difference to anyones opinion.

When I arrowed this moose I was hunting alone in a very remote area (fairly inaccessable my most accounts). Thats why I went there!

I was prepared to bring a moose out alone, I had bulk pepper to eliminate blow-fly problems, 20-45kg new mesh feed bags to pack the boned meat into managable sized pieces.
Salt for the hide.
My aluminum pack frame and also a 2'x5' feed sleigh (from the Poly-dome Calf Hutch Co.) with a pack harness to drag the sleigh with the bagged meat over rough terrain.
I figured I could fly a moose out in 3 loads, 2 loads of meat and one load with the cape and antlers in my homebuilt floatplane.

I had dressed and packed out the bear several days earlier. Hiking on a ridge I'd been surprised by two 100lb cubs. I nocked an arrow thinking, where was their mother? And before I could back away she appeared, spotted me began aggressive posturing and quickly closed from 60yds to inside of 20yds before I drew and shot her straight-on in the throat (arrow exited her hind-quarters). After she expired over the side of the rock face, hung up in a tree root I climbed down on a rope, tied her off to the root and skinned and butchered her there. Climbed back up and pulled everything up with the rope, packed it out 3/4 of a mile over a fire-burn back to camp. That was the occassion of my 57th birthday, very unforgetable.
Taxidermist aged the bear at 12yrs.

A few days later I called in and arrowed the big moose 380 ft across a fire-burn from my plane, there was ice on the water, heavy frost and it was cold. Later in the day the temperature turned uncharacteristically warm and I knew I couldn't process and haul that much animal out fast enough to prevent spoilage and I hurt a knee so I got on my rented satellite phone and called a company I used to fly crop-dusters for and made arrangements for a helicopter to fly the moose to cold-storage...

That's all! Didn't spot the moose from the air...didn't arrow the moose from the air... and.....did not contravene any existing laws where I was hunting.

It was all good and seemed like the responsible thing to do, nothing else.

I'm just a blue-collar guy, drive an old diesel pickup, raise some work-horses and have a personal-line-of-credit that had enough spare room on it to pay the bill for flying a moose

Thanks for hearing my side

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me, I'm going against the opinion of a friend in this thread. I'm all for helicopter retrieval of game in any honest situation, if a sheep hunter wanted a lift out of the hills with his trophy and had planned on it to cut the work down I wouldn't approve.

Amphibious, woulda thought you'd be all for it! It's more work for us, I'd love to haul moose...

 

[MattMoser]

Most of the posts here are from jealous retards!

Some of you need your head checked, the guy did a top shelf job!

I wish all hunters took our hunting privilege this seriously.

Good job engine10, I would hunt with you any day!

Where the hell did you tree huggers get the idea he shot it or tracked it from that chopper?

Jesus

And thanks for banning Amphibious! He must have no friends!

MM