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triton

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With all the focus that seems to be on moose hunting. The main focus seems to be on bulls. I'm not an experienced moose hunter. A good looking one. But not experienced one. LOL! A guy at work is leaving next week to hunt moose. They ony have calf tags. He asked me how he should hunt them. I didn't really know what to say to him. They have a river near them. My advice to him was to try easy going social type calls and cruise the river in his canoe kind of thing. My question is What tactics do you guys use? Basically looking for some advice and reccomendations I could offer him. Thanks.

Dave.
 
Dave, he might be best to do some early morning scouting in the truck to get a glance at any group of cows and calves....spend a day covering lots of ground. Afternoon can be spent getting permission if he hasn't yet done so.

Many guys cant tell a cow from a calf at 300yds....unless of course the two are together. When he finds one, set up nearby for a late evening hunt and early next morning too.

Of course he can walk the cutlines and do a "hit and miss" hunt. But I think he would be more successful if he finds a cow/calf pair while scouting, then hunts them.

It kinda depends on the time he has off to hunt. Cruising in a canoe all day is a great idea too. Nice and quiet. Great way to scout too. Two sets of prints in the mud would make me stick around.
 
We took two calfs last year and usually one every year since adult tags are hard to get. Most of our calfs are shot coming to the water late in the season. We have a water system that has a water plant they feed on just before freeze up and that brings a lot of moose to the river. Also late in the season when the leaves fall off the red willows which is found near water the moose trim them as if you used a hedge clipper.
One was shot from a stand walking along the riverbank with the cow. The other came running in with a cow after a I made a cow call in late Oct. Usually we find them away from high hunt traffic areas back in small bays along the edge of the bush or beaver ponds. This fall in the bow season we found one in a small beaver pond and she (Cow calf) stayed within a few hundred yards of that area with the cow. Not close enough for the bow but hopefully will still be there when we go back on the 20th with gun.
 
tracker said:
We have a water system that has a water plant they feed on just before freeze up and that brings a lot of moose to the river. Also late in the season when the leaves fall off the red willows which is found near water the moose trim them as if you used a hedge clipper.
One was shot from a stand walking along the riverbank with the cow. The other came running in with a cow after a I made a cow call in late Oct. Usually we find them away from high hunt traffic areas back in small bays along the edge of the bush or beaver ponds.
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Sounds like good advice.

Tracks....find fresh tracks! Then...look at the geographics, topos....and think like mom.
They won't be very far.
 
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