Moose Hunting Prairie Style

Sask_Hunter

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here are some pictures of my best hunting trip i have ever had. i was hunting moose with my dad in a new moose zone. we have been waiting for serm to have a moose hunt in this zone for 5 or 6 years, well in 09 we got drawn in this zone. to say we were both excited is an under statement.

ive done a lot of deer hunting in this area so i knew were abouts i wanted to hunt. first day we got weathered out with fog and wet roads (4x4 didnt work in my dads truck). we got permision for this chunk of land and went out for an evening hunt. we walked across a stuble field and in to an alphalfa field and i started to call. we would sneek from bale to bale around the little bluff and grunt and wait and move on to the next. about an hour of doing this we were moving from behind a bale to the next spot we took one step and this big bull was standing there. i told my dad it was a good one and to shoot. he put 3 168grtsx,s in to him as fast as he could, i help alittle with some 115gr tsx from my 257wby. we went from 0 to 900mph in about 1 second. what a rush ive never been so excited in my life.

it took about an hour for us to calm down and take pictures of my dads first bull. when we got done pictures a showed my dad how to do a moose and we got him quartered and loaded in to the back of the truck and were on the way home by dark.

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you can see the bale in the back ground that we were calling from.

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i got my bull a few days later of some wildlife land and had to pack him to the truck.

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the meat is getting used by at least 4 families, gave my moose to 2 different people. made my dad eat some heart from his moose and had the time of my life hunting with my dad.
 
Nice bull! Lot's of moose out south of the forest fringe on private farmland these days. Funny to see them marching across grain fields and such. Most of the moose on their traditional forest ranges are no longer there... for one reason or another. Again, nice bull!
 
I can't believe where the moose are being seen and found in Sask. When I was a kid growing up we would have never heard of this. Mind you back then there were almost no geese and mule deer either and look at it now. That was around Viscount if anyone is wondering. Good to see though.
 
Nice moose, Good outing with your dad bonus. You are a very generious person to share with those families. No doubt they appeciate it.
Good for you.
 
Congrats to you and your Dad both on some fine moose:D

Not meaning to hijack your thread Sask Hunter but to those
that are finding it hard to believe about moose in the hay fields:

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Also from southern SK.
 
Congrats on a great hunt. By the way I am no moose hunter but my grandfather was an avid one and he always warned me as a kid should I carry out a set of antlers some day on my back, turn them upside down if you dont want to be shot accidentally! He had a close call one time and learned his lesson he said! Just some friendly advice.
 
Moose in a hay field?

Yeh, 10 years ago you didn't see them any further south than the forest north of PA. Now they're almost all the way to the US border. Seen at least a dozen moose over the past month while out field stalking snow geese.
 
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