Moose Moose and Mooses

Riflechair said:
I harvested this 44" Bull monday evening september 20th. His antlers are pretty darn long and pointy - friggin spears. Don't think he had been in too many fights yet. Either that or he's been the clear victor. Very little to nil bruising on the meat. Not sure the same could be said about the competition. He was pretty aggressive and motivated to fight after challenging him with a number of grunts..

Called in from about 750 metres (+/-) away on a windless quiet late evening. It took a lot of grunting, water splashing and willow beating to get him within range but when he was moving he did so with shocking speed.. One well placed shot at 180 metres and this warrior was offcially harvested. Fully dressed with bone in he weighed 698 lbs delivered to the butcher.

One shot from the 35 whelen and a 200gr Hornady Round Nose at 2650 fps just behind the shoulder. The quarters were quite heavy. My hunting buddy and I could not lift the front quarters.

Anyhow, here is a pic from the next morning. I gutted him by flashlight that night. Pretty steamy but meat loss was very very minimal - the shot was very well placed and he only ran about 20m before going down. Incidently it the the first night we had a full moon up north. I don't think it was a coincidence he came out that night. I believe he had a cow in the bushed nearby. He kept glancing in my direction then bac to the bush repeatedly. Thus likely why he responded so well to bull challenges.

The next morning we quartered him and packed him out - bit of a bugger getting the meat across the river back to camp. At least the skies were open and the nights were cold. You should be able to see the frost on the animal.
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Nice story. I like when they come in like that. That's very exciting. We are leaving for out hunt next week and hope to call one in again.
 
The moose in armstrong are playing hide and seek, lots of tracks and droppings, no moose sightings, oh well had fun and glad to be home
 
Gun5tuff said:
Nice story. I like when they come in like that. That's very exciting. We are leaving for out hunt next week and hope to call one in again.
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We are back from our hunt. No luck calling one out. A bull answered but would not commit. He was likely with cows already. On the way to the same spot the next day a young bull was standing on the road blocking the way. Bang.

After that incident we did call a number of bulls out and just toyed with them as we had only one tag. I took a video of my hunting buddy approaching a ~3 year-old bull with his "Rackman" paddle raised. The bull was so intimidated that he did not make eye contact with my buddy. When he got to about 10 yards to the bull, the latter slowly moved off to the trees. I saw the Rackman videos but now I have witnessed this phenomenon myself. It was awesome.
 
No moose!....A buddy saw sketches of two trotting at quite a distance, but we never caught up to them. Oh well, deer season is just around the corner,and if that all goes well we are back up north the week after for another run at the moose.Where we hunted is a good wintering area,so things should turn out better if we have snow. If not thats OK to.
 
captonion said:
No moose!....A buddy saw sketches of two trotting at quite a distance, but we never caught up to them. Oh well, deer season is just around the corner,and if that all goes well we are back up north the week after for another run at the moose.Where we hunted is a good wintering area,so things should turn out better if we have snow. If not thats OK to.
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thats a tough go,running back and forth like that.I had our count down the opener. Well best of luck:rolleyes:
 
niftyfifty said:
thats a tough go,running back and forth like that.I had our count down the opener. Well best of luck:rolleyes:
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Not at all if you can afford it, and have good friends to go with.Last trip cost me $345 in total. How did you do last year?

niftyfifty said:
thats a tough go,running back and forth like that.I had our count down the opener. Well best of luck:rolleyes:
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Don't tell us.Show us!.Pictures?????????
 
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captonion said:
Not at all if you can afford it, and have good friends to go with.Last trip cost me $345 in total. How did you do last year?



Don't tell us.Show us!.Pictures?????????
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small bull last in winter. Big cow and calf this. Thankyou. No pics req'd for either of us. I would take your word, given your gentleman ways
 
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