I'm back from moose hunting. We had a great time and everybody got back safe. Now to the part you want to hear about. We filled all three tags in 2 days!!!
Opening morning was cool and very windy. It took a while to get to the stand as I am still battling a cold and the flu. I was in the stand about 10 minutes before legal shooting time. A little late for me. I started calling right away. I thought I heard something to my front left but wasn't sure. I called a couple of more times in the next 20 minutes with no results to speak of. I still kept looking towards my left as I thought I heard something a couple of more times. It was hard to tell with the wind blowing so hard. I called again to my right and instantly heard a grunt back to my left. The moose was only 100 yards to my left and in the trees. I readied the gun and waited. It didn't take long and he showed up in behind some trees. I could see his outline but didn't have a shot. More waiting and then he stepped into an opening. I raised the rifle and pushed the safety off and let him have it. The first shot was a double lung hit, but he still bolted. I got off 2 more shots, another through the chest and a neck hit. He dropped on the 3rd shot. In total he had run 25 yards. So that was it for my hunt. It took a total of 40 minutes. What I had shot was a 15 pointer with good size pans. After the skinning we got 648 lbs of meat from him. That was it for the first day.
The second day started out cold and calm. We had a good frost. My sister-in-law was seeing a bull from her stand but it was hanging to the trees. After about 45 minutes it stepped out and she hit it with 2 shots from her .270. That was the end of her hunt. She was very pleased with her 12 pointer and by the time we got it to the butcher we got 455 lbs of meat out of it.
My friend Ron went back to the spot my sister-in-law had been for the afternoon hunt as we heard more moose while we were dragging her moose out. It didn't take long, About an hour after he climbed into the stand he called out a nice 5 pointer. He hit it with a double lung shot at about 75 yards and it dropped on the spot. We dragged it out and headed back to the camp. By the time we got this one to the butcher we got 365 lbs of meat.
The party was on after that. I finally went to bed around 2:30am on Friday night. There were lots of toasts to each other, great story telling and general B.S. Saturday morning there were lots of slow moving big beads around. LOL
In total we got 1468 lbs of meat to be split 8 ways. (It takes lots of help on a moose hunt).
Here are some pics of my camp and the moose hunters with their moose.
Jack
Opening morning was cool and very windy. It took a while to get to the stand as I am still battling a cold and the flu. I was in the stand about 10 minutes before legal shooting time. A little late for me. I started calling right away. I thought I heard something to my front left but wasn't sure. I called a couple of more times in the next 20 minutes with no results to speak of. I still kept looking towards my left as I thought I heard something a couple of more times. It was hard to tell with the wind blowing so hard. I called again to my right and instantly heard a grunt back to my left. The moose was only 100 yards to my left and in the trees. I readied the gun and waited. It didn't take long and he showed up in behind some trees. I could see his outline but didn't have a shot. More waiting and then he stepped into an opening. I raised the rifle and pushed the safety off and let him have it. The first shot was a double lung hit, but he still bolted. I got off 2 more shots, another through the chest and a neck hit. He dropped on the 3rd shot. In total he had run 25 yards. So that was it for my hunt. It took a total of 40 minutes. What I had shot was a 15 pointer with good size pans. After the skinning we got 648 lbs of meat from him. That was it for the first day.
The second day started out cold and calm. We had a good frost. My sister-in-law was seeing a bull from her stand but it was hanging to the trees. After about 45 minutes it stepped out and she hit it with 2 shots from her .270. That was the end of her hunt. She was very pleased with her 12 pointer and by the time we got it to the butcher we got 455 lbs of meat out of it.
My friend Ron went back to the spot my sister-in-law had been for the afternoon hunt as we heard more moose while we were dragging her moose out. It didn't take long, About an hour after he climbed into the stand he called out a nice 5 pointer. He hit it with a double lung shot at about 75 yards and it dropped on the spot. We dragged it out and headed back to the camp. By the time we got this one to the butcher we got 365 lbs of meat.
The party was on after that. I finally went to bed around 2:30am on Friday night. There were lots of toasts to each other, great story telling and general B.S. Saturday morning there were lots of slow moving big beads around. LOL
In total we got 1468 lbs of meat to be split 8 ways. (It takes lots of help on a moose hunt).
Here are some pics of my camp and the moose hunters with their moose.
Jack
