49 Degree North Moose 08 (huntnphool)

[jackelope]

congrats rob...when did you find them?

lets see some more pics.
soon.

[Pathfinder101]

He's gonna take his time with the pics and see if he can get another 40 pages out of this thread...

[huntnphool]

I can't take pics until tomorrow, I would guess them in the high 140's though, I will have Pope put a tape on them to give you guys a better idea though.

[bow4elk]

I can't take pics until tomorrow, I would guess them in the high 140's though, I will have Pope put a tape on them to give you guys a better idea though.

you mean THE Saxton Pope? 

[popeshawnpaul]

I'll have to go from lingcod to moose mode...   

[SHANE(WA)]

cool huntingphool  

[actionshooter]

Thats incredible to find one let alone BOTH, congrats!!

[Skyvalhunter]

Are you sure those are your sheds they look a heck of alot bigger than yours. You wouldn't be short shafting us now would u?

[SHANE(WA)]

 

[boneaddict]

Better have them DNA tested to make sure they are a match.  There are a lot of moose sheds in that 49 unit. LOL
I'm glad you found them.   CONGRATS!

[Gobble]

Congrats! I bet you are releived BIG TIME!

[Curly]

Good job finding them.  Awesome, man.

[M_ray]

Miles,
Rob can fill in here but I'll try an do my best since I was with him 25 out of the 27 days hunted.
~The Bull that chased me and Pope was the first bull we had called in on the first day and Rob Passed on him cause it was early and to clarify I think we all had agreed that it was a low 130's type bull.
~The "Big" one that is still out there is a bull we found on the third day and then we stayed in that area trying to get after him for most of the hunt. Towards the end when it had looked like we weren't going to find that "big" one (which BTW we had put at 57" and solid 160 class) We started looking in other places.
~We went to another spot on a recommendation from Joe cause one of his guides had been watching a group of 5 bulls with another good one that he thought would be about 55 inches wide and he got video of him. It was the end of the hunt in fact we spent the last two days in there so at that point Phool wasn't holding out for a 160 bull anymore!

The last bull was referred to as the big one also just cause he was the largest of that area and the group he was in. That might be where the confusion comes in. I haven't seen the sheds yet cause I couldn't make the trip yesterday but Rob called me immediately and said it's the big one that was on the video, it's easy to tell cause the other 4 weren't anything close to this one and Phool remembers the horn configuration. It makes sense ... cause it was the same place they had been hanging out AND the big guys drop the heavy antlers first! I saw some of the other group while we were searching the first time and they are much smaller and still had head gear. Rob can confirm but Joe's guide may have been in there after us and didn't see this bull anymore. I'm sure Rob has more detail but that is it in a nutshell.

[Craig]

thats awesome you found them. looks like there is a lot of thick ground cover. Good find.

[jackelope]

sweet. post the video now so we can see the bull with his headgear still attached.