NOCK'S "Cleo" the moose

[jrebel]

Always nice to find a bear on your moose hunt.....I am so Jealous 

[NOCK NOCK]

Cleo has been very elusive. Have only seen a small bull so far........

[Buckmark]

Cleo has been very elusive. Have only seen a small bull so far........

Great....now about the Bear?

[Buckblaster]

He is out of cell range most of the time where he's hunting.  I talked to him today and am going to hook up with him tomorrow and see if we can find a big one.

[blindluck]

how much time does have, hopefully the whole season

[hirshey]

Best of luck!!

[NOCK NOCK]

Best of luck!!

Back at ya  .  Are you finding time to get up here yet?
Called in a dinker this morning, pretty slow besides that

[PA BEN]

 

[blindluck]

its been 6 days

[NOCK NOCK]

Day 13 up here...Have yet to see anything even close to a shooter.
Trying to keep my chin up and not become too dejected is hard to do when I've only seen 1 small dinker bull and have only had 1 response to a variety of calls and set ups in all this time.

I sure hope it gets better in November like some people say 

 

[CAMPMEAT]

Day 13 up here...Have yet to see anything even close to a shooter.
Trying to keep my chin up and not become too dejected is hard to do when I've only seen 1 small dinker bull and have only had 1 response to a variety of calls and set ups in all this time.

I sure hope it gets better in November like some people say 

Get ahold of me..

[NOCK NOCK]

Well I am home from my 1st trip and very disheartened. 14 days of hard hunting, 16 moose seen with only 1 being a small bull. 30 years of waiting for a moose permit, and it did not even feel like I was moose hunting 

I talked with 3 other tag holders who were having the same luck as I.... hot weather, only seeing cows, and zero response to calls. After day 6, I would have been happy to even see a bull.

Congrats to hirshey on a beautiful bull

We did have a very fun trip though, getting to experience some new things. Our 1st night there we headed out to check all the trail cams. After retrieving the last one we headed for camp eager to see what we captured on film when a pretty brown phase bear caught my attention as he crossed the road and stopped on the top bank to check us out. I have taken a few bears in my time and have told myself not to shoot anymore unless it was a blonde one. Well I just couldn't resist a nice brown color sooo.... click-boom-dead bear on the ground, and then I thought "I am here for 14 days to moose hunt, why did I do that" .... A few quick photos, then back to camp to skin, debone, and get on ice.
The other highlight of our trip was to hear wolves howl in the wild for our first time ever. I am not a fan of wolves, but it was pretty cool to listen to them howl/bark/fight (Video with sound is posted in wolf topic)

From here on out I will be heading back up there on most weekends I hope, and for 1 more full week. I sure hope moose hunting goes better later in the season.

Some pics from the trip....

Sparing

[jrebel]

Congrats on the bear....Good luck on the moose, I am sure it will happen.   

[hirshey]

I'm sorry you haven't gotten one... YET. I know your perseverance and hard work will turn up something special! Keep after it!

[NOCK NOCK]

Thanks Hirshey, bummed right now, but I'll get one. Was just hoping my wife could be a part of it. It was nice talking to you.

I also got to meet several other HW members, great people   One meeting was a classic, while at the trailer septic dump on my way home a truck pulls up and the guy says " hey are you NOCK NOCK from HW"  It was awesome meeting you Campmeat, funny it was at the poop dump  , Don't know if I've ever talked to anyone for over an hour at a location like that!!

Also a huge shout out to goldminer & Buckblaster, THANK YOU for all of the help and advise.

I will definitely stay in touch with you all. Even though I did not get a moose on this trip, I made some new friends