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Offline Parkern

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Moose Paddle
« on: April 02, 2020, 03:35:26 PM »
Whose has been lucky enough to stumble on one here in Washington?

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #1 on: April 02, 2020, 03:38:45 PM »
I luck into one or two a year. Theres a lot less on the ground now then there was 10 years ago

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #2 on: April 02, 2020, 03:40:38 PM »
I've found 2.
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #3 on: April 02, 2020, 03:47:06 PM »
My son found the first one 5 feet off the side of the road. Girlfriend found the other side 10 yards up the hill from it. Little chewed on, but it made their day.

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #4 on: April 02, 2020, 04:15:47 PM »
1 match set and 1 single.

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #5 on: April 02, 2020, 04:21:29 PM »
 :tup:
I had a couple bulls hanging around the house this winter but have not been lucky enough to find a paddle yet.  Nice finds

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2020, 09:17:15 PM »
Here’s a matched set I found and mounted on a replica skull. Also have a large single.
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2020, 09:47:22 PM »
Nice!
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2020, 10:41:03 PM »
Here’s a matched set I found and mounted on a replica skull. Also have a large single.
good grief! Have a frontal shot? That’s a pretty solid set

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2020, 11:53:52 PM »
What does that measure!
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #10 on: April 06, 2020, 07:36:31 AM »
Here’s a front view. Not sure on what this bull would score. Outside measurement is around 45 or 46 as I recall. 
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #11 on: April 06, 2020, 08:59:00 AM »
Wow, what a giant.  Wa bull?  How long ago did you find this?
“In common with”..... not so much!!

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #12 on: April 06, 2020, 09:56:00 AM »
Stevens County bull....found them 5 or 6 years ago.  I did a thread last year in the taxidermy forum to share how I repaired the rodent damage and did the mount.  Not sure if I'm more likely to catch the corona virus or draw a OIL Moose Tag...the odds right now are about the same....so I'm counting these sheds as my trophy.
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #13 on: April 06, 2020, 10:03:42 AM »
Heres some.  Crappy pics but i dont feel like taking them down.

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #14 on: April 27, 2020, 07:02:20 PM »
Matched set,hard horn and not chewed
Found about an hour ago






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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #15 on: April 27, 2020, 07:04:30 PM »
Great find!!
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #16 on: April 27, 2020, 10:26:34 PM »
Matched set,hard horn and not chewed
Found about an hour ago






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I am so incredibly jealous...congrats on an awesome find!  :tup:
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #17 on: April 27, 2020, 11:13:46 PM »
Awesome! Way to get them before the rodents do

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #18 on: April 28, 2020, 01:53:57 AM »
I have found 2 browns, 4 chewed whites and a few hours old busted paddle from a fight

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #19 on: April 28, 2020, 06:02:15 AM »
pics?

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #20 on: April 28, 2020, 09:49:28 PM »
24.9 lbs together on the scale

Playing with the calculator...I realize sheds mean nothing to B&C

I'm by no means an authority on judging moose sheds, and might not have done it right...

I put them 8 inches apart thinking the pedicles might be about that, put at the angle that looked right,  and ran a tape.

These these are the numbers I plugged in.
 


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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #21 on: April 29, 2020, 10:43:37 PM »
Here’s a front view. Not sure on what this bull would score. Outside measurement is around 45 or 46 as I recall.
Where did you get the skull? Having hard time finding sharias or wyoming moose skull replica, and was it hard to mount? I see they're pegged

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #22 on: April 29, 2020, 11:47:05 PM »
The things that come to those who wait, may be the things left by those who got there first!

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #23 on: April 30, 2020, 08:13:51 AM »
Found this one a few years back while turkey hunting.

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #24 on: April 30, 2020, 09:03:17 AM »
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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #25 on: April 30, 2020, 10:51:58 AM »
Here’s a front view. Not sure on what this bull would score. Outside measurement is around 45 or 46 as I recall.
Where did you get the skull? Having hard time finding sharias or wyoming moose skull replica, and was it hard to mount? I see they're pegged

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Here's the link to the thread I put up last year.

https://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,235028.msg3137243.html#msg3137243

In short, it was harder to do than I thought it would be but very doable.  PM if you want to get into details.  We can tag up by phone.
The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.

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Re: Moose Paddle
« Reply #26 on: April 30, 2020, 01:36:36 PM »
Found this one a few years back while turkey hunting.

Wow! That’s a nice one. Too bad you couldn’t find the other one. Everybody always told me the moose and big elk will lose them real close because it makes him lopsided and they will try to loose it. I believed it until I had a monster Seven point bull elk on my trail camera for two days packing only one antler. Then he lost it And somehow I didn’t find either one. Thinking the neighbor may have got them

 


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