Author Topic: heres a couple of moose taken in the last few years in the area (Read 9272 times)

SHANE(WA) · « **on:** June 16, 2009, 04:40:06 AM »

you moose guys guess the score, dont look it up

Skyvalhunter · « **Reply #1 on:** June 16, 2009, 05:40:22 AM »

How about aloth bigger than the one you are thinking you might get in Wa.!!!

SHANE(WA) · « **Reply #2 on:** June 16, 2009, 05:45:53 AM »

One is WA in 05 and the other just next store in shoshone county lol these arent records for the according states lol

groundhog · « **Reply #3 on:** June 16, 2009, 05:42:29 PM »

They are both great Moose! I sure like the second one!!! The first bull has some good brows and tine length. I am not a "Moose Guy" but if I ever drew I would become one..... I have scored many elk and deer but no Moose so I will not guess a score on these guys. If I had a tag I would be able to tell you the score because I would take either one of them!

180-GRAIN · « **Reply #4 on:** June 16, 2009, 09:06:57 PM »

I would be happy to put my tag on a bull like that this year.

SHANE(WA) · « **Reply #5 on:** June 16, 2009, 10:15:03 PM »

Oh i would

halflife65 · « **Reply #6 on:** June 18, 2009, 01:36:33 PM »

Huckleberry Moose 2006

Of all the rotten luck, I shot the thing on the day that I forgot my camera.

jager · « **Reply #7 on:** June 18, 2009, 01:43:31 PM »

How 'bout a story to go with that pic.

bowhunterforever · « **Reply #8 on:** June 18, 2009, 01:53:47 PM »

Quote from: jager on June 18, 2009, 01:43:31 PM

How 'bout a story to go with that pic.

Nice bull!

saylean · « **Reply #9 on:** June 18, 2009, 01:55:16 PM »

way to fill the tag Halflife...man

cackle · « **Reply #10 on:** June 18, 2009, 01:55:47 PM »

what happened to his horn at the base on the right side?

dbllunger · « **Reply #11 on:** June 18, 2009, 02:09:17 PM »

Nice Bull

SHANE(WA) · « **Reply #12 on:** June 18, 2009, 06:12:18 PM »

Nice bull

WDFW-SUX · « **Reply #13 on:** June 18, 2009, 06:16:39 PM »

Nice bull half life welcome.

huntnphool · « **Reply #14 on:** June 18, 2009, 06:20:36 PM »

Great bull

rosscrazyelk · « **Reply #15 on:** June 18, 2009, 07:41:39 PM »

Real nice moose. How about a story?

boneaddict · « **Reply #16 on:** June 18, 2009, 07:42:11 PM »

Thats awesome halflife.

halflife65 · « **Reply #17 on:** June 19, 2009, 10:26:01 PM »

Alright, here's the story.

I'm a very avid deer and elk hunter but haven't hunted moose before (and obviously not in WA), so I researched and watched a lot of videos before season, scouted, talked to a couple of people that live in the area (cool guys that I met at a 3D shoot in Black Diamond), found a local biologist, and read everything I could find. Most of them said to hunt the rut (early) and if you don't get one, hope for a little snow and go back toward the end of the season.

Anyway, I had my bow, but it was super hot and pretty tough hunting. Knowing that this was a pretty much once in a lifetime deal, I brought the Tikka T3 .300WSM as a backup. After checking out the hunting conditions, I decided that it was in my best interest to use my rifle.

I chased a different moose around on opening day (a little smaller but still a shooter), and ran him right to a bunch of people on horseback. The moose left the country but at least the people were nice. I saw a couple of other cows and chased what we thought was a bull through some thick second growth timber (the guy that walked along with me thought he saw antlers but we never got a really good look at it). Later in the day, I found a really fresh "scrape" (I guess that's what you call it when a moose makes it) with a couple of cows near it. I decided that I'd come back and sit on it in the morning to see if I could find the bull that made it.

I got there in the dark and sat there for an hour or so and then heard the weird call that moose make (one of those thoughts go through your mind - huh! it really does happen and it really does sound like that!) and got set up. He was walking towards me in thick brush at about 75 yards and I could only make out his antlers - it looked like someone had mounted them on the cab of a pickup truck and drove it out through the brush – little trees were swaying around and he sounded like an elephant. I was all ready to shoot but he may have smelled me - I was pretty well hidden and not moving. Anyway, he took off for some reason and ran down a steep hill and popped out at the bottom of an old overgrown clear cut about 300 yards away with a couple of cows. I had a good rest and he stopped broadside, so I took the shot. I could tell it was a good hit and he sort of started walking off but clearly was pretty sick. The cows ran off and he laid down. I thought he was dead so I walked down next to him and (this explains the nicked right antler) he stood up facing me. I threw the gun up, looked through the scope and pulled the trigger – his head was sort of down like a bull charging (I don’t think he was charging, just really sick) and my thought was to shoot right between his antlers and hit him in the big hump behind his head, breaking his neck. So, once in a lifetime tag and for the first, and only, time in my life I shot a freakin’ antler. Unreal. Anyway, down he went. For those that haven’t shot a moose, it looks like a VW laying there. When I quartered it, the front shoulder was higher than my head when I pcked it up and I’m 6 feet tall. Quartered with neck meat boned out it was 650# hanging at the butcher. Pretty cool. If you go moose hunting, buy a good packboard.

scroder · « **Reply #18 on:** June 19, 2009, 10:34:04 PM »

Cool bull and a great funny story!

elkspert · « **Reply #19 on:** June 20, 2009, 08:51:53 AM »

Great story. Hope you had some help getting him out of there.

Pathfinder101 · « **Reply #20 on:** June 20, 2009, 09:19:06 AM »

Great bull, great story. What did he wind up scoring?

180-GRAIN · « **Reply #21 on:** June 20, 2009, 03:47:10 PM »

I would be happy putting my tag this year on a bull like that. congratulations nice bull!

BLKBEARKLR · « **Reply #22 on:** June 20, 2009, 04:27:10 PM »

Very nice bull. awesome write up, thanks for sharing. And you are not joking about how big they are, I have had the oppurtunity of taking four of them and every time I say never again.

Joe

Aneoakleaf · « **Reply #23 on:** June 20, 2009, 11:41:14 PM »

Congradulations! Thats a fine fine moose!

Hunt4ever · « **Reply #24 on:** June 21, 2009, 09:11:38 PM »

2007 49 degrees north... scored 163 2/8 B&C and 362 2/8 SCI which ranks it number 34 in the world... good luck up there and i hope to see some big bulls down this year!

BLKBEARKLR · « **Reply #25 on:** June 21, 2009, 09:14:44 PM »

Another nice bull. Congrats to you

halflife65 · « **Reply #26 on:** June 21, 2009, 09:26:45 PM »

Fantastic bull! Nice work.

Hornseeker · « **Reply #27 on:** June 22, 2009, 08:34:25 AM »

Hunt4Ever....that is a great bull... but #34 in the world... http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/apps/records/recrules.cfm there are 108 JUST in Idaho that match or beat that score.... B&C... dont know about Safari, but if it is 34 in SCI.... then SCI has got a long way to come...

ONce again... GREAT BULL!!!! Same with you Half...

huntnphool · « **Reply #28 on:** June 22, 2009, 06:38:26 PM »

That is one hell of a bull Hunt4ever, congrats!!!

Hunt4ever · « **Reply #29 on:** June 22, 2009, 07:04:32 PM »

Quote from: Hornseeker on June 22, 2009, 08:34:25 AM

Hunt4Ever....that is a great bull... but #34 in the world... http://fishandgame.idaho.gov/apps/records/recrules.cfm there are 108 JUST in Idaho that match or beat that score.... B&C... dont know about Safari, but if it is 34 in SCI.... then SCI has got a long way to come...

ONce again... GREAT BULL!!!! Same with you Half...

http://www.scifirstforhunters.org/members/RB/view_minimums.cfm.... in response SCI (as well as myself) believe in scoring the animals in a way that they recieve credit for all that god gave them... As aposed to B&C which doesnt even measure moose realistically... In B&C moose are scored by width, paddle length and width, and number of points... SCI however believes that tine length should be important... Why should a bull that has 9 tiny one inch points score the same as a bull that has 9 huge 4- 9 inch points... I am a huge advicate of SCI scoring and all they stand for...

huntnphool · « **Reply #30 on:** June 22, 2009, 07:11:23 PM »

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SCI believe in scoring the animals in a way that they recieve credit for all that god gave them

Hornseeker · « **Reply #31 on:** June 22, 2009, 07:17:57 PM »

I totally agree.... those bulls with long points kick ASS... so...wasn't trying to insult at all... its just that I believe there are a BOAT load of bulls that score high in B&C that would also score high in Safari...

As stated.... GREAT Bull... anyone would be happy with him! Even Shane!!!

Hunt4ever · « **Reply #32 on:** June 22, 2009, 07:27:56 PM »

I also agree but alot of those awsome bulls that would score high in SCI arent in there for whatever reason... I would only hope that it gets bigger and more popular... Theres positives to both B&C and SCI.... Good luck to all you tag holders and i hope you hit the rut hard, and drive them bulls crazy! good luck again

Ridgerunner · « **Reply #33 on:** June 22, 2009, 07:38:45 PM »

wheres the sci scoresheet I'd like to score my bull.

huntnphool · « **Reply #34 on:** June 22, 2009, 07:44:54 PM »

http://www.scirecordbook.org/docs/methods/Method_25-P.pdf

SHANE(WA) · « **Reply #35 on:** June 23, 2009, 01:41:35 AM »

moose scoring makes no sense, they get no credit for the tines, stupid I think,I agree with SCI scoring, give them credit for what they grew. be like counting the pts on a elk rack and just measuring the mass and beams lol, that would never fly. Thats a great bull hunt4ever

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