During our Idaho Archery Elk Hunt this year, we had one day of Moose misadventure. It started in the morning when a cow moose wandered into camp and would not leave. She kept calling over and over and must have been very interested in attracking some Bulls. Before the day was over we had spotted a total of 7 Bulls, 3 of which were in the game trail blocking our return to base camp.
We were able to scare off the first 2 but it was getting dark when we ran into one more Bull 15 yards in front of us. Our lead partner said Uh Oh and starting yelling and shaking a small aspen. The Bull turned and bolted right at us. We dove to get out of his way and he jumped over my bow and almost tramped my legs as I had tripped while diving for cover. I had pulled my .44 mag on my way down and managed to fire a warning shot at the rapidly departing Bull. It still took a large fire back at camp and banging pots and pans to finally get rid of the cow in heat that had reappeared above camp that night!!
The wolves have really knocked down the number of elk and deer in the area we were hunting, but the moose seem to be more than holding there own!
The posed picture is us practicing our quick draws the next morning in camp:
