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Offline Johnb317

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Elk or Moose?
« on: August 15, 2011, 01:22:14 PM »
Quandary....
If given the choice to go for Moose or Elk which would you go for and why? 
14 hour drive up to Edmonton, or stay in Washington.. price about the same for guided.

Excitement factor?     

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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2011, 01:28:31 PM »
Moose! I want to kill one with a bow o so bad! :drool:
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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2011, 01:29:50 PM »
Moose.  Because the opportunity in WA is almost non-existent, so I'd probably never get to go moose hunting unless going out of the country or out of state. 

And because moose are really BIG. :)
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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2011, 01:34:22 PM »
I decided to do both... I booked a combo elk moose and wolf hunt in 2013.

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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2011, 01:42:54 PM »
Moose  (I'd like to grandslam them with my bow. ALl I need is a Canadian book bull)

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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2011, 01:47:47 PM »
Guided moose in Canada or guided spike bulls in WA...
hmmm let me think about that...............
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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2011, 03:52:42 PM »
Moos as much as i love elk hunting moose, no ifs and or butts

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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2011, 04:00:18 PM »
If it costs the same I'd go for the moose, especially since I haven't shot one yet.  Mostly because there is more meat on a moose than an elk.  I'm trying to get a bigger blacktail also and not for the antlers but for the meat!!!  Looking forward to cutting up meat again.

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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2011, 05:23:28 PM »
Moos as much as i love elk hunting moose, no ifs and or butts

no brainer  :yeah:
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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2011, 06:10:26 PM »
Moose, and I obviously have a thing for elk!

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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2011, 06:12:57 PM »
I understand that Moose meat is supposed to be awesome...  My background in Elk hunting has been hunting the back country of Idaho, horseback in etc.  very different from what I'm hearing about hunting Moose in Canada, where the guide I talked to was mentioning hunting the edges of fields?  Anyone of y'all hunted both?
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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2011, 10:44:01 PM »
would depend..if I could go on a quality bull elk hunt with a chance to shoot a big bull I would lean towards that..nothing like chasing bull elk...moose are fun,but I could see it wearing out fast

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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2011, 08:18:55 AM »
If the moose guide places you in a tree stand for 10 hours a day every day for a week, I could see where that would get tiring.  But if you are going to go out and try to call in a bull moose, that would be a real kick.  So, I guess it depends on the methods of hunting that your guide will be doing as to what hunt you will enjoy more.
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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2011, 08:28:07 AM »
Moose! Very exciting animal to find in the woods!

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Re: Elk or Moose?
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2011, 08:47:32 AM »
No brainer, Moose for sure.  They are killing some VERY nice bulls along the field edges around Edmonton.  I don't think they do a lot of treestanding up there for Moose, predominantly call along the field edges.
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