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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: American Rattlesnake on October 01, 2008, 10:28:04 AM

Title: Interesting sighting last night...
Post by: American Rattlesnake on October 01, 2008, 10:28:04 AM: I was driving along last night right about sunset and guess what I saw standing out there in the middle of a field...? A moose!! I knew they were around here (Palouse) but I wouldn'ta picked a wheat field that was just harvested to look for one. :chuckle:
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Post by: bucklucky on October 01, 2008, 10:38:09 AM: That would make a cool picture!
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Post by: American Rattlesnake on October 01, 2008, 11:26:00 AM: Quote from: bucklucky on October 01, 2008, 10:38:09 AM
That would make a cool picture!
Yeah, it was pretty neat with the sunset in the background. I was kicking myself for not having a camera in the car!
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Post by: Blackfoot on October 02, 2008, 03:48:49 PM: We see them pretty frequently out in the wheat on the Palouse. Here are a couple pictures.
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Post by: saylean on October 02, 2008, 03:52:50 PM: awesome man...I sure wish they would work themselves over to the wetside...
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Post by: MuleySniper on October 02, 2008, 04:04:30 PM: That's the only area in WA I have ever seen one. Nice pics!
MS
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Post by: HuntingFanatic on October 02, 2008, 04:07:59 PM: Great pics! I bet a few of the tag holders would like to see one like the second one! Looks damn good to me!
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Post by: BC CHASER on October 02, 2008, 04:09:22 PM: Quote from: saylean on October 02, 2008, 03:52:50 PM
awesome man...I sure wish they would work themselves over to the wetside...

I heard a rumor of one seen in Chehalis.
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Post by: hunterbuilder on October 02, 2008, 04:19:25 PM: My parents saw a bull up near Bellingham of I-5 a few years ago.
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Post by: bucklucky on October 02, 2008, 04:20:19 PM: Chehalis?? Hmmmm. Gona have to ask some questions and see what I can come up with on that sighting.
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Post by: BC CHASER on October 02, 2008, 04:22:39 PM: Quote from: bucklucky on October 02, 2008, 04:20:19 PM
Chehalis?? Hmmmm. Gona have to ask some questions and see what I can come up with on that sighting.
Came from a friend in the foretry business and he has been on a lot of moose hunts!
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Post by: Ridgerunner on October 04, 2008, 01:54:15 PM: That second bull is a good one, where was that again?
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Post by: Ridgerunner on October 04, 2008, 01:54:56 PM: I've got pics somewhere of a moose in the lyman lakes basin deep in the GPW from last summer(07), I'll try to find them and get them posted.
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Post by: bighorns2bushytails on October 05, 2008, 12:31:11 PM: i have a friend from that area and he sees 1-2 a year either in his fields or crossing the roads. someone told me wolf pressure is pushing them farther south then normal i have no idea if thats true or not... im just glad they are around and keeping my fingers crossed for gutpile or myself to get that tag soon.
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Post by: Ridinshotgun on October 05, 2008, 01:21:59 PM: That second bulls a big one. :drool:
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Post by: bowsandhose on October 07, 2008, 09:53:00 AM: great pics
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Post by: C-Money on October 07, 2008, 10:39:29 AM: We have seen Elk and Moose fighting wildland fires here around Moses Lake. It really dose not suprise me any more. Great Pictures of the moose.
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Post by: popeshawnpaul on October 07, 2008, 10:45:12 AM: I have seen them as far out as Washtucna. We have pictures of one on my friend's ranch out there.

There is also a nice little population starting up around Stehekin at the end of Chelan.
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Post by: bow4elk on October 07, 2008, 11:32:41 AM: Moose are frequent along Mt. Baker highway out of Bellingham. I know when I was living up there a bull and a cow were featured in the paper crossing I-5 at the Peach Arch border crossing. Nice bull too. I met a landowner that had a cow and calf every spring using her field. And that was around 1987! I can only imagine how the numbers have increased over the last 20 years up there.