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Title: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: mwhite on December 31, 2015, 10:59:15 AM

Went on a late November Shiras moose hunt in southern BC.  Had a great hunt, saw lots of moose and was able to connect with this good bull on the 4th day.  He was the 8th bull (and biggest) that we saw in 3.5 days.  It was interesting hunting these in the late season.  We actually saw most of our moose from about noon to 3 PM when they would come out of the timber and lay in the sun to warm up. 

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Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: Jason on December 31, 2015, 11:14:20 AM

Congrats on a good bull and a freezer full of meat!!

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: Widgeondeke on December 31, 2015, 11:17:05 AM

Congrats!  :tup:

Plenty of meat for the winter

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: RB on December 31, 2015, 11:30:41 AM

Right on!  :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: DOUBLELUNG on December 31, 2015, 11:40:47 AM

Would appreciate any info you care to share.  Thanks!

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: SkookumHntr on December 31, 2015, 12:03:57 PM

Nice Bull. With the new hunt choice dates in washington im wondering to put the november hunt dates first choice. Looks like they were out and about for you! :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: mwhite on December 31, 2015, 12:21:30 PM

Our best day we saw 18 moose, 3 of which were bulls.  We averaged seeing about 10 moose per day.  It was weird glassing at first light and only seeing a couple of moose up and moving with most being bedded then seeing moose all over mid day in the bright sunlight.  We never did sleep in but you definitely could have!

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: 257 Wby Mag on December 31, 2015, 01:06:00 PM

Dandy bull mark!!

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: Falcon on December 31, 2015, 02:00:34 PM

nice bull.

Congrats :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: Cat hunter on January 01, 2016, 10:29:33 AM

congratulations! nice bull,  :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: bearpaw on January 01, 2016, 10:44:44 AM

congrats!  :tup: :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: dewandgin on January 01, 2016, 10:51:06 AM

Nice bull and a freezer full of meat :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on January 01, 2016, 11:00:52 AM

 :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: gunnarnewt on January 02, 2016, 09:39:01 AM

 :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: jae on January 06, 2016, 12:09:30 AM

Great Bull Mark. You have had one heck of a year!

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: threemcbrides on January 13, 2016, 06:45:21 PM

That's a great bull. It's on my bucket list. Hopefully one day I will make it happen.

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: WAcoueshunter on January 13, 2016, 07:03:52 PM

That's awesome, great bull!

What outfitter did you go with?

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: Shawn D on January 13, 2016, 08:23:10 PM

Congratulations!
I'd also like to know which outfitter you used.  Even though I was lucky enough to hunt moose in Washington this year, I keep finding myself looking into B.C. moose hunts within decent driving distance.  Thanks

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: MADMAX on January 13, 2016, 08:32:32 PM

Id love to do that, who did you use for guide and cost if you are willing to share

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: hunting4sanity on January 13, 2016, 08:51:22 PM

Great looking bull, congratulations!

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: mwhite on January 14, 2016, 08:53:49 AM

Covert Outfitting is who I went with.  All in (tags, fuel, tip, etc) was about $9600 but that cost was driven up due to the Shiras portion and guys trying to fill their North American 29.....

Kiff Covert will have a booth at the Washington Sportsmen's Show in Puyallup.

With that said, if you want to kill a shiras moose it was definitely a fun hunt with plenty of moose around and not overly physically challenging.  I went the last week of November and would probably move that up a week due to the allotment of tags per unit and the risk of tags all being used in the best area before you arrive.  (4 tags for 3 different units with a total of 12 tags, once the 4 tags are filled in a particular unit the guide can no longer take anyone in there) 

Any other questions feel free to PM me.

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: Kit Carson on January 15, 2016, 08:23:47 AM

Nice work man! That's awesome  :tup:

Title: Re: British Columbia Shiras Moose Late Hunt
Post by: MADMAX on January 15, 2016, 06:07:14 PM

thanks for the info
dandy bull