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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: JoeE on September 17, 2019, 02:42:54 AM

Title: 2019 Alaska moose
Post by: JoeE on September 17, 2019, 02:42:54 AM: I just got back out of the field after a ten day moose hunt in Alaska. This was my third moose hunt up there and my third and biggest bull yet. Hunting was harder this time because of how hot it was up there and the rut wasn’t really fired up.
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Post by: JakeLand on September 17, 2019, 04:46:07 AM: Nice !! What’s the story ? Any other pics
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on September 17, 2019, 04:49:47 AM: Smile your on candid camera
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Post by: Jason on September 17, 2019, 05:34:55 AM: Congràts on a great bull! Hopefully you share the story to go with the picture.
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Post by: trophyhunt on September 17, 2019, 06:40:18 AM: Another great bull JoeE, you guys worked your butts off for that one! well deserved!
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on September 17, 2019, 07:52:11 AM: :tup:
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Post by: fishngamereaper on September 17, 2019, 02:18:21 PM: :tup: well done..still on the to do list...
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Post by: JoeE on September 17, 2019, 05:35:48 PM: Not a whole lot to the story. We hunted this area once before and had success. Last times the bulls were rutting hard and we called them almost into the camp/air strip where we killed them. We tried that tactic again this time but the bulls just would come in close enough. We were seeing 4-6 bulls a day but from distances between 500 yards out to over a mile. We had one small bull come in to 65 yards one evening. On the 8th day of the ten day hunt I decided to go on the offensive and I went down in the basin after I watched a bull bed down a little over a mile from camp. I set up about 200 yards out and after three hours he stood up out of him bed and I shot him.

Pack out took three days and was BRUTAL!
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Post by: trophyhunt on September 17, 2019, 05:58:47 PM: Congrats joe, way to get it done.
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Post by: X-Force on September 17, 2019, 06:10:04 PM: Very cool. Looks like some beautiful country
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Post by: Whitpirate on September 17, 2019, 08:15:28 PM: Another fine bull Joe.... you have really got that DIY dialed in. Thanks for sharing a picture.
Congratulations.
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Post by: wheels on September 17, 2019, 09:24:37 PM: congrats awesome bull
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Post by: bearhunter99 on September 17, 2019, 09:37:20 PM: Nice bull! Way to get it done!
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Post by: JoeE on September 17, 2019, 10:14:29 PM: Forgive the lack of pics. I was down in the hole by myself for over an hour before my buddy made it down there to help (long way down). It was hot so I wanted to get it broken down. I took a few photos the best I could with the timer on my phone
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Post by: trophyhunt on September 18, 2019, 05:47:06 AM: Love it
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Post by: boneaddict on September 18, 2019, 06:15:34 AM: Fantastic
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Post by: fishngamereaper on September 18, 2019, 06:43:43 AM: I see why your not smiling.. your thinking to yourself, what the heck did I get myself into while you look uphill to where you need to haul all that animal..

Those are the best hunts though..
Title: Re: 2019 Alaska moose
Post by: JoeE on September 18, 2019, 07:31:56 AM: Quote from: fishngamereaper on September 18, 2019, 06:43:43 AM
I see why your not smiling.. your thinking to yourself, what the heck did I get myself into while you look uphill to where you need to haul all that animal..

Those are the best hunts though..

Exactly what I was thinking! I knew it was going to hurt!