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Big Game Hunting => Other Big Game => Topic started by: Turner89 on June 14, 2025, 10:40:54 AM

Title: Selkirk bull moose.
Post by: Turner89 on June 14, 2025, 10:40:54 AM: I Was lucky enough to get a moose tag, with 20 points. Pretty cool.
I'm heading over there to start getting acquainted to the area on 4th of July weekend. I'd love to hear some advice from past tag holders and any locals that don't mind sharing some info. I feel a bit weird asking for info, but I'm going to make the best of this tag and have a lot to figure out in the next few months. Here's a few questions off the top of my head, I'm sure I'll have some more. Thanks in advance.

1) An RV spot to park my trailer for a couple weeks.
2) Best time to hunt between october 1st and November 30. (I'm guessing early October during the rut)
3) areas with locked gates. I want to ride/hike as deep as I can.
4) Nearby meat locker to store meat for a few days.
Title: Re: Selkirk bull moose.
Post by: cem3434 on June 14, 2025, 11:12:25 AM: Don't know the area, but congrats and it sounds like you already have the solid makings of a plan to make the most of your OIL tag! :tup:
Title: Re: Selkirk bull moose.
Post by: JakeLand on June 14, 2025, 11:14:15 AM: Congrats again ! I’ll be one guy getting to join on this hunt !!
Title: Re: Selkirk bull moose.
Post by: fishngamereaper on June 14, 2025, 11:35:11 AM: The rut is fun to hunt if you time it right... calling moose is a blast...
Late Oct is a waste...
BUT.... there's something to hunting in mid late Nov with snow on the ground.
They are up around feeding, easy to see, and meat care is easier...a sxs with snow trax is the ticket....
Good luck and enjoy the journey.
And the only spots I have in that unit are coming in from the Idaho side...if u get desperate.
Title: Re: Selkirk bull moose.
Post by: lewy on June 14, 2025, 01:22:11 PM: Congrats!! Get a beef scapula and dry it out for raking, works killer. You can scout the unit 1 idaho side as an option. I don't know about your comment on wanting to hunt as deep as possible tho :chuckle: they are a giant challenge once dead if your deep. Figure 7-8 trips to get one out! Have a blast man!
Title: Re: Selkirk bull moose.
Post by: 6haase6 on June 14, 2025, 02:57:31 PM: We did mine in 8 trips. We had roughly 100 pounds of just animal in each trip. Moose live in nasty stuff the tops of ridges where the clearest but still not fun lots of nasty brush that intertwines so it kills your legs the further you get off the tops of the ridges the thicker and taller the brush got. While looking for mine there was some of the brush that was 15 plus feet tall and would house a standing moose never to bee seen from the outside, so getting a dead one out would REALLY suck. Summer time scouting is tough either shortly before or right as the sun hits them they go into hiding. Moose is an acquired spotting my brother never figured it out 😂
Title: Re: Selkirk bull moose.
Post by: huntnnw on June 14, 2025, 04:58:03 PM: Been on many moose hunts and hiking is the least effective way to hunt them. I love to get away from people for deer and elk, but with moose covering ground is the best way to hunt them. Sounds lazy but driving and glassing / calling is by far the best use of time. Getting in deep for moose means nothing. Your hunting one of the few tags , they are rarely spooked by vehicles.

I weighed my moose hindquarters and this was a big mature bull. No hide and bone in were 139lbs. Total bone in weight was 624 lbs all meat off ribs, neck and head.
Title: Re: Selkirk bull moose.
Post by: 6haase6 on June 14, 2025, 07:29:05 PM: A side by side and optics on tripods, even binos on tripod will be your top tools