|
|
10-06-2019, 09:40 AM
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: rocky Mountain House
Posts: 1,534
|
|
Solo Mountain Moose Hunt.
Recent health issues (Chemo) for my usual Partner resulted in me doing a solo mountain Moose hunt. This area is one where ATV use is only permitted on designated trails. We hunt on foot away from the trails and pack the meat out. I got a nice 1.5 year old bull, just like in that thread about 1.5 year old moose. I was quite happy for two reasons. One they're nice and tender, and most importantly, much smaller than a huge mature bull. Lots of snow on the way in. I had a few hour quad ride in and set up camp. Lots of Griz sign! I had one follow me all day as I was calling. When I went back in after lunch his tracks were in every step of mine from the morning. I called in this little bull on day 3. From the time I shot it, processed it, walked back to camp, brought the quad up the trail, and packed it out 1.5 km, it took me 8 hours. Rewarding hunt but hunting solo you need to take it slow, think about every step and be extra careful, that does add time to every part, but in the end it is very rewarding. Weighed it all when I got home and it was 425 lbs.
I'll keep trying to put in some pics. having issues.
|
10-06-2019, 09:44 AM
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2007
Posts: 4,158
|
|
Once you've killed and packed out mountain moose or elk by yourself, there is nothing that you can't do when it comes to hunting. Great job!
|
10-06-2019, 09:53 AM
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: rocky Mountain House
Posts: 1,534
|
|
|
10-06-2019, 10:57 AM
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2013
Posts: 1,447
|
|
Congrats. Love that covered trailer
|
10-06-2019, 11:03 AM
|
Banned
|
|
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Communist state
Posts: 13,245
|
|
That’s awesome! I had to pack a moose on my back across 700yds of freshly disked field once, I don’t think I want a moose bad enough to go solo in the mountains for one, lol!
Thanks for posting.
|
10-06-2019, 11:19 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2011
Posts: 5,151
|
|
Awesome hunt and pics, nothing better than a solo mountain adventure. Well done
__________________
“Nothing is more persistent than a liberal with a dumb idea” - Ebrand
|
10-06-2019, 11:20 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2008
Posts: 5,647
|
|
That is the real deal right there. Congrats on a great hunt!!!
|
10-06-2019, 12:43 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2007
Posts: 6,668
|
|
Sounds like a great hunt! What kind of tent is that?
|
10-06-2019, 12:47 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: Stony Plain
Posts: 1,139
|
|
Moose done the hard way. Your energy is admirable. Congratulations on a successful hunt. Well earned for sure!
|
10-06-2019, 01:01 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Sunset House
Posts: 1,255
|
|
That’s hard core! Thanks for posting
|
10-06-2019, 01:09 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2017
Posts: 3,659
|
|
Well done!
Quote:
Originally Posted by calgarychef
What kind of tent is that?
|
https://www.eskeroutdoors.ca/
They are pretty great tents.
|
10-06-2019, 01:10 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Alberta
Posts: 2,580
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kurt505
That’s awesome! I had to pack a moose on my back across 700yds of freshly disked field once, I don’t think I want a moose bad enough to go solo in the mountains for one, lol!
Thanks for posting.
|
3 guys on a game cart at night across and harrowed frozen field 1500 yards....... when I had 2 good legs... should have taken the calf.......lol
|
10-06-2019, 01:12 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Near Edmonton
Posts: 14,972
|
|
You must REALLY like Moose meat. I quit shooting them big buggers a long time ago in places I couldn't recover them pretty easy. Had to also quit hunting with a couple of guys that thought it was great fun to track moose in the snow to shoot them. Never seemed to occur to them that you then have to bone out the Moose and back pack them out 8 miles one way.
All that said I admire your drive.
|
10-06-2019, 01:36 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: rocky Mountain House
Posts: 1,534
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by calgarychef
Sounds like a great hunt! What kind of tent is that?
|
It's an Arctic fox 9X9. I made a stove from a little 10 lb propane bottle with a flat top. I use 3" stove pipe.
https://www.canadianoutdoorequipment...hot-tents.html
|
10-06-2019, 02:08 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Kitscoty,Alberta
Posts: 542
|
|
Great hunt , congrats on the young Moose will be good eating
Great job getting him packed out,
|
10-06-2019, 02:49 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 11,851
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dean2
You must REALLY like Moose meat. I quit shooting them big buggers a long time ago in places I couldn't recover them pretty easy. Had to also quit hunting with a couple of guys that thought it was great fun to track moose in the snow to shoot them. Never seemed to occur to them that you then have to bone out the Moose and back pack them out 8 miles one way.
All that said I admire your drive.
|
Ahhhh ......... you hunted with my former hunting partner too I see .....
Shooting a big bull, with deep snow on the ground, 6 miles from the closest access point to a quad, through muskeg and thick tangled bush made for a day and a half of serious work. I was grateful the weather was cool and the meat was unspoiled, but man that was more work than I'd care to do as I grow older and rounder.
I too, won't be shooting at an elk or moose in an area where recovery is going to be that much of a challenge.
Good on the OP - that took some serious effort.
|
10-06-2019, 05:18 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: Edmonton
Posts: 8,269
|
|
Congratulations on your moose. Great story, amazing pictures and priceless memories!
Thanks for sharing.
BW
|
10-06-2019, 05:59 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Jan 2012
Posts: 399
|
|
Awesome, congratulations. Thanks for posting.
|
10-06-2019, 06:08 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2018
Posts: 938
|
|
Congrats on the well earned Moose meat!! That little bit of snow on the ground sure helps to keep the meat clean while processing/quartering/deboning in the field. Nice snow to lay the meat on to get a head start on the cooling process. Also the best part of the snow is using it to clean up your hands and knife after the hard work is done.
|
10-06-2019, 06:16 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Jul 2015
Posts: 171
|
|
Nice job! Loved the pic with the atv.
Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
|
10-06-2019, 06:22 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 11,287
|
|
I admire you, no way I could do that.
__________________
“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.”
Thomas Sowell
|
10-06-2019, 07:16 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Sylvan Lake
Posts: 654
|
|
Good job!! Great story and pictures.
|
10-06-2019, 07:57 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Central Alberta
Posts: 21,399
|
|
Lots of Griz sign! I had one follow me all day
I would consider myself Lucky.
Grizz
__________________
"Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal."
John E. Pfeiffer The Emergence of Man
written in 1969
|
10-06-2019, 08:00 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: On the 49th 'The Medicine Line''
Posts: 1,041
|
|
Great story, pics and thanks for taking the time to post, very enjoyable and enviable
|
10-07-2019, 08:38 AM
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 6,230
|
|
moose hunt
Nice hunting story, you are a real moose hunter. When I started moose hunting 60 years ago we always carried them out on our back. Now I like to use the quad to haul them out of the bush, getting alittle older.
|
10-07-2019, 09:43 AM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Near Edmonton
Posts: 14,972
|
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by EZM
Ahhhh ......... you hunted with my former hunting partner too I see .....
Shooting a big bull, with deep snow on the ground, 6 miles from the closest access point to a quad, through muskeg and thick tangled bush made for a day and a half of serious work. I was grateful the weather was cool and the meat was unspoiled, but man that was more work than I'd care to do as I grow older and rounder.
I too, won't be shooting at an elk or moose in an area where recovery is going to be that much of a challenge.
Good on the OP - that took some serious effort.
|
As u get older u get smarter. I figured out quite some time ago that there are way more moose within 1/2 mile of a paved road than way back in the boondocks.
|
10-07-2019, 09:44 AM
|
|
|
Join Date: Oct 2012
Posts: 20
|
|
Good for you sir, congrats!
|
10-07-2019, 11:55 PM
|
|
|
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Dodge City
Posts: 1,283
|
|
Big congrats on the moose way to get it done. Your mention of grizz tracks in your tracks brought memories of a hunt some years ago in 430 where we were after a moose for a friend of mine and cut some fresh tracks of a grizz along the way. Didn't think to much of it until the next day where we returned to the same area and found that the same grizz had followed our tracks all the way back to the truck that day/or night before.
|
10-08-2019, 10:02 AM
|
|
|
Join Date: Sep 2012
Posts: 6,230
|
|
moose
Dean you are wise like my father, taught me to always let a bull moose go after jump him from his first bed near the road. Last day of season few years later thus I stayed on bull and finally stalked and shot him out of his third bed. We needed to bring snowmobile in week later, open up many cutlines to finally get him out of the bush. Wonder why we never listen to our older and wiser dad!
|
10-08-2019, 09:15 PM
|
|
|
|
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Central Kootenays BC
Posts: 432
|
|
Every solo trip into the mountains is an adventure, getting a moose out by yourself is impressive.
|
Thread Tools |
|
Display Modes |
Linear Mode
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -6. The time now is 04:31 AM.
|