Ross was blessed with a monster moose the last weekend of moose season in September. He went hunting by himself this weekend, so didn't have someone else to take a good picture of him with his moose. Kind of a bummer he didn't get a good picture with him and the moose, because he got a big boy, with a 65" rack! He did however get a few pictures of the moose and packing it out. Ross tells the rest...
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| After rolling the moose away from the little spruce tree, it was ready to begin skinning. |
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| It's nice when you have brush and trees around to help with tying off legs and such. |
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The rack makes it kind of a pain to maneuver the head. It typically takes 8-9 pack frame loads to pack out a large moose.
Game regs state that you have to pack out the meat on the bone. This makes for a few heavy packs. |
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| Hard to imagine having a nose and tongue that big! |
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| Last load. |
I set the game camera up at the site and was hopeful to catch a wolf or bear on the kill. I came back a week later camping with the girls and found the entire kill site torn up and the gut pile buried in a 3 ft high mound of dirt. I was pretty excited to check the game camera footage. Opened it up and realized I hadn't turned it on!!!!! What a bummer, as I had heard wolves while I was hunting and knew they were in the area. Oh well.
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| Packing the last load out, 65" of antlers! |
When I was hunting this weekend, I used my freighter canoe and camped out a ways out of town. The grass lake where I shot this one was literally the last lake I was going to go to as it was about 2-3 in the afternoon and I wanted to get home to spend some time with the family. I brought my book with me into the lake and hid behind some willows and read and called every so often. I'm not very good at stand-hunting or sitting for long periods of time, so the book helped. I was getting ready to leave and started edging along the lake and after walking 20 yards or so, I heard the moose grunting on the other side of the lake. He was behind some trees, but I could see most of his rack and it looked decent. I was able to call him out into the open finally and was able to take a shot. After I hit him, he didn't move at all for a second and I was wondering if I should shoot again. I was sure he was hit though and decided to wait. He turned around and stumbled once and then walked back into the trees and fell down. I could see a little spruce being thrashed around for a bit. After he was done, I walked up to him and he was bigger than I had thought he was! The weather was great the whole time with only a little light rain. |
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| The canoe with most of the moose in it. It's a 19' grumman freighter with a 5hp honda on the back. Definitely good on gas! |
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| My friend Josh who came out to help pack out the moose the following day. Makes for a full load! |
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| A cow eating on the way out. That faint trail through the grass is our channel. |
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65" Too bad I had to cut it! Subsistence rules state that if you hunt without a trophy tag,
you have to destroy the trophy value of your antlers. This means you have to cut 1/3 to 1/2 of one paddle off. |
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| Aub's got a ways to go before she has the neck muscles needed to carry a set of these! |
