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Yukon280
10-08-2009, 09:11 PM
More of a good thing!:cool:
Just to keep the Yukon Moose theme going, heres my/our story.
Got camp set up on a Sunday, and spent all monday calling, looking, scouting on the river, and nothing. Well, you know how it can get, even after just two days we were feeling a bit maudlin around the fire Monday evening. The Captain can help with that sort of thing.;-)
Poured rain all night, and the next morning it was cold, the snow was right down on the mountains, and it felt MOOSEY.
4 of us went up river in the boat, and my wife stayed in camp to do crosswords by the fire and just enjoy being away from work.
Up we went at about 7:30AM. Dropped two of the crew off at a likely meadow, and we continued up another few minutes to another buck brushy meadow we had spent a few hours at theday before, calling, thrashing and trying our best to be bull-ish. I had just stepped off the boat when i heard a cow calling. I looked over, saw her, and holy cow, theres her suitor! maybe 40-50 yards. One 160gr. TBT .280, and another for luck, and he was down.
I nipped off down to pick up the other two, and was back in 10 minutes. And as the saying goes, the work began. Maybe 30 minutes later, we heard to shots from down river. Uh oh. So off i go with one of the boys to see whats up. We come around the corner below camp, and theres my wife trying to pull a nice bull onto shore. We beached, i looked over expecting to see a big grin, but noooo. She was PO'd something fierce.:eek: Turns out she had shot it not long after we left, and had fired off 9 rounds trying to get our attention, but with the cloud, river bends, we never heard anything until she went back to camp and fired off two more upstream. Anyway, to make a long story short, we finished up both moose about 4:30 in the afternoon, had everything hanging by 6, then time for some well earned Yukon Golds (beer).
Up early the next Am, shuttled some loads to the plane, and made it back to Whitehorse at 2AM the next day. Pretty knackered.
Spent the next 3 days cutting and wrapping, and its all in the freezer.
Interestingly, both fellers, although definately in the rut, were might porky. Lots and lots of fat on them.
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hillclimber
10-08-2009, 09:24 PM
sounds like an easy moose hunt. just theres a lot of work involved! both are nice bulls. congrats on the successful hunt.

cheers
stefan

bsa30-06
10-09-2009, 08:31 AM
congrats nice bulls, nice pictures.