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Thread: moose: bull or cow?

  1. #11
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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

    Quote Originally Posted by two-feet View Post
    I also laugh when people sex an animal by the track. What other species can you do this with?
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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

    Incredibly funny Marc..lol..
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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

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    Honestly the most sensible post on the thread to me.

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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

    Quote Originally Posted by Darksith View Post
    I say "hahahaha" to everyone that thinks they can sex a moose from a print
    Thank you! I thought I was the only one to think this!

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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

    Quote Originally Posted by Looking_4_Jerky View Post
    Thank you! I thought I was the only one to think this!
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    If little hoofy prints seen accompanying larger hoof prints then pretty good odds it's a Cow or if deer tracks then Doe. Hoof print by itself (in most cases) and you may as well flip a coin as to sex.

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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

    Well, thought I'd ask . . . I kept trying to find one standing in them, but no luck.

    Was trying to figure out if it could be the cow that was on my camera from a few days earlier about 10 feet from the snow tracks and could ignore . . . Felt the tracks were bigger than she looked though.

    Heading back up this weekend with 5 trails I need to watch if the snow doesn't have me shut out. I know one group was a cow & calf, but it appeared another joined them for a dance party. Could she still be in heat?

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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

    This time of year the moose tend to break into groups , bulls with bulls, cows with cows and younger bulls. As the winter progresses they will spread out more into singles or doubles. I was out recently and saw a nice little bull with a cow/calf pair.

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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

    And some cow moose can be monstously huge, leaving huge tracks. There was a giant cow living in town here (Smithers) a couple years back, there is a clip on youtube of her kicking some poor woman in the face.

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    Re: moose: bull or cow?

    All good information.

    Intel is that there is roughly 4 feet of snow in the high country right I've been hunting. Hoping that has pushed them down lower into less dense cover.

    Cheers, VFX

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