August moose

[Ferenc]

As said the wasps !!! Try to harvest one later in the day any local meat cutter will fill up fast as most locals already have theirs picked out ... if your going the meat cutter route up there .. get your ducks in a row and touch bases with one of them .... good game bags ... let it cool during the night ... it’s a lot of work when it’s hot ...the hanging part also .... one trick is to lay you skinned out quarters on your quad ramp .. cross wise on your utility trailer ... if you can’t find a place to hang it ... hide off ASAP ...good luck with the hunt !!

[boxhitch]

Not much movement by bulls so early in the season, nothing motivating them.
They just lay around protecting their soft antlers
Often they are just spending time up high in the buckbrush wishing for a breeze to keep the flies down.

But like all ruminants they have to move around from time to time to keep the gut working properly.
So watch a valley or swamp long enough and you may see one appear, stand, piss, turn, and lay back down again, disappearing.

[HappyJack]

It’s 100% weather based. If it’s really hot, nothing will move till after dark. If it’s cool and raining, they are always out and about. One year it was snow/rain and bulls everywhere. The next year, it was almost 25 degrees and sunny and we didn’t see much till almost dark.

Been hunting august moose since the mid 80s, the moose will go out into cuts at night [usually too dark to shoot] and feed, then they will quite often bed down. Get to a vantage point early in the mornings and just glass a big cut and you will see them rise and browse a bit before they head for the timber. We will sit on a block from sun up till around 11 o'clock in the mornings. If it's hot look for good water sources near north facing slopes especially. Calling does't help but patience does.

[champs]

Thanks for the great tips everybody! Appreciated!

[325]

How does an August pre-rut bull taste compared to one taken later in the fall?

[Takla]

How does an August pre-rut bull taste compared to one taken later in the fall?

Delicious 325..we have taken lots in the Hudson hope area in late aug with zero wild taste

[Blainer]

How does an August pre-rut bull taste compared to one taken later in the fall?

Better in my mind
If handled quickly and properly, early moose is fantastic table fare