Re: Helmer mountain moose
My experience with November moose is that they're trying to recover some weight lost during the rut. If you hammer one from a side by side count yourself very lucky.
Also, spikes in R3 are generally said to be mythical - not exactly my experience, but the ones I've seen have been well off the road and well off the logging slash. I'd say your best chance of finding them is to find a high point that overlooks great moose habitat and hope the moose you end up seeing is a baby bull. Tough to sneak up on them in the swamp.
Your mileage may vary.
Rob Chipman
"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders" - Ed Abbey
"Grown men do not need leaders" - also Ed Abbey