2013 northern BC hunt and pics

[lightmag]

Hello everyone :smile: i havent posted a lot as of late, been on reading all the storys though, just been busy with kids, life etc..

so just got back from 12 day hunt up in northern BC (past dease lk) , my good friend has a cabin up there, this was my first fall hunt up there, ive been up there twice before, once summer and thi spast spring for grizz (story was posted) .

Amazing country!! one minute your hunting lower swamps , 5km later mountain tops, plateaus and valleys, sun, no snow, waind , lot sof snow, rain, fog, we had it ALL , made it all the more memorable :smile:

We were going for moose (any bull open) , Caribou and goat!!

After months, weeks and days of waiting...sept 28th arrived, i got off night shift early at 5am, picked up buddy, jumped in loaded up truck and trailer, hit Timmys and was GONE!!!

13 hours later we rolled into camp, a rustic log cabin on a beautiful little lake!! set up our cots, unpacked and cracked a beer :smile:


view from cabin deck
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[lightmag]

So up next am to check area for sign, pressure and start our game plan! not a ton of sign but that means little there as there is tons of rock, moss, big timber , small brush and unless they step , or poop right were you step you wont see it!! snow had already set in up high... where the goats were... day one and we were realizing were a little late fo rgoat as mountains were covered in snopw, lot sof fog, cloud cover and impossible glassing and access :(

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after morning of investigating, home for warm up, lunch and plan...

evening we headed to a different mountain range, 7km ran into this ...

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[Rackem]

Nice, I was sheep hunting up that end of town..snowed there too...do go on...

[lightmag]

continued on and on road saw fresh moose tracks.. the snow was just slowing from snowing heavily and these tracks were at most 45 min old..... quadded past couple hundred yards, parked, started calling... slowly walk road calling, stopped where tracks entered heavy bush... called, slowly returned to quads, leaned against them , me looking one way, buddy the other way...i chnaged it up and switched to a couple bull grunts and waited... when suddenly my buddy whispers "MOOSE" .... i look and a nice bull had silently walked out onto trail right were he had entered the bush.. approx 200 yards from us...buddy lines up and BOOM! bullturns, takes step back then runs through ditch up side back into bush..... we start walking towards , take 10 steps when the bull comes flying out of the bush backwards ass over tea kettle down into ditch, gets up, walks onto trail, and stands there, where another shot in hump put shim down for GOOD!!! day one , 4pm, moose down!! pressure off :)

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[popsy]

Great pics and story-keep it coming

[lightmag]

we feild dressed, halved it, loaded on quads and wwere back to camp by 630!! hung it up and cracked a drink , and another and another ...needless to say we didnt make it out next am lol

so we headed back out in afternoon, back to the mountains, pressure off, 11 days a head of us feeling great!!

more snow ....
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[lightmag]

so we were doing some calling in a area a nice bull had been shot 3 day sprior but a monster had been seen 50" plus... lot sof little swamps and bush patches tucked down between 3 monutains... no answers, no movenment. we contiuned on around and making way up towarsd "the saddle" to drop between and over to next basin.... CARIBOU!!! 7 cows and a good bull approx 1 km away.... we stop, glass, video , zoom, cant confirm 5 on top from that distance, stalk is on.... very open terrain, hard to be unseen, they saw us and watched curiously.. when they went behind small knoll, we booked it... crossing fresh grizz tracks .... check that in back of mind lol.... get to about 500 yards, cows come from behind knoll.. now more aware they start trotting..away... bull comes out, big old grey bull , nice white main.. i could easlit see 4 on top, but 5th point eluded me.. hard as i try, ever time bull ran, stoppd turned, small bull was right beside him so i couldnt tell whos points were who's!!! so there we sit watching a big bull caribout trot away and not being able to confirm 5th point.... in my mind i think we let a legal bull walk, but, thinking and knowing are very different!! good experience, my first BOO experience :) no pics, some short , shakey video, that to come later, video of trip is being edited for your viewing pleasure :)

back to camp for night ... next day up early to new , lower area for calling.... was on mountain , watching sun come up, drinkig coffee and looking at this, what a beauty morning, one of very few we had!!

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[Rackem]

Beautiful!

[lightmag]

day 3 was without animal sightings, shot a few ptargiman, exploreed, found spot with more sign and called that night to no avail, same following morning (day 4)... moose werent moving.. couple other groups had seen little, few answers, hard hunting..

we ended down low to were there was zero snow, warmer and bogs, grass, buck brush, found spot between two swamps and called from 430 to 6, finally we decided to head back to quads and slowly make out way down road behins swamps, see if we coul dcatch something moving or coming to call.

Off we go, along a new spot , incredibule area, sign everywhere.. im thinking thi sit it!! thi swere we will concentrate for 2nd moose and calling..get approx 3km from were i was acalling.. coming down towards marshy area, com earound corning and MOOSE!! big bull standing out like a big blk spot in marsh approx 300-320 yards away .... off bike load up x Bolt 300 WSM with 165gr tipped tsx.... settle cross hairs on top of shoulder calculating 5-6" drop, breath, squeeze... BOOM.... BUll lurches forward hit.. takes 6-8 steps and goes down... trys to get up, stays down!!! woohoo, moose down!!! we walk up across marsh, to find this... huge body !!!
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[lightmag]

perfect shot, behind front shoulder, took out both lungs, out through other front shoulder!! love my x Bolt

[lightmag]

day 4 and tagghed out on moose !!! with over a week to go with zero pressure :)

we had to quarter him there he was so big and stinky!!! probably 200-300 lbs bigger then first bull. little nerve racking getting dark, in marsh with buck brush all around... guns were close, loaded , quad light son, head lamps on, ears on high alert.. loaded up, 2 quarters on each quad and left 45 after dark.. 30 km quad ride back to cabin, but man it felt good :)

got into the whiskey that night lol... had camp day , hanging , skinning, tarping animals...
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[lightmag]

with pressure off, we made trip into watson lk to visit buddys uncle for one night, returned to camp, tried for more caribou but more snow made quad access impossible to high country... a guide outfitter ended up giving us a clients caribou, all proper tag numbers, letters, i checked it all out with dease lk CO, i didnt want and trouble at a game check :)

we came home 2 days early as we were tagged out on moose and goat and caribou access were impossible... amazing trip, cant wait to go again... few more pics from and when we returned ...
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[lightmag]

meat in shop, my big guy (Gunnar garding meat shop )

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[buckshot]

Excellent posting! Beautiful country. Any pictures of the cabin? Congratulation on a great hunt!

[lightmag]

front of cabin shot with the horn porn!!

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hope you enjoyed, video of trip to come soon with way more.. and some funny shit lol....

[Rackem]

Thanks for sharing, great story and pictures! Congrats on tagging out!

[nature girl]

What great pictures and story thanks for sharing.
Did you do any fishing?

[StoneChaser]

Good job....great photos! Have you tasted the caribou yet? Thinking the GO is likely still chuckling about that one (if it's anything like the last 2 October bulls we killed).

Congrats and thanks for sharing.

[Bear Chaser]

Great pics and story. I enjoyed it.

[kennyj]

Sounds like a great trip. Thanks for sharing your adventure.
kenny

[BCrams]

Good story there light!

Thinking the same along the lines of what SC said about the bou.

[lightmag]

Good story there light!

Thinking the same along the lines of what SC said about the bou.

not sure, they werent chucking it, they flew out 2 moose and 2 caribou from german clients, they were giving them to a samll mining community, we have made friends there and they offered us a bou as they dont like it... guess ill see when i try it lool, it did stink!!! i cut it up first then washed my knives and table before starting on my moose, didnt want to contaminate it lol

[Brez]

good story and beautiful area and cabin site. congrats

[srupp]

Great adventure......

cheers

[Blainer]

Great share!

[ElectricDyck]

Sweet photos! Thanks for sharing!

[BimmerBob]

Great times in an awesome location with a fine result, can't get better than that! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us.

[REMINGTON JIM]

Congrats on the Moose :-D - a great Adventure too ! Thks for sharing with us . :wink: Cheers RJ

[swampthing]

Looks like a good group to share a great hunt with. Nice work lightmag

[Hillbros_96]

Thanks for sharing the good story.

[d6dan]

Awesome pics and story in country that never gets tiring on the eyes. Congrats on the moose. Did you fill the goat tag? or did I read your post wrong?. Always look forward to the goat hunting stories. :-D

[lightmag]

Awesome pics and story in country that never gets tiring on the eyes. Congrats on the moose. Did you fill the goat tag? or did I read your post wrong?. Always look forward to the goat hunting stories. :-D

no, too much snow to get up where they were, and all the fog and low cloud made it impossible to glass. I really want a goat!! might just focus on goat and elk next year ...

[stinger]

Great share, thanks.

[lovemywinchester]

Cool looking cabin and lake! Nice freezer filling week for sure. Good job

[ydouask]

Congratulations, I'm sure you know that you're living the dream of many hunters here on HBC. Thanks for the write-up and pictures.

[Sitkaspruce]

Awesome, thanks for bringing us along on your trip.

Still shooting that Burris??

Cheers

SS

[Call of the Wild]

Congrats you had a great and fun hunt!!

[325]

Great adventure for sure! You have some fine table fare.

[hunter7413]

I see the Newfie flag on the tail gate of the pickup , good lookin meat ya got there, just need some spuds and onions now

[lightmag]

I see the Newfie flag on the tail gate of the pickup , good lookin meat ya got there, just need some spuds and onions now

LOL, yup, my gf is newfie :)

[ElliotMoose]

Great pics and story, thanks for sharing! Beautiful country up that way. Couple fine animals boys