Jarosa
10-23-2013, 03:54 PM
Well after spending most of September helping a buddy try and find a moose in 5-2d, we headed out to Stoney lake on October 13 for our cow draw. My son and I had a shared hunt for cow moose. We tried everything. Hiked, drove the roads, sat on swamps and called, glassed the valleys and came up dry for the first four days of our hunt. The only thing moving was grouse and one moose that we saw at 2 in the afternoon but it was crossing the road at mach 4 in heavy brush. The day before we had to head home we threw the canoe in the creek at the far end of Stoney lake before it was light enough to see the end of your paddle.
We slowly paddled up the creek calling and low and behold a big dry cow walks out onto the bank and looks at us. Less than thirty feet away. I had to look twice because I had forgot what they look like having not seen one in quite some time. Well a few seconds later she is down with a shot to the neck and then the work began. We stuck a log through the hide on her neck and tried to pull her to the river but she was not moving like that. 300 feet of rope and a few come alongs and a few hours of grunting, we had her in the river and we floated her down to the bridge and off to camp to skin her. Almost five hundred pounds at the butcher. Tough area to hunt out there. Pretty thick bush. Saw some wolf sign and lots of bear sign.
We slowly paddled up the creek calling and low and behold a big dry cow walks out onto the bank and looks at us. Less than thirty feet away. I had to look twice because I had forgot what they look like having not seen one in quite some time. Well a few seconds later she is down with a shot to the neck and then the work began. We stuck a log through the hide on her neck and tried to pull her to the river but she was not moving like that. 300 feet of rope and a few come alongs and a few hours of grunting, we had her in the river and we floated her down to the bridge and off to camp to skin her. Almost five hundred pounds at the butcher. Tough area to hunt out there. Pretty thick bush. Saw some wolf sign and lots of bear sign.