My First Moose

[tigrr]

LIG
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Being my first moose I shot, I made the mistake of shooting before thinking. I will never shoot another moose in the middle of a swamp. 8 hours to retrieve. I have learnt 20 feet off the road on the uphill side, don't even look down the downhill side. Aches galore but still happy.

[moosinaround]

What are you talking about, those are still big pieces of moose! Good job!!! Moosin

[Kilwinning]

Some nice looking steaks there, congratulations.

[835]

Lol, at least not in water. Thats my only rule! When you eat it you will forget the uphill roadside thing.
Water though,,, makes it ugly

[srupp]

Hmmm well done Bro. Some great eating there. .Congradulations on getting the last living moose in the Cariboo..
Looks like a healthy specimen. .
Bone appetite. .
Cheers
Steven

[quadrakid]

First moose! You will forget the work but you will never forget your first moose.Congrats.

[Blainer]

Congratulations, enjoy that tenderloin

[brownmancheng]

awesome congratulations! hopefully I can have a similar story in a couple months

[sapper]

Hmmm well done Bro. Some great eating there. .Congradulations on getting the last living moose in the Cariboo..
Looks like a healthy specimen. .
Bone appetite. .
Cheers
Steven
Hey, don't say that. I'm heading to the Cariboo in a few weeks. There'd better be two bulls waiting for me. ;-)

[landphil]

Congrats!

I bet you'd do it again by next year. :p

[Bunner]

Congrats on the moose, looks tasty

[tigrr]

Congrats!

I bet you'd do it again by next year. :p

In a heartbeat!

[tigrr]

Hmmm well done Bro. Some great eating there. .Congradulations on getting the last living moose in the Cariboo..
Looks like a healthy specimen. .
Bone appetite. .
Cheers
Steven

No it's not because it was with 3 others!!

[BStrachan]

Congrats on your first moose!

[wrenchhead]

Ha....at least you had a boat

[Robinhood]

Looks like some good eating there!

[boxhitch]

Ha....at least you had a boatand a garden hose, essentials
attago

[hunter1947]

Whatever the circumstances where you got your first moose will be a good eater congrats on getting the tag cut

[two-feet]

Nice job. My moose last year was a "never again" scenario, but now i look back on the torture fondly.

[snowballs]

Congratulations; enjoy!

[wideopenthrottle]

well done...the harder the sweat the sweeter the meat...cheers

[brodgers]

nicely done. congrats

[campking]

Congrats, my best hunting memories are the toughest ones and no I would not change a thing!!

[nature girl]

Nice fine eating moose Tigrr.
As others have said atleast you had a boat to retrieve the moose.

[RackStar]

Awesome looking moose!
the more suffering the better the hunt IMO

[VFX_man]

Sweet!

Hope the big bull moose I saw while scouting on Labour Day is still around on Nov. 1st . . .

[Thunderstix]

Nicely done!!!

[BRvalley]

Congrats, nice bull!

steve rinella nailed it when he explained how the more you suffer the more you enjoy those moments later in life, you were actually having the time of your life sweating and cursing in that swamp hahha

[Rob Chipman]

Good work. First moose is always hard. As you get more you get more practice and can break it down more. I'm not saying shooting in a swamp is easy, but you don't need to limit yourself to 20' off the road either. Also, the first moose? It just leads to the second, third.... :-)

[tigrr]

Update. The tenderloins were awesome. The 2 cows and a calf are lonely now. 2 more tags to fill in our group, so won't be sharing much info. The atv ban is sure putting a damper on the old fellows in our group. I'm the youngest at 57.
Strange thing is nothing for 10 years then 3 draws. Happy hunting!

[barry1974w]

Good job, I'm sure there's more to come.

[Whonnock Boy]

Excellent. Thanks for sharing.

[tigrr]

Bit more to the story.
I woke up after a snooze and sat up and lo and behold there stood a Bull, cow and calf on the other side of the lake. I jumped in my boat and slowly cruised over. He looked up at me a few times but continued eating the new browse. I stopped the boat after sticking it on shore a bit and got set up for the shot. I swear everyone within 100 yards could hear my heart beating. First shot was a double lung shot. He ran and I nailed him in the front shoulder and then one behind the head and down he went. Took maybe 4 seconds for all this to happen. Then I watched to see if he got up for 20 minutes. Then I went back for the rest of the gang. The access to the moose we though would be to skirt around on the mainland and come out to him on the muskeg. Moose was shot at 7:15pm and we got to him at 8:30pm through the worst deadfall I could find. Now in the dark with headlamps on we set to gut this big guy in the muskeg. It took 2 of us just to pull his stuck rack out of the muskeg. We rolled him on his back and I gutted him. Sawed the brisket and the bone above his bladder and cracked him in half and pulled out the entrails. Accomplished that in less than an hour. Then in the dark with fading lights we set out to get back to the boat. That took over an hour and a half. Got turned around so many times it wasn't funny. Found some of my markers and got back to the boat and headed home. Then the next morning we set about getting him home and found that we could walk straight across the muskeg to the moose. I cut him up in 7 pieces and we packed him in a flat bottom boat and drug him out with the two 10 hp Honda outboards. 5 days later we still are reminiscing about the hunt. Moose is butchered and bagged. Split 8 ways. Close to 400 lbs of just meat, no bones. Good times.

[Knute]

Definitely a story you will reminisce over with your partners for a good long time.
Congrats, hhhmmm love moose tacos.

[Takla]

congrates,reading your story brings back countless memories
enjoy your meat it sounds like you defineately enjoyed your hunt

takla

[bigben]

Beautiful nice moose
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Being my first moose I shot, I made the mistake of shooting before thinking. I will never shoot another moose in the middle of a swamp. 8 hours to retrieve. I have learnt 20 feet off the road on the uphill side, don't even look down the downhill side. Aches galore but still happy.[/QUOTE]

[Amphibious]

Lol, at least not in water. Thats my only rule! When you eat it you will forget the uphill roadside thing.
Water though,,, makes it ugly


Why not water? I love hunting moose from a boat. moose float!

[HankBC]

Congrats man! Looks like it made for a good time, the aches make the meat taste better!