2021 Bull Moose

[todbartell]

Luck was with me this year on the LEH applications and I drew a moose tag. On the morning of day 12 of the hunt, it all came together. The bull stopped broadside at 130 yards and the 338-06 barked. Moose camp was extra lively that night. Freezer is looking good!

https://i.imgur.com/zqbcHto.jpg?2

https://i.imgur.com/wGrHS4m.jpg?2

https://i.imgur.com/gKIn7WP.jpg?2

https://i.imgur.com/BZN0gto.jpg?2

[goatdancer]

Nice moose. Congrats. The last pic is awesome. Enlarged and framed, it would look great hanging on the wall.

[LBM]

unique looking rack on his left almost like could be 2 shovels if flipped around.

[warnniklz]

Most excellent!

[srupp]

Congrads well done..sticking out to the end..well deserved
Photo is awesome
Srupp

[IronNoggin]

Congrats!
And hell yeah on that last pix!
Beauty!!

[northcoastfun]

Congrats… great bull

[Arctic Lake]

Way to go Mr. Bartell ! Good to see an HBC member that helps out others get their tag filled !
Estimated dressed weight ? I’m thinking 4- 5 years of age ?
Arctic Lake

[Blacktail1]

Super cool way to go!

[TARCHER]

Thats awesome Mark. Big smile on your little man there. Bet he was excited.

[Gateholio]

Looks great ! :)

[westcoaster]

And the kid got in on the action....

Good to see!

[decker9]

Loved poking gut bags when I was his age! Haha, nice work fellas!!

[fuzzybiscuit]

Great bull there TB. Nice to see your boy in on the action too.

[Citori54]

Nice bull Mark, congratulations!! You have to love the photo of the little guy decked out in his Sitka gear with blood on his hands.

[swampthing]

Havin your son there makes the trip!

[sparkes3]

Awesome , I didn’t get a moose leh this year .
hopefully next year.

[tinhorse]

Freezer full of good eats for the year, well done! Maybe next year for me...or I just have to get my but up north for an open season bull!

[dd3boss]

Nice moose and great pictures!

[twoSevenO]

Nice one! Congrats! Thanks for sharing.

[jimzuk]

Great pictures and a great bull thanks for sharing

[kolofardos]

Very cool!!

[Weatherby Fan]

Congrats Mark & son on a fine bull, lots of smiles there, great pictures as well,
Thanks for sharing

[Goodlife61]

I can see the excitement on the little boys face, Congrat !

[boilerroom]

nicely done! Great memories to share with your son.

[moosinaround]

Nice work Mark and crew!! Beauty moose, and where’s the butter tart pics? Moosin

[upperleftcoaster]

Looking great! Yum!

[HarryToolips]

That's a beauty bull congrats!

[Knute]

Nice going TB, extended family hunt and success. Doesn't get any better.

[todbartell]

Nice work Mark and crew!! Beauty moose, and where’s the butter tart pics? Moosin

:mrgreen:

https://i.imgur.com/piNvjuk.jpg?1

[Hoffer]

Congrats on an awesome bull. Eating well all winter long!

[Bustercluck]

Is this the official 2021 moose thread? Or are we starting another?

[browningboy]

Nice moose! Congrats

[Timbow]

Congratulations on a nice bulls! A full freezer and memories, can’t get any better.

[albravo2]

Nice bull!

A bit ironic that you drew an LEH and ended up shooting a tri-palm! What I would have given to see a tri-palm last week!

[HuntNmemories]

well done, great memories too

[todbartell]

Nice bull!

A bit ironic that you drew an LEH and ended up shooting a tri-palm! What I would have given to see a tri-palm last week!

last LEH I had, I shot a spike fork haha. Although tripalm isn't open season around here unless you have LEH

[The Hermit]

Perfection! How old is the boy Mark? My grandson is driving me crazy about going hunting! I just have to convince his parents that its okay! ;-)

[Harvest the Land]

Great photos and way to persevere on day 12 no less! Awesome work and congratulations. Thanks for sharing

[bottles]

Congrats on that beauty bull!

[Bubbacanuck]

Great moose and thanks for sharing the story and photos. Nice to see the Covid thread dying a slow death...

[todbartell]

Perfection! How old is the boy Mark? My grandson is driving me crazy about going hunting! I just have to convince his parents that its okay! ;-)

He turns 7 in a couple weeks

This year's moose is a little bigger than the last one!

https://i.imgur.com/SVLB7Id.jpg

[Leveraction]

Congrats on a fine bull.
I love the colour of moose antler just after velvet off.

Graham

[Sitkaspruce]

Congrats TB!! Great looking bull!

Thanks for sharing!

Cheers

SS

[Arctic Lake]

Mr. Bartell Geeez your little man looks real happy ! So great to see and he is fortunate to have a father that is brining him up in the great outdoors !
Arctic Lake

[REMINGTON JIM]

Awesome Mark - The Little Man is so HAPPY ! :wink: RJ

[nature girl]

Great moose and nice to see you had your son along.

[todbartell]

Last night he wanted to set up a "moose camp" in the living room. :mrgreen:

https://i.imgur.com/bS94BWn.jpg?1

[GEF]

Nice going for you and the young man !Great memory soon it will be ,Dad remember when...............

[Imdone]

Perfect size, lots of meat, gravy isn't as tough.

Congratulations.

[Bigdoggdon]

Awesome looking bull Mark. Great job. Just got home from my LEH trip. Sister and I each scored, stories and pics in a few days

[BrianS]

Way to go! Nothing like a great hunt and being successful on the last day!
Congrats!
Strachan

[Hank Hunter]

Nice one, great to see the next gen learning. Congrats

[Powds]

That’s awesome

[Keta1969]

Nice moose TB. Time flies by. Won't be long before the young fellow is pulling the trigger. Better yet won't be long till he can pack a quarter.

[Thunderstix]

Good job and Great pics!!! It never gets old.

[todbartell]

Last week was moose-mania. I'll post up some stories after the butchering is taken care of

https://i.imgur.com/xLig3nj.jpg?1

[BRvalley]

congrats on some successful hunts

the top right pic is a crazy spike fork! was he LEH or GOS?

[Arctic Lake]

Mr.Bartell. Great stuff ! Talk about unicorns , who says they don’t exist . With no LEH for my buddy and I it’s almost worth a drive to the Hoof to see if my buddy and I can find one he’s a local Vanderhoofer !
Arctic Lake

[todbartell]

congrats on some successful hunts

the top right pic is a crazy spike fork! was he LEH or GOS?

was broke off, shot on an LEH

[BRvalley]

was broke off, shot on an LEH

ah that makes more sense, good angle that hides the break...would've been one cool rack if that was natural

[Brambles]

Nice job Mark, that's awesome...each side of his rack looks like it belongs to a different moose...shed hunters woulda had a heck of a time trying to match those sheds up...

[todbartell]

Last couple days of elk season, a coyote was howling at daybreak, then a pack of wolves lit up about a mile or so away, I began to move that way doing some elk calling . I did a few calf elk calls, when a lone wolf howled from across a meadow . It was a deep howl, mature wolf . I howled and then took this video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCGvYOOCkNc

I did some pup yelps on my elk diaphragm call . The pack goes silent - A few minutes later I spot something across the meadow on the edge of the spruce. I crank the scope to 12x and have a peek. Two grey wolves standing there frontal They’re on the other side of the the creek, I doubt they’d cross and come closer . I had no rest , off hand 165 yards frontal. Shot felt good but no bullet impact smack . Crossed a Beaver dam and had a look around. No sign of hit. The wolves had moved off a few hundred yards and still howling. Pretty cool experience, would of only been better if my shooting was up to snuff

[todbartell]

That evening we headed out to a different spot looking for moose, my partner had an LEH to fill. We were walking along a road looking for moose tracks when a bull elk ripped a bugle a 1/4 mile away on a ridge. He Sounded FIRED UPPP! We get the wind right, he bugles a few More times on his own. He’s about 400y across a lake I can’t get around it. We set up and I give a cow call . Euuuuuurrrrreeuuuugggggghhhhhhhhhhh Every time I cow called he would bugle, but not come. Usually I would be beating feet getting closer to him, but I didn't feel like going swimming. My partner has about 6 minutes of patience for a cow calling strategy , So he signals for me to bugle. I chuckled with a long string of fast paced chuckles . Crickets....then Euuuuuurrrrreeuuuugggggghhhhhhhhhheeeeuuuuuuuuuuuu rrrrrrgeeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuugh euk euk euk euk euk euk uk uk uk uk , the bull bugled back . I waited about 90 seconds , I give a moan with my voice through the bugle tube...... Euuuuuurrrrreeuuuugggggghhhhhhhhhhheeeeeuuuuuuuuuu ueeeeuuuuuu euk euk uk uk uk Next bugle he was noticeably closer , Then a cow vocalizes . I can hear an elk splashing in the edge of the water, but the willow is too thick. Every time he would bugle I’d give him a few cow calls. He was on other side of lake . I was in cut block on with strip of blowdown timber on my side of lake. Over two hours we had a conversation, he probably bugled a hundred times. Seen 5 cow elk but the bull never stepped out in the open


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqPiDaOAuaU


The next morning we were back. Hiked 5km from the truck, seen a couple cow moose and a calf. Made some elk calls by the lake trying to locate the bull elk from the night before, but no luck. We made a couple Cow moose calls and stopped for a sandwich. Is there any better hunting tactic than sitting down and having a sandwich? It has to be one of the best. We start slogging back to truck, going only a few hundred yards when my partner says “there’s a moose!” it's a few hundred yards out In cut block on hill It’s moving , Quartering to us. Looked like a small bull but it was quickly out of sight. We head down road the get the wind in our favor, we hadn't gone far when we see a moose coming our way, it's indeed a small bull. It's coming straight at us , I'm ranging it 200y, 125y, 75y...we are set up with his rifle on the tripod. Small Bush between us and moose, It’s just walking in and grunting almost every step . Finally it clears the last bush obstructing a shot, frontal 40 yards. booom goes the 300 Win Mag, the bull falters and go down In 2 steps. Very fast kill! 168gr Barnes TTSX did a great job with minimal damage to the meat

https://i.imgur.com/bWG8ID7.jpg?1

[Arctic Lake]

Mr Bartell and partner . Way to get it done ! More meat for the freezer !
Arctic Lake

[todbartell]

I was greeted to a individually wrapped butter tart on the dash of the truck as I got picked up by Tex Williams (http://www.huntingbc.ca/forum/member.php?14658-Tex-Williams). It was going to be a great day. We waited for day light, and slowly drove in , stopping to glass often . We spot a moose 700 yards out, it’s a nice bull and a cow . We get out and begin our stalk

We have the wind at our back , it’s breezy enough to cover any noise of us walking on the frozen road . Bull is at our 2 o’clock , standing there alert, but not focused on our direction . I instruct Tex to chamber a round in his custom Les Bowman Tikka 280-338wm - A couple hundred yards from the truck we hear a moose running off close to us, it’s a cow . We continue on , slowly getting closer to the bull. When we get 380 yards the bull turns 180 degrees and walks away slowly, disappearing into the brush. The road bends and heads toward the moose, so we slow our approach and get ready. We get to the best vantage point and stop. I was thinking of making a cow call when I spot movement through the birch trees on the cutblock ridge above us. A bull moose is walking up the hill away from us. We get the tripods ready and rifles up, as the bull turns and steps into the open, broadside. Tex Willams sends a 160gr Nosler Accubond @ 3035 FPS on its way . The bullet smacks on impact , the bull lurches ahead a few yards and stops. Blood is pouring down Tex's nose from the devastating crushing blow from his leupold eye piece . He’s dazed, struggling to reload his rifle . Luckily the bull’s chest was filling up with gallons of blood, and he piles up in a few seconds . Shortly after the bull goes down, a larger bull and the cow come trotting out of the brush. I had to triple check that there was a dead bull on the ridge haha. The end


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdzQdiI9Xmo

https://i.imgur.com/B8sAwAG.jpg?1

[604Stalker]

Buddy way to bring it home!!

[Arctic Lake]

Oh man your putting moose on the endangered species list LOL !
Scope bite can really smart , I know from experience !
Arctic Lake

[todbartell]

got my euro back, great job by Travis at Blackwater Skull Works here in Vanderhoof - https://www.facebook.com/BlackWater-SkullWorks

https://i.imgur.com/vxWALNR.jpg?1

[Arctic Lake]

I really like euro mounts ! That one included ! My two largest moose racks are done the old way with a patch of material in between the two sides . They look good but a euro is the way to go in my opinion !

Arctic Lake

[boilerroom]

Don't know how I missed this story... I thought I was a better lurker...

I agree - Euro mounts of moose are super cool - I think it shows really well and looks cool with that long skull and mandible.

Tex is da man - it seems like he originally says in the video that he can't reload cause he probably felt like he was about to go over backwards from getting scoped. Awesome tale!