packing for chetwynd!

[mark]

Well after a few good fishing trips i have a years supply of salmon. Now to replenish the moose and elk stock! Im packing up the truck and out of here fri. afternoon (yipee) 5 days of any bull moose then 10 days of elk. If anyone is going to be up there, im camping in the del-rio, on the end of the old airport. Dark blue F-350, sled deck and big winch. stop in for a beer! 8)

[kishman]

Good luck Marc, enjoy:biggrin:

[BCrams]

As before .......jeezus .... you're going to need about 200 cases of beer if you're camping the del rio area

[bckev]

good luck, I wish it was me going

[MB_Boy]

Although it sounds like 4pointer and his crew cleaned em' all out have a great trip and LOTS of pics.....everyone coming back seems to be withholding pics!! :smile:

[Jelvis]

Good luck hunting Mark, Its sounds like a lot of fun your going to have there. Good huntin and shootin Jel

[ruger#1]

thanks for taking me mark, its going to be fun.

[Schmaus]

A couple of guys I know from PG will be out hunting the Del Rio in a week they are only going for elk.

[elkster]

Mark,
the old airport is a good place to camp. We will be up that way but not til the 3 week in September. Leave a couple of ten pointers for us.:smile:

[mark]

elkster what we dont kill will be awfully scared by the time were done and you get there! :smile:

[quadrakid]

shoot straight and take lots of pictures, good luck from the qkid, fourteen more sleeps for me.

[rollingrock]

Good luck Mark! Got a call from a friend of mine. They just came back from there with two moose. Well the first one wouldn't give up until he was shot 5 times starting from 50 or 60 yards by a .300. The second one was a one shot bang flop at 500 yards. WTF....One was 1200 lbs, the other was 1500 lbs.

[jessbennett]

mooses?heheheh:tongue: :mrgreen: just kiidden i say it too sometimes.....

[rollingrock]

mooses?heheheh:tongue: :mrgreen: just kiidden i say it too sometimes.....

:redface: damn I thought something was wrong in the sentence. Or I should use MEESE？:lol:hahahaha! Thanks for the correction!

[BCrams]

I'm playing devils advocate here on this one:

How did those boys come up with 1200 and 1500 lbs??? Why not 900 and 1000 lbs ??

A .300 at 50-60 yards and having to shoot 5x ??? WTF ???

[ruger#1]

maybe the bullet didnt expand .or they didnt give it time to bleed, just kept shooting at it?

[rollingrock]

I'm playing devils advocate here on this one:

How did those boys come up with 1200 and 1500 lbs??? Why not 900 and 1000 lbs ??

A .300 at 50-60 yards and having to shoot 5x ??? WTF ???

That was what I was told. One of the moose scored 40 inches.

That guy was trying to make a head shot, but the bullet only hit the wrong spot in the face. So the moose only spinned and started running. The last shot was in the neck at over 100 yards which made the final kill.
Sounds pretty sh**ty.:lol:

[Caveman]

That guy was trying a head shot, but the bullet only hit the wrong spot in the face.

All the more reason for a well placed shot in the ribs, the last thing anyone needs is to see an animal get away just to starve to death because it can't eat because of a broken jaw or even just die of it's injuries without being tracked down. Put the first one where you know he can't survive then by all means take 'em in the head. As responsible hunters it is our duty to kill our game as humanly and quickly as possible. IMHO

[rockrabbitt]

My son and i took two moose between Chetwynd and Hudsons Hope, his had a 43 inch spread, real nice bull. The best place to hang your meat is in Hudsons Hope at the Save-On Foods there, he charges 15 dollars a day, whereas Russells Meats in Chetwynd is $20.00 a day and you pay 60.00 minumim even if you only hang it there for a day or two. Plus my sons bull weighed 624 pounds at Russells but he must of lost about 60 pounds on the trip south, when we got to Castlegar he weighed 588 on a scale that had just been recalibrated recently. It cost me 400 dollars by the time i got my 500 pound bull cut and wrapped, from now on i'm running south with my meat and getting it cut here.