Succesful moose hunt region 5

[billjc33]

Went out for our 8 day moose hunt in region five last week and managed to fill 2 of our 4 LEH's. First moose (4x4) was just spot and shoot in a clear cut but the second one was a little more exciting.

Started with a couple calls in a clearing just after light and my dad waves me down that I got a response about 500 yards away at the edge of the timber. We work our way down to about 200 yards and get into shooting position to try to intise him out. After about 20 min of him fading back and forth and his interest seeming to diminish, I change my plan. I give a couple small bull grunts up on top of the clear cut and work my way down to the tree line where I can set up on the bull. Once I make it to the closest opening I heard him last I make a couple cow calls making him think there is a cow between him and another bull. Well it didn't take 30 sec after that call and his tone of grunt turned angry and he came out at me on a trot. Having not adjusted my scope down from 12x all i could see was black and he was still coming. I quickly got it down to 4x as I quickly backed into the clear cut. Set my cross hairs and put a 180 gr nosler partition on the end of the nose at 15 yards

Pretty exciting hunt here's a couple pic

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Wasn't to happy about being left at home for this hunt but didn't complain with the treat I brought him home
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[remington666]

nice work ,sounds like an excellent trip ,did you see many deer where you were hunting ,im heading up to 5-4 on saturday and hopng the deer are making a comeback .

[ElliotMoose]

We all have our November draws for 5-1, tie a couple to a tree for us!

[LeverActionJunkie]

Congratulations looks like a good trip!

[bushwalker]

Good pics and and story. Might have to take you bison hunting!

[Deuce]

Hey, thanks for the spare coffee you gave us when you left, it was appreciated by all. I was the younger guy there when you dropped the coffee off with I assume your dad. We only got the one bull and didn't fill our other two tags. We never saw another bull, it was just too warm. It got down to -4 when we left on Saturday morning. Some buddies took over our wall tent for this week, so I will find out later if things got better there.

Our group only saw 1 deer all week. I did manage to get close to a pair of grizzlies(while in the truck), a mom & young lynx and a couple of fishers among other things, but moose, they were the rarest of animals around that week.

[billjc33]

Yeah it was definetly alot slower then last year I think the wind and the dead trees are forcing all the moose into the christmas trees and you just don't see them in the openings. Lack of using a quad makes you think twice about walking to far back into where they are hanging out. Glad you enjoyed the coffee! We saw the odd fresh deer track but never did see one and the 2 Lynx we saw should be in heaven cuz we saw 25 rabbits for every 1 moose.

[meathunter]

congrats on a couple of nice bulls

[moose2]

Looks like a great hunt the quarters look nice in cheese cloth like that great job guys.
Mike