Spuddge
10-19-2011, 01:29 PM
After last year’s success (3 moose in 6 days!) we were understandably excited about our annual moose hunt. Of course we’re always excited about getting out of the city and spending time in the bush. So after months of preparing, and sleepless nights with visions of the big hunt we were finally there. This year turned out to be completely different, we just weren’t seeing the animals! My honey hole, where we had harvested 4 moose in the last 3 years was barren, except for a small black bear that seemed completely indifferent to my presence. We hunted hard for 2 weeks and only managed to see cows, lots of cows and calves, the bulls were nowhere to be found. I’ve never seen so many wolves in one trip, a total of 7 and lots of wolf sign everywhere. Disappointed but not unhappy, the day to leave arrived all too fast, so we decided to give it one last go before packing up and heading back to the city. Well wouldn’t you know it we finally found one, there would be meat in the freezer after all! Couldn’t have ended the trip better, finally after 2 weeks, a moose! But that’s the way hunting goes, a bad day hunting is better than a good day working.
Here’s the moose.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/DSC_0229.JPG
Did I mention my buddy also had a grizzly draw? So the trip wasn’t without excitement before we got the moose. I think it was the 4th night, he was sitting in a tree stand and a grizzly showed up and bluff charged, one shot and a quick follow up and he was down. The taxidermist measured him at 7 feet, big melon on him.
Here’s the grizzly.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/DSC_0221.JPG
I don’t have pictures but we also managed to get a black bear, so we have loads of pepperoni!
Our deer hunt was the opposite, 5 guys = 5 deer! 2 deer taken on opening day, both 2 points and then 2 more on day 3, a 2 point and a spiker and I was left with no tag cut until day 6. I was getting worried because I wasn’t seeing the deer where I’d harvested them in previous years! Well it was worth the wait, I ended up getting my first 4 point, he was just standing in a clearing at about 50 yards, not a giant (dressed out at 143 lbs) but my biggest deer to date.
Here he is.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/IMGA0036.JPG
Here’s the moose.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/DSC_0229.JPG
Did I mention my buddy also had a grizzly draw? So the trip wasn’t without excitement before we got the moose. I think it was the 4th night, he was sitting in a tree stand and a grizzly showed up and bluff charged, one shot and a quick follow up and he was down. The taxidermist measured him at 7 feet, big melon on him.
Here’s the grizzly.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/DSC_0221.JPG
I don’t have pictures but we also managed to get a black bear, so we have loads of pepperoni!
Our deer hunt was the opposite, 5 guys = 5 deer! 2 deer taken on opening day, both 2 points and then 2 more on day 3, a 2 point and a spiker and I was left with no tag cut until day 6. I was getting worried because I wasn’t seeing the deer where I’d harvested them in previous years! Well it was worth the wait, I ended up getting my first 4 point, he was just standing in a clearing at about 50 yards, not a giant (dressed out at 143 lbs) but my biggest deer to date.
Here he is.
http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/500/IMGA0036.JPG