LEH Bull

[Gus]

So me and a buddy went out looking for my bull yesterday. Didnt see a dam thing all morning except for hunters. We moved locations in the afternoon for the evening hunt. We crashed around in bush for awhile without much happening, and just before dark i decided to go hide in a log pile and do some calling just to run out the evening. we were in the corner of a cut block that buts up to a muskeg chain, figured it was a good spot to call. My partner let out a couple cow balls and we sat there listening. After a bit I let out a couple short grunts. within seconds the grunting started from back in the muskeg. He was really getting into it, and then he started pounded the hell out of brush and was making all kinds of racket. We got ready and waited. My light was fading fast, but the bull was comming. There was a couple times there when things would get quite and I let out a deep, but quite grunt and the bull would start going nuts again. Finally i spotted a paddle come around a tree and i put the scope on him. He marched right out into the block, looking tougher than hell, grunting and ready to scrap. The instant he stopped I let drive. He was on a quarter towards me, a shot I dont normally like but it was getting dark and i didnt have time to wait. At the shot the bull bucked and took off. He didnt even go 30 yards before piling up.


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[Marc]

Good going gus! doesn't look like you'll be needing to buy any meat for the next couple of years :D

[jessbennett]

good looking bull. congrats..... what zone was your draw for???:cool:

[meat hunter]

awesome bull good job.

[3kills]

nice job gus....i want anothe bull draw so i can drop a beauty like that

[cowboy-up69]

Thats an awesome bull, wouldnt pass him up any day!

[hutch]

nice bull Im leaving for inzana lake (7-26) on wed morning to try for my first moose hope it looks like that

[todbartell]

right on man, thats a nice bull

did you use a Triple SHock X?

[Gus]

right on man, thats a nice bull

did you use a Triple SHock X?

You betcha, glad you talked me into them FB.

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[Gus]

good looking bull. congrats..... what zone was your draw for???:cool:

My draw was for 7-17

[PGKris]

I'm still lovin that bullet.

[rocksteady]

Give us the rest of the details - What did he weigh?? Did you quad him whole into the back of the truck ?? Quarter and packboard for 7 hours??

Nice looking bull, congrats....

[kishman]

Hope you've got a big deep-freeze:lol: , that'll be some good eats. If you get the chance to post I'd like to read about how you got him out as well, congrats.

[Schmaus]

Thats awesome the bulls were going crazy in 7-16 last weekend as well, I seen 10 bulls on friday till monday. They are calling like crazy right now.

[Gus]

Give us the rest of the details


Well, we had to gut, quarter, and skin him out with one jacknife by fire light. Then, it was a 5km pack through a muskeg and over one mountain. on the second trip, I had to wrestle a grizzly off the kill for the rest of the meat :razz: .

Okay, okay I'll be honest. I went to the area I did because my parents and grandparent were in there. It is a small area and I didnt expect much from it but I was sick of running in to people at the area I was at in the morning. The bull went down right inside the tree line at the end of a skid road through the cut block. My family heard the shot and with use of radios came and found me, bringing the quad and chainsaw. Still took us a couple hours, but was pretty easy packing. I have taking moose out on my back before, so when ever there's a chance like this, I sure as hell dont complain.
As for weight, we hang and butcher the meat ourselves so it doesnt ever get weighed.
Like I mentioned earlier, he was on a quartering shot, the bullet ended up going through the close shoulder, passing through both lungs, and exiting out behind the opposite shoulder. So, there is some meat loss in the closest shoulder, but it really made a mess of his boiler room.

[todbartell]

where did you find the bullet? :mrgreen:

[Gus]

where did you find the bullet? :mrgreen:

Was stuck in the hide on the opposite side. Found it when we were skinning.

[todbartell]

was that 30-06 165 gr or 300 mag 180 gr?

[Gus]

was that 30-06 165 gr or 300 mag 180 gr?

300 mag 180gr. Looking at the damage the bullet did, im sure 165's would be more than enough.

[Ride]

Nice bull. It seems like it was a hot weekend all over the place. I saw a lot of moose in 7-09, and at least one nice bull without me having my binoculars on me. I was almost disappointed i already got mine.

[goathead]

Nice bull Gus.Good job on the calling.

[ianwuzhere]

beautiful bull, congrats!!!

[Gus]

What did he weigh??
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Due to the hot weather, we had to start butchering tonight. We did a rough weigh in of a hind quarter using an old bathroom scale and it came out to around 130.

[Schmaus]

260 for the hind quarters isn't too shabby that means he must have weighed at least 300 or so for the front quarters 550-600 is a pretty decent sized moose good going.

[Hank Hunter]

Nice bull, way to go guys

[Jagermeister]

That's a fine and dandy bull there Gus, good going! Pretty exciting experience too!

[Jager]

Very nice!
Heading up to 7-25 on friday to try and fill a bull draw for dad and a spike/fork for me (I'm not greedy). We're both newbies on moose and the area so I'm sure it'll be an adventure.

OOOHHHHHH your moose pics have got me excited.