I walked up into a 800m x 600m oval shaped replanted cutblock at 6am last Saturday. I headed right for the middle and crouched down beside a big 2foot rock to wait for the day to start happening.
About 30 mins later. I hear some sticks breaking behind me in the distance. And then more sticks breaking, getting closer. The sound eventualy became a steady crashing sound on the dry deadfall laying on the clearcut floor. Something big was running towards my position and making quite a bit of noise and crunching alot of deadfall. The animal came to within 50 feet then stopped. I heard two short singular notril blows, similar to the type of noise I've heard a horse make before.
When I first heard the sticks breaking in the distance, I remained crouched in case it was this Whitetail I've seen recently in the area and did not want to scare it away. As the animal got closer and closer and started to make all this noise, I stayed crouched down in case it was a moose on the charge. Anyway, enough was enough and I could not see anything crouched down. So I stood full upright to investigate what made the blowing noise. I could not see a damn thing!
Next thing you know about 10 seconds later, I hear heavy crashing in the tree line at my 3 o'clock. What ever was just 50 feet from me, was now in the tree line 400 meters away, and got there without making any noise. By the time I turn to look where the sound came from, I hear it crashing in the tree line at my 1 o'clock. I glass my 1 o'clock and now the crashing is coming from my 11 o'clock. This damn thing was moving really quickly and making one hell of a racket. The last I heard of it was when it was at my 9 o'clock. I still had no idea what I was dealing with so I decided to head for the relative safety the tree line and eventualy back to my truck. It was time for a coffee anyway.
It was a pretty exciting experience. Whatever was in that cutblock with me moved very fast and had no regard for moving with stealth.
I'm just wondering if that could have been a Moose or was it a Whitetail? Does anyone know first hand if a moose makes noise by short singular nostril blows? Or could it have been a whitetail?
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Originally Posted by Huey
