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Post by foxtrapper on Nov 5, 2019 12:32:10 GMT -5
Grabbing those two tags was unbelievable! Been trying for years! Great hunt and great shootin! Moose is my favorite game meat!
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Post by whitworth on Nov 5, 2019 12:50:10 GMT -5
Grabbing those two tags was unbelievable! Been trying for years! Great hunt and great shootin! Moose is my favorite game meat! It's definitely one of my favorites!
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Post by Ken O'Neill on Nov 5, 2019 18:35:21 GMT -5
Congratulations, Kim! Great looking Moose! Give my congratulations to Robert, too!
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Post by bradshaw on Nov 5, 2019 23:49:09 GMT -5
KRal.... good hunt with excellent write-up. And a case of carrying a backup to the sixguns, and needing it. Even though it comes with a bolt handle! Evident fine shooting on both moose. A moose, or L’original in Quebec----the original----the largest deer, may look old and goofy, but looks deceive. It is nimble. You can push a canoe paddle out of sight in muck tracked through by a moose. Moose swim, submerge, climb mossy granite nearly the tilt of a cliff. I’ve tracked moose up ledge I needed my hands to climb. A moose rests in snow on the cold side of a ridge, while on the other side in the sun a whitetail basks. Moose step over blowdown and deadfall that stops a hunter in his tracks. Were I to rank the deer family by their senses, I’d give the whitetail the best sense of smell, an elk the sharpest eyesight, and moose the most acute hearing----able to triangulate a sound from a great distance.
Whitetail, elk, and moose each has its own distinct flavor. Fat on a deer animal protects joints, warms spine and organs. Unlike animals of the beef family, fat doesn't marble deer muscle. Great venison from these species is a sacrement. Ernest Hemingway pronounced elk the best venison; no doubt there are hunters on singleactions who agree. Good venison of any species surpasses the meat of an animal poorly killed or improperly handled. The old cliche of “tastes like beef” should be laid to rest. Fine venison is in a league of its own, arriving at exquisite flavor without the help of fat. In fact, deer fat is unpalatable except, say, on full-smoked ribs. However, raw deer fat heals skin cracked from freezing weather. (Unlike Chapstick, or other artificial skin treatments, which have no healing power. And Chapstick, once you start using it, you can’t stop.) At its best, moose meat stands high as the moose itself.
A good hunt----in a bad area to get lost----a hunt tuned with fine shooting. David Bradshaw
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Post by bradshaw on Nov 8, 2019 19:26:17 GMT -5
Handgunning by KRal and gasixgunner, each making a one-shot kill on an animal with the spread of a living room wall, demontrates the importance of shot placement. Not an especially difficult animal to kill, yet a wounded moose may become an impossible animal to recover. Years ago, I heard a woodsman boast to a room full of game wardens and hunters, “Put me on a moose track and I’ll have that moose in 15 minutes.” The room got quiet. A man I know spent seven hours one day and three the next, tracking a moose that another hunter had done a lousy job of shooting with a .300 Win Mag. Intermittent blood and all, our tracker never reached it. Each time it bedded, the moose was up and gone before the tracker closed within sight. Moose have spectacular hearing. A tracker working against the weather or nightfall is not still hunting. I can cite other boo hoo hoo stories of men who wounded moose with big rifles and never tasted the venison.
Big animal, small target. This is a story of anticipation & preparation serving venison with marksmanship. David Bradshaw
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Post by KRal on Nov 8, 2019 21:39:08 GMT -5
Mr Bradshaw, You hit the nail on the head! That very thing happen while we were in camp (rifle hunter) and moose was never recovered. Moose can gracefully cover terrain as if they’re just floating without effort. The hunter has to be extremely careful covering that same ground not to twist an ankle or break a leg! Without seeing it with my on eyes, I’d never believed what they can go through without any effort - rugged clear cuts with tops and logs everywhere comes to mind.
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Post by ryan on Nov 17, 2019 7:11:27 GMT -5
Without seeing it with my on eyes, I’d never believed what they can go through without any effort - rugged clear cuts with tops and logs everywhere comes to mind. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NX0W4zPcl6MVideo is of a Maine moose my buddy called in a couple of years ago. They can absolutely get through some nasty stuff with seemingly little effort. When they can't walk around or step over it, sometimes they'll just put their heads down and go through it, especially during the rut.
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Post by KRal on Nov 17, 2019 10:19:35 GMT -5
Ryan,
Very cool video, thanks for sharing!
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