After three trips to Wyoming, bad weather (two blizzards), bridge closures on the only road leading into the northern wilderness section, hunting for a bull that was already killed the day before I arrived, I finally took the bull of my dreams on the 15th of October. Tracked him up 1.5 miles in the fresh snow after finding his track crossing the Forest Service Road and sealed the deal at 40 yards in the heavy brush. One shot to the spine and he dropped in his tracks. Thanks go out to all those that helped...pymulies on this site, the Lander Moose biologist Stan Harter, the Lander Game Warden Brad, and my good friend from Shosone Steve Lefforge. Special thanks to my daughter, her boyfriend Dre, and my good friend George who accompanied me on these hunts. Finally taped him this morning and I was pleasantly surprised looks like he's got a chance to go Boone and Crockett...we'll see after the drying period. He grossed 142 6/8, 140 3/8 net. He's 40 3/8 wide with longest palm 25 2/8, greatest palm width of 11 3/8, with 6 6/8 bases and he's a 9X9. I'm stoked to get this nice a bull DIY!
Finally, Moose Hunting Success!
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CrimsonArrow
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Thanks guys, that's right w/o all the help I wouldn't have gotten him, especially coming from out of state...that was rough getting snowed out twice and having to leave and regroup. If I didn't leave I still would be stuck up there as my main area is now only accessable by snow machine. My second main area was where I had the other bull taken a day before me and all the moose started to move down to lower country. This one was taken in an area I had to scramble for, but was given good advice by the biologist who just elk hunted the same drainage three days before I arrived. If you can believe it, it was my first day on the ground in this third area. Also the snow helped out immensly as it was just after the rut and the bulls were moving around covering ground still so they were hard to find. I worked hard to get there driving through a couple of snowstorms so I'd finally have fresh tracking snow when I arrived. Then we just hunted moose like cougars....drive the Forest Service roads till we cut a big solo track and get on it. Luckily it all came together.
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kiddwinner
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awesome moose! what area? I have enough points to draw anywhere except the big horns and snowys...