My eldest boy's first moose

[alaska2go]

My oldest son Wyatt earned his hunter safety card this summer at age 13. The deal was he get his hunter safety card & I'll take him moose hunting. I called this bull in on the 4th day of the hunt. Wyatt shot him throught the heart at a whopping 35 yards as the bull was thrashing the alders and grunting. Wyatt was shooting my kimber 7-08 with some of my hand loads 160gr speer mag tip bullets. Bull ran 40 yards & died. It is much more exciting to see him harvest a critter than me pulling the trigger. Pure excitement !! I was all jazzed up, jumping up & down and Wyatt telling me to controll myself. I am one proud daddy









The bull is 52 inches wide w/ 4 brow tines and 3 brow tines. A great bull for the birch forest type. Also the second largest bull taken in this household.

 

[Hilltop]

That is just awesome! What an experience for a young man...

 

[CrossCreeks]

Really great, Way to go Wyatt !! Mmm Moose steaks !

 

[Retterath]

that is awesome good for him

 

[AKaviator]

Congratulations Wyatt!! Great job, Dad! You'll have some fine dining this winter for sure!

 

[Fink]

Excellent!

 

[NVBird'n'Big]

Awesome! Congrats!

 

[libidilatimmy]

Great job you two! Congratulations!

 

[Mountain Matt]

Congrats to you and your son. That's awesome

 

[Work2hunt]

Awesome job. A wonderful experience to remember.

 

[Engideer]

Congratulations! That is awesome!

 

[firebeck]

That is way to cool!! Congratulations!

 

[ElkTrout]

Congratulations! What a trophy!

 

[Sfjeeper]

Congratulations to you and your son! That's a terrific bull!. Only in Alaska would the phrase "My eldest boy's first moose" ever be found in normal conversation. You truly live in a hunter's paradise.

 

[Matthoek21]

That's boy Wyatt! I bet you were one proud Pop.

 

[robie]

Sfjeeper i was thinking the same thing.

Congrats to you and your son.

 

[alaska2go]

"eldest boy" is a family joke we have because Wyatt is metally mature beyond his years. He is always calm, cool, & collective .. My wife is always reminding me he acts more "mature" than I. He is 13 & I'm about to turn 43. A long story short we adopted Wyatt @ birth and was our first. His birth mom than called us 3 years later and wanted us to adopt her babies again. Yes babies, she had twins.So we did @ birth. I have look forward to taking my 3 boys hunting and fishing since they were born. So when Wyatt shot his first big critter I was ready to do a backflip ( 13 years of anticipation built up)....




I took this picture and asked Wyatt" what are you thinking?" He replied " I am just saying a little prayer to god , thanking him for the moose. "

Mature beyond his years. "eldest boy"

 

[AKaviator]

Your short story and photos are enough for me to know that you're a heck of a fine man with a fine family. Keep up raising those boys the way you are and God bless you and your family.

This forum seems to attract some mighty fine people as members, I hope to get to know some of you personally as time goes on.

 

[ivorytip]

very cool! awesome

 

[sigpros]

Great job on a fine moose