The great adventure
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Musket Man
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Powerstroke is hooked up to the trailer. Let me know when you need to get hauled home
6mm Remington
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Sneakypete best of luck up there! Man that sounds like way too much fun! What rifle are you using and what exactly are you hunting?? You might check the back of your pickup. I may have smuggled myself onboard!
Well, I'll start off it was by far the best adventure I've ever done! From the horse ride in the lasted 4 hours to the camp, the other hunters I shared my adventure with was the best. Mountain hunting on moss is something I'm not sure I'd ever do again, it's tough to say the least. I viewed many moose, bull and cow what beasts they are! Elk were in the area but nothing legal, has to be a six point to be legal. Caribou were there but not many they have to have six on top or six including a back scratcher. I did get my moose on the fifth day, pictures to come later because I'm still in BC. Today we cut up my moose. I did see a grizzly chasing a bull moose and two cows, he didn't succeed though. Musketman, the GMC DENALI averaged 20.2 mpg ,pulling a power stroke over 2300 miles! More to come!
I was in BC back in 07, was not successful but would Never Trade the Memorys of the hunt! Awesome place to be and know the feeling about the six pt issues seen everything but a 6 or bigger and the fishing was awesome. Congrats on the fine memorys you will have forever.
6mm, Winchester model 70 extreme weather ss 7mm, one shot of 175 gr. to the neck and not one step after the shot! Who'd of thunk he would have dropped like that!
jjenness
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JJ, No bull yet? Best pictures are in my camera, and I'll probably post some pictures Saturday I'm still I'm BC. I'll be leaving in the morning!
Matthoek21
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Well, I'm back after driving 934 miles yesterday! I'll start off by saying I wish each and everyone out there has the chance do go on an adventure like this one I just experienced! From the start to the end it was an experience from the hunters and non hunters I shared our camp with. I have new friends from Denmark, Peter and his son Jan. Peter took a nice moose and very nice caribou. I also shared my tent the first night with Tim from Visalia Ca, who took a 10 1/2 year old stone sheep on his last day! What an achievement!
My next tent mate was Enrique from Mexico City who took a 9 1/2 year old stone sheep on his forth day of hunting, which we ate the backstraps. Stone sheep is by far the best meat I've ever tasted!
My hunt was a true adventure, we found a nice moose on the first day but weather played a factor in not going after him. This moose turned out to be the elusive one, we hunted him for three days never getting closer than 688 yards. We just didn't want to blow him out. On the fourth day on chasing him, we found that resident hunters had setup a camp in the area and had 15 horses hobbled with bells! We did an about face not happy either. On the ride back after glassing different areas we spotted a nice bull moose across the valley and in a great place to stalk him on a flat spot towards the top of the facing mountain. The bull had two cows with him, so we knew he wouldn't be going anywhere. Then things changed, mister grizzly bear showed up! I know now how fast moose can move! The next day we rode up the mountain to look for the bull and cows, which were not there. Tim, my young 22 year old guide said, no worries we'll just ride over here, then over that way on our way to glass a big valley. We'll we didn't make it another 20 minutes, we're riding along and I'm looking another way and I look forward and Tim is off his horse and telling me quietly to get off my horse and get my gun and be ready. Two moose maybe three. Tim sets up his spotting scope and tells me the first bull which we were after that day was him and he wasn't legal. Then next bull shows himself and he's legal. Legal in this area is either 3 brow points or 10 points on one side. This bull had 3 points, which he asked me to view him thru the spotting scope. Tim made a call to the bull which he started coming directly at us. I moved to the right of Tim, the willows were only about a foot high. Tim told this could get very interesting if he keeps coming straight in, then one more call and he turned broadside and Tim said I could shoot when ready. One thing Tim learned is when someone tells me to shoot when I'm ready the model 70 extreme weather 7mm usually makes a load noise. One shot to the neck and the bull dropped in his tracks. Then Tim commented that he didn't have time to stick his fingers in his ears! It was 10:38 am 9/17/2015 at 2:10 pm we rode away after taking all four quarters, back straps and lions out and skinning this beast!
The next day which was day six of my hunt was spent beating for Tim and Alex our wrangler to go to the kill site to retrieve my meat cape and antlers! They spend the rest of the day fleshing this beast and part of the next morning also. The remainder of my hunt was trying to find a legal bull elk, 6 pts on one side. We never did find one.hers a few pictures I took with my cell phone, the best my wife just downloaded to her computer. That be another day
My next tent mate was Enrique from Mexico City who took a 9 1/2 year old stone sheep on his forth day of hunting, which we ate the backstraps. Stone sheep is by far the best meat I've ever tasted!
My hunt was a true adventure, we found a nice moose on the first day but weather played a factor in not going after him. This moose turned out to be the elusive one, we hunted him for three days never getting closer than 688 yards. We just didn't want to blow him out. On the fourth day on chasing him, we found that resident hunters had setup a camp in the area and had 15 horses hobbled with bells! We did an about face not happy either. On the ride back after glassing different areas we spotted a nice bull moose across the valley and in a great place to stalk him on a flat spot towards the top of the facing mountain. The bull had two cows with him, so we knew he wouldn't be going anywhere. Then things changed, mister grizzly bear showed up! I know now how fast moose can move! The next day we rode up the mountain to look for the bull and cows, which were not there. Tim, my young 22 year old guide said, no worries we'll just ride over here, then over that way on our way to glass a big valley. We'll we didn't make it another 20 minutes, we're riding along and I'm looking another way and I look forward and Tim is off his horse and telling me quietly to get off my horse and get my gun and be ready. Two moose maybe three. Tim sets up his spotting scope and tells me the first bull which we were after that day was him and he wasn't legal. Then next bull shows himself and he's legal. Legal in this area is either 3 brow points or 10 points on one side. This bull had 3 points, which he asked me to view him thru the spotting scope. Tim made a call to the bull which he started coming directly at us. I moved to the right of Tim, the willows were only about a foot high. Tim told this could get very interesting if he keeps coming straight in, then one more call and he turned broadside and Tim said I could shoot when ready. One thing Tim learned is when someone tells me to shoot when I'm ready the model 70 extreme weather 7mm usually makes a load noise. One shot to the neck and the bull dropped in his tracks. Then Tim commented that he didn't have time to stick his fingers in his ears! It was 10:38 am 9/17/2015
at 2:10 pm we rode away after taking all four quarters, back straps and lions out and skinning this beast!The next day which was day six of my hunt was spent beating for Tim and Alex our wrangler to go to the kill site to retrieve my meat cape and antlers! They spend the rest of the day fleshing this beast and part of the next morning also. The remainder of my hunt was trying to find a legal bull elk, 6 pts on one side. We never did find one.hers a few pictures I took with my cell phone, the best my wife just downloaded to her computer. That be another day
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Wow Pete, That's a real nice bull and it sounds like you really earned him! It's hard to imagine just how big they are, until you walk up on them and try to move them around. Great eating too.
Congratulations on your trip and success!!
Congratulations on your trip and success!!
AK, we had a guy fly his super cub down from Alaska while I was at the lodge the day before I left. He was delayed a few days because of fog in our area! Thanks on the moose, we did have some fresh ground moose buglers, stew meat cooked which we made wraps! I almost forgot to mention, I took him to the taxidermist and he told 8 months and I'll have him back!
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Colorado Cowboy
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RICMIC
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What a grand adventure Sneakypete. Something like that is surely on my "bucket-list", but I would have to fall into some kind of windfall for it to ever happen. In the meantime, it's great to be able to share the experience with great folks like you.
Roamer
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Congratulations Pete!! Great experience for sure. I was lucky enough to go moose hunting in Alaska several years ago and will always be one of my favorite hunts. They are incredible animals!!
Matthoek21
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Welcome back Pete. Thats a dang respectable moose right there! Glad you had a great adventure. Bring some moose to MT with ya in October...Will fix up some moose and trout kabobs...lol.