Posted 15 October 2014 - 01:15 PM

Day 4 of the Hunt:

On the evening of Day 3 we decided that since we were seeing the most sign up on Money Point Mountain we would head in extra early while it was dark and get into the good bog in the morning, the guide would sit up on some high ground and glass with binoculars and myself and my companion would have him on the radios and he would let us know if he was seeing any moose in the bogs and we would go over if he saw one. We hiked into one bog but with the wind direction we decided to try the one on the other side of the mountain it was a lot calmer.

We stayed there for a few hours then the guide decided we should go off the mountain with the ATV's and across to another mountain and check out some spots he knew in the hardwood.

We got to a spot with a nice opening and tons of fresh scrapes and moose sign. The Guide makes some calls and we hear a Crack of trees! listen some more and hear it again, it was coming from the right of us. I started to get excited, my buddy was too and the guide told me to be ready in case something came out. A minute later we are still hearing these noises and the guide starts laughing, turns out it was a wood pecker haha! After we checked out a few more spots that morning we headed back to the guides for lunch.

Day 4 Afternoon hunt:

The Guide told us they were having good luck behind his brother in laws so we would try that this evening, so we get there at 3:30pm unload the ATV's and as we are doing so I see a fresh track in the driveway of a moose who had just walked across the driveway and up behind the house. Good sign!

We head up the trail with the ATV's and drop off my companion hunter close by with a radio at a chopping. We were heading up the trail a bit up the hill to hunt, the guide was leading me with the ATV and I was following, not even 2 mins up the trail I look over to my right in the hardwood and I see a moose walking, my eyes light up, I look ahead and see the guide must not have noticed the moose so I yelled for him but he did not hear so I stopped. Got my gun out, loaded it and realized the moose had stopped in the perfect location between the two trees I had in a little shooting lane about 80 yards in, I thought it was a cow moose because I could only see the body as the head was behind some trees. I shot once behind the legs and hit him broadside, he turned and I reloaded, was ready to shoot again but his butt was facing me at this time, I was wondering if I should shoot or not, so I let him take a few steps, the moose took a couple steps then I saw the front legs come up and he flipped over on his back and legs were kicking. MOOSE DOWN!!

By this time the guide and my companion had both heard the shot and I waited till they got to me before I went in to see the moose. We walk into the woods and our guide says, he has Horns its a bull! I got a 7.5-8 pointer young bull! 1 shot double lung and clipped the liver with 300 Win Mag.

Once we got him gutted out and tagged we took a walk out to the ATV trail and decided we could get the ATV right into where the moose was and tow him to the ATV road where we could put him in a trailer.

We got him out to the ATV road, the guide went and got his moose trailer, got him loaded on there.

Took the moose back to the guides place where they had huge pulleys set up to hang the moose:

Post hunt BBQ and celebrations next...