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I'm not shutting my windows, just might have to sit down now and then.

Brent,
Sounds like a fun trip! I wont be able to make it up there until fall of 2013 at the soonest. My father-in-law lives up there and has a plane so that helps. My knees are starting to go so I need to get a sheep hunt done soon. He doesnt hike far from the plane for moose so I can justify using a heavy ol' buffalo gun!

I'm hoping for 2012 but I'm doubtful it will get done. I don't have connections to a plane so I'll have to get in line and pay someone. But first the knees, gotta find some more knees.

Your going to need more then knees going after Moose
Your going to need chest waders, a good strong frame pack and back to strap it on, machete to hack your way through the willows and elders and dont forget the skeeter net and bug juice
Forgot, someone to stand guard to keep the bears and wolfs away while your packing the meat out

Kurt wrote:Your going to need more then knees going after Moose
Your going to need chest waders, a good strong frame pack and back to strap it on, machete to hack your way through the willows and elders and dont forget the skeeter net and bug juice
Forgot, someone to stand guard to keep the bears and wolfs away while your packing the meat out

Yeah I have the waders, the pack, the back, the machete if needed. All that is doable. That's not the weak link.

Wolves don't worry me in the slightest. I grew up with them and know better. Black bears are another I don't worry about. Grizzlies are a bigger unknown, but then I do have some firearms. So, basically, I have what I need except for that second sucker and I'm finding that the knees are the limiting factor among those that might be candidates.

I killed a moose with my bow at 12 yards when I was 18 years old, I drew a once in a lifetime moose tag in North Dakota my first try at it, I had so many old men mad at me, but hey that's the luck of the draw. I was 1/8'' short of Pope and Young, 40'' spread. I actually drew a rifle tag and I called the Game and Fish of North Dakota and they thought I was nuts but did change it to a bow tag. The rest is history.

Stephen Borud

Stephen Borud wrote:I killed a moose with my bow at 12 yards when I was 18 years old, I drew a once in a lifetime moose tag in North Dakota my first try at it, I had so many old men mad at me, but hey that's the luck of the draw.

You know, I moved from Minnesota the year they reinstated their moose hunt. I had my bull all picked out and patterned and I would have been hunting with a recurve then at age 16. He was all mine, and then we suddenly became nonresidents and it was a residents only hunt.

I got the knees and the nerve. Would love to go again sometime soon...

Waders might not help if it dies in the water, my fatherinlaw and his buddy had to strip down to their underwear to quarter a bull in a pond this year. Second story ive heard like that.

madisonvalleywapiti wrote:Waders might not help if it dies in the water, my fatherinlaw and his buddy had to strip down to there underwear to quarter a bull in a pond this year. Second story ive heard like that.

I've heard at least two of those as well. Part of the challenge I guess, but doesn't matter, it's what I have to do.

Wow Brent that sucks.

S.B.

Stephen Borud wrote:Wow Brent that sucks.

S.B.

Life happens. I got over it, but the moose are not safe from me yet.

I quarted my moose in the water with an axe and then packed it out on my back. Gun was an old Green River Rifle Works Poor Boy.

Ya life does happen and it ain't fair either . After shooting that moose I have longed to do it again, and I will someday, I've killed several elk, antelope,deer, bear, turkey, but there's something about a big old bull moose coming in to a grunt that is undescribeable, it gets the heart pumping. When I shot that bull at 12 yards broadside it absorbed and arrow and didn't flinch. I watched the blood pump out of his side, it was one of those HOLY SHIX moments. I hope you get to go next year, good luck.

Stephen Borud

I go up to Alaska every year, way out in the bush and spend the summer there scratching in the dirt and ice and I see a lot of Moose, Bear and Wolf signs but I never have seen one. Some of the Moose are so big I think I could just about walk under there belly. I never see them when they are out of velvet I head down to soon before it gets to rough up in the Mountains of BC going home.
I would like to some day go for the hunt but I know what one has to do to do this, There are no roads in the place I go and it's a 150 miles to a Doctor if you need one, so a moose hunt there would be a tough one but there are plenty to pick out a good one.
But man do I love that place. I have made some very good friends with some of the locals, good people.

Kurt