Moose Pic while Bear Hunting

Last Monday I decided to sit out for a morning bear hunt since my weekend was coming to a close and although I didn’t see a bear, I did manage to see a nice bull moose up close. The moose appeared about 20 yards from me and since I thought it was just another deer coming through, I didn’t have my camera ready. The moose was alerted to my frantic attempt to get the camera out of my pack and scampered off to about 100 yards. Unfortunately the picture is the only one that turned out as I couldn’t get a view of the screen because of the sunlight. I thought he was a pretty nice treat to see. While baiting the last couple weekends I had noticed moose tracks around and had hoped to see one.

The pic of the bear was shot by an older guy in camp. It was his first bear and shot it with a 30-03 model 95 Winchester (I think). It’s not the biggest bear, but he was happy and gave me a quarter of the meat for the help. I think it weighed between 210-220 dressed out when they registered it.

Very cool! I’ve never seen a bull moose in the wild. Thank you for sharing your pictures and your hunting adventures with us.

Nice to see. Congrat’s to the both of You.

Enjoy the time in camp with the Older guys, before You know it, You’ll be one of them.

very cool pic and it is truly amazing to be close to one in the wild to really understand how big, beautiful, and quiet they can be!

What I wouldn’t have given to see on like that 2 years ago. Once in a lifetime tag.

Cool moose pic. I was lucky enough to shoot a 48″ bull moose back in 1993. It was the last year that you needed 4 hunters on the application and the first or second year after it became once in a lifetime. We had applied a few times before getting drawn. Sad thing is, I shot the moose and now my brother and his wife can never hunt MN (for moose) again. I sent a letter to the DNR a year or two ago asking if they would take 5 or 10 of the available moose tags and sell raffle tickets for them to raise money for the “cause” and also allow “any resident” to purchase as many as they want to get a tag. Never heard back from them. I know I would buy a few every year. It is by far the cheapest moose hunt you would ever go on.

Don’t the western states raffle off big game tags?

I guess I’ve been fortunate. This is the second bull moose I have seen in the wild. The first one I saw when I was deer hunting south of Park Rapids. That Moose was a little out of his natural range and I guess a local farmer was getting harassed because he was trying to mount up some Clysdale horses during the rut. I suppose he was lonely. It was not as big as this one though.

My buddy also had a close encounter with a wolf last weekend. He is a rather large man and has to hunt bear while sitting in a ground blind.