A lot of talk in hear considering your all getting beat by a girl! Keep practicing boys!

Team #31 strikes again!

Team #31 tied with Team #3!!

Count me in!

that suckers huge!!!! i am so jealous!!!

monster! love that he’s in velvet!

what a great story! i felt like i was there awesome bull and great pics!! i bet that was really fun packing him back up that hill!! so how did Sam end up?! did he get any action?

wow that is so crazy!!! nice elk in the pic by the way

thanks for the welcome guys! can’t wait to get him back from the taxidermist!! we’ll either have to put it above the bed (so its the last thing i see before i go to bed ) or in our stairway/hallway that has a very tall wall!!

any other guys hunting moose out there this season? there is still time left!! good luck!!

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I really hope she does…That way I wont feel so bad when I stick the Moose instead of her.

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What’s that honey?!

Hey guys I am going to try to be a little more succinct than the hubby, JJ.

Day 2~
With my boots still wet we started out heading for Plan B spot only to find a truck already parked, so it was off to Plan C. With only a brief scouting of this area we decided to give it a try as in previous years 2 additional moose were harvested there. Given the bleak previous day JJ had convinced me to leave my DXT at the cabin and carry the 30-06 instead.

We headed back into the clear-cut and immediately noticed a lot more sign than the other areas. After a 1 hr stint of calling and waiting we decided to walk the edge looking for a more “moosey” area. About halfway around the clear-cut we found a cattle-trail leading into the nearby swamp. We decided to follow the trail and set up on the edge of the swamp joking about how much work it would be to actually get a moose out of there.

JJ and I set up on a large rock and began to do some calling. I kept trying to convince him to use the “moose trumpet” but he was resistant as it was so loud and we weren’t exactly sure of what we were doing. Anyway he eventually listened to his smart wife and within 5 minutes I was staring at 2 paddles approaching through some trees. I immediately tugged on JJ’s pants and said “holy s$*t theres a moose!” He turned just as the moose stopped and I said “I thought I saw a moose but now I am not sure, what do you think?!” JJ started to slither off the large rock we had been sitting on and said “oh yeah thats a moose, get ready and get your scope on him!” He was about 15 yds back in the trees staring out at us directly down wind of us. JJ ranged him at 89 yds but he didn’t have a shot. I asked if he wanted to try to sneak up on him and get a shot with his bow, since that had been our plan all along; to kill a moose with our bows. He said he would give it a try but to keep the scope on him. Out of the corner of my eye I saw JJ making all these crazy movements, with his bow above his head, and calling. He stalked to within about 75 yds of the moose, got behind a bush and started thrashing the bush wildly. This only encourage Mr. Moose to step out 10 yds and start thrashing a willow. At this point JJ and the moose were in a stare down and I had a perfect broadside shot. JJ then stated “if you have a good shot take him” before he could finish that sentence I let the lead fly!

The moose looked unphased after the 1st shot so JJ said “hit him again!” I again let another shot fly and, to me, the moose looked perfectly healthy. JJ said “thats good” but I was worried and did not want this monster to get away so I let a 3rd shot go and JJ said “he’s done!” As apparently he dropped dead in his tracks a few yds away and I thought he had just walked away. After my 3 shots were over and JJ informed me that he was dead I began shaking uncontrollably and couldn’t walk to JJ through the swamp without sitting down a few times because my legs kept buckling and wouldn’t allow me to move.

Walking up to this enormous creature was unreal. I knew that moose were big animals but standing next to one gave me a real appreciation for these amazing animals! Two days later JJ and I are still on cloud nine and can’t believe what an amazing experience that was!!!

The wildlife biologist figured that he weighed between 1100-1200 lbs. His spread was 54 1/4″. He has 20 scoreable points and his longest eye-guards were 22″ long. They guessed his age to be 6-8 yrs. His hooves were bigger than my hand. His head was much larger than a horses and it took 2 people to prop his head up so I could hold him up to take those pictures!

Again it would have been amazing to get him with a bow, but the opportunity just wasn’t there and we didn’t want to miss a chance of a lifetime. We know he is well over 135″, which is a P&Y but definitely short of the 185″ required for a B&C. Either way I am extremely pumped…now its back to bowhunting those whitetails and JJ is off to Montana this Friday for Elk hunting!! We have had a GREAT fall!!

Just a couple more pics