rmanwill
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Dawn was successful on her once in a lifetime moose hunt Wednesday afternoon with a 40 1/2 inch wide bull. We had a great time on the mountain making memories with a great friend, Robert. We seen a total of 46 moose, with 9 being bulls (1 was an albino).
After 4 days Robert had to go home. The following afternoon Dawn had her bull at about 150 yards and hit him a couple times. We thought he layed down just up the hill out of sight, but we only had about 30 minutes of light left to find him. I hurried the process and ended up jumping him once at about 15 yards and had to yell to Dawn to come up the road with the rifle. Once she met me we went to the last sighting spot and there below us he was standing in a large pond. We tried to scare him out of the pond by yelling, throwing rocks in the water, but after swimming in the middle of the pond for a couple minutes he expired. I was afraid he was going to sink so I I sprinted down the road to the side by side and flew back to the pond and stripped down to my pants and boots. I grabbed some mule tape and waded out into the pond until I was up to my armpits. After several attempts I finally lariated one of his antler palms and dragged him to shore, where we winched him out with the side by side.
Knowing we had a long night in front of us we headed back to camp and dried off, changed into dry clothes and packed my pack with knives, blades, lights, batteries, drinks and some snacks.
We made it back to the moose at 9PM and took a few photos and started the task of breaking him down.0 Dawn was a trooper and between the two of us we caped, quartered and had all the meat bagged and loaded in 2 hours and 15 minutes. We made it back to camp and hung the quarters, laid out the cape to cool, grabbed a quik snack and hit the sleeping bags about 1AM.
Awesome time on the mountain making great memories. Beautiful scenery and lots of animals seen (moose, elk, deer, birds, a porcupine and dozens of grouse). Doesn't get much better then this trip spending time in gods country.
After 4 days Robert had to go home. The following afternoon Dawn had her bull at about 150 yards and hit him a couple times. We thought he layed down just up the hill out of sight, but we only had about 30 minutes of light left to find him. I hurried the process and ended up jumping him once at about 15 yards and had to yell to Dawn to come up the road with the rifle. Once she met me we went to the last sighting spot and there below us he was standing in a large pond. We tried to scare him out of the pond by yelling, throwing rocks in the water, but after swimming in the middle of the pond for a couple minutes he expired. I was afraid he was going to sink so I I sprinted down the road to the side by side and flew back to the pond and stripped down to my pants and boots. I grabbed some mule tape and waded out into the pond until I was up to my armpits. After several attempts I finally lariated one of his antler palms and dragged him to shore, where we winched him out with the side by side.
Knowing we had a long night in front of us we headed back to camp and dried off, changed into dry clothes and packed my pack with knives, blades, lights, batteries, drinks and some snacks.
We made it back to the moose at 9PM and took a few photos and started the task of breaking him down.0 Dawn was a trooper and between the two of us we caped, quartered and had all the meat bagged and loaded in 2 hours and 15 minutes. We made it back to camp and hung the quarters, laid out the cape to cool, grabbed a quik snack and hit the sleeping bags about 1AM.
Awesome time on the mountain making great memories. Beautiful scenery and lots of animals seen (moose, elk, deer, birds, a porcupine and dozens of grouse). Doesn't get much better then this trip spending time in gods country.
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