Rookie moose success

zia · Oct 18, 2006

My neighbor and I drew the 2 non-resident tags for this Idaho unit. We left the high desert mountains of New Mexico and headed north not knowing what to expect, this was our first moose hunt. I can't believe how thick the forest is in that country! We ended up voice calling them in, my 45" bull to 23 yards and my neighbors 46" bull to 22 yards. Great hunt!

kilowatt · Oct 18, 2006

You are doing a pretty good job of hunting mixed bags of game this year, hope all of the hunts are a success like your Moose & Elk hunts so far. Thanks for the pictures too.

Brian

NMHUNTNUTT1 · Oct 19, 2006

Congrats to both of you. The pics are not coming up , maybe its my pc...

littlebighorn · Oct 19, 2006

I am not getting the pics either. Only little boxes with Xs in them. Am I doing something wrong?

zia · Oct 19, 2006

Does this work?

Bambistew · Oct 19, 2006

LAST EDITED ON Oct-19-06 AT 10:54AM (MST)[p]Congrats... Looks like he took one to the face.

zia · Oct 19, 2006

That's right, the first shot was a broadside double lung shot. As he ran away I kept shooting, hit him in the chest again, he kept on truckin. Last shot was when he finally stopped, I aimed for the shoulder, pulled the trigger right as he looked back and hit the nose. I tried to follw the advice I used to give elk hunters I guided.....keep shooting until they're down!

littlebighorn · Oct 19, 2006

Zia
I still can't get the image so it must be my set-up. Thanks for trying and congrats on what sounds like two fine moose

nmtaxi · Oct 19, 2006

Awesome Zia. Thos are some great Shiras moose. Can't expect anything better than that.

Outdoordan · Oct 19, 2006

Great moose, what a season you are having!

triggerhappy · Oct 19, 2006

awesome!

Pointer · Oct 19, 2006

Very cool, congrats to you and your neighbor. Looks like you 2 had your work cut out for you getting those moose out of there.

schmalts · Oct 22, 2006

Way cool Mike! What a season your having so far.

Hornseeker · Oct 24, 2006

Very Nice!

Muleyslyr · Oct 26, 2006

Right on! That's a pretty big gamble coming all the way up from NM not really knowing what to expect. Looks like it definately paid off for the two of you. How far up in ID were you? Pretty tough tag to draw for a non-resi??

nbjbhunterman · Nov 3, 2006

good looking moose

NBJB

happytohunt · Nov 3, 2006

i reckon those bulls didnt know ye were rookies...congratulations

zia · Nov 4, 2006

We were in northern Idaho hunting national forest and camping at a forest service campground. We called in several other bulls, one to 15 yards we still couldn't shoot because of the thick brush! I think there were 2 non-resident tags so we were lucky but somebody has to draw. We had done our homework before we left New Mexico, talked to past license holders, biologists etc. There are quite a few people in those mountains at that time of year...archery elk hunters, grouse hunters, bear hunters, loggers etc and we got good information by being polite and having friendly conversations with fellow hunter we met in the woods or at gas stations. Everybody was very nice and happy to help the "loco" moose hunters from another land.