Zim,
I'm glad you posted this morning, I was feeling bad that you might of done something to yourself after coming to the realization you wasted your moose tag. The tag I do believe you said would be your only chance at moose (see quote). And you failed.
"I have a tag here for what will likely be my only moose hunt."
What facts have I been ignoring? You guys said the population of moose is low, did I disagree? That is a "fact" I could of told you BEFORE you put in. If only you did some research...
I said you didn't know how to hunt moose. In fact in your original post you even said that. See quote below:
"I have elk hunted a lot, just not moose"
I said that there are still quality bulls there. Do you disagree? Wymoose even said that there is. See quote:
"Good Luck. It's been a tough one so far. I think numbers are down a bit, but there's some good ones around. Hopefully they'll get moving as the weather cools and the rut picks up."
I called you a whiner and a cry baby. See quotes. I will not quote them all, just a few:
"This is officially the worst hunt of any kind I have ever been on in my life."
You put in for an area without knowing anything about it, you said you thought it was "horse" country. Funny I've never see country that is just for horses. And then to even add to it you were trying to find someone with horses during your hunt! Sounds like something a prepared hunter would of done BEFORE the hunt. Let's get back to the whining....
"but for WYG&Y to claim a 100% hunter success rate in this unit is a sham"
Ok Zim so you believe their moose numbers and surveys but you do not believe their harvest info huh? Oh for the record the hunters before you were hunters not whiners. You just got lucky on a bull, that is all.
"Yesterday at dusk I heard a first in my 20 years of hunting.........wolves howling. At least 3 of them, one within ~300 yards" What an awesome experience. Something everyone should experience sometime in their life. Instead you probably didn't go back there because you think the wolves have ruined everything. On my moose hunt we heard wolves every night and guess what Zim. We still killed a monster bull...
"I have 4 days left on my hunt, but realistically give myself a slim to none chance, and slim just left town"
Way to stay optimistic Zim. You must be a fun guy to hunt with. It gets hard and you get crying...
"If you enjoy listening to wolves howl all night, climbing 2 hours in the dark to glass 5 miles and see nothing, talking to elk hunters who saw one shooter bull moose a mile away in a week of hunting, and having between a 2% and snowball chance in hell of taking a shooter bull...........this is the unit for you. Seriously, they need to get some wolf management in unit 20 and shut down all moose hunting before they're extirpated."
Boooooooo Hoooooo
"Only two weeks til prime Illinois deer rut. Got to rest up for that next."
Maybe you should stick with whitetails. And whitetails in the rut. Its obvious you like stuff easy and do not want to hunt for it.
I know of at least one guy who had an awesome experience and a trophy to always remember from 20 this year. Regardless of the size (47 inches
) he didn't complain or cry like you did. It's people like you that put State Wildlife offices in tough positions. They can't do whats right because theres always someone there to cry about it.
Have a good life Zim, and don't come back to Wyoming ever again.
I would post more but I'm putting some moose meat in the crockpot.