After all summer scouting and frustration, not seeing any bulls, I decided to go and hunt where the cows were, figuring a bull would show up eventually.
My goal was to take a moose with my Hawkin 54 that I made from a kit that my parents gave to me for Christmas when I was 13, the horses were ready, camper loaded and we were off, opening morning we were checking the areas the cows had been all summer, nothing! We found a high point and started glassing, after five minutes my son excitingly pipes up, moose and it's a bull, the bull came right out in the open and stood, I radioed my brother and his boys to get over here quick, I could tell he was a shooter for me, 360 yards I had my rifle and muzzleloader but wasn't wanting to end it that fast, so I stuck to my goal, we watched him walk down along the lakeside, my boys everso wanting me to shoot him, I decided to circle down around and try to get into range, I turned the gopro on and we were off, he just vanished, not wanting to stir him up, I knew he was in the area for one reason, and he wasn't going anywhere.
After lunch my wife and kids, brother his boys headed back, spreading everyone out on lookouts I went back to where I was that morning. Setting and glassing after 3 hours nothing but 3 cows turned up, my wife wanted to head back, she wasn't thinking this was to fun, just setting, we headed back came up on the area where I thought the bull went into that morning and there was a cow and calf in the willows feeding and I caught a glimpse of a white paddle in the pines moving, there he was, he came out with cows and started raking the willows, I turned the gopro on, my wife turned on the iPhone recorder, ranged him at 90 yards, settled down over a rock waited for him to turn broadside, and let the smoke fly! He turned and stood, then trotted a ways then got the wobble knees and I knew I had fulfilled a dream we all want, high fives and hugs, after 19 years of being married that the first time my wife has seen me take a animal, and an awesome one to be on. The rest of the crew was there within minutes of hearing the shot, after many pictures, the work began, light was fading fast. Next morning hauled horses up, dressed him out quartered up, loading the panniers my mare let us set them on and then she decide she wasn't having any of it, after seeing meat flying luckily nobody got hurt, changed packs on horses and on the way back to trucks, all ended good was defiantly a hunt that I will never forget, my family was there to share it with me. Thanks Hun
My goal was to take a moose with my Hawkin 54 that I made from a kit that my parents gave to me for Christmas when I was 13, the horses were ready, camper loaded and we were off, opening morning we were checking the areas the cows had been all summer, nothing! We found a high point and started glassing, after five minutes my son excitingly pipes up, moose and it's a bull, the bull came right out in the open and stood, I radioed my brother and his boys to get over here quick, I could tell he was a shooter for me, 360 yards I had my rifle and muzzleloader but wasn't wanting to end it that fast, so I stuck to my goal, we watched him walk down along the lakeside, my boys everso wanting me to shoot him, I decided to circle down around and try to get into range, I turned the gopro on and we were off, he just vanished, not wanting to stir him up, I knew he was in the area for one reason, and he wasn't going anywhere.
After lunch my wife and kids, brother his boys headed back, spreading everyone out on lookouts I went back to where I was that morning. Setting and glassing after 3 hours nothing but 3 cows turned up, my wife wanted to head back, she wasn't thinking this was to fun, just setting, we headed back came up on the area where I thought the bull went into that morning and there was a cow and calf in the willows feeding and I caught a glimpse of a white paddle in the pines moving, there he was, he came out with cows and started raking the willows, I turned the gopro on, my wife turned on the iPhone recorder, ranged him at 90 yards, settled down over a rock waited for him to turn broadside, and let the smoke fly! He turned and stood, then trotted a ways then got the wobble knees and I knew I had fulfilled a dream we all want, high fives and hugs, after 19 years of being married that the first time my wife has seen me take a animal, and an awesome one to be on. The rest of the crew was there within minutes of hearing the shot, after many pictures, the work began, light was fading fast. Next morning hauled horses up, dressed him out quartered up, loading the panniers my mare let us set them on and then she decide she wasn't having any of it, after seeing meat flying luckily nobody got hurt, changed packs on horses and on the way back to trucks, all ended good was defiantly a hunt that I will never forget, my family was there to share it with me. Thanks Hun
