antlerrick
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We finally got out to hunt for my son's moose and headed up near Ogden on Thursday night. We ran into the same bull we had seen a couple weeks ago and were able to put him down. We have never hunted moose before so it was tough trying to decide what we were looking at, and how good of a bull we should hold out for. My son was within 30 yards with his bow, but it was too thick to see him well, and some grouse busted out and spooked the bull. As he ran straight away, he figured that he wasn't that big so he turned him down and headed back to where we were. We watched him for about 4 hours and got a bunch of video of this bull, as he wouldn't leave his cow and stayed visible on the sidehill. After checking out all our footage, and not having seen any other bulls, decided if he ever seen this bull again, he would take it if possible. Unfortnately, the last time we seen him he was headed down into a big deep canyon, and it was getting dark. We couldn't find him again the next couple of days.
We found Thursday morning about 400 yards from where we first seen him and put him on the ground about 8:30 in the morning After having to pound him 3 times with his 300RUM,
to get him to stay down, he was pretty happy when he finally got to put his hands on him and see how nice he really was. And then the Work began!!!
Wow they are big animals. Those things are absolutely huge to say the least! He is probably not the biggest bull around, but he had some cool characteristics that we both liked. He had long points and a great looking set of antlers that had width, height and depth.
It was amazing to watch the video and to see what the force of that bullet did to that moose. The first shot at about 200 yards threw him sideways and the stumbling made him fall. He then tried to get up again and he shot again and the force again threw him to the ground Again he tried to get up and the last shot hit him so hard that his head was thrown to the ground and his hind legs actually were kicked up into the air from the force of the hit. Amazing that a bullet could hit that hard, and knock a 1200 lb animal like it did.
Anyway here are a few of the pictures of his bull.
Hope you enjoy...
The bull when we first seen him 2 weeks ago.
We found Thursday morning about 400 yards from where we first seen him and put him on the ground about 8:30 in the morning After having to pound him 3 times with his 300RUM,
to get him to stay down, he was pretty happy when he finally got to put his hands on him and see how nice he really was. And then the Work began!!!
Wow they are big animals. Those things are absolutely huge to say the least! He is probably not the biggest bull around, but he had some cool characteristics that we both liked. He had long points and a great looking set of antlers that had width, height and depth.
It was amazing to watch the video and to see what the force of that bullet did to that moose. The first shot at about 200 yards threw him sideways and the stumbling made him fall. He then tried to get up again and he shot again and the force again threw him to the ground Again he tried to get up and the last shot hit him so hard that his head was thrown to the ground and his hind legs actually were kicked up into the air from the force of the hit. Amazing that a bullet could hit that hard, and knock a 1200 lb animal like it did.
Anyway here are a few of the pictures of his bull.
Hope you enjoy...
The bull when we first seen him 2 weeks ago.
