TBow Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 I've been home for just over a week now from my annual moose hunt and finally got my pics and new computer organized. I retired 3 weeks ago, and the first order of business for this "baby-boomer", was to hit the woods of northern Ontario to bowhunt moose. I've been heading north for my moose bowhunting pilgrimage for nye on 29 years now and have to say it's the high light of my hunting experiences. Bull tags are getting harder and harder to come by, but my son and I still look forward to the trek north regardless of whether we luck out for tags or not. There's still tremendous fishing, grouse hunting, atving on countless miles of crown land, and if the urge strikes you, you can take a stab at fall bear. And then there's always the opportunity to visit old friends that we've made over the past 3 decades in the locale we hunt. Anyhow, we did manage a bull tag this year, after 3 or 4 years of going tagless for a bull. There was 4 of us in camp, one of my best friends, my son and one of his friends. The weather wasn't that great as it rained for almost 80% of the time we were there, but in the 20% of the fair weather we experienced, we managed to harvest a 55" bull. I was doing the calling and had my son and his friend were about 200 yards away from me in an interception location and my buddy was covering any approaches that managed to elude my son. The second night we were there I called in 6 animals within one hour. My son and his friend tag teamed on the bull with their crossbows, then videoed a cow and calf that came in after the shooting spree. Another two bulls came in half an hour later followed by another lone bull, but with only one bull tag in camp, sightseeing and photography was the order of the day after the first bull was hit. I tried a new moose horn this year that I made from an old toy platic baseball bat. It's about 2 feet long and is 4" or 5" at one end and about 1-1/2" at the other end and is hollow. I cut both ends out then wrapped it with, what else, DUCT TAPE around the whole bat. I used it as a megaphone and also used it to scrape the large open end against a tree trunk to simulate a bull raking trees with his antlers. Seemed to work allright if results are any indication. The pic I'm posting is of my best friend and I with the bull. Ya we didn't shoot it, but we called him in and sure did our fair share of the slugging and work to get him out and into the butcher's shop. Good thing we had two 4wheelers and an Argo to get him out, otherwise I think we'd have had to take in some knives and a forks and eat him right there! When we got the 4 skinned out quarters into the butcher, they weighed in at 820 lbs, so we estimated the bull to be about 1250 to 1300 lbs on the hoof. You know when they say that after the shot, the works really starts. Truer words have never been spoken for sure! TBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2labs Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Congrats on a Great bull, nice hunt!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doe-ee Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 Congrats on the moose and glad you guys didn't have to eat him to get him out. LOL Great story!:cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dakota Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 That's awesome! Congrats! Dakota Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted October 14, 2009 Report Share Posted October 14, 2009 sounds like an awesome trip! Congrats to you all!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prairiepredator Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Congrats on a great looking bull! That is going to be nice up on your wall! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob LeBlanc Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Way ta go Geoff !!! (I was wondering why the crossbows were there) Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muleyman Posted October 15, 2009 Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Congrats!! sounds like an awesome trip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBow Posted October 15, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 15, 2009 Bob, I'm still the only hold-out with hand-held hand-drawn as I'm still using my Mathews Q2XL. Periodically I pull out one of my recurves or longbows just for nostalgic reasons and trek off to a 3D shoot every now and then. The other 3 guys in camp were all using Excaliburs. TBow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob LeBlanc Posted October 16, 2009 Report Share Posted October 16, 2009 I didn't think you'd put down your Mathews !!:nono::clown: Watson'd roll over...:jaw: Best place to shoot a moose?...as close to the truck as possible !!!...:flex: Bob :clown: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted October 21, 2009 Report Share Posted October 21, 2009 Beautiful Bull. Way to go guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airman312 Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 sounds like a good time...great bull too!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dance.and.shoot Posted October 24, 2009 Report Share Posted October 24, 2009 Congrats Man!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichiganHunter Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 (edited) thats a swamp donkey right there....very nice. Edited October 25, 2009 by MichiganHunter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Wow, that's a nice moose! Congrats to your gang. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrow32 Posted October 25, 2009 Report Share Posted October 25, 2009 Nice moose! Congrats to you guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWSmith Posted October 27, 2009 Report Share Posted October 27, 2009 Great Backround and Beautiful Bull...Hope you can continue the experience for many years to come in the future! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Andrus Posted November 4, 2009 Report Share Posted November 4, 2009 very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lancadude Posted November 21, 2009 Report Share Posted November 21, 2009 Congrats on a Great bull, nice hunt!! carpetbagging badgers ftw Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doubledrop Posted November 24, 2009 Report Share Posted November 24, 2009 very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bloodtrails Posted December 11, 2009 Report Share Posted December 11, 2009 Nice work!!:cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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