K-man
AH legend
Most of you have seen the end result of this hunt but I will start at the beginning when I met Cody with Lobo Peak outfitters out of Prince George at DSC last January.
After meeting Cody I booked a hunt for this fall for moose with an option for black bear.
The hunt began October 18 for an 8 day hunt, and I was met at Prince George airport for the short 2 hr drive to camp.
Camp is nice enough with plywood cabins with bunks and wood stoves, and a main log cabin lodge with other assorted buildings. There were 4 other hunters in camp that had driven up from Washington state hunting 2x1
Day one was mostly spent driving logging roads, looking for tracks and glassing the logging cuts. We saw several cows and calves and a couple of black bears but they were either sows with cubs or small/young bears.
One of the other hunters shot a nice moose so we went to help load out.
Days 2, 3 are very similar except day 3 we floated a small river in a boat with electric motor in the evening, It was fun to slip quietly back down to camp at dusk coming sometimes within 15 yds of moose but they were all young or cows. 2 more hunters shot their moose as well so we went to load them up as well.
Day 4 seemed different as a lot of you know, some days you just wake up and feel this is going to be a great day, full of optimism and expectation. As it turned out, about mid-morning we came around a bend in the road and the guide said, "there's a big moose cow over there" and just then all I could see was a big bull moose from my angle. I went from 0 to 60 in a heartbeat and the time from spotting the moose to loading my gun to firing was no more than 10 seconds. The shot seemed true (offhand at 110 yds) but the moose turned and began slowly moving away, so I put a second Barnes 18o grn raking in from behind the last rib to exiting the offside shoulder, and he dropped instantly. The first shot took out the top of the heart and shoulder, but if an animal is still standing I an still shooting.
The guides estimated he was an old moose in decline at about 12 yrs old. Body size was large for a Canadian species, and larger than the other ones shot that week. We finished pictures, and field dressed it to cool and returned to camp to get help loading/dragging it out.
After meeting Cody I booked a hunt for this fall for moose with an option for black bear.
The hunt began October 18 for an 8 day hunt, and I was met at Prince George airport for the short 2 hr drive to camp.
Camp is nice enough with plywood cabins with bunks and wood stoves, and a main log cabin lodge with other assorted buildings. There were 4 other hunters in camp that had driven up from Washington state hunting 2x1
Day one was mostly spent driving logging roads, looking for tracks and glassing the logging cuts. We saw several cows and calves and a couple of black bears but they were either sows with cubs or small/young bears.
One of the other hunters shot a nice moose so we went to help load out.
Days 2, 3 are very similar except day 3 we floated a small river in a boat with electric motor in the evening, It was fun to slip quietly back down to camp at dusk coming sometimes within 15 yds of moose but they were all young or cows. 2 more hunters shot their moose as well so we went to load them up as well.
Day 4 seemed different as a lot of you know, some days you just wake up and feel this is going to be a great day, full of optimism and expectation. As it turned out, about mid-morning we came around a bend in the road and the guide said, "there's a big moose cow over there" and just then all I could see was a big bull moose from my angle. I went from 0 to 60 in a heartbeat and the time from spotting the moose to loading my gun to firing was no more than 10 seconds. The shot seemed true (offhand at 110 yds) but the moose turned and began slowly moving away, so I put a second Barnes 18o grn raking in from behind the last rib to exiting the offside shoulder, and he dropped instantly. The first shot took out the top of the heart and shoulder, but if an animal is still standing I an still shooting.
The guides estimated he was an old moose in decline at about 12 yrs old. Body size was large for a Canadian species, and larger than the other ones shot that week. We finished pictures, and field dressed it to cool and returned to camp to get help loading/dragging it out.
