Was fortunate enough to draw an anterless moose tag so a buddy and I setoff in the rain on September 29th to our chosen camp location.
Rain was on and off Monday and Tuesday and moose sightings were limited to 2 small bulls and a cow and a calf which darted across a trail in front of me.
Wednesday morning saw a slight reprieve from the rain and I informed my buddy today was the day. My buddy setup in a cutblock looking for his deer while I set off for a different area. Spot I had chosen was a 5 or so year old cutblock with an east facing slope with some good structure retained with in the cutblock. Encountered 2 calf moose right away but no shots fired. Worked my way to a more open area and spotted a moose 150 yards up the slope. I confirmed it was a cow thru my bino’s and chambered a round, took aim and fired. She went down hard into some very tall grass and I lost sight of her. She stood back up and turned to face me. I chambered another round and took steady aim using a tree as a rest and fired again putting her down for good.
As I was walking up the slope through a maze of deadfall, stumps and regenerating pine I thought to myself, going to be a task getting her out of here. As the grass was quite tall, I was only a couple of yards from where she lay before I saw and confirmed she had expired. Luckily she had expired on an old atv trail through the cutblock making recovery a breeze.
Walked back out and got my buddy. When we got back, a rather large bull was standing right where she lay. Think I ruined his plans for the evening.
Drove my atv up to her and dragged her down to the main trail where we gutted and quartered her for the trip back to camp.
Dropped her off at the butchers Friday morning. Weighed in at 465 lbs.
My camp for the week.
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Loaded up. For a cheaper atv trailer, it performed very well for where we were. In muskeg be not so good. 3 quarters and the head. Other quarter strapped on front of buddies quad but trailer would of handled it easily.
Cartridge used was the cheap blue box Federal 130 grain soft points. My 270 WSM shoots them into cloverleafs at 100 yards so felt confident in using them.
Recovered 1st shot bullet versus the unfired cartridge.
Finally, why I was a forester by profession, love being out in the forest in the fall as the sights, sounds and smells are second to none.
Sorry for the long read.
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