Dad's mooose from a couple of years ago

Nice picture. I used to want to go on a moose hunt real bad. Then my wife and I bought some land in northern MN, and I found out that you can pretty much walk up on them. I have been so close these great animals that I would feel bad about killing one of them. I'll have to try to upload some of my pictures. My wife thinks I'm nuts because I'll get within 20 feet of them for pictures. I've had them grunting at me but I have never had one charge yet. (knock on wood) Again this is just how I feel about hunting them. Gunflint

I didn't think they were black ?

i understand you you feel gunflint ! I love to hunt, but i dont enjoy it when its to easy. It just isnt the same.

If i was starving it would be a different story, but i do enjoy hunting for the sport as well. Now if it took me three days of tracking, and looking and thinking and planning and watching the wind.. ect.. then possibly it wouldnt bother me.

Some people feel the way you do about Cat hunts. But all they see it the people shooting them out of a tree with a bunch of dogs.

What they dont see is more often than not in a cat hunt is the 3-5 grueling days that it took to get that cat in a tree.

I do enjoy a good challenge, if its not a challenge its not much fun!!!

ps. do you have any turkeys up there??? I'm all about turkey hunting!!! lol

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We have a ton of turkeys on our property. Sometimes to be a sh*thead I take my turkey call outside about 6:30 in the morning and I drive the Tom's nuts. It's a lot of fun to listen to them go crazy. My wife thinks I'm nuts but oh well. Talk about hunting we got 562lbs of deer meat this year! Gunflint

That's alot of meat . . .

If your talking to me - you are right we had to get another freezer. Gunflint

Moose are not the most intelligent animals in the first place. They have a tendency to spend their life in the same general area. We had scouted this area & knew where the bulls were hanging out. This bull was shot almost a mile from any road and dad broke his hand stepping over a log after the last shot.

Gunflint.... shoot me an emial!!

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Im always looking for a good out of state hunt!! 🙂

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i know this sounds silly but if you get some quality players and not just people who run around at random. paintball has been more fun than any hunt ive been on. stalking something through 50 acres that is stalking you back. you can play with a gamble (5 opus x to winning man or team) it keeps people serious.

In my mind paint ball does not compare to hunting. I will carry the memory of dad getting his moose for the rest of my life. Hunting is not all about killing something.

Duckdgs - You are right about that. I once had one running down the center lane of the road for almost a mile before he headed into the woods. I would probably feel differently if I lived around them all the time. I know my wife would due to the fact she likes having a garden. I shot a 130 doe this year in my front yard due to the fact she kept eating my wife's flowers. I have to tell you I felt bad about that one, but I yelled at her 3 times and she kept coming right back. -- Gunflint

Again you are right! To me hunting is a success regardless if you fill your tag or not. It's the fact you are out there and some of my best hunts I ended up empty handed. Gunflint

My best day last year was when my, father, brother, nephew, friend and I went snow goose hunting - Spent the day out hunting, had one chance all day and my brother would not take the shot (thought it was too far). I can not imagine shooting something and not feeling some remorse.