Impressive feat solo! Congrats! I weighed a mature 50 inch Shiras moose we helped harvest this year in Colorado and here's what I learned front and rear quarters bone in are nearly identical at 95lbs and 94lbs each skinned and lower bones cut off. The head and cape weighed in at 110lbs...
I wouldn't soak those horns like that. I think they will get stained. To get them to pop set them in a sealed trash bag in a warm place for a couple of days then drop them in the bag - back down- nose up- just they are in the cooler on a piece scrap carpet on concrete from 2-3 feet high. Do...
With 3 moose harvests personally under my belt and another 10 or so as a helper and a cow moose tag in my pocket here are my 2 cents for what it's worth .
Call at night from camp and along trails or roads where you want the moose to be the next morning. Using cow calls and a racking noise to...
If you're seeing smaller rams with ewes there's probably a small band of 5-10 rams hiding out someplace else. I see you are looking at a ton of very high tree-line country from your pics. I'd look for steep avalanche chutes with shade, water and good feed. I'd also check cliff bands in or near...
This commenter caught my attention as well and I let @Oak know. There is a some pretty good science behind the harvesting of ewes to keep populations in check to limit younger rams pioneering out looking for new habitat only to cross paths with domestics. Keeping current herds numbers in check...
I bet Khunter has a couple names on that list of guys who have hunted or helped in S17 you should really get signed up. I was there a couple years ago and helped a first time sheep hunter connect on her first Colorado big game animal on opening day. We found a nice band of rams in the trees and...
In addition to the "big raffles" Oak listed above that the RMBS sells tickets for online, there are onsite only raffles. There was an entire room of 50+ Bucket raffles, 10+ Gun raffles, 3 Mid tier raffles and one Top tier raffle for the 2 hunter aoudad hunt. The RMBS event is a a fun event...