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Deerslayer
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On the way home this afternoon from taking my father in law trout fishing in the snowy range...I spotted a Moose in a willow flat about 100 yards off the road. I had a 200mm lens but no movie camera, which sucks because this would have definitely made either America's Funniest Home Video or the Video of Asians being run down by wild big game animals some of you were talking about.
..anyway, I wanted some real good pix so I felt I should slip closer while leaving ol' paw and law on the road in the safe zone
.....so I'm 50 yards.......he has no clue....I circle down wind......he is oblivious as he feeds on willows. This guy is big.......not as big as the Alaskan Yukons that go between 50-70 inches...but a lot bigger than the 24incher pug has mounted
...so now I am at 25 yards and closing...inching up only as he has his head knee deep in willows. This big guy has no clue....just me, him and enjoying nature at it's finest. Well, he has now looked over at me at 15 yards several times.....but he is not sure what the hell I am, as I too am knee deep in willows......so I start mimicking his gutteral grunts as best I can while I'm clicking away the whole time, hoping to throw him off just enough to get a close up of that tick in his earhole......just like the Asians who get trampelled in Yellowstone! I want to get just a tad closer, because paw in law is taking pix from above with his own camera capturing my closeness with the Moose ...and I want to make sure he captures the lack of ground between me and bullwinkle, right?.....so I get to withinn 10 feet and he looks dead at me...puts his head down and feed towards me....so I just freeze.......and after a few seconds I realize he is doing that head swaggering thingy they do just before they kick another bulls ass! ....I am clicking away with the old Nikon......a roll and a half by now.....and this phucker comes on a dead charge!......OH SHIT!!!!! ..I am hauling ass but loosing the race,shooting pix on the run.... and Paw and Law is screaming Run! Run! Run!......as my life flashes before me I bust my ass and hit the ground as this big Phucker comes piling in on me!...I'm crawling on all 4's up under the big tree beside me.....and this asshole is thrashing the limbs I'm under!....he holds me at bay for a good 5 minutes..as I jockey for position through to the other side..then make a break for it the last 100 yards to the truck.....Moosie hot on my ass and closing quick!...I fly over the guard rail and this guy come blowin' up to my Suburban with a vengance......the guard rail is the only thing that stopped him from trashing my truck. We watched this big guy from the saftey of the interior of the truck for another 45 minutes as he destroyed several small trees and pissed on his hocks while pawing the ground.......let's just say he was hormonally challenged! Ohhhh..... So that is why the Yellowstone brochure says to watch the big ones from the safety of the vehicle!!!
...should make for some intersting pix of a big bull elk for these parts.........just wish the video had been running.
DS
..anyway, I wanted some real good pix so I felt I should slip closer while leaving ol' paw and law on the road in the safe zone
.....so I'm 50 yards.......he has no clue....I circle down wind......he is oblivious as he feeds on willows. This guy is big.......not as big as the Alaskan Yukons that go between 50-70 inches...but a lot bigger than the 24incher pug has mounted ...so now I am at 25 yards and closing...inching up only as he has his head knee deep in willows. This big guy has no clue....just me, him and enjoying nature at it's finest. Well, he has now looked over at me at 15 yards several times.....but he is not sure what the hell I am, as I too am knee deep in willows......so I start mimicking his gutteral grunts as best I can while I'm clicking away the whole time, hoping to throw him off just enough to get a close up of that tick in his earhole......just like the Asians who get trampelled in Yellowstone!
I want to get just a tad closer, because paw in law is taking pix from above with his own camera capturing my closeness with the Moose ...and I want to make sure he captures the lack of ground between me and bullwinkle, right?.....so I get to withinn 10 feet and he looks dead at me...puts his head down and feed towards me....so I just freeze.......and after a few seconds I realize he is doing that head swaggering thingy they do just before they kick another bulls ass! ....I am clicking away with the old Nikon......a roll and a half by now.....and this phucker comes on a dead charge!......OH SHIT!!!!! ..I am hauling ass but loosing the race,shooting pix on the run.... and Paw and Law is screaming Run! Run! Run!......as my life flashes before me I bust my ass and hit the ground as this big Phucker comes piling in on me!...I'm crawling on all 4's up under the big tree beside me.....and this asshole is thrashing the limbs I'm under!....he holds me at bay for a good 5 minutes..as I jockey for position through to the other side..then make a break for it the last 100 yards to the truck.....Moosie hot on my ass and closing quick!...I fly over the guard rail and this guy come blowin' up to my Suburban with a vengance......the guard rail is the only thing that stopped him from trashing my truck. We watched this big guy from the saftey of the interior of the truck for another 45 minutes as he destroyed several small trees and pissed on his hocks while pawing the ground.......let's just say he was hormonally challenged! Ohhhh..... So that is why the Yellowstone brochure says to watch the big ones from the safety of the vehicle!!! ...should make for some intersting pix of a big bull elk for these parts.........just wish the video had been running.
DS
