KHunter 2022 ID bull and CO cow moose hunts

[44hunter45]

LOL. live text thread with lady landowner. who thinks I should hunt only what she deems BLM versus using published maps.

Chilln’ waiting for bulls to come over the line. View attachment 237532

Does she have an "Ammon Bundy for Governor" sign in front of her house?

 

[Khunter]

what vessel do guys use to boil moose heads? they are WAY oblong.

 

[Khunter]

Does she have an "Ammon Bundy for Governor" sign in front of her house?

yup!

 

[Hunting Wife]

what vessel do guys use to boil moose heads? they are WAY oblong.

I’ve seen metal trash cans with notches cut for pedicles to slide down into.

 

[44hunter45]

I wish it was Jerome. Unfortunately it was my hometown of Preston.

Gosh!

 

[Oak]

I was getting a weight on everything just out of curiosity but took the straps, tenders and both briskets (cantvwaitvto cook) home to process my self per usual. Adds up to 463.5 pounds. Not sure if that is hefty or not but borrowibg s freezer from @Dinkshooter today till @abqbw comes by after @Gerald Martin sheep hunt to pick up his half.

Dink's no Chad.

 

[bowhuntmontana]

Gosh!

I see what you did there.

 

[DJ1]

Question for anyone. Which of those above are considered brow tines, none? I'm lost on moose.

I don’t believe any of those are brow tines. Brow tines have to emerge off the brow palm or the base. Tough to tell with the picture regarding the right side but I don’t think they exist. Very cool old bull no matter if he has brows or not.

 

[Khunter]

This won’t get it done. need to go shopping for better vessel.

I can see by something shiny and new and using a metal blade with a sawsall accounting wife mentioned to get it to work right. even cutting out slots on this one won’t work because the top circumference diameter is 24 inches and the bottom is a few inches less and the head just won’t fit across horizontally.

I see the challenge of not boing out the color on the horns while trying to get the top and upper back of the head in water.

more suggestions welcome.

Final story of finding this bull and stalking him and killing him or coming up but I gotta keep moving to cleaning up the mess being successful makes.

 

[Hunting Wife]

This won’t get it done. need to go shopping for better vessel.

I can see by something shiny and new and using a metal blade with a sawsall accounting wife mentioned to get it to work right. even cutting out slots on this one won’t work because the top circumference diameter is 24 inches and the bottom is a few inches less and the head just won’t fit across horizontally.

I see the challenge of not boing out the color on the horns while trying to get the top and upper back of the head in water.

more suggestions welcome.

Final story of finding this bull and stalking him and killing him or coming up but I gotta keep moving to cleaning up the mess being successful makes.View attachment 243672

Could work. Make a pad of shop towels or paper towels and put it over the top to wick that hot water up over the exposed part of the skull. I’ve had to do some big/odd shaped skulls that way and it works. You can cover the towels with foil to help hold the heat if you need.

Edit: the only pic I have where you can kind of see. I just tuck it right under the bases, and use enough to cover all exposed skull and hold a decent amount of hot water.



Or buy a bigger vessel works too

 

[westbranch]

Plastic tub with slots cut out and sous vide worked but took a long time. (Deadhead from last year)

 

[vanish]

One of those metal watering troughs from tractor supply?

 

[BenInMT]

What’s the rough score on that thing? When I had a shiras tag I spent a lot of pre hunt time obsessing over what it took to equal a B&C. From what I remember the ones like yours with the big brow palms really add inches.

 

[Khunter]

thanks everybody for boiling ideas. going with towels and wicking for now.

 

[winmag]

My skull taxidermist uses a sous vide, with the outlet fed into a tube to direct the near-boiling water over the exposed skull cap without touching the antlers. He says there’s almost no other way to get a moose right, since the angles you’ve got to work with.

 

[44hunter45]

@Khunter PM me and I can try and get you in touch with a blood tracking dog.

I remember seeing one in Boise in the Idaho registry.

 

[44hunter45]

Exactly where my head went too.

I admit I might have played dead a while...

 

[mmazour]

thanks everybody for boiling ideas. going with towels and wicking for now.

 

[winmag]

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Great test of symmetry there!

 

[DJ1]

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That’s awesome!