Moose hunt advice

[DDot]

I drew a moose tag in Northwest Montana this year and I’m looking for advice on how to attack the hunt. It’s in a unit that’s very steep and thick and hard to navigate around in. I plan to hunt in the higher country near or in the wilderness. I’m wondering if anyone has experience hunting moose in this kind of habitat and has any pointers. Is blind calling a better strategy or getting to a glassing knob and spotting a bull first? I’ve only been on one moose hunt before so I don’t have much experience to pull from.

 

[Straight Arrow]

Find a willow wallow and scatter peas on the surrounding ground. When he comes to take a pea ... shoot him in the willow wallow!

 

[DDot]

As simple as that

 

[MuleyMB]

Not sure when your season runs or how long but I would figure out when the rut kicks in there and go then and cover ground glassing and locating bulls.

 

[DDot]

Think season opens September 5 for archery and runs all the way through November 29. Ive heard the rut is in full swing around October 1. Don’t know if that’s true or not.

 

[BuzzH]

Think season opens September 5 for archery and runs all the way through November 29. Ive heard the rut is in full swing around October 1. Don’t know if that’s true or not.

I would say that's pretty close to the right time frame for the rut. I called in one of the two bulls I killed in Wyoming on October 1, he came in from about 1.25-1.5 miles on a single cow call. Killed my first bull around Sept. 20ish and they weren't calling or rutting at all.