We had just lost our home to a forest fire and I was busy 18 hours a day rebuilding our new home. It's a beautiful fall day with clear skies n lots of sunshine. My buddy stops by around 4 pm wanting to go moose hunting. My beautiful wife convinces me to take a couple hours off.
I grabbed my rifle n we head out to my honey hole an hour later. We park n head off down the trail leading in through the alders. It's been used heavily by moose so the going is easy. As we're still hunting our way in we spot a nice bull laying in his bed watching us. He knows he's busted if he stands but knows he's big enough to not really care. It's my buddies turn to shoot first. The big bull never got up.
We go get the wheelers n my meat trailer. Nice when you can drive right up to them. The shot was through the neck which had also hit the juggler n bled out so we didn't have to do that. Or we probably would have noticed that the only knife we had was the 3" buck pocket knife I carry. I must say it did a fine job as we were tapping a cold beer n feeling blessed that we had a moose hanging by 8 pm that fine fall evening to feed our families.
I've had lots of hunts. But this one has a lot of meaning with it for me
I grabbed my rifle n we head out to my honey hole an hour later. We park n head off down the trail leading in through the alders. It's been used heavily by moose so the going is easy. As we're still hunting our way in we spot a nice bull laying in his bed watching us. He knows he's busted if he stands but knows he's big enough to not really care. It's my buddies turn to shoot first. The big bull never got up.
We go get the wheelers n my meat trailer. Nice when you can drive right up to them. The shot was through the neck which had also hit the juggler n bled out so we didn't have to do that. Or we probably would have noticed that the only knife we had was the 3" buck pocket knife I carry. I must say it did a fine job as we were tapping a cold beer n feeling blessed that we had a moose hanging by 8 pm that fine fall evening to feed our families.
I've had lots of hunts. But this one has a lot of meaning with it for me
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