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Moose
Feb 3, 2017 22:41:50 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 3, 2017 22:41:50 GMT -6
A very nice Bull
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Moose
Feb 3, 2017 23:00:22 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 3, 2017 23:00:22 GMT -6
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Moose
Feb 3, 2017 23:05:26 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 3, 2017 23:05:26 GMT -6
Look closely at his right antler. You can see a hole from an antler tip from sparring with another bull.
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Moose
Feb 3, 2017 23:11:11 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 3, 2017 23:11:11 GMT -6
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Moose
Feb 3, 2017 23:15:27 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 3, 2017 23:15:27 GMT -6
During our cow moose hunt we'd have been fined if we had shot this bull. Without a scope it would've been hard to see this antler. This bull was shot by another hunter who had a bull tag. He weighed 741 dressed.
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Moose
Feb 3, 2017 23:23:53 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 3, 2017 23:23:53 GMT -6
This is the above moose. The hunter earned this moose. He put in tons of hours and lots of miles on foot scouting. Once the moose is down the fun began. He had a logging horse lined up to drag it out because no vehicles are allowed in the White Mountain National Forest. They had to cut a 600 yard trail in to the downed moose. They get the horse near and the horse smelled the bull moose. It went on the defensive and the horse owner couldn't get him near the moose. So they sent him on his way. Got more ice and packed it in to the moose. Lined up another horse for the next morning. He had his family go with him for the big moment. Unfortunately the little kids got excited and screaming when they saw the moose and it caused the horse to bolt. They finally cleared the family out and the horse went in and dragged the moose out.
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Moose
Feb 4, 2017 8:36:45 GMT -6
Post by westbranch on Feb 4, 2017 8:36:45 GMT -6
Love the pictures. We seem to have some breeding moose in our area, every few years some a cow is sighted with a calf and an occasional bull is seen. About 15-20 miles north of us some people get several trail camera pictures a year of moose. But we are 90+ miles to areas that are actually managed for moose.
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Moose
Feb 4, 2017 19:56:20 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 4, 2017 19:56:20 GMT -6
WB,
I remember the first moose track I saw in the woods when I was 12. We were 2 miles back in and saw the track. Looked like a cow track in the mud. My dad was insistent that it had to be a cow since there were no moose. It was a moose. Then the sightings became more common. The state biologists insisted they had to be roamers. Well over the next 10 years the population exploded. Moose were common. They opened a lottery. I put in every year and gave never been drawn. I was 4th alternate two years ago and my brother got drawn for a cow tag. Unfortunately the moose population had headed south and we didn't see a cow during the season except after legal hours. If there are fresh clear cuts they will move to them. Maybe some day you'll see them. Last year was the first year I didn't see a moose on our property.
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Moose
Feb 13, 2017 18:44:02 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 13, 2017 18:44:02 GMT -6
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Moose
Feb 13, 2017 19:20:01 GMT -6
Post by sd51555 on Feb 13, 2017 19:20:01 GMT -6
Too bad the quacks can't figure out a way to put a tick med into some feed that a landowner could put out. That's hard to see. Those tick photos from the Ozarks are tough to look at as well. It amazes me that the deer in my area aren't killed by ticks given the amount I can pick up in a day with untreated clothing.
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Moose
Feb 13, 2017 19:29:34 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Feb 13, 2017 19:29:34 GMT -6
I think the early fall and late spring snows you get help kill them. There's 20+ different types of ticks in NH. (I had no idea there were that many) Only one is the major killer of the moose. It's the winter tick.
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Post by Sandbur on Feb 25, 2017 7:07:50 GMT -6
This is the above moose. The hunter earned this moose. He put in tons of hours and lots of miles on foot scouting. Once the moose is down the fun began. He had a logging horse lined up to drag it out because no vehicles are allowed in the White Mountain National Forest. They had to cut a 600 yard trail in to the downed moose. They get the horse near and the horse smelled the bull moose. It went on the defensive and the horse owner couldn't get him near the moose. So they sent him on his way. Got more ice and packed it in to the moose. Lined up another horse for the next morning. He had his family go with him for the big moment. Unfortunately the little kids got excited and screaming when they saw the moose and it caused the horse to bolt. They finally cleared the family out and the horse went in and dragged the moose out. I killed a moose in NW Mn. in (I think) 1977. It had been 28 below the night before season, and I killed my moose the next evening with temperatures falling to about the same range. We had a mini mac chain saw with all of the oil removed from it. Cut the moose up with the chain saw, loaded him on plastic kids sleds and out he went. We pulled him down a frozen ditch bank and only had to use snow shoes for a short distance. We saw a lot of moose during that one day hunt. I had a very nice bull standing looking at me, but one of the other guys had just shot. I later learned he had missed. We were allowed one moose for 4 hunters.
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Moose
Jun 13, 2017 0:22:21 GMT -6
Post by nhmountains on Jun 13, 2017 0:22:21 GMT -6
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Post by Freeborn on Jun 13, 2017 4:08:11 GMT -6
I have heard Moose are curious animals. How do they behave when you encounter them? Do they run like a deer or stop and watch you?
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Moose
Jun 13, 2017 9:02:34 GMT -6
Post by Bwoods11 on Jun 13, 2017 9:02:34 GMT -6
Amazing!! Incredible animal
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