Hey Congrats Terry!

I just got back from my week long hunt on Saturday. We had a tough hunt this year too and came home empty handed. The bugs were brutal for us too. It was the first year that I actually had to wear a head net to keep from going nuts. Not fun. The morning were ok but the evenings were brutal.
The beginning of the week started out great. Monday night my buddy had a bull respond to his cow calls but he held up just on the other side of a creek. Every time he'd get fired up and start heading to the creek a cow would moan back in the willows and he'd head back. Then another bull piped up a few hundred yards to the north and that was it. He went back there to chase him off.
After that we were pretty fired up about our chances. Wednesday morning I had a bull going but he too held up in the timber way down at the other end of a giant slough.
After that the weather tured sour. Rained all night Wednesday and into Thursday. Wind started howling and basically blew hard for the rest of the week. We couldn't even hear our own calls at a few hundred yards let alone a moose. Pretty hard conditions for calling moose.

Oh well, maybe next year.
I'm heading out this weekend to hang my stands for muzzleloader deer season and shoot the gun a bit. That'll help with the post moose season blues. I hope.