I used to have a gf that wore leather like that...

i really want to see that pic i cant see it

No, they just make nice trophy's to them. Can you even get good meat from them? I wouldn't hunt one personally.

Many will argue that moose is the best meat, right up there with elk, and you get alot of it from an animal.

You'll have to forgive me, I'm feeling way to sick today and making way too many assumptions. I would hunt them then too! Nice trophy and a lot of good meat.

I've harvested a lot of moose, and ate a lot of moose meat, but i'd NEVER rate it better than venison or caribou...

DM

And for those of you that were convinced the origional pict. was fake,below issome more for you to think about.

It was sent to me from a friend of mine in Canada andi'm posting itbelow as it came to me...

DM



Moose logging story

Lew and the rest of the gang- We had been trying to keep this under wraps as we knew this would happen once folks found out that with some effort you can train moose to harness. Once this picture got out, it's been E-mailed around like crazy but no one has bothered to fill in the rest of the story so before any rampant rumors get going, I better write down what I know. I folks want to extrapolate on that, then Lord only knows where this picture and story will end up.

The man in the picture is Jacques Leroux who lives up near Escourt Station and has always had work horses, first for actual work and then for show at Maine's' many summer fairs.

I think he had two matched pairs, one Clydesdales and the other Belgiums. He would turn them out to pasture each morning and then work them in the afternoon dragging the sled around the fields.

Three springs ago, he noticed a female moose coming to the pasture and helping herself of the hay and what grain the work horses didn't pick up off the ground. Jacques said he could get within 10 feet of the moose before it would turn and move off.

Two springs ago, the moose foaled(?)at the edge of the work horse pasture and upon getting to it's feet had not only the mother in attendance but the four horses. The young moose grew up around the horses and each afternoon when Mr. Leroux took the teams for their daily exercise the yearling moose would trail along the entire route next to the near horse.

At some point, the yearling got so accustomed to Mr. Leroux that, after he had brushed each horse after a workout, he started brushing down the moose. The moose tolerated this quite well so Mr. Leroux started draping harness parts over the yearling to see how he would tolerate these objects. The yearling was soon harness broken and now came the question of what could you do with a harness broke moose.

As you may or may not know, a great deal of Maine is being bought up by folks "from away" and some of them understand principles of forest management. Well the folks buying small parcels of land up in the area of the Allagash have it in their mind that they don't want big skidders and processors and forwarders on their small wood lots. Enter Mr. Leroux with his teams of horses.

Every morning, when Mr.. Leroux loaded the teams into the horse trailer to go off to the days job, the yearling moose got quite riled up and one day loaded himself right into the trailer with the horses. At the job site, Jacques unloaded the horses and as the moose stayed right with them, he would take the Clydesdales and his brother Gaston would take the Belgians and off into the woods they would go with the moose trailing behind. They would put the harness on the moose in case they encountered someone who they could kid with the explanation that the moose was a spare in case something happened to one of the horses. The work required them to skid cut, limbed and topped stems to the landing where the stems could be loaded onto a truck for the pulp mill.

All morning long the two brothers brought out twitch after twitch of stems with the moose following the Belgian team for the most part. At lunch break Jacques had the bright idea of putting trace chains and a whiffle tree on the moose's harness and all afternoon the moose went back and forth following the Belgians in and out of the woods dragging his whiffletree along the ground. As there were no stumps in the skid trail, the whiffle tree never hung up on anything and that first day in harness went great. So next day, they hitched on first a small stem and the moose brought it out just fine following the Belgians.

Mr. Leroux told me they were up to four small stems now and the moose was doing just great. He cautioned however that there were a few problems with using a bull moose. Come June, when the new antlers start, the new bone is "in velvet" and must itch like crazy as the moose stops every once in awhile and rubs his rack

Makes for an interesting story but I would still like to know why that black outline between the antlers and the sky is there. I down loaded this picture and zoomed in with Photo Deluxe and can definitely see a distinct black outline of the antlers. If the whole picture was original there should have been a faint outline if any at all between the antlers and the sky. Just an observation on my part, but great picture...

I think that all those leather fasteners and straps are bondage stuff. I think this guy and his moose are going to put on a "moose show".

I figured it had to be someone North of the border and to top it off a French Canadian! Crazy.
Better stay clear of the bull around the rut though. No little leather harness would stop that bad boy, if a cow in heat came through the North 40.