Littleal,

We were hunting 15a too, never seen so much snow in a week before!

It didn't stay on the ground, but it never stopped flurrying.

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No Archery hunting for me this year , but we had a successfull rifle hunt.
It took us four days this year due to bad weather , one of the young guys bagged his first Moose with a 300 Win Mag.
The Beast came into the butcher shop at 719 lbs., with a 50" spread.

He was tending a rather loud Cow when I called him over to the kid .
The Bull walked directly towards him down a winter road from 190 yds. away, the kid had the presence of mind to wait till the last minute before he dropped him at 30 yds , only to pop up again , his second shot was 2&quot; beside his first shot ( Dead on ), followed by his third shot , slightly behind the first two. With 2 Magnums in him he still walked away , but the Beast took a turn for the worst ( for him anyway ) when he turned broad side , the last shot in the neck dropped him for good .<img src=icon_smile_dead.gif border=0 align=middle>
When we reached the kid he was still standing on the road , he said there was no way he was going into the bush to see the Beast by himself .It's a good thing he didn't have to sign any autographs cause it took him several hours and wobbely pops to get him to stop shaking. WAY TO GO JOHN <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

Great Story Circle!
Tell the Kid congrats There's nothing better than someones first whether it be a moose or a deer, and to think he kept his composer to take three shots!
AL

I can understand the Moose leaving the area that was sprayed for Insects. We had the same problem in the area that we hunt. The signs, warning of spraying were everywhere. Never saw very much Moose sign in those particular spots .


I'll tell the kid you said hi Littleal.

Also, I found the story of the MNR around North Bay being very strict interesting, cause we used to be bombarded by the MNR in our area , everything you could imagine. Well last year we weren't visited at all, and I don't think half of them had a PAL/POL, funny how that works out EH?

I'm a close nieghbour as well Machz I'm in Creemore.
We had an unsuccessful hunt this year as well but I'm not going to blame the weather I'll just blame the shooter who definetley wasn't prepared his equipment wasn't setup properly and he never practices his shooting.we caught an adult bull coming across a clearcut my buddy gave him a bull grunt because the cow call hadn't been working for us .The bull responded immediatly he covered a half mile in minute's. When he turned our direction Kevin ran down the road to tell his buddy that a Large bull was on his way and to get ready
15 minutes the bull appeared on the top of the hill.Buddy gave him a bull grunt, and he marched straight down the road to him this couldn't have been anymore perfect. This bull was right out in the open on a logging road nothing inbetween him and the bull at 20yrd's ,yes 20yrd's ,he aimed and released and whaaaappp he hit him alright .They came back to camp and were very excited about this bull HE'S DOWN HE'S DOWN that's for sure they said.Well we got all the gear that we could possibly need to drag this bull out of the swamp.
When we arrived to the spot where he had shot these guy's run into the swamp and start looking for a downed bull.Darren say's to me that wouldn't it be a good idea if we look for blood trail first before we enter the swamp I figure that that's Our best bet but the other's were already gone.Darren and I find blood immediately but not heavy just little bit's here and there,as we continue we find the arrow ,this is what told the story.The Arrow only had blood 4 to 6 inch's up the shaft the broadhead was mutilated with 3 broken blade's.
Darren and I had come to the conclussion that this could only mean a shoulder shot .We called the guy's out of the bush and decided stay on the blood trail but without any luck.We decided that we would come back tommorrow and look in the day light when it would be much easier to see.Well as thing's turned out we never found him ,but we did have some success with a 300lb bear and a couple close call's on other bull's but thing's wern't just right to take a shot. We seen 3 shootable bull's no cow's and 3 bear's in which we brought one home
We hunt in 21B at White River This is the first year in 8 season's that we came home without a moose ,but there's alway's next year and buddy will learn how to shoot if I have to drag him out myself.
P.S. he sure is taking a kickin for that shot from men, woman and children hahaha
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Our moose season was awesome! First day we had a young bull down by 7 am second day we had a little bit older bull down by 9:30 unfortenuatly that was the end of the hunt we didn't need more meat for 6 of us. Had a blast my first ever hunt I didn't get to shoot one myself but oh well there is always next year!