Sooner or Later it had to happen ...

[MikeBjerum]

I've always wondered.  What do you say after shooting one of those monsters?!?  "You start building the fire, I'll call everyone and tell them to bring plates and BBQ sauce, we aren't dragging all THAT out of here!"    

I know they quarter them, but STILL!!!  The kills usually take place tens of miles or more from the nearest road.  And even ATV's can't get far into that kind of woods.  

Badger,

I have a friend that has been on three hunts in that area (one before and after his tag, and the middle year when he had his).  They never got their moose within ten miles of the vehicles.  After shooting and finding, you quarter, cape if you want full mount or just take antlers, load on packs, and then it is portage/canoe/portage/canoe/portage ... until you are out.  Next is same ordeal two ways to gather your camp and get it out.

He has hunted this area and also Alaska wilderness.  He says northern Minnesota is the same as Alaska only without the mountains.  A lot of work, but well worth it.

BTY,

Of the five moose the group took only one took the full head, and one took the full hide.  All the rest said that was a few hundred pounds they did not need to carry out and took racks only.

[Hazcat]

On the comment area there are two choices "Show all" and "hide all."  It is common for old fat fingers, like mine and apparently yours, to hit "hide all."

They are back now (8 before, 10 now).  Yes I saw te 'show / hide' button before.  They must have had them down fer a few to update.

Here is the comment I think really typifies "environmentalists"....

"I appreciate stewardship of the environment, but I don't understand the need to hunt. "

The dude is CLUELESS!

[Badgersmilk]

I know it'd be a NIGHTMARE at the time.  But MAN would it be nice to have that hide and head mount for the memories over the rest of your life!  Especially for the young girl that got one!

If I were ever lucky enough to go on a hunt like that I'd be looking real hard into the cost of airlifting that beast whole!  

You can't really get mad at people who "don't understand the need to hunt", because they've lived inner city lives since birth, and many have never seen a live cow!  Yet they'll chow down on a good steak without thinking about it.  God didn't give us incisors to eat salad...  So people that talk about being "vegans", or "not understanding hunting" are only showing ignorance of nature, and deserve pity.  It's only when they try to take rights away that we should get mad.  Dorks Vegan's have the right to golf...  We have the right to hunt.  They just need to stop worrying about things they don't understand.

[ericire12]

That bastard

[jnevis]

I'd love to go hunting but to much of a PITA around here.  Besides I don't have to, the nieghbor and a friend from work bring by excess venison so I have a freezer full every year without all the work

[Sponsor]

[Hazcat]

I'd love to go hunting but to much of a PITA around here.  Besides I don't have to, the nieghbor and a friend from work bring by excess venison so I have a freezer full every year without all the work

DAMN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Badgersmilk]

Uuuuhh, I think we TOOK OVER that comments section!!!   

[ericire12]

Tell ya what, Haz...... Maybe I'll FedEx you some venison from my next deer... or maybe UPS..... I definitely wont use SHIPPINGFREIGHT.COM -------------------------Their management is really hard to deal with

[Hazcat]

Tell ya what, Haz...... Maybe I'll FedEx you some venison from my next deer... or maybe UPS..... I definitely wont use SHIPPINGFREIGHT.COM -------------------------Their management is really hard to deal with

THANKS!  (and yer right about Shippingfreight.com   and actually I don't ship parcels)

[Johnny Bravo]

Take a look at this one, and the young lady that did it!

http://www.startribune.com/sports/outdoors/blogs/65341827.html?elr=KArksUUUycaEacyU

This is incredible. I've never hunted anything that size.