New Ontario record Moose??

[jwl]

holy crap man,that thing is huge..I have been with people on a trip when a bull is downed, and seen first hand that the "fun" part of the trip is soon taken over with the work part or even trying to get your shot out of the area it dropped in. That must have taken a mother load of work to get that one out of the bush in one piece

[fpochailo]

To start it measures 64 3/4", it wasnt hung from the automatic door track, hung from a steel plate. The gun used was a Remington 30-06 took one shot to put him down then a few more to keep him down! Believe it or not it only took two 400cc ATVs to pull out of the bush and 7 guys to haul it in the truck lol. They had it scored a couple days later and it got a 229. They have to wait 60 days for it to be official but the max it will normally shrink is no more than 2 inches.

 

To all the people who think it was "wrong" to shoot the moose, it produced about 6 large coolers of meat so go back to your veggies ya hippies!

[modny]

Your thinking about it all wrong...I understand maybe it's not in you to pull the trigger, and thats fair.

But there is no shame in this at all.

That moose was Not "killed FOR sport"

It was Harvested for Food...and the proccess happens to be sporting

 

Many of us simply enjoy being a part of the whole proccess, from the start to the finish.

Its mearly 2 steps further then visiting the Market and choosing a steak.

 

If it was just a Kill for sport, we'd take some pics, maybe the rack or head as a trohpy, and leave the rest....

But thats not the case at all.

 

Beautifull animal for sure, but he's also part of the food chain that we run.

No harm no foul here to speak of...it was harvested the same as a Cow, or Chicken, but in this case the hunter chose to take part in the kill, and for his efforts has gained a lot of meat for his freinds and family.

Personaly I'd rather feed my Children that Moose meat then the Drug infested Beef we get in the markets any day.

 

I'm not lashing you or anything, just pointing out that there is no "Shame" in Hunting.

Cheers

 

 

i totally understand what u mean...

 

for me i was never exposed to hunting in my gamily while growing up, so its different.

 

ive spent the equivalent of years in the canadian north seeing tonnes of great animals, so seeing such a beauty animal downed kinda upsets me. but thats only because i really have no background in hunting etc..

 

imho, if it wasn't such a magnificent beast of a moose i probably wouldn't really be affected by it. that thing was probably as old as the shooter.

[wuchikubo]

Wow, very impressive indeed! I was also thinking what Wayne mentioned about the garage motor and track.

 

Congrats to the hunter

[fpochailo]

i totally understand what u mean...

 

for me i was never exposed to hunting in my gamily while growing up, so its different.

 

ive spent the equivalent of years in the canadian north seeing tonnes of great animals, so seeing such a beauty animal downed kinda upsets me. but thats only because i really have no background in hunting etc..

 

imho, if it wasn't such a magnificent beast of a moose i probably wouldn't really be affected by it. that thing was probably as old as the shooter.

 

 

Actual the moose was predicted to be about 5 - 7 years old...they pulled a tooth on thursday and are just awaiting the results.

[anders]

There was a story by Gord Ellis about the Moose in our local paper yesterday. The paper has been disposed of now and there's no link to the story on the papers web site. Here's a few things that I recall to the best of my recollection.

 

Fred Hilliard had been hunting the same area west of Thunder Bay with the same 6 friends for about 20 years now. It's a prime area with a large cut and some old growth forest. These guys have seen some large animals in the past but they pass on them preferring the younger, better eating animals. When Fred saw this Moose, he knew it was a bull, but couldn't get a good look at the massive size of the animal. I'm not sure of the distance, but he shot it, waited 20 minutes and then headed towards the area of the shot. He knew that the animal was down. As he approached the area, the Moose got up (or was up already) so Fred finished the job with another shot. His partners, having heard the shot, soon arrived at the site of the kill. Apparently Fred apologized to them because it was not their policy to shoot such a large animal. It took two ATV's to drag the animal out of the bush. The rest is history.

 

Again, this is my best recollection of the article. There may be some slight inaccuracies.

 

Original article by Gord Ellis.

 

Thanks for that! Living in Wawa, moose hunting gets my blood plumping. Thanks for sharing some of the story.

[fishing n autograph]

You can't tell me that moose wasn't snackin on Roger Clemen's garbage....that thing is huge!

[tibbs]

Wow!!!

 

That things massive!