Huge colorado bull moose
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that's a lot of STEW!!
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and maybe post it ^^^ up on your website, too..
Unless in the future you want to pack that sucker out via backpack!
Nice pics and where's that snow at, i'm a itchin'....
that's a lot of STEW!!
Please join: whiteriverforrestalliance.com 'fighting to keep our lands, ours!'
and maybe post it ^^^ up on your website, too..
Unless in the future you want to pack that sucker out via backpack!
Nice pics and where's that snow at, i'm a itchin'....
Nice Bull, congrats on drawing a tag and finding a big boy!
In my area they are abundant and not the most cagey of animals. They get little hunting pressure, so they don't worry to much about people.
Buddy is on his 11th year trying to draw a tag with no luck yet, so you know they aren't giving out many tags. When he does draw, he wants me to find him a nice bull to shoot.
I've seen a lot of nice bulls out hunting, but this one at 50 yards let me shoot pics for a few minutes before the young bull he was with led the old fart off.
In my area they are abundant and not the most cagey of animals. They get little hunting pressure, so they don't worry to much about people.
Buddy is on his 11th year trying to draw a tag with no luck yet, so you know they aren't giving out many tags. When he does draw, he wants me to find him a nice bull to shoot.
I've seen a lot of nice bulls out hunting, but this one at 50 yards let me shoot pics for a few minutes before the young bull he was with led the old fart off.
wow 
congrats that's a great moose
congrats that's a great mooseWOW! Monster! Didn't see any that big up in Teton/Yellowstone this summer.
Very impressive bull. Once in a lifetime. Moose are really starting flurish in Colorado. In the Piney area (Vail) we see them all the time. Nothing that big, but they are all over up here. Once in a while they wonder down to I-70. Don't follow the "just drive right through them" rule one those beasts!
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SledsWest
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Just for the record, this aint me nor is it my moose (I wish it were). I saw it on another forum I belong to at http://www.coloradowaterfowl.com/forum and was so impressed, I had to share it with everybody.
But if you all want to keep congratulating ME, I'll take it with dignity!
But if you all want to keep congratulating ME, I'll take it with dignity!
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stingray719
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I used to admire my dad because he never took the best of the herd. He understood that old phrase that only man is stupid enough to kill the best thereby robbing the herd of those genetics.
Well said!
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Good lookin Moose!
Let us know if he qualifies
Let us know if he qualifies
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BackCountryBob
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Interesting take! I never thought of that. I usually always just shoot the smallest buck or bull I can......cause thats all I ever see when I go hunting
See, if you change your story, then you can look noble and all. lol I only shoot cow's and calves for instance.
Or.... said the man who already has a bunch of horns on the wall!
J/K, that is a noble ethic your dad has, though I'm not sure it holds up to the "survival of the fittest" rule. When you apply for a moose tag for 10 years plus and finally draw one, you don't ponder gene pool manipulation, you shoot the sucker and thank your lucky stars.
I wouldn't worry about the moose population gene pool. With so few licenses being issued, big bulls like that are not uncommon here now and the one I photographed will just as likely die of old age as by a bullet. He was well past his "breeding" prime and it was that much fitter young bull next to him that paid me any mind. The old bull was so lethargic I probably could have snuck up and stuck a spear in him.
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