Moose

[fishinjosh98]

how heavy do mooses antlers get

[Fins-n-feathers]

Are you talking about just one or both together?

[fishinjosh98]

one

"Your a hard man, Con."

"Its a hard country kid.

[Fins-n-feathers]

The few I have seen are a couple pounds, guesstamation.

copycat

[Wanderer]

I'm glad my wife didn't catch me taking the rack off the wall to weigh it in the garage.

But you had my curiosity going, so one full 48 inch rack mounted on a walnut board = 30 lbs.

I'd add weight if they were fresh though.

[Nightcrawler]

boy o boy made me go weigh one of mine, 37 lbs skull mount on pine. scored 170,1/8 PY. Bow ,2000,in Canada.

[Wanderer]

Nice!

If/when I get the chance to hunt moose again I'll have my bow with. I can't imagine the adrenaline rush being that close to that lurking mass.

[Musky Buck]

Enjoy field dressing it out lol.

[Sorgy]

Here is a brief photo line after the moose is down. Note the block and tackle.

My dad, friend Bill and I hunted the 2006 season East of Babbitt.

Hopefully I won't get in any trouble for the final pic happieness is a large gut pile

We had done a lot of scouting and found some likely looking areas but had not seen much sign. we were on a hotbed of moose activity and hardly new it. I knew the area had moose but how many was a big question. We hunted the first day and heard a bull in the morning and again in the evening. Day 2 we made a minor shift in location and found a heard of 5-10+ animals including 1 very large bull, a bull a little larger that the one we took and the bull I shot on Tuesday of the second week.

Weather the first week was pretty warm with some ugly rain mixed in. I had to return to home because of a car that was broke down on the wife. I returned a few days later and the weather had turned.

All in all we had 28 moose sightings with several of the same animals. I saw the monster 2 different days. Saw the other 2 bulls 1 time each and several cows and calfs. Bill saw many of the same animals as me but on differnt days or 400 yards farther away from me.

We decided to take a young bull if given the chance with 5 days left-with the cool weather and daylight. I was lucky enough to see this bull following a cow around. I have trail camera pics of this bull and the medium bull.

28 degrees, snow and daylight. My dad passed on a monster in the rain late in the day that only presented a neck shot- good move. Our whole operation from shooting the moose, pics, bringing the 4 wheeler and block and tackle took 2.5 hours in the dark with rain, warm temps and a much larger animal

[Nightcrawler]

great pictures, Sorgy. makes my heart sing. that grunt of a bull coming to you and trashing bushes realy gets your heart going.

I shot 3 moose in Ont. Canada in

four hunts, fly-in. two bow kills ,one with buddys gun (smallest).

[Wanderer]

Enjoy field dressing it out lol.

The work does start when the animal stops!

With the Alaska/Yukon variety, you go with the gutless method: Skin off one side and lay it out, then cut the meat off using the skin to keep the meat off the ground while you bag it.

Then you grunt like heck to tip the bugger over on the processed side so you can skin and debone side two.

Just don't forget those tenderloins at the end of it all. Two giants in the hip area and two more between the front shoulders that are pretty big too.

Nice post Sorgy!

[Sorgy]

It would have been awsome to take one with a bow. I do have some regrets- I should have held out for a big boy. I listend to my dad on how much better a young bull would taste over a big one. Pulling the trigger is hardly a memory. There were so many other things that I remember about that hunt. It was truely special. We were hunting a decent sized clear cut that the moose had been using every morning and evening of our hunt- My buddy Bill was covering one side of it-watching a cow when an airplane circled overhead spooking the cow and I think the biggest bull of the group into a swamp. He was a lighter brown color than the cows and young bulls.

It was perfect weather to quarter a moose in. Everything was able to get cooled down nicely. The week earlier would of been a lot more rushed.

Good luck to all on this years drawings

Steve

[tcumd]

here is me and my dads bull that we shot in the boundary waters 3 years ago...having to carry the antlers across multiple portages made them feel like they weighed a hundred pounds!

Casey

[benelli_dude2002]

never did weigh the 2 moose racks i got on my wall. biggest is 61 1/2 inch spread which scored 188 b&c taken at 10 yards with a muzzleloader. the other rack is 52 inch ( i forget what that one scored ) taken with my bow at 15 yards. like others mentioned before the work starts when the animal(s) is down. The bull i shot with the muzzleloader it was just my dad and I. only had to drag meat about 75 yards to the boat. I was on a hunt a few years back with 12 guys and we ended up with 5, 2 bulls, 2 calves and cow. Now that was work. we had to drag about 200 yards at the most. 4 hr later we had them loaded in the boats. made for a long slow ride back to the dock with all that meat. Great memories! September cant come soon enough when the rut in on. Just to hear a bull grunting, thrashing brush with his antlers and maybe get a glimpse of him. Shooting one is a bonus!

[Shoot2Kill]

Moose antlers can weigh any amount....I have over 100 moose sheds...my lightest is a pound or two, heaviest....32 lbs for ONE side...currently the #1 NASHC non typical Alaska Yukon moose shed - 105 4/8 total inches...it's a beast of an antler. I've seen MN moose sheds nearly just as big weight wise.