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10-07-2008, 12:43 PM #1
close enough to shoot
I was just out on my ride through town along the Green River and came across this bad boy.
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10-07-2008 12:43 PM # ADS
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10-07-2008, 02:34 PM #2
Wow! Considering the season is open here in Utah (Deer & Elk at least), that one would have been a take-home trophy.
I don't do trophies, mind you - but I know others would.
Nice photos and rare opportunity to see one of those (for me at least).
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10-07-2008, 03:17 PM #3
nice young bull moose. not quite a trophy yet. at least not by alaska standards. he's not even a legal bull there. (50" or 3 brow tines). give him a couple of more years and you can hang him on the wall.
at first i thought you were in green river, utah. was totally shocked to think there were moose there. then i saw you were in wyoming. that made it a little more understandable. great shots either way.But if I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.
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10-08-2008, 07:35 AM #4
Hi Denali
The moose down here are a different species, Shiras. A 50" outside spread is very big.
I shot an Alaskan moose on the Peninsula in 97. Our group took 4.
I skinned capped and quartered all 4, first one took me 2+ hrs, last took me right at 1 hr. Did I mention they are huge!(I know you Know) Like quartering up a Clydsdale. There is no gutting, take everything off of one side(including ribs) then roll over and repeat.(at least thats how I did it)
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10-08-2008, 01:18 PM #5
This was a good size for these parts. I just got word today from my wife at the Fish & Game. They were called out to RockSprings - seems a bull moose was wandering through the city. When they caught it they discovered that it matched my photos, removed the bulls' rack and took him up to Seedskadee Refuge. Glad I got pics of it before
edit: apparently the animal was so big the only way he'd FIT in the horse trailer was to remove the paddles
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01-28-2009, 09:25 AM #6
Nice pics. Its amazing how big those animals are.
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02-06-2009, 08:32 AM #7
Nice Its nice to get that close (when they are in a good mood :) ) I've been charged by one, not fun. His palms weren't that big, but still bodied.
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