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Post by bigmoose on Nov 18, 2009 11:03:16 GMT -5
This is some of the trophy's from this years hunt. None for poor little old me...home repairing my beat up heart..Well, no said life is fair
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Post by whyohe on Nov 18, 2009 12:40:32 GMT -5
looks like you have a nice area to hunt for moose! hope they saved you something for next year!!
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Post by bigmoose on Nov 18, 2009 13:00:25 GMT -5
My guide said come even If he has to carry or wheel me around. I told him If the hunt was today, Im ready. I know the medical folks say exercise is good, no better your age, they also say, in your 70's you lose muscle and strength, now I ain't a doc, but I am building muscle and getting stronger than I was before, the repair work. In January, I go back for my last check up, which mean little to be, since I will deside what I do and when I do it. However, As an old brken down man, by wife and family doctor [best friend] who saved my life my insisting I have a catheterization, will have much to say in my decision. One of the many minus's of getting old.
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Post by edge on Nov 18, 2009 13:24:49 GMT -5
I never knew that Moose were like Ostrich and hide underground with only their antlers showing ;D
edge.
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Post by jeremylong on Nov 18, 2009 13:30:35 GMT -5
Man, that would be awesome.
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Post by bigmoose on Nov 18, 2009 13:39:52 GMT -5
Brother Edge, For a skull mount, they shape the skull with a chain saw, it looks better covered in grass, at lease thats what the gent taking the pictures thought. Me I prefer natural
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Post by sw on Nov 18, 2009 14:48:00 GMT -5
Marty, you're not old, just very mature.
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Post by bigmoose on Nov 18, 2009 16:00:11 GMT -5
Wow,
The movers must have been asleep, the post last a least a hour.
The world as we know it, is once again safe from evil
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Post by bigmoose on Nov 18, 2009 16:01:09 GMT -5
Steve, An a very gentleman you are.....very mature
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Post by bigmoose on Nov 18, 2009 16:05:51 GMT -5
Dear Mover,
Non of these fine trophy's were take with a Savage or any muzzleloader, but one was taken with a bow does that count, want to keep the mover's on a straight and narrow
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Post by mike3132 on Nov 18, 2009 20:35:52 GMT -5
Sorry, I'll move it to the big game forum where it belongs. By the way, nice racks. Mike
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Post by ozark on Nov 18, 2009 21:03:36 GMT -5
Bigmoose I have been expecting to die for the last ten years and hope to be around for another ten. A few years back I had a bout with pneumonia, spent ten days in the hospital and lost 17 pounds. I decided that my hunting days were over and sold all my guns to my Son and then things started looking up. I bought a crossbow, a Savage 10 MLII, a Savage .243 and three days ago I enjoyed a great hunt and killed a nice sized doe. Old age and health problems can put you on the canvas but it is great to stumble around and get back with a good attitude and hopes of other good hunts. I can tell by your posts that your attitude is good and I believe that has a lot to do with maintaining health. I don't have the lungs to exercise and strength isn't in my future. Even so, I can still shoot and I still love the great outdoors. I have had to make several adjustments but the truth is I enjoy life at this age. When I was a child my Mother used to tell me that she hoped I lived to comb grey hair. It is a good live if you make it so and I can tell that bigmoose is going to make his so. Good going.
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Post by bigmoose on Nov 18, 2009 23:26:05 GMT -5
Ozark,
I wish you, what I wish myself, and many, many more folks on this site, wish you good luck And many happy more years. While none of us knows what waits us around the corner, I plan on working hard, I want to walk the tundra a least one more time, when I talking to my guide yesterday, he said , we had some good trips, I told him, I was a greedy, and wanted more. I will do my part, and leave the rest to who or whatever desides our future. Once again my very best wishes to you and your family Marty
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Post by chuck41 on Nov 19, 2009 21:05:37 GMT -5
I went out and climbed back up the tree on that climbing stand tonight. Saw five deer. Two nice sized mature does and three yearlings. It is great just to be out with them. Bigmoose, I can certainly understand your wanting to be back in that camp.
After just butchering an 8 point Tuesday I didn't have any desire to harvest any of these doe. Just enjoyed watching them for about a half hour. They don't seem to pay much attention to anything more than 25' up in a pine tree as long as it is quiet. In the morning I will likely take the camera so I can do some "shooting" without having to do all the cleaning.
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Post by bigmoose on Nov 23, 2009 11:19:51 GMT -5
chuck, I fully understand, the pleasure you got by just watching those deer, on the last trip hunting in New York, I was sitting next to an apple orchard, when a beautiful buck, came out, I watched him, first with the bino's, then raised the rifle, but instead of shooting, I watched him for many minutes. When he walked away, I said to myself be more careful deer, or you will end up on the dinner table. I was pleased, with my decision. Now when I deer hunt, in a tree stand next to a feeder, the only thing I shoot is my camera, However, I will not extent that kindness to Big Moose or Brownies.
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Post by ozark on Nov 23, 2009 13:16:14 GMT -5
I don't think the lure for hunters is the killing so much as it is the hunt. After taking a few deer most hunters does it to fill the freezers, collect a trophy, or take a different animal. Many graduates to photography. To get good pictures of wildlife requires the same skills used by hunters. The woods has had a magnetic like pull on me all my life. Hunting was just an excuse to be out there I think. Our home was one mile north of town and our property joined the Ozark National Forest. The poolhall, candy and later girls pulled me toward town. But the forest always had a greater pulling force. My mother always told me it was better to go north than south toward town. LOL
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