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I lichen caribou stomachs better'n moose, too.

Art's been eating at Bean's Cafe again!

Beans give me gas!

I dunno about moose guts, but I did shoot a bou once, that was way way off, impossible shot according to some.... anyway it took us over an hour and a half to make it up to him... he was a tad bloated, even though it was under 32 at the time....or maybe just over, but cool.

I made one slip wiht the knife... and was covered in something, that to this day, I can still smell in those bibs, and that was circa 2003 IIRC and YES, they've been washed a number of times......

Not sure after that I can deal with eating innards of bou... or probably moose...

Shot a caribou bull one that ran into a lake and died. He floated like a cork. I had always heard the hollow hair caused that. After gutting the carcass sank like a stone! the guts floated...

Pretty obvious the hollow hair is mostly out of the water where it does no good for floating.

But a caribou's stomach is huge... has to hold those lichens a long time to wring any goodie out of them.

A friend shot one in shallow water once.... and I kept saying aim low he is closer than you think.. broke his back... walked up and shot him in the heart with my 44 mag. He sure didn't float but then he wasn't in the water all that long until we cut enough alder down to drag him onto the bank....

I suspect had he maybe either been deeper or possibly dead a bit longer he would have started to float.

My dog finds frozen moose nuggets almost irresistible. Maybe she knows something we don't.

"caribou stomach contents are not all that bad -- if you don't mind the taste."

Sounds like my cooking.

She most likely does --- but lets not go there

evah-damn-body got one o'them stories!

But only a couple are true...

Cabbage is moose bait, no?

Damn mooses like broccoli a hell of a lot better than most people do too. More than one year I'd give my broccoli and cabbage "just one more day to be perfect" only to find that a moose had already found them the next morning.

Mine wasn't so big a deal to me. 802. But I came well practiced and it was an easy shot. Twice.

Has to be a few true ones so it may as well be yours!

LOL< at least it was coached and witnessed by one of my old 4H competition small bore shooters thats become a resident of your fine state.

Recently he said he had a retired sniper in that finally( IE only other client he has had since that day) made a shot almost as far.

Today, I'm so far out of practice that 400 would be a stretch.

Redneck hay bale greenhouse unreal spring beans 12" tall. Raspberries blooming already Strawberries already more than a month early. Built fences to keep moose out.

Don't they have dirt to grow things in?

Removed the trees ground is full of roots topsoil hard to come by in Eagle River.

Good solution as hay breaks down produces heat, ground temps prevent early planting.

Google hay bale garden first time for me and I kind of like it.