Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game Stupid azz shoots a moose he thought was an elk

You always here about someone shooting a moose while elk hunting.

Has anybody shot an elk while moose hunting?

I'm sure it's happened but there are a lot more elk hunters than moose hunters.

Plus, by the time you can get a moose tag, you sort of know what you're doing. Hopefully.

My grandfather told me of a time when he and some neighbors were hunting elk up around Naples, Idaho in the early fifties. They had chased a small group of cows into a small patch of timber. Grandpa huuried around with the intent of ambushing an elk as it came out the other side. As soon as the cow made it's appearance, he pulled down with his Model 95 and put one right between it's ears. As the rifle fired, he thought those ears didn't look quite right and he had shot a cow moose which had been bedded down and had run out ahead of the elk. Wild meat being an important component of their diet, there was no thought of leaving it and he said it looked much like an elk once it was skinned and quartered and you didn't look too closely. He said he was nervous about shooting for a couple of years after that and missed out on some elk from taking too long to decide to shoot. GD

In some of Idaho's better elk units, moose tags are a lot easier to get than elk tags.

That would be nice. I know where moose are, but the wait is at least 20 years here.

In my life, I have seen hunters shooting a black angus and claiming to my uncle he was asking for help to haul out... and claimed he had shot the biggest deer he'd ever seen....

or their was the Californian, who was stopped at a game inspection station during elk season... he manage to have a cow elk tag... how ever when F & W inspected the cut up animal that he had in the trunk of his Cadillac taking back to California, turned out to be a mule instead...

and how many horses get shot or shot at each year by elk hunters who are from the big cities and out hunting for the first time...

Hmmmm, reminds me of a limerick concerning a certain Argentine gaucho named Bruno.

come on kaywoodie recite it for us. I love limericks

20 years? That is a long long wait....maybe you should move to Canada or Alaska??

When I was a teen we hunted in northern BC near Chetwind, up the Burnt River.

The first thing our outfitter did was take us over to a 5 day dead horse carcass and ask what is was.

I said a stinking horse carcass; my dad just laughed.

The outfitter seem relieved and told us the horse had been shot out from under one of his Cree Indian guides by a Texas hunter, who was sure he had killed his first moose.

That's understandable. Indian guides always ride on moose.

Not me. I never even thought of saving points for moose. I was always happy with elk.

An Argentine gaucho named Bruno
Said sex is one thing I do know,
Tho women are fine, and sheep are divine,
Llamas ate N�mero Uno!

OK, that got me laughing this morning

I've seen this happen quite a bit and I always wonder how unintentional it is. I have seen plenty of Moose during elk season and have no idea how you could mistake a moose for an elk.

I am still wondering about the op's comment about nr's means

Me too!!

A local wildlife officer told me a story of helping a guy who got his son his first muley doe with a muzzleloader.

They were so excited and when he went up the hill with them they found a elk calf.

Obviously it was not a good situation, but the CDOW officer really felt bad for the two and they were ashamed when they found out what they did.

I actually helped the son and father the next year haul their first LEGAL mule deer buck off the mountain. They didn't tell me the story and I only found out later when the CDOW officer heard me talking about helping them and he asked their description.

They made a mistake, but they paid for it in humiliation and I'm glad it didn't stop them from trying again.

I know some would want to drop the hammer on them, but I did feel bad that a dad was trying to get out and learn about hunting with his son and it ended like that.

When I went through hunters safety in NY in the 80's we were shown pic of a hispanic lad from the city that had a huge deer mounted on his car hood.

Unfortunately it was a donkey.

A few years ago I was driving in the Gravellys and came on a cow moose and her calf shot at the edge of a road. There were narrow tracks (small truck?) where they had backed up to the cow and prints all around where they had tried loading it without even gutting her. She was still warm. I reported it to fish and fur, and later that day when I passed the check station I asked if they had made any progress on the case. The officer a the game check hadn't even heard about it, and I never heard another word. No story, no investigation, no call for add'l information, nothing. I suppose they never caught up with the shooters. Still makes me angry to think about it.