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After applying for 8 years I was able to draw a moose tag in a prairie farmland zone 50 miles from my farm. Here the moose live in bushes anywhere from halfacre in size to 100 acres and are doing very well eating on crops, alders and willows in the absence of wolves or natives. They are recent residents of the last 20 years. I really wanted a representative mature bull and had permission from literally dozens of farmers to begin hunting. The moose are spread out over many many miles and it is like a needle in a haystack to locate bulls, evaluate them and get a plan to hunt them. In 4.5 days of hunting I saw 76 moose 23bulls. I passed on couple of 48"plus bulls that had broken fronts or thin paddles. I was siting in a huge 1000acre grain field in a snow squall wondering where to go next when this bull trotted out of a ravine and one shot from my old Supergrade 338Win Mag with 200 grain accubonds he fell in a very small slough. Was very impressed with the penetration of the accubond, he was trotting away from me, I threaded the bullet from rear flank through paunch,lungs and liver to rest on off shoulder. As I was 30 miles from my closest friend with a tractor, I used my winch in the front of my truck, with a custom made ramp and said moose was on the way home in 10 minutes. These moose have been eating wheat, alfalfa and canola all summer and really get some big body mass on them, and are very good eating moose. I realize its not a wilderness hunt, I have hunted them that way as well over the years, but it was an experience I will never forget.


My son who was a great hunting partner as always



My recovery unit


I really liked the front points on him

Lots of good cuts of meat there and antlers for the wall! Congratulations!

Congratulations. That is a nice pile of meat.

What a great way to carry a moose out!

Did you mention what the rack size was?

Great looking bull. Lots of good eating and as pretty a moose rack as I've seen.


P.S. Good thing you had an Uber winch to load him!

Congrats on a nice moose. It is nice when big critters get to come out whole and easy doing it. Good job.

Great story and a great bull. Thinking ahead sure made the recovery easy!

Nice bull and congrats. I like the antlers on that one. Spread? Full freezer for sure!

Very nice bull.

Congratulations on the successful hunt

Congrats on a great hunt and a thanks for sharing the story. That ought to be some fine eating moose.

Congrats and thanks for sharing, wouldn't mind a few moose steaks myself.

Very nice! Hoping for a Wyoming Shiras next fall.

Moose measured 46 Inches. Not the 50 plus I was looking for but the fronts made up for it and it will make a great euro mount

Nice bull congrats.

Loved the story and pics! That's a fine rack with some heft to it, and Wow will that bull ever be good eating. The best elk I've ever eaten was a huge fat spike killed after a summer in barley, oat and wheat fields. The sheer number of moose you saw is surprising, good surpise.

A few Falls ago driving from Saskatoon to Prince Albert a dandy big bull moose was 100 yards off the highway, strolling along across a vast flat stubble field. He was moving from one of those dots of swampy brush to another, one duck pothole to another.

Nice moose, interesting hunt. Thanks for sharing. Took my first moose this year and now I am moose crazy.

Great bull!

Hunted geese in the fall of 2006 in Sask and saw the moose in the same type habitat. No, they don't sell tags to NR's for them either. Congrats that one is real nice. Magnum Man

No moose is easy, but yours is nearly the easiest I've seen- and the rest were all yearlings. Patent the method! Congrats and thanks.