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Congrats! Thanks for taking us along on your adventure.

Outstanding! Thanks for taking the time to write your story. Congrats!

Outstanding!

Nice bull. Great story to go with it.

Oh hell yeah. Very nice write up, thanks for taking the time.

Well, see, you did that thing all wrong when you found someone at "your" water hole.

This guy came in and did this every 15-20 minutesall day long, 100 yards from our caribou blind.

And yes- it was obvious we were there, by the machines if nothing else, but he also saw us.

Biggest moose I ever killed was much the same situation as your VERY dandy bull. 5 GI's had been in the cabin for several days, mostly (or maybe entirely) drinking. They were drunk when we met them mid-day on the Yukon several miles below the cabin on our way in, their way out.. They "hadn't seen a thing".

My bud and I spent all afternoon cleaning up the cabin and floating bear cans, etc in the backwater at the mouth of the tributary, gathering one bag of regular trash, and several of alcohol containers. Then we went fishing, filling two coolers with pike, giving the area some quiet time that evening.

Next morning at daybreak I took station about 600 yards or so from the cabin, at a point of brush looking down a half-mile long, 500 yard wide oxbow slough. Before long I spotted a big bull coming down the grassy area, just outside the tree-line of the center, treed "island", on the side away from the cabin.. He would walk a few yards and stop, look and listen toward the cabin, then continue for another 20-30 yards and do it all over again.

I drilled him at about 200 yards- as close to the cabin, trail, and boat as he was going to get. 62 1/2 inches, my second and best moose.

He thought he had it all figured out - me- I was just lucky.

I'll take lucky.

I also know the "Oh, crap, I am so f***ed" look. I once spotted a fork-horn bull moose just on the other side of a clump of brush he was feeding on, steeply uphill from me. I knelt and waited for a clear shot. He worked his way around until I had a clear head-on shot at 16 yards - I squeezed off just after his eyes focused on me - then bulged.

The 275 gr Speer Grand Slam just under his chin flipped him over backwards, nearly decapitating him on impact with the spine. He had 16 inch long forks, but is the smallest bodied "yearling" bull I ever shot. The largest bodied yearling I've taken had 4" spikes. Go figure.

WTG.......Congrats! Thanks for sharing! Enjoyed the read and pics.

Good write up. Thanks

I’m going to get a shoulder mount. Head turned to his left

I wonder if the taxidermist can make his face with a “Oh ______. I am so _______” look😀

And thanks for all the kind remarks, particularly from you long time members who don’t post very often. Nice to see you guys post something and know you are still around

That would be awesome!

Damn nice bull - congrats

So I got my bull I got last archery season back from the taxidermist. Here he is next to one of my Coues whitetail and near my antelope

I am technically challenged, so if someone knows how to enlarge it, I would be appreciative

Great Bull, awesome.

Thanks tikkanut

Very nice.

That’s a nice bull with anything 😊

They shall compliment each other well in your trophy room.

He'll of a bull. He'll of a hunt and story too.