Wasatch range.Originally Posted by J-Dub
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Wasatch range.
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I believe bagging a moose in Utah is a once-in-a-lifetime tag.
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Extremely difficult in Montana.
In Montana, we have a points system, too. Every year you put in for a tag and don't get it, you accrue a certain number of points, and those points basically add up to additional names in the hat the next time they go to draw names for the year's moose tags. And when you do get drawn you cannot put in for the tag for two-three, maybe five years.
On top of that, it's extremely difficult to fill the tag. Just finding the moose is rather hard and then you've got the terrain in which the moose are hiding, &c.
One of my roommates has put in for moose tags every year he has lived in Montana, so close to thirty years, maybe a little more. He has yet to draw a moose tag. This year he did manage to draw a sheep tag, though....
That being said, the roommate in question (in his late-20s) had put in for one for maybe four years and got one. He shot the only moose he saw. He probably won't draw another moose tag, here, until he's in his 50s or 60s, if he even draws another one at all.
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Correct. From the 2013 Big Game App. Guidebook: Bull moose, bison, Rocky Mtn. bighorn sheep, desert bighorn sheep and mtn. goat permits are once-in-a-lifetime permits.
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No pressure there... Damn that would be stressful and amazing to draw any of those (maybe not bison but the others).
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Very interesting. I'd feel guilty applying for an out of state permit, if they even allowed them. I'd be taking an animal that a Utah resident should have a shot at first.
Pretty impressive pictures. I saw a moose just once in Alaska, and he was moving over a ridge pretty far away. It would be nice to have a chance for a closer look, like you gentlemen had.
You folks can feel free to come down here to Texas and shoot all the big pigs and tiny little deer you want, though.
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Have seen some mule bucks around that have to be close to 300lbs., if not a little more than. Great racks.You folks can feel free to come down here to Texas and shoot all the big pigs and tiny little deer you want, though.
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Yes, the mulies out near Sonora and Ozona are pretty good sized. But these tiny little whitetails in east Texas about about the size of a decent GSD.
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My dad's retired & splits his time between a home in WI & home in D/FW area. He's got some big ranch that he hunts on down there. I get a kick out of the pictures he sends us of the deer he harvests. When I ask why he doesn't hunt up by us, his excuse is that it's too cold. I think it's because it's easier for him to dress/drag a TX deer.Yes, the mulies out near Sonora and Ozona are pretty good sized. But these tiny little whitetails in east Texas about about the size of a decent GSD.
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Last edited by Ryno12; 09-09-13 at 06:16.
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Ha, we have loads of friggen tiny deer up for grabs here in NY too if anyone wants to come up and sit in a tree stand...You folks can feel free to come down here to Texas and shoot all the big pigs and tiny little deer you want, though.
If you're serious about hunting a Moose SeriousStudent if I see the guy that did the trip to Newfoundland I can ask him what outfitter he used. The guy wasn't rich, just a normal working guy, so if you're interested it could happen.
We saw a bull moose in Utah on the south side of Flaming Gorge this last trip out there in August, plus a calf and dead mamma in Wyoming.
Hey MistWolf: When I was up in norther Wyoming last month a good friend of mine (and great hunter) said that the moose are suffering from a wasting disease and die offs? Have you heard anything about this? NY has a wasting disease that is keeping the moose from repopulating the state, when I heard that it broke my heart.
You heard anything?
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