My Hunt for Moose

I was out for calf moose almost everyday of the hunt. During the week's hunt, I saw 1 single cow twice, two cows together on three different days and two different bulls, why did I see all those Moose? because I did not have a tag for them thats why, oh and there are a lot of Moose where I live. On the last day at last light, I had a cow and calf come out at 134 yrds [range finder] on the edge of a large swamp with a ton of dead falls,deep water and sink holes. I was useing my remington slug gun [scoped] I had only a small window to take the shot, as they were moveingalong pretty fast, so I took the shot, waited as long as I could then went to the spot the calf was and could see no blood or hair [at first] I was shaking with the after shakes, so I had to calm down a bit then I looked some more [now pitch dark looking with a flashlite] I finaly saw some hair [dark hair so I was pumped] then a few spots of blood I keep walking [ wearing work boots] straight into the swamp, a foot of water and mud now making it slow going. I can't see any more blood so I am just going by a feeling of were it is, all of a sudden snort, splash, splash, I shine the lite on the sound, the cow is comming towards me, I yell and holler she then turns and heads off. After I stop shaking the second time, I look some more and now there is a lot of blood in the water and on downed trees and some swamp grass, I am now about 400 yards into the swamp in 2 feet of water and about a foot of mud soaked, cold looking for the calf, can't see it anywere, thinking what the hell were is it, then I go around a dead fall and there it is. So now I have it to do, took me two hours to get it out of the swamp because of how thick and nasty it was. I cleaned it then went for the bike, got it to the shop and hung it up for 5 days then I butchered it and packaged it by myself as my boys are away and the wife has to work. Now I need a White tail, going to try up to the last day if nessasary.

Congrats on the calf. It is always hard work when they fall in a place you can't drive your bike to and in a wet swamp is the worst.

Congrats on the calf Final ! Good to see you on here again. Hope you get all your health issues worked out. You'll be eating good this winter anyway, good luck on the deer.

Amazing hunt Final. Great recovery and congrats.

Thanks guys it was a very good hunt, the meat is some of the best I have had in a while so tender and very tasty.

That is a great story thanks for sharing