Utah Wasatch Moose Hawg

grunt_smacker · Post by **grunt_smacker** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:24 am

Here are a few pics, and the story will be forthcomming when I have a little time to sit down and write

bigbuck92 · Post by **bigbuck92** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 6:46 am

wow congrats on a great moose

Post by **MuleyMadness** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:12 am

grunt_smacker.

SAWEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!!

Now that's what I'm talking about. You mean to tell me you got it all on film?? Or is that footage from scouting?

I'll be patient and let you rest up and wait for the story.

Thanks for sharing!

grunt_smacker · Post by **grunt_smacker** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 8:57 am

of course I got it all on film!
along with a couple other bulls.
With it being a Once in a Lifetime hunt I had to make sure it counted and I was lucky to have someone there willing to film the whole thing from when we spotted him, til he finially went down.

Post by **Hiker** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 9:20 am

grunt smacker, Wow! Congrats on a GREAT Shiras Moose. Tells us about the hunt. You sure capitalized on your OIL tag.

9er · Post by **9er** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 8:47 pm

thats an awsome bull, do you have a score? congrats

9er

Post by **a_bow_nut** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:53 am

CONGRATULATIONS ON A GREAT BULL.

That thing is a whole lot bigger than anything that I've seen up where I was looking that I feel emberassed about having you look up there.

Can't wait to hear the whole story.

grunt_smacker · Post by **grunt_smacker** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 3:37 pm

The date was Friday the 13th and I had just met a gentlemen on a hunting web site a few days earlier. After emailing back and forth and then talking a bit on the phone we met for the first time at about 6:30 that morning.
He agreed to show me a few areas that he had seen some nice bull moose earlier in the year.
Along for the ride was a cousin Randy Patten, and new friend Scott Mackintosh.
We arrived in the area that a nice moose was seen just days before, but we had no luck in finding him. We continued to the other location where there sightings and immediately ran into a nice bull. I decided to wait and see what else this canyon had in store for me, and we continued up the trail.
Another nice bull was spotted and we watched him for a little while. Not being what I wanted we passed him up and searched up even higher in the canyon.
Nothing was found up higher even after a nice little hike to some meadows where moose frequent.
After receiving a crash course on shooting a bow (I haven't shot a bow since I was a boy scout, and with that it was also a recurve) (plus I am left handed, but learned how to shoot right handed because that was the only way I was taught) I was able to stick 4-5 arrows into a paper plate target at 20 yards.
Now I got to say, these new bows are fancy and easy to maneuver and easy to aim.
I was possibly going to try shooting the first bull we spotted with a bow if I could get within the 20 yards and get an easy broadside shot.
On the way back down the canyon we stopped where the second bull was spotted and we walked around to make sure nothing else bigger was close by.
We got a little to close to this smaller bull, who decided he would show us how tough he was and charged us.
I have never seen three grown men scatter faster for their lives than this.
This bull only took a few steps towards us, but was enough to make us understand he didn't appreciate us bothering him.
After following the trail down a few hundred yards we ran upon a cow feeding. We again hiked around her glassing and checking to see if any bigger bulls were around. With no luck spotting anything by her we went down the trail another couple a hundred yards.

Scott was in front of us on the trail hand wide apart and stretched for the heavens like his favorite team had just scored a touchdown!
I knew exactly what he was telling us, and when we got to where we could see the bull, I had to stop and pick my jaw up off the ground.
There about 180 yards at the edge of the meadow stood a monster bull moose.
Randy was filming everything of the day, and didn't miss much from this bull. It was like he knew he had to get everything on film.
The bull was broadside, but before I could shoot he turned and started to walk away.
After watching him and waiting for the right moment The bull stepped out only to walk into a big bunch of willows.
All I could see was his antlers and head, no good shot was present so we just waited him out.
Randy was filming, grunting and calling to the monster to see if he would take a few steps out of the brush, but nothing was working.
After what seemed like hours of having him in my scope and my vitals had returned to somewhat normal he decided to take a few steps out.
The butterflies immediately returned to my stomach, but not quite as bad this time.
I put my cross hairs behind the front shoulder and let the first shot go.
After 2 shots he went down only to get back up after about 2 minutes so I shot again, nothing!
My fourth shot ended up dropping him and it was finally over.
I knew I had just taken a wonderful huge Shiras bull moose.
Not until we actually got to him did we realize the true size of this hawg.
He ended up being 51 inches wide with a 9 by 13 points.
I am so proud to find such an animal, and have the opportunity of taking something so nice.
We roughly scored him and came up with about 170-180 gross before the official drying period.
I would like to thank Scott Macintosh for making this a true Once in a Lifetime hunt and for his big heart and willingness to help out another fellow hunter get a trophy of a lifetime.
Also I would like to thank Randy Patten for playing camera man and capturing this all on video.

Rileyhunter · Post by **Rileyhunter** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 4:42 pm

Great bull man why dont you post some of that video for us

AGCHAWK · Post by **AGCHAWK** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 5:14 pm

grunt_smacker, One heck of a story man. Again, CONGRATS on a true trophy.

The best part of the story...someone you never met before took time out of his own life to help you harvest this "dream" bull without thoughts of "payback"! That's what huntin' is all about my friend!