Moose Hunting in Ontario

[Bigshrimp 5]

After reading the interest on hunting overseas generated from Froese11's Black Bear post, I thought you lads may be interested on seeing a few shots of a moose hunt in Ontario Canada (October 2008):

 

 

On the way in with 2 tractors and 9 ATVs carrying 13 eager hunters

 

...can get a bit deep in spots

 

SUCCESS!!....nice Ontario moose

 

 

 

An example of an Ontario moose hunt in 5 pictures!

[Malt 379]

Nice one mate. There's a good few Sunday roasts on that bugger!

[the Verminator 0]

well done there, nice moose

[gossy 3]

nice one mate. they are massive!!. what calibre would you use for a moose??

[kingkeeper21 2]

f**k me i wouldnt like to drag one of them up the hill. nice pictures matey.

[nightstalkeruk 0]

wouldn't be hard tracking the blood trail on that thing .... be like a river, NS

[Bigshrimp 5]

nice one mate. they are massive!!. what calibre would you use for a moose??

.270 (150 grain?), .308 (180 grain), 30-06 (180 grain) are recommended.

 

.308 and 30-06 are the most common calibres here for moose but you see the whole range being used from 30-30 (too light in my opinion) to .300 mag (too much for bush shots in Ontario in my opinion).

 

I carry a Remington 7600 pump rifle in 30-06, scoped 2-9x....love this combo

[Bigshrimp 5]

f**k me i wouldnt like to drag one of them up the hill. nice pictures matey.

That's what the machines are for .....and the new guys to the camp

 

Look closely in the back of the wagon

Edited June 1, 2009 by Bigshrimp

[Bigshrimp 5]

wouldn't be hard tracking the blood trail on that thing .... be like a river, NS

If hit in a major artery....but we lost a really big bull in 2005. Only 1 very fien mist of of blood sign and a few blood sign from brushing on bush. We think he must have been grazed and blamed it all on the scope

[flytie 1]

I know that they say everything is bigger on your side of the pond, but looking at yon beast, your freezers must be huge too! What a cracking animal Is it right that some moose go mad and kill people? Or am I just imagining being told that?

 

Atb, ft

[Bigshrimp 5]

I know that they say everything is bigger on your side of the pond, but looking at yon beast, your freezers must be huge too! What a cracking animal Is it right that some moose go mad and kill people? Or am I just imagining being told that?

 

Atb, ft

Each of us (13 guys) got about 60 pounds of meat from this animal

 

 

 

Don't think they go mad as such, but they are very territorial when rutting and are definitely not afraid of people.

 

This one actually charged the hunter. He was calling and scraping when this bull rushed out out of the bush at him looking for a fight! He unloaded 5 rounds at him in very quick succession and (3 hit) at about 20 yards .....and then changed his pants

[the Verminator 0]

lol, lucky he hit it then. what calibers do you use on them?

[Bigshrimp 5]

lol, lucky he hit it then. what calibers do you use on them?

 

This moose was taken with a .308 (180 grain).

 

In general I've copied my answer from above:

 

.270 (150 grain?), .308 (180 grain), 30-06 (180 grain) are recommended.

 

.308 and 30-06 are the most common calibres here for moose but you see the whole range being used from 30-30 (too light in my opinion) to .300 mag (too much for bush shots in Ontario in my opinion).

 

I carry a Remington 7600 pump rifle in 30-06, scoped 2-9x....love this combo

Edited June 2, 2009 by Bigshrimp

[teifisalmon 0]

Real interesting stuff Bigshrimp, it's always interesting to see fieldsports from other parts of the globe. I must say that i did not realize a moose was such a huge creature, great pictures,

 

Regards

 

Teifisalmon

[kristian 9]

wow that is one big animal!