Moose hunt pictures.

Yukon Mike

Yukon Mike

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The weather was great and I took about a jillion pictures. Here's a few of the more interesting ones I thought you guys might like to see. I'm going to keep the text to a minimum just because I'm too tired to write much, but would be happy to take questions from the floor.

Basic info:

Just got back last night.
Janet Lake near Mayo, YT
7 days hunting, 3 guys, a 2 yr old little girl, and The Buns.
Trapper's cabin with a wood stove for Vic, Arctic Oven no stove for Andy and the little one, and my camp was a tarp stretched over a tree.
Saw 12 mooses (only 3 bulls though), 4 wolves, two really big black bears. None were harmed for lots of different reasons: bad location, too late in the evening, no shot offered, too far away - that sort of thing.
Flew in with a Beaver, out on an Otter. 16 minute fights, $735 per guy and there were three of us sharing costs. I had hoped to take a big bull or nothing, Vic the old guy started off looking for big or nothing and switched to any bull will do but didn't get any chances for a shot. Our flight costs would have been the same even with a moose or two on board coming out.

On the road.

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A rest stop.


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Tomatoes on a chair. : )

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The map the original trapline owner was given by the Game Branch in 1958. Google Earth it is not.

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Not what I was expecting in a trapper's cabin, but whatever!

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Good to know...

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The Buns checking out the lay of the land on the way in.

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When we hit the water this little bull came running out to see what all the noise was about.

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You can't hunt within 6 hours of landing, so there was nothing we could do but watch him swim away. Day one and a dinky meat moose, no one would have wanted to tag him anyways.

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The outpost cabin on Janet Lake.

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We managed to catch enough fish to really pig out a couple of days. This was the only big one I caught. In its belly were the feathers of a songbird, like a Siskin or a Redpole. How the heck would a big pike get a chirpy bird?

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So, in the end we came out without a moose, which was fine with me. I saw a big bull two nights ago with two cows and he was totally rutting. I talked to him across the lake until it was too dark to see, but he was not leaving his cows for anything. One night at about 2am there was a bull grunting near my tent for over and hour and then a moose crashed past me in the dark about 5am and splashed away in the lake. That was exciting. Now that I'm back, I'm hoping Mac will come out with me one day and maybe I can call a bull in for him to shoot. He's out helping his friend look for a sheep today though.

These racks were at the float plane base yesterday.

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Great trip.

Mike
 
Very nice pictorial Mike, thanks. I'm sure I remember those tennis shoes - wondered where they went. I think that .270 round used to be called a sabot and allowed you to shoot much lighter bullets in high powered rifles - more for plinking or small game than for high speed or improved accuracy if I remember correctly.
 
Mike great pictures, That round is a Remington accelerator shell , It was sold as a varmint round for your deer rifle, shot a lot of prairie dogs with them in Wyoming back in the college years.

Fred
 
GREAT pictures and better memories....Fred is 100% right on those shells
 
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Mike
Those pictures sure get the hairs on the back of the to neck stand up and the urge to be there:) Did the smell ever leave Pete's shoes?
wis boz
 
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...looks like Remington "accellerators"...made in the '70's
'80's...but...i thought they only came in 30-06,.308 & 30-30...
check cartridge dimensions with a micrometer/ caliper...the .270
is very close (dimensionally)to the '06...don't mix em up...could really ruin a season!
 
...looks like Remington "accellerators"...made in the '70's
'80's...but...i thought they only came in 30-06,.308 & 30-30...
check cartridge dimensions with a micrometer/ caliper...the .270
is very close (dimensionally)to the '06...don't mix em up...could really ruin a season!
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That was what I remembered too, all 30 cal. If my eye is right, that neck looks 30-06y too.


Mike beautiful pics. I'm glad you are getting out there!
 
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Man, you guys have sharp eyes. Those accelerators are in 30.06, my mistake. So they were designed for shooting coyotes and other small stuff with a 30 cal rifle?

Mike
 
Looks like a great trip Mike....bummer on the no moose, but looks like fun anyway. The colors up there are beautiful. Love the shingles on the house....
 
Man, you guys have sharp eyes. Those accelerators are in 30.06, my mistake. So they were designed for shooting coyotes and other small stuff with a 30 cal rifle?

Mike
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Yes, I have not shot them, but they are .22s. They were pretty fast if I remember right, like well over 3000fps. Since Fred has shot a lot of them, he can comment on accuracy, but I'd heard that it wasn't all that good.
 
Thanks, Mike, for all those nice shots. Glad to know that it ended up being an Otter and a Beaver. I had to chuckle when you talked about the first option being a prize bull, then how the priority list got shifted towards the end to "any" bull. It just rekindled so many of my hunts back in the 60s. Your pictures were outstanding.
Al
 
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