Now Them's Edlin Ears!

Uno Night

This was the night of my birthday. It looks like we were gambling for sweets, but we weren't.

Check out that hot chocolate mustache.

I don't know what Justice is doing but you'd think he has a handful of wild cards.

Very neat moose behavior

Occasionally I'll see a tree that a moose has rubbed, but I have never seen one actually rubbing! This is the small bull that was running with the one I shot.

And finally...

My first Moose. He's no whopper, measured in at 43 inches, but I'd have been happy with a spike. I left work at 0700 and headed out, I had just walked into the woods and saw a moose. It was still dark and it took me a while to realize it wasn't a bull. I tried to see how close I could get and ranged her at 20 yards. She didn't care that I was there. I took pictures until I was bored, and heard several crashes, like trees being snapped further into the woods. I didn't think it would be a moose, but decided to see what was making all the noise. I started walking and in no time saw moose legs under a spruce tree. As I got closer, I saw another moose, and then another, and finally another! I knew my odds were good that one of them would be a bull. I identified one as a small bull and headed toward him. As I closed the distance, I saw that the first moose I spotted was a much bigger bull. I shot him at 31 yards with a bow. Notice that it is November 6th and we have no snow yet!

The pack out.

My buddy Jon and I took a similar picture last year with his moose.

While I was starting to field dress my moose, another bull of the same size walked right by! If that's not crazy enough, another larger bull came by when Jon and I were field dressing mine. 4 bulls in one day! Incredible!

Moose Hunting

While walking many, many, many miles hunting for moose, I always run into interesting things in nature. This is a cottonwood tree that a beaver started working on. That's a huge tree. What was he thinking?

I always expect that I could see bears while in the woods. I went out 25-30 times since Sept 8th and this was the closest I got to a bear. I believe it made these prints earlier that same day. Pretty neat.