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My sub-permittee and I made our first scouting trip this weekend. A local told us upon arriving that there were no moose in the area and he and his wife hadn’t seen any in a long time.
We scouted a bit on land yesterday afternoon and evening, and pretty quickly we found fresh tracks of a cow with a calf.
Got up this morning before dawn and ate a waterside breakfast of pancakes and sausage cooked on my nearly-broken-in Coleman stove (it’s 39 years old.) We were on the water by 6 with my canoe, and by 7:15 we’d seen a cow with calf and an eminently shootable bull. We also saw a Bald Eagle and a couple of whitetail does, and we heard the howling of a distant coyote. Glass smooth water for paddling. It was all very painful to experience.
New official motto for the hunt: “There are no moose in this area.“