Is this a moose you have already shot and is still in the woods with your brother or is this a planned event.

Where is the best place to shoot a Moose?

a64pilot wrote:Where is the best place to shoot a Moose?

Near a road

iceman wrote:Is this a moose you have already shot and is still in the woods with your brother or is this a planned event.

It is for an Elk hunt next month.

Maybe you can find a guy with a couple horses and trade him airplane rides in exchange for packing out your elk .

a64pilot wrote:
Where is the best place to shoot a Moose?


Near a road

No--ON a road. Preferably with a forklift nearby....

Trust me.

MTV

In the kill zone...as big as the end of a 55 gallon barrel. If you can't hit it....stop hunting!!

And those other guys are right....ON A ROAD would be the best place. I had to pack one bull out over a mile through swamp thickets in Canada. The nxt one will get chased closer to the road before I sling an arrow at it.

Guys, I know very little about hunting, but isn't shooting across any kind of road illegal? Or is it shooting from the road...? Or from the cab of the truck...?

Ah, an elk hunt, presumably in Idaho since you live in Boise. Saw lots of elk on the JC web cam this spring. Hopefully for you and y our brother they are still there and not suffocated by the smoke. It appears your entire state is on fire and will be till it snows.... Hope there's a tree or two left for when I come up next spring for my annual fishing trip....One year when I was there I walked to the north end of the strip (JC) and further up the trail where we saw remains of a deer. We were later told of a lion in the area and that the dear was lion kill. That's at JC folks. Just so you're aware as I'm sure you are being an Idahoan. Also saw lots of Elk down by landmark. Are you planning to hunt in that area? HAs anyone combined flying into the back country with upland bird hunting. I've seen several grouse at Cabin creek in the past and I always wondered about turkey hunting. I haven't hunted much since coming to California in 1970, only on occasional trips back to my upstate New york home town. Would sure like to someday hunt the idaho back country.....

Yeah I got a remington 870 last year with the intention of looking into this years fall hunt up there. Unfortunately My incident at Columbia a couple months ago has put that off.

zane wrote:Guys, I know very little about hunting, but isn't shooting across any kind of road illegal? Or is it shooting from the road...? Or from the cab of the truck...?

Yeah I think it is illegal Zane but Dinamite an RPG's are ok to use..... Oh yeah I almost forgot, there are lots of Chukar partridge at THomas Creek downstream from the strip on the hillsides..

zane wrote:Guys, I know very little about hunting, but isn't shooting across any kind of road illegal? Or is it shooting from the road...? Or from the cab of the truck...?

It's an old joke, a moose is apparently so large you don't want it expireing in a difficult to get to location.
Now sticking one with a bow would be interesting

Yeah I ground looped the damn thing at about 35 MPH.. THere's a berm of 2 inch rock connecting the runway with the dirt about a foot lower than the paved runway. as soon as my left wheel hit the berm it spun me around and the left wing dug in cause it was in the dirt and the right wheel was on the high runway. I also bent the main crossmember between the forward gear attach points and a few tubes radiating up from that point. My stupidity and inexperience and Not being prepared for a unexpected quartering tail wind. Still waiting for the insurance to evaluate the repair estimates and get back to me so I can order the parts from Maule....By the way , Maule will make up the entire fuselage forward of the seats and send it to us for $1500 dollars...... So much for cheaper parts from Maule as opposed to other manufacturers. Also they will put doublers in the main crossmembers which are not in the older maules. Here's a tip for you guys.... Locals at Columbia ,and N6ea will agree , land on the grass runway most of the time. It is 29 and the paved is 17-35 and the winds are many times squirrely at the approach end of 17 as I found out on roll out.

No i did say $1500 dollars..... The fuselage from the seat forward. I almost fell off my chair when they told me. It will probably cost about that to have it shipped though

Ice,
Truck freight is cheaper than you think.

Any way I hope to be flying again before next summer. I do not want to miss the next BCP fly in. Or fishing Idaho another year.....until then here I sit in my "fly the Idaho backcountry" t shirt drinking a beer at the Puter....

Little bit of thread drift. Iceman, sorry to hear about O22, that sucks, but you're certainly not missing much in the Id backcountry right now. I batted 50% today, turned around twice due to heavy smoke. I'm so tired of fire season. I need every ones help to pray for some rain or snow.

Whee - you said you could take 350lbs of meat out. Is it flying the plane? As a former (sadly) owner of a Luscombe, that's a pretty good load - I always figured about 450 for total payload with fuel. The best way to fly game out is to hire some sucker like me with a 206 or Islander to come and get it; then I have to hump it to the plane, load it, and worry about clearing the trees at the end of the strip....

Fly safe. Let's hope for a nicer Idaho flying season next year.

John

iceman wrote:Locals at Columbia ,and N6ea will agree , land on the grass runway most of the time. It is 29 and the paved is 17-35 and the winds are many times squirrely at the approach end of 17 as I found out on roll out.

Grass ist Gut! I take off on 29 in the afternoon quite often as well. It's better for the winds.

CAVU

Find someone with a Stinson Station Wagon. The floor in the rear seat area is rated for 600# and useful load is about 1100#. Voyager has the same useful load but floor is only rated for about 300# iirc.

....and don't forget a tarp to wrap the meat up in or you'll be cleaning the plane out for a week !!