Ted's Moose 1

Ted's Moose 1

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Retired wildlife biologist Ted Kuch goes on a Moosehunt. I do my once in a lifetime bull moose tag and had a pretty exciting hunt I put in managed to draw this year and the long season it goes from, I think, August 30th to mid-November or something like that. But I wanted to do it during the run because that's fun and exciting. And where we all come in central Idaho, we've seen moose there and that's where I drew my moose tag. And so I had an idea of where to go. So we headed out third week in September, and it was the first snow of the year up in the mountains, which ended up playing a factor because we'd planned on going higher up the glass. I had a buddy helping me, but we couldn't go any farther because the little two track road we're trying to go up was too snowy. So we parked where we were and because it was foggy and snowy, the sunrises later and the light came up. I was glancing down this one stringer willows and there's a cow moose first morning out hunting the snowy morning and I thought, This is great. So I asked her for a while and pretty soon. Then I saw Calf Moose with it, and I'm just going to keep watching here. And then out of the Willows emerged this little spike bull moose. And I thought, Well, you know, I'm not too picky and I'm hunting with a recurve bow, traditional bow, and I'm like, you know, spike bull. Be just fine with me. Any animals or trophy with a bow kept. And then finally, after I saw the spike bull, this great big bull emerges out of the willow stringer. And that was all I needed. And I'm like, I'm all set, so I put on my pack and grab my bow. They were coming up these four moose, and they kind of worked their way in and disappeared, and I heard the big bulls scraping his antlers on willows. So four options. Which one does Ted take tomorrow.
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