Three nice moose bagged. About time to fire up the Keg!
As a hunter myself, I'm always interested in hunting locales, methods, rifles used and pics of the animals.
If you'd like to share more about your hunts, others and myself would welcome it.
Your English is far better than my Swedish! I just read a book that took place in the Swedish forest, I love your pictures showing it. Great post! We actually sell a lot of classic car bumpers to Sweden, nice to see the country.As always pardon my grammar/vocabular. My english is a bit rusty. Will add some more pics
Glad you´re interested! Here´s the report
These three moose we shot on our 2500 acre hunting ground in the central parts of sweden. 7 shooters placed in the woods, two dogs on leashes (we have some wolves in the area so they can´t run free). They soon found a scent and 10 minutes later comes two moose by me. One cow and one smaller that i couldn´t be sure if it was a calf born this year or last so i let them pass since i didn´t want to orphan a small calf or waste one of our licensed adults on a 1-year old.
Soon after they also passed the neighbour who made the same call.
Breakfast break by the fire.
New placements.
After 15 minutes the dogs are on track again. Reports coming in on the radio for me to watch out. From the woods emerges cow and calf but over 200 meters away so i could only report it on the radio. 2 minutes after i see the dog coming straight after in the tracks. 5 minutes later BAM BAM. Both are down.
We call it a day and take them home for skinning and hang tenderizing for about 5 days.
It´s the ones in the back in the picture. The front one is a big bull shot the some day after.
In total we are 11 hunters sharing. From three animals i got about 10kgs of ground meat, a lot of steaks, good cuts, worse cuts... In total maybe 20-25kg.
The hide we sell cheap so it comes to use, 10-15 dollars each. The bones we put at the "garbage dump" for the fox to eat. Then we usually shoot the fox as well to spare other animals as roedeer.
Weaponwise i use a Tikka LSA-55 cal 308 winchester
In sweden 308w is the main caliber used by maybe 70-80% of moose hunters i would guess.
As always pardon my grammar/vocabular. My english is a bit rusty. Will add some more pics
Your English is far better than my Swedish! I just read a book that took place in the Swedish forest, I love your pictures showing it. Great post! We actually sell a lot of classic car bumpers to Sweden, nice to see the country.