First Trevor found a decent WT buck that he hunted and finally got.  Total bush hunt all the way.  Caught him on a game trail chasing does.

Then it was brother Duane's turn to create some work with his moose tag.
Nice little 36" bull, should be good eating.

Well done guys looks like a bunch of hard work paid off.

Bravo well done Axe.

X2...great lookin camp. Maybe that set up can be used for ice fishin....

looks great axe!

Nice camp as always axe and congrats on the fine bucks!

Okay, a few ramblings and notes from our hunt.

First few days were really slow (Nov 1-5).  First morning Duane passed on two fairly good 4 x 4 whitetail bucks but that was it.  He wasn't going to take an average buck first day.   We saw very few deer and only one moose, a big bull that came out to a call but quickly lost interest and buggered off.  A bit too far to risk a shot.  It was looking really rough for us and I was getting worried.  The only good thing was there were tons of chickens and lynx everywhere we looked.  Was it the wolves or the winter?  Trevor finally found a good fresh rub that looked like it was made by a good buck.  Duane found a group of moose that same day too but no antlers.  There was some hope maybe.  Next day was a good one (Nov 6) I think.  Trevor went in the bush on a game trail near the buck rub that was being traveled by a few deer.  He heard some crashing coming his way so he ducked off the game trail just in time to see a couple of does coming.  They passed by and he then heard the buck grunting his way after them.  One shot right in the heart ended him.  Nothing as exciting as a good bush hunt, he is hooked on that now.

A couple of nights of fairly cold now allowed us to quad across the creek and get us into an area we like to hunt for moose.  That late afternoon me and Duane found the bull he eventually got but put him to bed as we spotted him just after legal light.  We were confident he wouldn't go far out of the couple of little willow swamps he was feeding in.  Animals don't go far as some hunters think.

We now had a few inches of fresh snow and after that the deer started to move.  Jesse came up Friday nite of the long weekend and him and I went out early in the morning and saw 6 bucks that morning.  They were really starting to move now.  I took my buck that morning as I could only stay till Monday.  That afternoon Duane went back to the willow swamps and sure enough, he heard the little bull in the willows feeding.  He just waited him out and before long, he stepped out onto the line and boom.  One shot and he took two steps and collapsed on the line.  We got the text from him and were able to get the Jeep and my trailer that I built a couple of years back right to him and the bull.  It was great, a nice evening, we gutted the moose and loaded him up while listening to the Oilers lose on the radio.  Back in camp before 9 pm.

I've always wanted to try and hunt moose in Nov but just never have.. Maybe one of these years I will give it a go. I know a number of old timers in this country always waited until Nov. They said the animals were in better shape and of course years back before the day of the ATV all that was around was skidoo or 4x4 and in the north this at least opened up a lot a lot of area do to snow and frost that otherwise was not accessible.

I've always wanted to try and hunt moose in Nov but just never have.. Maybe one of these years I will give it a go. I know a number of old timers in this country always waited until Nov. They said the animals were in better shape and of course years back before the day of the ATV all that was around was skidoo or 4x4 and in the north this at least opened up a lot a lot of area do to snow and frost that otherwise was not accessible.

Actually, Walleyes is onto the best kept secret around with his comment.  It is a fact that the frozen muskeg in November allows us into areas were moose are less pressured.  These areas are a bitch to hunt before some freeze up.  It is also a fact that moose don't travel very far from where they live most of the time.  It is also a bit of a myth that moose leave the muskeg willow swamps for the bigger timbers after freeze up.  They stay where the food is.

We shifted from rut hunts to November hunts quite a few years ago and are at almost 100% on filling the tags so far.  Dealing with the meat is so much nicer too.  It is also more common than a lot of people think that bulls will respond to cow calls in early November.  If any cows are missed in the first rut they will come back into estrus in early November again.  I have called many bulls in November.  Three came to my call last year, that was pretty intense.

As always good work Axe. Might take a trip up there this weekend.