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I know some here have been lucky enough to draw a moose tag. I usually only put in for points but figured i might as well start putting in for moose.
I would love to get a moose with my bow but have no clue on what are decent units for moose. If anyone feels like pointing me in the right direction feel free to Pm me or post on here if people dont get as mad? I feel like moose is different than people asking about elk but not sure..
Like i said any help is appreciated.
Craig
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A good place to start is to apply for units with a near 100% success rate. Your chance of drawing a cow tag is greater but unlike elk, bull moose are probably just as easy or easier to locate than cows. Consider too, the location distance from your home and how you can dedicate your time to scout and hunt the entire season.
If you draw a tag I'll be happy to help with tips to make your hunt successful. When hunting bulls during the rut there's a strong element of dangerous game hunting which can be very exciting.
I have seen moose in unit 20 practically every time I go to the mountains for the last 2 years… but I know a few special spots. Maybe they should issue a few more tags for that unit.
Thanks for the tips and help, obviously getting a tag is always a long shot and yeah if i drew a tag i would do plenty of scouting and take off plenty of time, just not many moose in the areas i hunt.. i mean i did see a moose walking across the top of a mountain on my last hunt which i found interesting, but out of the few i have seen i have only seen one i would be willing to shoot and he was in camp :-) but that unit only gives out a few tags.
I live in 20 but was able to hunt both 20 and 29. Now, I think cow tags are limited to one unit. It's a toss up but I'd probably choose 29 over 20 because of access/retrieval issues.
But things could have been much easier during my 2018 hunt when this young bull walked by me about 10-15 feet away. As he walked up the driveway I gave him a bull grunt and he turned around. When I made a cow whine he started walking back toward me. When I let him know I was human and not a cow moose he turned and moved on up canyon.
During my hunt I encountered 19 moose and called in 7 bulls. My most fun hunt ever.
I could possibly draw a cow moose license this year. Cow moose tags aren't limited to once in a lifetime like bull moose are. BTW, we're still eating moose and had moose sausage with eggs this morning, moose summer sausage with wine and cheese this evening, and mooseloaf for dinner.
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That sounds and looks like a blast! And ya they are dang big animals!
I see bull and cow moose in 36 literally every year. I've hunted there for about 10 years.
I see them when fishing mountain streams more often than not and each year seems to have more of them. 15 years ago seeing a moose was kind of unique. Now it's a treat when I don't encounter them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sawin
Just put in to hunt the Adams county fairgrounds. No need to go to the mountains for moose when you can get them right here in the suburbs.
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GMU 007. Idk how easy it is to get tags, but they were everywhere up there.
Enjoy these moose while you can. The incoming wolf infusion will decimate our moose population. It will take a few years but they will never reach the current numbers after wolves arrive.
Units change. I'm seeing moose in my off- draw elk area suddenly. The best plan is checking draw stats for big antlers with near 100% success rates.
that's what I figure will happen for me, since I haven't gotten lucky in the first 17 or 18 years of trying to draw a tag, the wolves will have them decimated before I do draw a tag.
Rancher friend of mine texted me a picture of a cow moose clear out by Kirk this past summer. They do roam a ways it seems
We watched a young cow moose on Christmas Eve, standing in the iced over river chomping on willow 30 feet from the window. Hopefully, many areas of moose habitat like ours won't be seriously impacted by wolves that prefer more open country.
Some news is beginning to report widespread misgivings about wolves being introduced around Vail, Aspen, Carbondale, Glenwood and Gunnison. The liberals who voted for wolf introduction didn't imagine it would happen in their own backyard where the family purebred dogs, cats and alpacas would become prey. Holy moly!
Maybe we'll yet see a well funded revisitation on the state initiative. If people begin losing pets anywhere along the Front Range, all Hell will break loose.
Wolves need to be preserved and survive in appropriate locations but there's a reason why they were extirpated from most of the USA.
Isn't it easier to kill and eat a 200 pound domestic sheep than getting past an angry and protective 1000 pound mama moose?
The reason wolves were eradicated wasn't because they were preying on wild animals. I think the moose population will be just fine.
So eddie, are you betting that the sheep herders won't be calling on the DOW to come in and do something to protect their herds? And do you believe that sheep are so wide spread that the wolves won't have to look for any wild game? Seriously, think about it. Sheep can be confined in a small area and moose, elk, well, they are well dispersed. There's certainly going to be more cattle and sheep killed, but it won't be the main staple of the wolves.
I'm not betting anything, since I don't have a dog in the fight. Get it? Wolves, dogs...Quote:
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There are going to be relatively few wolves reintroduced, 30-50. There are en estimated 3000 moose in Colorado. Compare that to 365,000 domestic sheep. Not all of those sheep are free ranging of course. A 1994 USDA estimate says 42% of sheep losses were due to predators.
Current management has the DOW's hands tied as far as preventing predation. They are more focused on compensation for lost livestock.
I am not saying wolves will be dining exclusively on mutton. Predators prefer an easy meal versus a difficult one so there will be livestock losses.
In post #14, you were concerned about the moose population being "decimated". I was pointing out that there are a lot of other tasty creatures on the menu. The moose will likely be fine.
However, no one knows how this, or any future event will turn out.
Actually, our neighbors to the north have a pretty good idea how it's going to turn out. Big game is going to take a hit, no ands, ifs, or buts about it.
Only 30-50 wolves and that in turns into a few hundred in a few short years. You're right, the CDOW hands are tied. Years of litigation will happen before anyone is allowed to start trying to regulate the wolf numbers. It's a train wreck coming to Colo. and the ranchers livestock and wildlife will pay the ultimate price.
So apparently there was a a CPW Wolf plan meeting a day or two ago, and there were several public speakers and one of them was one of the pro wolf movement speakers and they are now proposing that as many as 750 wolves be brought in and released because they say that the carrying capacity of the state will support that many.
And they're calling for no lethal means of control AND proposing no sport/trophy hunting be allowed.
And just like that, the goal posts are shifting.
If you'd like to watch the meeting in entirety..here's the link.,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6uGM5DD5As
Those high numbers of wolves will almost entirely eliminate the moose from Colorado. The elk will also suffer drastically and large trophy elk will be the hardest hit. Much of the mountain economy in Colorado is based on our hunting so the decline in animals will lead to a large impact on the mountain economy. This process can't be stopped once it's put into play and those of us that hunt have seen the final golden years of Colorado big game hunting
some will have you believe that wolf "watchers" will be bringing much needed money to the towns in the mountains, you know, replacing all the hunters that won't be going any more.
I saw three giant bull moose in 29 last week. Three different locations too… so not the same guy three times.
Time to find the apex predator in the fossil record around boulder and bring it back to Boulder and Denver, Jurassic park style.
I'm sure they'd all vote for it. They aren't the NIMB types, they are in it for the right reasons, restoring ancestral homelands of past predators.
I suspect with today's elections they're about to ban big cat hunting, so there might be an increase in mountain lion (cougar) experiences as a result... and i don't mean the good kind of cougar experience.Quote:
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