Moose in the yard...

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by DreamChasers8

I don't think Met was being bitter just complementing CC's hunting ability with regards to Moose. I think you might have read too much into it...just my opinion!

Possibly, but if someone was kind enough to show me a local area that I was not familar with I would be thankful for their assistance, not look down my nose at what they are sharing....

[DreamChasers8]

Well I can't speak for Met or CC but it sounds like he knows the area pretty well, or at least was in an area that he doesn't need any assistance with. I think you may have just read it in a negative manner...

[DreamChasers8]

Originally Posted by starlite9

Yes, you need a license to do any hunting of any kind in Alaska during hunting season.

Some hunts require "tags" such as Grizzly/Brown bear and guides if you are a non-resident. For moose where I am at, they have to have a 50" wide rack or four brow tines on one of the two sides. They also have permits for bulls without horns and cows.

I'm sorry I am completely new to hunting but what the heck do you mean about 4 brow tines etc...?
I know F&G said we could shoot a bear on our property if we felt threatened, we didn't but they said we could!

[mongazid]

The first points that come out from the base and point forward before the antler sweeps back into the paddle are the brow tines. On a large bull the brow tines will make a small paddle and have several small tines or points coming off of them. So when it says 4 brow tines this is what its talking about. I am not sure how long you have been in alaska, but if it's under a full year you are considered a non-resident and have to pay for a moose tag and they are spendy.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by mongazid

The first points that come out from the base and point forward before the antler sweeps back into the paddle are the brow tines. On a large bull the brow tines will make a small paddle and have several small tines or points coming off of them. So when it says 4 brow tines this is what its talking about. I am not sure how long you have been in alaska, but if it's under a full year you are considered a non-resident and have to pay for a moose tag and they are spendy.

Sometimes also, non-residents can't hunt on the same days, in some Units, they are restricted to ten days verses the residents being able to hunt twenty days.

[Metlakatla]

Don't get your tail in such a knot, Starlite.

[starlite9]

Here is a photo of a young bull moose that was coming out of the Beaver ponds area behind the house. "Not" legal to shoot with a standard Harvest Hunting license, you would need a special permit for "Any bull" before you could hunt this guy in this unit, his horns are way too small at this point. And the date on the picture is way wrong, there is normally about four feet of standing snow where he is standing in January....

[mongazid]

He would be legal with a bow in alot of places under the spike-fork rule. Thats some good eatin walking right there.

[Grannysroost]

Originally Posted by starlite9

Here is a photo of a young bull moose that was coming out of the Beaver ponds area behind the house. "Not" legal to shoot with a standard Harvest Hunting license, you would need a special permit for "Any bull" before you could hunt this guy in this unit, his horns are way too small at this point. And the date on the picture is way wrong, there is normally about four feet of standing snow where he is standing in January....

He is a little bigger than the one we see here, ours just has nubs, but is real skitty compared to the cows, he is almost always running through the yard where they lolly gag....

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Grannysroost

He is a little bigger than the one we see here, ours just has nubs, but is real skitty compared to the cows, he is almost always running through the yard where they lolly gag....

For years before we bought the house, out back the salt water from the water softener use to run out on the ground during the rinse cycles, so the ground is really salty and moose come here to lick the ground. We enjoy watching them over the years and the dog has got to know them so well he only barks at the new ones now. Cows bring the calves and the bulls will sneak out of the woods in the dark to lick the ground.

We don't hunt them in the yard nor allow it and we enjoy the moose visits. If I did hunt there, the guts and blood can't be totally cleaned up and the smell would attract the Grizzlies which are already too thick here since the state "Relocated" almost 400 a few years back.

I don't hunt much now since the kids are up and gone and getting a moose now would be way too much meat for two of us, not to mention a lot of work. If I did by chance need one, most of the meat would be donated to the Senior Center for the elders, they really enjoy getting wild game. But there is already a lot of meat donated so I can't see killing a moose when I don't need the meat.