My cousins have the 2500acres, mostly accumulated by my grandfather. He had apple orchards and did a lot of logging, was in WW1. The call it "God's Country". Beautiful area but the black fire are terrible, got to have fly dope. However, the fish eat very well!
My last moose hunt was in 2003, I ended up in the northwest corner of the Allagash near the East branch of the Penobscot River. It was a warm week, the bulls weren't really in rut yet. I saw lots of females but I had a bulls only permit. I saw one medium sized bull and got a shot off as he disappeared behind the trees. We did not find blood, nor him. On the late afternoon of the last day of my permit we stopped at a pond to take a break and check out the view. About 500. yards away the was a trophy bull moose out on a sandbar munching on underwater grasses and my friend starts jumping up and down "shoot him!! shoot him!!". I sighted him in but I was set up for 100yd shots, would have been total guesstimationtrying to hit him at 500yds ... all I could picture is maiming him and he would run off into the woods/darkness and die a painful death . There was maybe ¾ of an hour of light left, no way but swimming to get to him if I did drop him ... so I decided this was just not meant to be and put the rifle down. I proceeded to sit there and enjoy watching that magnificent beast in the red hue of sunset. It was an incredible sight. I came home with nothing but a couple of rabbits ... and an official moose hunt hat.
Well I'm glad you didn't take a wild shot and just sat there and took it all in. I'm sure you've had plenty of moose to chomp on from friends and neighbors over the years.
Yeah those black flies they have saws for mouths. I've gotten my share of welts on my face from them.
My Dad and I applied for the Moose Permit for years until he passed away in 1986. We never won a permit. I continued applying and finally got that one in 2003. I stopped applying a few years later, seems like a lot of the same people were getting permits over the years and I'm not much for playing rigged games. Yes, have had moose meat many times. Lean and hearty ... have to add grease or butter. Moose sausages! Mmm Mmm!
Sorry about the typos, spellcheck on this kbd fucks up some my text even though I typed the words correctly. Very annoying.
I didn't notice. I used to go to these game dinners that an old work colleague of mine would bring me and a couple of buddies to. It was like 60 bucks and a 12-course dinner. And we ate all sorts of stuff. And it was all great. We had moose, bear, elk, venison, turtle, squirrel, you get the idea. Well worth that 60 bucks.