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    Awesome pics Ruben. If you don't mind I can add some in here to save creating another thread.
    Just sitting in my motel in PG having finished the season today.
    Killed another 50" bull yesterday. Last morning hunt and we were supposed to be done by 10am. Hell of a day cutting a trail, building bridges and packing him out. I also got my ride stuck pretty good

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    Awesome pic's and a awesome place to hunt/work. Looking forward to when I can afford to go back and see family over in BC.

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    Wow. That is incredible. Bucket list item ticked! Thanks for sharing.

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    A bit of a report and some pics with K95's permission to post on his thread.

    Had a good season here in BC. I had 4 hunts and managed to fill all my primary tags.
    It almost ended early for me as I got injured prior to the last hunt.
    4 of us had to get 20 or so horses out of the high camp to meet the truck.
    It was a nightmare. The trail took a hammering from snow and wind and there was a huge mess of windfall 3/4 of the way. We left at 7am in the dark and arrived at the horse transport around 10pm in the dark. Should have been a 9 hour ride at the most.
    We went thru 5 or 6 tanks of chainsaw fuel. To make it worse I was looking after about 4 straggling horses at the back. They run uphill and downhill. It's normal. About an hour from the end of the trail my horse took off after the ones I was driving on a steep downhill stretch. He bucked and kicked at a horse that got too close behind us. I turned to look and before I knew what was happening I was flat on my back into a creek. I got cloth lined by a good poplar branch. Winded and sore I watched my horse dissappear into the gloom with saddle bags flapping. I don't know how the trailing horse avoided me but he did. I could hardly walk for a few days and was pissing a little blood. Must have bruised a kidney.
    Luckily I come sort of right by the time my last clients arrived.

    I guided 3 awesome moose, a mountain goat that was 9 1/2" and 11yrs old, a black bear and coyote.
    Goat hunting was hard this season as the billies were few and far between and mostly way further back than could be done in a day.
    I loved the moose hunting. Especially when they were wound up.
    I called in around 11 bulls and a couple from 2000yrds away. They are amazing in how they can lock on you and come exactly right up to where you are hiding from that distance.
    I had a bow hunter where we had 2 bulls within 40 yrds but they were front on and didn't present a shot. Once they worked us out, they were surprisingly fast in their departure.
    I wanted to video a moose coming in to the call but was to into it to remember the camera.

    Had a ball of a season and sort of filled a bucket list by getting a 60+ inch bull even tho I don't get to take him home. The company I work for has never got a 60" bull moose before so it is pretty rare.
    I will never moan about packing a deer ever again. A moose is 8 trips to pack it. I killed one on the very last morning.
    It was the hardest pack I have done.
    Had to cut a trail to it. Build 2 bridges across deep water and cart the fucker in quarters over a km over rough log strewn ground. Anyone that has packed a moose quarter will know how hard it is. The rear quarters are over 200lbs. Just quartering them is friggen hard work especially by yourself.

    I'm am now looking forward to arriving home and doing some whitebaiting and attending the south island champs with some good mates.

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    Wow! That was impressive and beautiful!

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    Love the photos, having just moved to Canada from New Zealand they just add to my outdoors excitment this place brings out
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    Bit of a tough season alright but you certainly delivered on the results, great photos well done.

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    Beautiful pictures guys , thanks for sharing them

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    Boys.....that is some fine picture taking.....for those who haven’t tasted this,the pictures are as real as they adventure......well done fellas.....bloody AWESOME stuff
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    Quote Originally Posted by A330driver View Post
    Boys.....that is some fine picture taking.....for those who haven’t tasted this,the pictures are as real as they adventure......well done fellas.....bloody AWESOME stuff
    I got some fuzzy ones there. They're off of my sx60 that were zoomed up and cropped.
    I still haven't worked out how to get a clear pic with it using the zoom on a steady platform.
    I'll get K95 to give me some lessons. His pics are way better.

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    Quote Originally Posted by R93 View Post
    I got some fuzzy ones there. They're off of my sx60 that were zoomed up and cropped.
    I still haven't worked out how to get a clear pic with it using the zoom on a steady platform.
    I'll get K95 to give me some lessons. His pics are way better.

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    I took over 800, the shotgun approach
    Awesome pics man, looks like sweet country. Catch you when you're back.

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    Quote Originally Posted by K95 View Post
    I took over 800, the shotgun approach
    Awesome pics man, looks like sweet country. Catch you when you're back.
    Sounds good. Home Thursday at this stage.
    If weather allows I will be trying to get a feed of bait ASAP.
    Just off for my first thanksgiving dinner in 40 yrs

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    stunning place and pics - is the 60in moose the one in photo shown head on ? Looks like a monster, can only shake my head in disbelief thinking about the field dressing let alone carting the bastard out. Extremely hard yakka.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chainsaw View Post
    stunning place and pics - is the 60in moose the one in photo shown head on ? Looks like a monster, can only shake my head in disbelief thinking about the field dressing let alone carting the bastard out. Extremely hard yakka.
    Yup. He has great bottom gear but weak in the paddles. Still it's over 60

    My body is starting to feel a bit ragged after the season.
    2 moose I killed were not to far from vehicle access. Clients were also a huge help cutting them up.
    Last one took 8 trips and client was in his 70s.
    Every cut you make on a red deer.
    Head, hocks, back steaks, quarters can be 5 times the work.
    They're awkward beasts once on the ground.
    We weighed backstap on one earlier in the season and it was 65 lbs.
    The Cape and head skin off the 60inch bull weighed 85lbs after being salted for 2 days


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    Awesome photos guys, thanks for sharing.....
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