How did everyones moose hunt pan out

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Originally Posted by Splaker

Whatever you kill is going to take one more animal out of the equation! A cow needs a bull to make more moose! Oh wait, maybe not anymore.. are there now transgendered moose?! ;)

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As long as bull believes it's a cow, we are all good [emoji16][emoji16][emoji16]

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Originally Posted by Matt86

how can one believe shooting cows kills the population but shooting a calf doesn't?

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Well. That why the new system introduced cow/calf tag..
If you see a pair, you have a choice.
Taking an adult, reduces the calf survival rate even further, my choice most likely would be a calf in this scenario

We had an amazing hunt this year. It took my buddy 24 yrs to get a bull tag. We took my Son who is in the military and has never been moose hunting before.

Opening morning our group saw 6 moose. My Son saw 4 of them. He finally got a shot off at a huge bull and dropped it in thick brush. I was so happy for him and a very proud father.

The bull was 41 1/2 inches wide with half an antler broken off on one side. It would have gone close to 50" if the antler was not broken. I can only imagine the size of the other bull that broke it. It was a lot of work getting it out of the bush but a great father and son memory that I will take to the grave.

Congrats to all the lucky guys and groups.

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Originally Posted by paultracy

If I am not mistaken a calf has less than a 50% chance of seeing their first birthday and hunting has very little to do with it. Mainly predation and starvation. An adult moose has already passed that very difficult first year.

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Exactly !!!

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Originally Posted by Ali88

Exactly !!!

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yes but when comes around to hunting season those are the ones that have a chance to live, the 50 percent that die I'm not a biologist but studies I've read majority die in the first month or 2. So ones a live come hunting season have a better then 50 percent chance, They have a zero percent chance you shoot them.
Its just funny some one that thinks shooting cows is wrong but calf's make sense.
Id shoot either or to put meat on the poll.

Congrats to all that got a moose, our group didn't go this year as we had no tags first time since 1995, I'm having withdrawals from not moose hunting, but glad to hear on the success by others

We were five guys hunting a decent area for a week. Had a bull tag but group members saw two cows at last light one day, and on our way out that same evening we had a cow & calf jump in front of the truck. On the final evening two members were heading home and saw two albino moose cross the highway in front of them! Oh well, came home with a couple of grouse and some memories...

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Originally Posted by Matt86

yes but when comes around to hunting season those are the ones that have a chance to live, the 50 percent that die I'm not a biologist but studies I've read majority die in the first month or 2. So ones a live come hunting season have a better then 50 percent chance, They have a zero percent chance you shoot them.
Its just funny some one that thinks shooting cows is wrong but calf's make sense.
Id shoot either or to put meat on the poll.

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I guess that's you, but not me, we are still entitled to our opinion here and that's mine!

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Originally Posted by Matt86

yes but when comes around to hunting season those are the ones that have a chance to live, the 50 percent that die I'm not a biologist but studies I've read majority die in the first month or 2. So ones a live come hunting season have a better then 50 percent chance, They have a zero percent chance you shoot them.

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I don't think it's quite correct. Different seasons have different predators for calves:
Summer - bear
Fall - hunters
Winter - wolves
The chance of survival highly depends of qty of the above during a given season.

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Originally Posted by Matt86

Its just funny some one that thinks shooting cows is wrong but calf's make sense.

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The presence of an adult cow along a calf over winter will increase its survival chances, won't it ?
In case a hunter sees a pair and shoots the cow, it leaves the calf very vulnerable until the calf (by some miracle) finds/gets accepted to some other adult before heading for wintering grounds.

What is probability of calf finding one in this case?