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Re: Moose over-population problem... What to do?
« Reply #25 on: April 20, 2008, 01:21:32 PM »
That's what I call fresh frozen...  shocked

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yea, I've heard stories from some Mainer friends aboot chainsaws and quartering a moose up in about 30 seconds. That's gotta be messy...
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« Reply #26 on: April 21, 2008, 05:38:27 AM »
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That's what I call fresh frozen... 

Nah, they were usually still warm.  Huge cloud of steam when you slit the gut open with the air temperature that low  shocked

I got called because even back then, I was one of the few guys associated with that group that had a pickup.  Funny thing, how all those self-righteous <bleeps> berate you for driving a "gas guzzler" but then you are the one they come to when they need to move, haul firewood, or retrieve roadkill moose in the middle of the night  rolleyes
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Re: Moose over-population problem... What to do?
« Reply #27 on: April 21, 2008, 05:45:41 AM »
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That's what I call fresh frozen... 

Nah, they were usually still warm.  Huge cloud of steam when you slit the gut open with the air temperature that low  shocked

Did you use a lightsaber?
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Re: Moose over-population problem... What to do?
« Reply #28 on: April 21, 2008, 07:37:13 AM »
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Did you use a lightsaber?

No, but I think we may have had a flashlight.  The batteries were probably dead, though ...
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Re: Moose over-population problem... What to do?
« Reply #29 on: April 21, 2008, 08:06:21 AM »
Send them to Chicago. laugh
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Re: Moose over-population problem... What to do?
« Reply #30 on: April 21, 2008, 08:10:11 AM »
There were two separate things that really showed me just how big those moose can get.  

Once, when I was out hunting rabbits, I saw a cow standing among group of trees.  For some reason, I noticed which branch she was feeding from.  Later, when I was returning from my hunt, I walked closer to where the moose had been and noticed that the branch she had been working on was about ten feet off the ground!

The other was watching two strong men trying to load a single quarter of a moose into my pickup.
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