With daylight quickly going, just 5-6 hours a day now, we were relieved to finally get the last moose on our quota. It was a mini calf, and one that we had been looking for. I wouldn’t have survived the winter. At ours most moose hunting is done using a dog on a leash, that locates the deer and drives it or them towards a line of shooters, while keeping quiet. Often, the moose outsmarts the hunters and is able to avoid them. Luckily we’ve got a very skilled dog handler that managed to get close to the cow and calf and who was able to shoot the calf himself. Hunting is fun, but with sub zero temperatures and increasing difficulties organising efficient hunt days, the seventh and last moose of the season was a weight off our shoulders.
Well done and enjoy the meat. I am envious, I confess. I have only been elk hunting twice in Dala county in mid-Sweden. The first time we had a full meter of snow in one night in early October (I was OK because I am 6' 3" with a 36" inside leg) but the others struggled and saw only hoof prints in the snow. [I also saw an old male bear.] The second year we went in the last week of September and were roasted by day and frozen by night. We shot a calf which I helped to drag uphil, as part of a team of 4, for over a 1000 feet (300+ m) to get it back to the road and vehicles. I did see a big bull, very early one morning from the car on someone else's land ["Gustav's land"] in company with a smaller bull - I was thrilled! He was huge - I did not look particularly at his head but his frame and body were big and heavy. So I have fond memories of elk hunting.
alberta boy
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Congrats , a nice animal and the meat should be really good . We just filled our last Cow Moose tag on Friday , the season ends Monday so everyone is happy .
AB
AB
alberta boy
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It is nice country , unfortunately , it's not mine . Those are Mortens pictures of his Norwegian Moose hunt , it's surprisingly similiar to here .
AB
A great write-up by Morten and great looking country too 
Freeforester
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Tillykke! Looks like a good one to take out. I remember my first pair, a calf and it's mother, in the excitement I didn't 'mark' their position so well, and when I told the dog handler I had found the cow, he told me 'that is the calf'!!
Have hunted moose in Kongsvinger, also near to Flekkefjord, fantastic country. Also hunted reindeer up in Setesdalen, and roe in the outskirts of Ski.
Still vividly recall a family of five capercaillie bursting from a small juniper patch in Kongsvinger, just like partridge - maybe twenty five years ago now!
Har det bra!
Have hunted moose in Kongsvinger, also near to Flekkefjord, fantastic country. Also hunted reindeer up in Setesdalen, and roe in the outskirts of Ski.
Still vividly recall a family of five capercaillie bursting from a small juniper patch in Kongsvinger, just like partridge - maybe twenty five years ago now!
Har det bra!
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