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Memorial Hunting Trip


smerchly

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After many moose hunting trips one usually stands out among the rest . Every trip became an adventure as all hunters can relate ....

I have hunted many zones and our Elliot Lake area has many memorial hunts ....We had 4 portages to get to Upper Mace Lake . (full of splake)

On one trip as Dave & I were carrying a moose quarter in a stretcher from atop a hill , Dave slipped on wet moss and we heard an awful crack !!  .....broken ankle !! We had to ease him down the slope to the boat and back to camp . Stan & I headed back in the dark to get help (4 portages) . I went to the OPP station  in the a.m. to pinpoint our location & a chopper was sent ...in dense fog to get Dave . Stan went back to camp to help haul out the 3 bulls  we got & I stayed in a motel . Dave was taken to Sudbury hospital  where they stabilized his ankle and we took him back to St.Kitts where they operated on it .....He was left with a permanent limp.

  What a trip that was...... an old 35mm photo ....chopper landed just 10 meters from our tent , and Dave waving inside ..

 

 

 

 

chopper, Dave Ames.jpg

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That sounds like quite an adventure Smerch!  Given the prospect of having to pack out three moose over 4 portages I might have opted for the broken ankle! Probably less painful and got a free helicopter ride to boot!

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44 minutes ago, Surf and Turf said:

might have opted for the broken ankle

A little sprain maybe  LOL  , but he was in a lot of pain (no drugs available)

At one portage we had the use of an old VW & trailer which helped a lot !

Two of those bulls were mine ....shot 20 minutes apart ,  40 yds apart in the same meadow ....I was the c+ck of the walk that year !     :bravo:

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11 hours ago, smerchly said:

A little sprain maybe  LOL  , but he was in a lot of pain (no drugs available)

At one portage we had the use of an old VW & trailer which helped a lot !

Two of those bulls were mine ....shot 20 minutes apart ,  40 yds apart in the same meadow ....I was the c+ck of the walk that year !     :bravo:

Not too many can claim two moose the same day! The second one must have been a bit "slow" though to show up 20 minutes later to the same spot, but still counts just the same...LOL!  

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There was some high rocky ridges at the back of the meadow and maybe the sound of my shot bounced off that ridge (echo) and scared the second one . It came into the same spot and was acting very agitated like it didn't know which way to go . I was sitting behind a downed tree root having a coke while waiting for the guys to show up when the other moose appeared out of nowhere . For a second I wondered if my first moose "resurrected" himself  ....needless to say I was stunned ! 

 Lots of stories to tell from other trips !!

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