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October 2016 French's Moose Hunt: (21Photos)

21. French had quite a busy moose hunting planned this year with two licenses to fill, one to help his uncle Arch in addition to his own tags. Luckily both were either sex licenses in one of our favourite moose hunting areas - 36 The Southern Shore. He also had a brand new vehicle to break in/try out a 2017 Argo Avenger Hunt Master which would be put straight to work. More on French's Argo can be found on the Projects in the Shed page.

20. The season opened October 1st so Mark, Arch, Matthew French and Michael Stroh headed in Gully Pond road in search of their prey. With no luck the first day they returned Sunday evening and called out this beautiful young bull in quick order with Matthew's electronic caller. Arch connected a successful shot and the hunt was now half complete!

19. With a number of unsuccessful trips under his belt, I took a run in the woods with Mark and Matthew in the evening of October 12t) returning again to Gully Pond Road.

18. It was a beautiful evening, cool with zero wind and perfectly clear skies.

17. Matthew set up the caller and we scoured the area in search of sign.

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14. The sun soon set, darkness took over so we headed back to the Argo for the drive out, no luck on this trip.

13. The forecast for the upcoming weekend looked very poor, Mark and I were able to take Thursday off work to head up for another hunt. In the very early morning darkness we headed back down the shore this time to Track Road in Mobil where the boys had success in previous years. At daybreak we unloaded the Argo and drove in the pole line towards our planned hunting area.

12. On our way to our destination we stopped to analyze the path of least resistance across the first big marsh when this young bull walked out of the woods and began grazing! According to our GPS it was a 280 yard shot, I spied the animal with my Binoculars while mark connected a successful single shot harvesting the animal and filling his tags.

11. When the hunt is over the work begins! We called Matt French who came down to assist with the heavy lifting. Meanwhile In no time we had the animal field dressed, halved and ready for transport.

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6. The Argo is a fantastic machine, for the second time this year it effortlessly carried out the game, all of the gear and hunting crew in a single trip.

4. We hung the Moose in Matthew's Father's garage and set about skinning, quartering and washing down their harvest.

2. Arch arrived to lend a hand, and Andrew French even dropped down with lunch!

1. All in all it was a very successful hunting season for the French's and I certainly enjoyed my time on the hunt as well. There is nothing like spending a beautiful day in the woods with your buddies, it's only made better when it's a successful day as well!

Cheers, MIKE