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Early season moose bedding

Unread postby Manitoba derek » Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:40 am

So this fall I am going on a early season moose hunt in Manitoba. We are more then likely chartering a plane to drop us off on a remote lake to avoid any pressure from any near by reserves. The terrain is a very swampy hilly area. Stereotypical Canadian Shield land. I am just wondering when the moose are rutting in early oct would they use wind and thermals to bed and scent check for cows in heat kind of like a white tale would. Just wondering if I should be targeting the same terrain features as you would for a white tail in the rut.


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Re: Early season moose bedding

Unread postby headgear » Mon Feb 17, 2020 9:16 am

I really don't know much about moose or the moose rut, however I have found a couple of moose beds and rubs in and around moose beds over the years and I think the principals do apply. The wolves would be pressuring the moose just like deer as well so that also leads me to believe they would have very similar habits.
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Re: Early season moose bedding

Unread postby Manitoba derek » Tue Feb 18, 2020 2:22 am

That was kind of what I was thinking. I don’t see why they wouldn’t use there nose in a similar fashion so that would put them in similar terrain locations.
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Re: Early season moose bedding

Unread postby Tsom » Tue Feb 18, 2020 9:47 am

I don't have a lot of experience with moose but have ran into a few in the woods. Bumped a bull bedded on a knob, watched a cow bedded down in a bowl in the woods for a half hour and have found moose beds right where I was looking for buck beds on points of ridges and points into swamps.. hoping to get my NH moose tag eventually and do a moose hunt. My problem is they recently quit handing out tags in the areas I hunt because of population decline.
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Re: Early season moose bedding

Unread postby Manitoba derek » Tue Feb 18, 2020 11:12 pm

I hear you there with the declining populations. The area we are going to hunt this year they abolished personal tags years ago and you can only hunt using a conservation tag (1tag 2 hunters) that not so bad anyways seeing as how your almost always in groups of 2 when hunting in the vast wilderness up there. Lol not like ya have a mile road in every direction ya can just hoof it to if ya get lost. :shock: really happy to hear that there bedding practices is fairly similar to a white tale
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Re: Early season moose bedding

Unread postby Tsom » Tue Feb 18, 2020 11:59 pm

NH is a points lottery system that only awarded 49 permits last year so it's pretty tough to get a permit. Then you get to pick a hunting partner. Sounds like a fun hunt though, hope everything works out for you!
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Re: Early season moose bedding

Unread postby Manitoba derek » Wed Feb 19, 2020 5:02 am

Me too sir. Thanks for your input much appreciated
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