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Late Season Moose; In Manitoba
Topic Started: Nov 30 2009, 04:49 PM (427 Views)
LAKEOFTHEWOODSHUNTER
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Well our moose hunting opens Dec 1st-Dec 15 in a area i'm intressted in hunting. Obviously fresh snow is helpful, and with the mildfall i don't think i will be sledding to far over lakes and rivers. As far as i know the area i'm thinking of going is hunted fairly hard. Log roads guys mainly travel and hope to catch a bull in a clear cut.

any suggestion on area's to focus my time on, and tactics on hunting moose late in the season?

I work 5 days on 5 off shift i'd probably be best goin mid week during or just after a snow fall. Travel time is about 2 hours from my house the where i can hunt.

Any ideas or comments are appreciated
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go high. Moose will go to higher ground in winter, especialy when the snow flys. I've found older cuts mixed with heavy cover produce well. 5-8 year old cuts are ideal for late season. Good luck
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come here deer

No real tips! I haven't shot one yet and I've been hunting for 4 yrs now but my buddy bocephus, lost his virginity on his first hunt in 10 min of the opening day! So good luck to ya and stay warm iif your in the north! or way north :cold: . I do have to agree with Corman from what Ive read and heard go high!

Good Luck again

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you can't shoot em on the couch, go out and get em!
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go high. Moose will go to higher ground in winter, especially when the snow flies. I've found older cuts mixed with heavy cover produce well. 5-8 year old cuts are ideal for late season. Good luck


Exactly! You will know you found shangrila when you cut tracks all over.
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I have also read that moose go high when the white stuff starts to fall! One of my good friends dads actually swears by cutting a fresh track and staling the moose down in fresh powder snow...not really sure never done it myself though! Good Luck, and dress warm :cold:

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Nov 30 2009, 11:08 PM
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go high. Moose will go to higher ground in winter, especially when the snow flies. I've found older cuts mixed with heavy cover produce well. 5-8 year old cuts are ideal for late season. Good luck


Exactly! You will know you found shangrila when you cut tracks all over.


That's the ticket!
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These moose yarding areas are generally the same each year so I bet some local pilots and moose hunters could help you out.
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LAKEOFTHEWOODSHUNTER
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Thanks guys for the tips! never knew about high ground, but makes sense. I'll probably just try and get off the main roads and sled into the back country, and follow some google and maybe topo maps.

Is high ground perfered because of snow depths?(my guess is we won't have more than a foot of snow....next to none right now) or is the elevation key for vegitation to feed on?



Should I try to find high ground near marshes, or focus on higher ground with clear cuts? (canadian sheild terrian)

thanks again
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Cover a lot of ground on logging roads. See what you can find for logging road maps and look for large areas of overall high elevation. Marshes and waterbodies do nothing for moose in winter, if anything, being out on the ice is an invitation to a canine feast. Slightly older cuts offer moose plenty of young woody browse so likely that is where you will find them as mentioned. Good luck. Did you get the snow we just got in NW Ontario?
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