Big NH Bull Moose

Today I went north to Berlin with a couple good friends of mine, Rick Libbey of Mooseman Nature Photo's and Steve Clorite of Jericho Gateway Family Campground to call moose. The rut is getting closer to being in full swing so we wanted to try our luck. The reason I say try our luck is because today was NOT the best of conditions to try to get moose to respond to calls, the forecast for northern NH was for temps in the high 70's to low 80's and humid. This is very hot for moose that are now wearing their winter jackets.

That being said, we didn't let it slow us down! Getting up and headed out the door at 3:30 am and getting to our location and set up by 6:00 am and a muggy 64 degrees, we were about to go through our first series of cow calls. By 6:05 am the first series of cow calls left my mouth, within seconds, we had our first bull response, or what we thought was a bull response. Sounding like grunts but too soft and distant to be sure and after looking at each other wondering, I let out another set of cow calls. This time there was no mistaking or questioning the sound we heard,! After glassing the area where we thought the grunts had come from, we spotted the bull some 200-250 yards away! He was a dandy, 4.5 maybe a 5.5 year old bull staring us down!

We had called this bull out of his bed, grunting like crazy but unwilling to move more then a few feet at a time. After  about 20 minutes of trying to get him to move we decided it was time to go to him, so we started to back track and circle around a rise between ourselves and him and make our way towards our bull, with great success we closed to within 60 yards!

While watching this bull we were wondering why this bull had not moved more then 10 feet in our direction after multiple calling attempts. When all of a sudden we saw movement off to the bulls right, just on the edge of a tree line there were 2 more moose, a cow and this years calf. now we know why this fella would not budge, he had himself a date!

here is a picture of the bull from this morning! I will be posting more pics of him soon but for now here he is.

If you know someone who has been drawn for this years moose lottery and is struggling to find the time or the moose in their WMU please let them know that I can help in WMU B, C2 and G. I also Guide whitetail hunts on request.

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