Moose Drives

[Wapiti]

Typically I like to call and wait or still hunt moose, but if you know your area well enough driving moose can be a successfull approach.

Any of you use this method or I know it sounds a little unethical but have any of you used dogs?

[missmod88]

excellent question!!

I belong to other hunting sites, and one inparticular was making fun and jokes about people who 'drive' moose or 'push' moose,, we happen to enjoy doing this, and have had success too!

we hunt many different ways, but if we have enough people in our party, and this year our numbers have gone from 2 to 5 to now 8! so it's gonna be better next year! but if we know there are moose in an area, and we have maps and photographs of the area,, we make a plan, and put our 'dogs' in (I disagree with hunting with dogs) our dogs are members of our gang,, yes, I have been called a 'dog' at times too,, LOL

a few years back, I was on 'stand' waiting for our 'dogs' to push out some moose from some thick bush we knew they were hangin out in,, and I am telling you,, I never heard a thing,, but my eye caught some movement, and I looked, and saw the rear end of a moose on the edge of a dried up grassy beaver pond, and it went back into the bush, I had my rifle ready to go, and out popped her head,, a good sized cow,, my first thought was "SH!T" to myself,, (we only had bull tags) as I looked at her through my scope,, and then I thought 'well, if she's got a calf with her, I'll pop it' so I waited, she looked around, and come out, stood broadside for a minute, and wandered off into other thick bush,, no calf that's hunting eh? the experience of actually having the men push a cow moose out to me was thrilling!!! and I was absolutely amazed at how quiet they can be!!

how many more sleeps till we can do it all over again?

[bigugly]

I myself have never used dogs for moose but I have for deer. I have nothing against how anybody hnts so long as it's legal. Ethically I have no qualms with it. If I had the time and lived closer to moose hunting area's I may just try it out. I read an artical once that in Norway it's unheard of to hunt without dogs. Can't remember the excat breed but I think it was Akitas.

[10 Pointer]

This is all we used to do, and in the southern areas of our moose reaches in ON, our season starts in the latter half of the month, so calling is very tough and you usually are after a calf with the lack of adult tags, calling a calf can be done but it is rare.
We had great success with this this utilizing marshes beaver dams and other areas they frequent. I have harvested 7 calves all by this method.
It is key to know the area and have natural runways(beaver dams, lakes,) and even not so natural runs like trails. If I could do it up north I would, but one wrong turn and I could end up in Churchill!!! Seriously if up north I knew that there was a moose in a small section b/w logging roads, I would tell my guys to set up on one road and I would walk through, with moose the dogman has just as good a chance of coming on to the moose as the standers due to there curiosity, always be mindful of where you are though, getting a moose back to camp is hard enough when they drop on the logging trail.
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[jdm]

Near the end of the week we like to, "push the pie". It's a pie shaped piece of the thickest nastiest corner of bush I have ever had the misfortune of stumbling through. But at the end of a week of hunting it often holds a moose or two. So yes we do drive moose too, while not against dogs, we just don't take any with us.

Dave