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Hi, these are the best things to have with you when you go after moose.  First you need a back hoe to lift and skin the beast or some kind of big machine.  Failing that, you need the know how to dress a big animal on the ground.

One of the best tools besides  a good sharp knife is a length of rope to tie the legs out of the way.  You really need this if you want to do this alone.  The other thing is a way to sharpen your knife unless you have a real good one and these are rare.  The best thing is a butcher steel to retouch the blade.

The other good trick is have a block and a few hundred yards of rope, if you can get a vehicle this close it is easier to move and keep clean with the hide on.  Tie the block to a tree on one side of the road and run the rope through and to the moose.  Then hook to the vehicle and drive.  I have seen this work like a dream.

If you are packing the meat out, I found a roll of cheap plastic will save a lot of cleaning up meat after.  One other thing that is almost a must is some kind of meat saw or a short hand saw to cut the meat up neat.  A power saw winch works great for moose dragging, a little expensive but a cheap way to avoid back injuries.

This is an often over looked method but it works better than most people could imagine.   Packing a moose out a mile or more does only one good thing in my mind – that is it makes the whiskey taste way better.  So my advice is to use good equipment  and avoid the hangover.

Hi ,I am from northwestern Canada and have hunted moose for twenty five years.  I find it easy now after a lot of success and being the total fanatic I am about things I find interesting.  I am going to give up my best tips here and point out what a lot of hunters think and do wrong.

• First thing is that early morning hunts for big bulls is not always best.  The reason I say this is that the first five my partner and I shot were at eleven o’clock just before lunch.
• Most people quit to soon, because you can hunt moose all day.  Just learn what they like at the time of day you wish to hunt.
• The just before lunch thing is just common sense  – the bulls do not get up early, they stay in the heavy brush and feed until just about time the sun gets too hot and then go up across  the road  to find a place in the open to sleep in the sun.
• The time to shoot a moose is when he is on the road of course.  Or when you can drive right up to him.
• In the evening you can find them on the back edge of a clearing, moving around to feed or do a double back to rest where they can watch their back trail.
• The idea of catching them at a water hole does not work with moose most times because they can get water easy in moose country and it is near impossible to pack them from these spots if you did shoot them there.
• One big thing I did learn is moose like good fresh water and stay close to it, very seldom do you find moose watering at a spot of dead water.  The reason is that their big nose tells them it is not the best.