We hear a moose over there, he's a long ways off.
Its gettin down wind.
If you kill a bull that's 50 inches you you jump in, in your skivvies
Or we could just do whoever kills the bigger bull.
The smaller one has to jump in.
The bigger one!
The bigger one?
Yeah, The bigger bull gets the punishment.
Okay it's on!
Okay so whoever kills the biggest one jumps.
Your cheating because I got a rifle.
British Columbia. We're checking our zero.
Got the new Evidence by Bloodsport.
There is another moose to the left of the cow back in the timber.
We're getting closer to see if it's a bull or not
I think it's a calf.
That's pretty cool. Got pretty to a cow and a calf.
They can just disappear in that timber.
It's unreal for such a huge animal.
They can just disappear completely.
You can sure smell it!
So the bull rutted up this area and urinated in it.
The smell is just up overpowering.
One of the most interesting things about moose behavior is
there wallows, rut holes or pee holes as we like to call them,
he'll paw and dig up the ground, urinates in that and then rolls in it.
Then he's gonna step in it and walk off.
A cow moose finds this pee hole, she puts her legs together,
pees down the back of her legs, steps in it, walks off herself.
The bull, he comes by around, checks his pee hole,
smells the cow has been there and then follows her.
We're gonna sit and call for at least an hour. So we're gonna have to sit real quiet.
So I think he's hung up in there.
I also think he's a little nervous cuz he is a young bull.
He wants the cow to come to him.
That's pretty cool, heard a lot of vocalizations.
As Dan just said, we're pretty sure that's the young bull
that the guys were hunting here last night saw.
And so what we're gonna do is, we're going to bug out of here,
and go to a series of meadows that we were in the other day.
Saw tons of big moose sign.
I wanna go over there and see if we can rattle that bull's cage a little bit.
Brandon, every moose makes one basic noise and that noise is e-e-r-u-g-h.
That's what he says, e-e-r-u-g-h.
It goes like this [eerugh, eerugh] and every call is just a variation of that sound.
So the cows is stretched out on the top end,
the e-e-r they go [eEERRugh] and the bulls stretched out of the back end [erUGGH].
Let's do a few.
And then I'm gonna have you practice this okay.
So let's start with that e-e-r-u-g-h.
[eerugh]
That's really good actually.
Try it again.
[eerugh]
Ducks everywhere are frightened.
Okay so now we're gonna change this, we're gonna stretch it out a little bit.
[eEERRugh]
I find it helps me to plug my nose
You try it.
[eEERRugh]
Now a bull, he's got the deep bottom end grunt.
[eerUGGH, eerUGGH]
I'm telling you, your a natural.
And so those are your basic moose bull & cow calls.
With several encounters for Brandon, with no luck,
Dan Pickar picks up his bow and gives it a go in hopes of arrowing a rut crazed Canadian bull moose.
To start with, let's get you set up out there we can see a little bit past these trees.
I'm gonna call from here. If you hear a bull call, you have to tell me.
I can hear a moose over there. He's a long ways off.
We need to be patient.
This is a patient's game.
Wonder up the trail here, 50 yards up. I'm staying right here.
You have to listen they're so hard to hear.
They work on those low deep tones. [eerUGH, eerUGH]. They're not screaming like elk.
As you can tell by the look on Dan's face, the action is about to hit a boiling point.
I'm wanna get tucked in a little more, but we loose our shooting lanes.
He's getting down wind.
He's coming straight.
I'm going to shoot him right here.
Did you let fly?
Yes!
Did you really?
Well I hit that bull a little back. We're gonna give him some time.
You know he called him right into my lap but came in frontal.
Kind of a tough situation for a bow.
We'll come back in here later this afternoon.
And slip in here and hopefully get back on him.
That's where he turned you know.
Who's that sexy cow! [laughter]
That was my stomach.
That was perfect timing.
I was you know, obviously I'm standing still, hopefully he's gonna come closer but,
You can hear it crack!
It cracks in that far rib.
So after looking on the big screen, you know, it looks like
obviously the entrance is stomach area somewhere, but that crack and that arrow
stopping on that far side, we think we got, you know, the last couple of ribs,
maybe two, but at least the last rib you know could go a couple hundred yards, but
he's going to die. It's just a matter of give him some time and go and finding him.
Yeah that's right.
So we're going this afternoon
I can follow a set of tracks pretty good.
I need you guys watching the timber just like I said,
cause he's gonna, if he beds down, he'll hook back on that backdrop.
Okay and he'll be watching his back track.
He'll be visible to it.
All the way up to the fletch.
Oh my gosh!
I got to unload my gun!
I knew it baby!
[celebration]
All that drama!
I can not tell you how happy that makes me!
Thanks guys.
Honestly, I feel like an idiot for saying this, but I have been dreaming about this for 25 years.
Since I was 5 years old.
Magic Dan pulled right in to 14 yards.
That is an unbelievable moose!
Can you smell him?
I love it!
That's such a good stink!
That is the smell of victory right there!
He didn't go anywhere really.
Really didn't. He just come up here and laid down.
I just can't get over Dan how perfect his brows are.
Three like that?
Just matching threes!
That's a big animal!
I'm gonna soak this in a little bit and enjoy the moment.
We'll get him out of here tonight and get him hung up and taken care of.
Remember, fair chase is the only way to hunt and take trophy big game.