Pull up your chairs for a hunting story! And a man that loves his Argo called Cartman

[spookum]

Nice RD!! that is really cool!!! We also butcher our own meat!

[DerekF]

Ditto here on the butchering. Nov 2011 Peace River,AB

Nice Moose and Nice Bison RD. Is that a draw in Northern BC RD? I hear the yukon it is open season for them right now. It is draw in the NWT for most spots but the Aboriginal groups have tags and will often give you one if you give some of the meat back. I got two tags that way last year. Good fit for all.

[MIteyMT]

Wow wow wow wow and wow

[Hogneck]

You have no idea everyone that was on that trip wants an argo now!


@ hog neck this is how we got unstuck ... hope i explained it well enough!

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@trevor, you can either buy a hunting license for 60 bucks and fill your freezer (tags are free) or go pay 4 bucks a pound for ground beef that is imported from the lower 48..... all i know is that the beef up here dont taste like it did down in MT at the grocery store....

and i hope everyone gets to see the norther lights at least once, especialy with good friends while filling the freezer!

That is cool thinking.I will always carry my saw.

[spookum]

Defanitly dude. I dont venture too far with out it. It is right handy to make a fire, get trees to put under tires to get unstuck, cut trees for tent poles. Or clear brush and big trees off of a trail. Or to cut the alder back from a downed moose! Also use full to cut heads, hoofs and quarters up on a big game animal. I know a BUNCH of people that get Poulons, the little saws. Just make sure you have a sheath on the bar that has a lanyard that ties back to the handle on the saw. We could have been in deep doo doo as the sheath on my saw popped off and put a knick in a 5 gallon gas can. We were ok but had the pucker factor going on!

[tj_od]

Nicely done! Great pics...

[trevorakm1]

saw, one more thing to add to the tool list, good thinking. i butcher my own deer also, gives me more appreciation for the whole hunt. i can't imagine how long it takes to butcher a moose or bison, team effort?

[rapidroy]

Team effort for sure...although in our camp we started packing cordless tools. A battery powered sawzall with a long blade makes nice work of splitting Mr Moose and who cant use a battery drill for setting up camp! The chainsaw is a standard around any campfire. Kolpin makes a handy chainsaw clamp to mount on the machine to keep the saw handy and the blade cover is a must.

[Rock Doctor]

saw, one more thing to add to the tool list, good thinking. i butcher my own deer also, gives me more appreciation for the whole hunt. i can't imagine how long it takes to butcher a moose or bison, team effort?

I can butcher a Moose in about 4-5hrs, depends on how it was Quartered. Most times now I do the Gutless Method for Field Dressing, cuts down on weight big time. I don't cut bone when I butcher, so wrapped and packaged boneless. One thing that really makes a difference on how long it takes is how you want it cut IE, Steaks, Roasts, Hamburger, ect. I've done a lot of Moose and Elk.

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[DerekF]

First time I saw the gutless method was last March. We had 3 bison down at one time. I thought we would be there for days, as I had gotten bison before and to even gut them takes forever, but my cousin had been on a Dall Sheep hunt the previous fall and showed us the gutless method that the guide had used. We (four of us) had the bison done up in 2 hours, loaded up in Boggans and headed out. If someone had told me that you could put two bison in one boggan and have done it that quick I would have laughed him out of the room, but you can do it with that method. Still a major load to pull but the no bones cuts down alot of weight.

I am hoping to go out with the avenger this month for a bison. I got a set of track tuners last week and hopefully they make the rubber tracks easier to use on the hardpack snow.