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There goes my neighborhood!
A big brown girl moved into my neighborhood last weekend. My young shepherd got loose and chased it for almost an hour before I could catch him. I figure it was easier grabbing him than the moose.
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03-24-2017, 04:50 PM
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Very cool. Didn't know MA had moose.
Be great if you could send some down here. We had the first elk visit in two hundred years and it was a local celebrity.
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Very cool. Didn't know MA had moose.
Be great if you could send some down here. We had the first elk visit in two hundred years and it was a local celebrity.
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Come to Kentucky. We have two nice elk herds building up, one in the far west Land Between The Lakes region and one in the eastern mountains.
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03-24-2017, 07:04 PM
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Be very glad that your dog didn't catch him. It might have been the last you saw of him. Moose are used to being the baddest things in the bush.
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I've seen more moose near my house then elk.
Go figure.
Almost hit a spike moose several years ago when he walked across the road, then came back to the side he left from.
I was driving a small pickup and just missed him.....
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03-24-2017, 07:35 PM
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MA has many moose. A young bull moose was tranquilized and taken to a new neighborhood today from Ludlow MA, not far from Club Gun Fan and me.
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03-24-2017, 08:11 PM
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A young bull moose was tranquilized and taken to a new neighborhood today from Ludlow MA...
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LUDLOW! That's amazing. 
I lived in Springfield in 78-81, and helped friends build a log home on 5 acres in Monson. Never heard of much big game back then, just coons eating their chickens. 
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03-24-2017, 08:23 PM
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Game warden told me there are at least 16 on the mountain behind my house. My wife and I both deer hunt and we have seen sign but never saw any until now.
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This picture is from another neighbor. She took it from her kitchen window.
The one I took was not with a zoom. I was sitting in my car.
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"Didn't know MA had moose" Lots of Moose and black bear. I was heading out back with some "city" folks last fall,and they were asking me if I had seen any bears. I told them they were around,but not on my property. The guy says to me.."How about that one"...and there, 50 feet in front of us, was a 300lb black bear just lumbering along. A month or two before that, I had to stop in the road for a HUGE bull Moose that didn't want to move.At first I thought it was a horse who had thrown it's rider..till it lifted and turned it's head..what a rack!
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Well, what caliber should I carry in case I run into a moose when I'm out in the Everglades ?
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"Didn't know MA had moose" Lots of Moose ...
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It's great to hear their range has expanded so much in the 35 years since I lived there. I used to go to Baxter SP in ME to see them.
This one grazed a lake shore in Baxter, right to where we were watching from the dock. Loved it.
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Shortly after my wife and I moved to Massachusetts 20 years ago we decided to go "hunting" and "shoot" (with a camera) our first moose. Drove all the freakin' way up to Moose Alley in Pittsburg, NH ... which is as far north as you can go in NH. Didn't see even one moose. Nothing. Two weeks later we're driving through a neighboring town (about 5 miles from home) and what should trot out and cross the road right in front of us but a big ol' bull moose! We just looked at each other in disbelief and started laughing. Haven't seen one since ... but we have had quite a few black bear encounters, one a near-miss which almost required an underwear change ... 
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Nice to see that conservation is working in areas all over the country.
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Well, what caliber should I carry in case I run into a moose when I'm out in the Everglades ?
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Shortly after my wife and I moved to Massachusetts 20 years ago we decided to go "hunting" and "shoot" (with a camera) our first moose. Drove all the freakin' way up to Moose Alley in Pittsburg, NH ... which is as far north as you can go in NH. Didn't see even one moose. Nothing. Two weeks later we're driving through a neighboring town (about 5 miles from home) and what should trot out and cross the road right in front of us but a big ol' bull moose! We just looked at each other in disbelief and started laughing. Haven't seen one since ... but we have had quite a few black bear encounters, one a near-miss which almost required an underwear change ... |
I haven't been up to Pittsburg in 5 or 6 years but I went up every year for the first two weeks of October Trout fishing and Grouse hunting for about 30 years, I don't think I ever had a day where I didn't see a Moose, I forgot what night of the week it was but all the town people would go to the dump and watch the Bears , there is not much to do in Pittsburg.
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A big brown girl moved into my neighborhood last weekend. My young shepherd got loose and chased it for almost an hour before I could catch him. I figure it was easier grabbing him than the moose.
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Yep, smart too!
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Perhaps he was just looking for the nearest Moose Lodge. They aren't too common now-a-days
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At a meeting last week the head of the regional fish and wildlife office said one of his guys had gone to check an eagle's nest along the Connecticut River in Holyoke and spotted a black bear nearby. The biologist, who has tagged, weighed and collared dozens of bears, estimated the bruin's weight at 500 pounds. That's just after it came out of hibernation.
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Well, what caliber should I carry in case I run into a moose when I'm out in the Everglades ?
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Thanks to excise taxes on guns and ammo and a wide variety of shooting related products,there is much money available. So far,the Pittman-Robertson Act of 1937 has provided more than 12 billion dollars to the states to facilitate conservation efforts.
Conservation: A Law That Keeps On Giving - National Wildlife Federation
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