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Offline Sourdough

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Two Mules Shot
« on: January 11, 2007, 10:43:52 AM »
At the Fairbanks Advisory Commitee meeting last night, Bill Larry reported that someone had shot two mules in the unit 20-A antlerless season.  Someone had shot the mules and dragged them into the bushes and hid them.  Talk about Moose hunters getting a Black Eye.  The season is still going on in zones 4 and 5.  Open till Feb 28.  I pointed out that the problem now is that the bulls have dropped their antlers and now are antlerless and legal.  Don Young said he thinks the Bull harvest will be neglagable.  There is Moose there but you are going to have to work for them.  They have been educated well.
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Re: Two Mules Shot
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2007, 03:36:28 PM »
How does one DRAG a mule into the bushes?  Them suckers be REALLY heavy!
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Re: Two Mules Shot
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2007, 06:22:53 AM »
Them must of been antlerness mules.  I could see the confusion as they look so much alike once the mules drop their antles. ::)

Must be them New York hunters
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Re: Two Mules Shot
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2007, 09:47:12 AM »
Dragging them into the bushes is not hard.  Just hook them to the back of a snow machine and drag.  That is what gave away the kill site, snowmachine tracks leaving the trail. 

In fact most people that shoot Moose right now over in the flats are hooking them up to the back of a snow machine and dragging them back to camp whole.  On the snow, a big machine has no trouble pulling a Moose down the trail.  After the animal is dead there will be no bruising, and it's easy to drag one back where you have a hoist to lift it.  My partner did that this year.  He shot his Moose about three miles from the cabin.  He hooked a rope to the Moose then to his big Polaris wide track.  Twenty munutes later we were at the cabin, so much easier to work where you have a warm cabin to warm up in, and hoist to lift the Moose and a wheelbarrow to catch all the visceria.

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