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Many times I paddled patiently, stealth mode, during the bow season. Signs showed they were still here and one morning, from my treestand, I spotted the two browsing in the hayfield across the river.
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I was confident that, if unmolested, these moose would remain in the vicinity and I should get a crack at the calf in the first few days of the rifle season. And that was my decision….so I pulled out my phone and took pictures
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I was frozen for what seemed like hours but managed to, once again, grab the phone and snap pics and video as the calf, then the cow, slowwly fed away. They casually waded across the shallow river and the calf shook off a few times.
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Mother slowly turned and chased behind him, trotting quickly thru the grass. They stopped once and turned to look back at me……crying in the tree.
But ….it was right in front of my trail cam, and that’s the picture that you see. I’m in the birch way back there! the one that’s shaking!
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Never slept a wink. I’d blown them out of town!
We met again a week later….but that’s another story!