Not much for stories, just some photos from our Moosehunt 2002

christer,
That bottom picture looks like a pack of wolves got after your moose, hair everywhere!
Good pics, thankyou for posting them.

TSJ

We are hunting with dogs and they make the same job as a wolf when the moose is down.

How about some details on how you hunt moose in Sweden and the rifles you use? Looks like the fellow with the radio was organizing a drive to push them past the hunters.

I'm used to the size of moose in Alaska and was wondering what the typical size of a moose in your area is?

Bill and all others,

We hunt some different styles in Sweden. The way our hunting do it is quiet common. We are about 20 people that are placed at stands around an area. Then two hunters with dogs move in the area and let the dogs search free. Somtimes the dogs have a so call stand on the Moose and a hunter can sneak up at close range (like you guys trees your blackbears. Mostly the animals are walking slowly with the dog after them and hopefully it goes by a hunters stand.

Most hunters have two way radios and communicate during the hunt. The radio guy on the photo is the team leader and make up the hunt tactics. Our team hunts on a 2700 acres area and are allowed to shoot 1 big and 3 calves. 10 years ago we had 13 animals on the license. te 80's were realy good and now our area is not so populated with moose anymore.

Most common guns are 6,5x55 , 308, 30-06, 9,3x57 or 62. But even 300 wm (my calibre) and 375 and others are seen more often now days.

The female moose on the photo weights abot 500-600 pounds (250-300 kgs) full weight. That ic normal in southern sweden but in the north they go much bigger.

CCHUNTER

A very typical freezer moose that will fit nicely

Moose in the part of sweden were christer lives are often very small compared to the ones in north.

Most "red necks" use 3006, 308, 6,5X55

No pictures of the dogs??

/ JOHAN

I didn't get time to se them. I was on the "back door" stand, and when I got to the taken animals the dogs were gone. One was jamthund and one was grahund (sorry for the swedish here)

Gentlemen,

J�mthund is a native Swedish breed, you can read more about it here, in English: http://www2.dogomania.com/breed/breed447/

Gr�hund is the Swedish name a Norwegian breed, very popular with Swedish moose hunters. Further information here: http://www2.dogomania.com/breed/breed336/

I was a bit suprised to se the Norwegian word "elg", meaning moose, translated to "elk" in this link. It is not exactely elk we hunt with them...

Other breeds are used as well, mostly of Spitz-type.

Who brought the Moose out?!?! WOOO . . . . WOO WOO WOO WOO ! ! !

Sorry, I am in a strange mood today.

JohnTheGreek

That is a Great Moose!! Here in ALASKA my partner and I got a 44" bull (Taylor Hwy.) this year
we packed out 606 lbs of boned meat!

Congrats and good luck!!