Moose Sound Help

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snowcamoman

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Does anybody out there have any good Moose sounds? I've searched up and down all over the web for sounds, but cannot locate any decent sounds. If anybody knows where some are, please drop me a line. Thanks so much.

-Peter
 
If you are looking for free decent downloads I can't help you, but we have shot a few moose over the Johnny Stewart "Moose rutting" and "Moose in Water" tapes. Even shot one coyote that came into these, though that has still got us scratching our heads! What was he thinking?
The Wildlife Tech moose sounds are out of this world, but you won't be getting those for nothing.If you have been searching you have by now discovered that there are a lot of crap moose sounds out there. Most of them seem to be of someone that has never heard a moose blowing a mouth call. The J.S. tapes don't sound that great to my ear, but they do work.Except for the Draw our early season no longer no longer occurs during the rut. This has limited my moose calling in the last few years. Good huntin to ya.
Dogleg
 
Dogleg,
Thanks for the advice. I actually found some good Moose sounds. They're the WT sounds and yes, they are the best I've heard. I havn't heard the JS sounds, but with these WT sounds, I should be all set. Thanks for the help though. What was that Coyote thinking??? A moose for dinner??? That must've been one big coyote.

-Peter
 
Snowcamoman,
Sounds like you are all set, I can't imagine finding better moose sounds than the WT. Remember to leave some for seed.Now that you have me thinking about moose again I may have to go farther north in Saskatchewan, where the early open season lines up with the rut. Waiting for draw tags takes too long, and the population has taken a beating from ticks in the south and east anyway.
I shot a small bull this fall that was crippled in a foreleg. It was a cell-phone in one hand affair, with the Game department on the other end, and we were required to turn the meat over to the CO's. Sometimes I wonder if all that meat made it to the food bank, or just into a warden's freezer? Either way, at least it wasn't wasted.The chances of him making it through the winter would have been slim.
Happy Huntin'
Dogleg
 
Snowcamoman,
I was following you quest for moose sounds and was wondering if you can pass on the web addy for the WT sounds. It would be nice to try these for next season.
 
I wasnt aware you could purchase WT sounds with out owning a WT caller. Then again there is alot im not aware of. Care to enlighten us ? Im interested.
 
Crapshoot,
I have a WT caller. Couldn't pass it up for the price paid. I don't think they sell just their sounds. I imagine their sounds are highly protected. But of all of the moose sounds that I've heard on video, the WT one's are the best thing going. I don't know what is on that WT moose hunting video, but I imagine that it includes them calling moose in using their own sounds (obviously). Has anybody out there ever seen this video? I just read a post recently on the WT coyote DVD, but havn't heard anything on the moose one. Now, can I use my WT sounds in other callers that I own? I would think I could just as if owning a CD allows a user to load the music onto an MP3 player. I'm not a lawyer, but in my opinion, that would be a fair deal since I'm the rightful owner of the original item and am not distributing it. Anybody else familiar with owner/possession laws on DVD's, Video's, Music, Predator sounds?

-Snowcamoman
 
As long as your not selling or distributing, you should be good to go. You bought the sounds. What you play them on for your personal pleasure shouldnt be an issue.
 
I agree with you. Is this the understanding and agreement of the owners and manufacturers of electronic callers and copyrighted property? I thought there was a thread on here once about this issue and one of the owners had issues with this. I'll try to search for the topic. So it appears that Johnny Stewart has two moose sounds, FoxPro has a few and WT has the market on the rest. The FoxPro sounds are pretty good sounds too, I especially like their Moose Rattling sound. There is a Moose biology book I am reading and it talks about the native Alaskans using pitchers of water to pour into one another to simulate a cow urinating. Apparently this method would bring bulls in and was highly productive. Now I need to sit by the microphone and try recording water being poured into a pitcher to sound like a moose urinating....lol.. I don't think anybody is selling that sound yet. My original intention of this post was to see if any websites had some good moose sounds that I couldn't find, but apparently there arn't any decent ones. All of the one's from websites just don't sound like any of the moose I've heard. If anybody does locate one though, I would appreciate a link to it. Thank you.

-Snowcamoman
 
"Is this the understanding and agreement of the owners and manufacturers of electronic callers and copyrighted property?"

Anyone that gets sounds with our call gets the whole library on CD in MP3 format ready for simple drag and drop loading ( sorry no Moose sounds yet Snowcamoman )you have the right to play them in whatever you want. I'm sure your wife would appreciate hearing them in your home stereo /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif
 
Thanks Bandit. I imagine she would love to hear them in the stereo. I think I drive her crazy enough with the all of the calls. Especially when I received the Bandit and she was standing in the kitchen with a bad headache and it opened up full throttle. HOLY LOUD EAR RINGING!!! And one unhappy wife too. But I was pretty happy ears ringing and all. Thanks for the info. on the sounds. All of those Dueling Critters on your list are super. Instead of listening to music, I find myself listening to dueling animals.. What's wrong with me...lol..

-Snowcamoman
 
Snowcamoman:
I have all the WT moose sounds and they sound OK to me but so far the moose haven't been impressed. I'v used them for two seasons and have not had a moose respond yet. We hunt on an early resident of the unit only subsistence season and I think that is big factor. There is also the issue of blowing moose sounds in the middle of brown bear country that should at least give you honorable mention for the Darwin Award.
 
LOL UgashikBOB. That is true, a Darwin could be in order for that one. Maybe the best method is the old rope through the metal coffee can trick. I've heard about quite a few guys who still do that and have success with it. That's another sound I guess I could record and load onto the caller. I could make a custom list of Alaskan sounds. Urinating moose and Coffee Can Moose. Hmmmmm... UgashikBob, have you ever called in a brown bear? Just interested as I'm heading out next month and will be in a "Bear Area" and was thinking about doing some calling. If you have, what sounds worked good? Thanks.

-Snowcamoman
 
Snowcamoman,
If you've got WT moose calls, you have some good quality. I haven't heard what sounds they have however, and moose make a number of different sounds at different times and for different reasons. IMO, moose are the easiest critter to call, with the possible exception of gray fox.

Moose are the least critical of any amimal I've called as to making the sound correctly. Anything close will work. As examples: I called a big bull by accident when I snagged my nylon pack on a limb and scraped the tree bark and brush as I got it loose. I didn't know a moose was near, till the bull challenged it with a series of grunts and raking his antlers, and started toward me right away. When a duck landed on the pond between me and the bull and quacked once, the bull grunted and charged at the duck.

My 15 year old son made atrocious moose calls to my ears, all with his mouth, and he called a young bull to within touching distance as we stood in an old road (season was closed). I used a diaphragm elk call to call in a nice bull once, just to see if it worked. Anymore, I never take any calls and just make the sounds I want with my mouth. Once in awhile I may pour water from lunch bag, or splash a little like a moose walking in water. Use a stick you pick up to scrape brush.

However, if you have a smallish bull and you make a big bull challenge, the small bull will sneak away. If a cow is not in the mood and you make a bull call, she will sneak away. If she is in the mood, then she will trot around and whine seductively to you. Bulls of all sizes come silently to a cow in heat call, and bulls of all sizes usually will grunt in response to a bull grunt, at least once. If they are not in the mood, they may just stand and listen or walk away. Also, when it is outside of prime rut time, a bull will listen to a cow call silently, and may wait till the next time he gets up to feed before he wanders over to check on the sound, which may be hours later. If you hear one sharp whack like a hickory hammer handle hitting hard seasoned wood, or maybe a few of those like sombody hammering, that is apparently a question challenge. A bull has heard you, announced his antlers and is asking if you are another moose.

As in most calling, set up is far more critical than exact sound. Good luck.
 
Okanagan,
I agree that moose arn't too difficult to call in. I am bow hunting them and need them to get in real close and be paying attention to something other than me. The young bulls are just like any other deer in my opinion. The older and wiser big bulls like to take their time it seems like. With the lack of decent cover available up here in the interior of Alaska, trying to get a big bull into a specific area can be challenging. I'd prefer to draw them into an area with some white spruce trees since those areas a shot can be easier to take. I don't want them anywhere near water or ponds as they probably will end up in the toughest to recover location. But I think with the sounds I have, I can get one to stay interested in the caller long enough for me to get a good shot off. Thanks for the inside tips and information. Where abouts are you hunting moose and elk?

-Snowcamoman
 
Snocamoman, my moose hunting has been in B.C., from right along the US border to up along the Yukon border. Have hunted elk in B.C and a couple of US states. If you are bow hunting then I think you are wise to use the elctronic call and get the critter looking at something besides you. A bow puts a different spin on your set-up needs. We have called smaller bulls to us when we were standing in the open, but I'd hate to count on that happening. A friend of mine shot a very large bull with a bow over in Alberta last fall, and he moved a couple of times as he called it in, so that he got a side shot. After his last call he moved ahead and to one side in a swampy bog that had islands or clumps of trees. The bull was approaching the clump of trees from which he'd last called, but he was about 30 feet ahead of there and 20 feet to one side in another clump. Blacktail bucks and other deer have been a lot more wary than moose I've called. Good luck. You're going to have a lot of fun with this hunt, and if you've already called deer, you know how to set-up.
 
Okanagan,
I used to spend my falls and winters in Michigan hunting Whitetail. Those have to be the toughest and wariest critters around. I've called them in, but it can be a time consuming endeavor. Moose are quite a bit easier to call. I will be doing float hunting and go by a lot of oxbows and small fields. My plan is to pull the raft out before the oxbows and openings and try and set up in the wooded areas surrounding. Then I can place the caller where I want and try to get them in to it. With that new Bandit, I'll be able to easily put it up in a tree and keep the sound high off the ground. When big ol' bull comes in, I'll pause the sounds and hopefully get him looking around and heading towards what he heard. Then I can tune down the volume and fire it back up if I need to draw him in more. As long as I keep him from winding me and keep him looking towards the caller I'll be all set. But you know it all sounds good in theory, actually getting things to happen that way are usually tougher once in the field. I just want to make sure to keep those big old guys away from the river and from Muskeg areas.

-Snowcamoman
 
Snowcamoman:
We had a young three year old growler come in to the cow call once but winded us at about 100 yards and left. At least when your hunting moose you are better armed for the event. I think about it every time I am in the alders with a 223 and snowshoe hare distress call. We had a unusually mild winter and I was very surprised that we never saw a single one. They will be out in force as soon as the moose start dropping there calves.
I agree moose are easy to call during the rut because I've had them respond to a squeaky plane door opening. In my experience its just the opposite before the rut. I've had six different bulls we had visuals on and they would not respond to any moose sound WT makes. Three of them stopped looked in the direction of the caller and walked away. They weren't spooked but they weren't impressed either. The other 3 treated it like a non event.
Before the rut and before the big bulls have there harem assembled they are totally unpredictable and in my experience not responsive to a call. If anyone has any experience calling prerut bulls I would sure like to hear it.
 
UgashikBob,
I have noticed the same thing before the rut with the moose. They seem to be totally unpredictable and unresponsive to any calls that i have made. Later in the rut and during rut though, they seem to key in on the sounds and respond to them. You're absolutely right about them treating it as a "non event" before the rut. I figure before rut, they don't need to respond to anything basically because they have no need to fight for anything. But once the cows start giving the scent and the bulls are busy trying to round up the females, they then see it fit to respond to calls and investigate things. I don't think it takes too much in terms of "exact sound" once rut is going to perk the bulls. The natives have used birch bark callers for a long time with success and today many people still do the same thing with success. I do know though that pre-rut, those moose will sure respond quick to a wolf howl. Basically, it's the "Get Outta Town" call and sends them packing.

-Snowcamoman
 


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