This morning Todd and I got up early. We were exhausted and sore from dealing with the moose until one in the morning, getting back so late at night and hardly getting any sleep. We had to load up the ARGO again with the moose meat that was out cooling. Got it all loaded into the two ARGOs, one of which had two flat tires.  We headed back all the way into our main camp in record time because the river is so low now, it hasn’t been raining at all and we could actually run the gravel bars. We saw tons and tons of wolf tracks and caribou kills that the wolves have taken down. We’ve heard them howling everyday out here, but we haven’t seen any yet.

We made it back to the main camp, where the Potterfields, Brenda and Sarah, were staying at. Brenda and Sarah are from Midway USA, which is a catalogue order company in Caldwell that sponsors our show as of this year and they came out to hunt with us. As of yesterday they had one caribou – Brenda had taken it at a 318 yard perfect shot. Today was Sarah’s turn to shoot and just as we got there, son of a gun if there’s not a caribou out in the lake in front of our camp with a bunch of orange survey tape hanging from it. There have been prospectors all over this country this summer and have been wrapping orange survey tape all over the trees marking quadrants for claims. So this caribou had somehow gotten tangled up and was going crazy. Running in and out of the water with 30 feet of tape hanging off his antlers all wrapped around it. So we snuck over, Sarah made a perfect shot and the caribou jumped into the lake, swam out to the middle and died. We had to row the boat out to the middle; it was the strangest recovery I’ve ever done because the caribou was floating. Brought the caribou back in and we got it butchered up and quartered. The meat from both caribous along with my moose meat flew out already on the airplane, and we loaded up the ARGOs, so we’re good.

My moose ended up being 71 ¾ inches wide, so rounded up to 72. It will score about 240 gross and net about 228 for the Boone and Crockett scoring. I didn’t get a chance to score the SCI system yet, but it will be way huge. It’s a monster bull - an absolute giant.

So we took off with all three ARGOs, the Potterfields, their two guides, Steve and Johnny and Todd and I and we came back to the spike camp. We set up another Cabelas tent - they’re fantastic. It took us half an hour to set up a 20x10 camp with a stove in it and everything. They’re the best tents I’ve ever used. So we’re all set up in the pitch dark, just about to make dinner then we’re off hunting again tomorrow. We’ve got our fingers crossed that we find a big bull.

We’re flying in six more hunters tomorrow and the guides. We’re busy, busy going full steam. The guys at one of our other camps almost got a 60-incher yesterday and a different hunter at one of our lakes got close to another 60-incher today. It’s happening, the moose are moving and we are in full swing.