Colorado moose 171

[LIK2HNT]

Great family adventure. Bet your children were surprised how big it was once they walked up to it.

 

[passinthru]

Congratulations!

Hard to beat having the whole family with. Too Awesome!

 

[Bambistew]

Looks like fun was had all around. Congrats on some fine eating.

 

[Addicting]

Looks like fun was had all around. Congrats on some fine eating.

We have had it for 3 meals now. The burger seems sweeter and everyone liked it. The pot roast we made and it was 5 out of 5 thumbs up. Honestly, if we didn’t tell them they would of thought it was good beef. Doing CO as a trial run to see if we wanted to invest the money into AK was a good investment.

 

[Bambistew]

We have had it for 3 meals now. The burger seems sweeter and everyone liked it. The pot roast we made and it was 5 out of 5 thumbs up. Honestly, if we didn’t tell them they would of thought it was good beef. Doing CO as a trial run to see if we wanted to invest the money into AK was a good investment.

Moose eats as well as beef, IMO. My favorite way to cook it: coat liberally with spice and salt, sear it hot, and finish in at 400deg oven to 127-130deg internal. Or coat with spices and butter, cook in an oven at 500degrees for about 7min/lb, take out at 127-130. Depending on your oven you might have to keep the oven on at low temp or it will cool off before you get to 130.

We eat it a couple times a week, about anyway can think I've probably tried it. haha Takes a long time to eat through 500lbs of meat.

 

[Addicting]

Moose eats as well as beef, IMO. My favorite way to cook it: coat liberally with spice and salt, sear it hot, and finish in at 400deg oven to 127-130deg internal. Or coat with spices and butter, cook in an oven at 500degrees for about 7min/lb, take out at 127-130. Depending on your oven you might have to keep the oven on at low temp or it will cool off before you get to 130.

We eat it a couple times a week, about anyway can think I've probably tried it. haha Takes a long time to eat through 500lbs of meat.

I only came back with around 260 is what the butcher said. One these days your or @BearFoot are gonna have to help me one of those AK monsters. I can’t fathom dealing with that 1600lbs one.

 

[rtraverdavis]

I missed this when you first posted. So freakin cool. Pretty neat the whole family got to join you.

 

[6cHunter]

Awesome! Looks like it was a great time!

 

[Addicting]

Got the age results back from CPW. She was 4 years old. Here is all the tooth data from 2021 for all the CO moose harvested.

https://cpw.state.co.us/Documents/Hunting/BigGame/ToothAgeData/2021StatewideMooseToothAgeResults.pdf

 

[CoYooper89]

There are some dandy bulls in that unit. Would love to draw that tag one day

 

[Hammsolo]

I just fell into this. What a great story! Ingenuity. Family. Good stuff.