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Utah Sportsman’s Moose Tag Goes Down

October 21st, 2005 David King - King's Outdoor World

Just got a phone call that the Utah Sportsman’s Moose tag is now on the ground. It is kind of cool since the hunter who was lucky enough to draw this tag is our very own Bret Pangos - National Factory Rep for King’s Outdoor World. Bret has been out the last two days going after a good bull. This has been his third attempt (passing on a lot bulls) to find a good bull worthy of the tag. It looks like he has done just that. All I know at this point is that it is a 7×7 bull that is 45 inches wide. I am axious to see the beast and the pics on Monday and have a chance to score his moose. I will let you know how it goes.

Update: Here is a pic of Bret with his great 130 class Shiras Moose

We have been pretty fortunate here in the office this year. Bret drew the Sportsman’s Moose Tag and I drew my once-in-a-lifetime Mountain Goat tag. Travis Osmond (Marketing guy and Predator Editor here at King’s) also drew a Montana Pronghorn tag and just came home with a nice antelope. He also will be continuing his chase for Black Bear shortly. My brother Robert King also got back a couple of weeks ago from British Columbia and took a nice Grizzly bear. Here is a short blurb of an email he sent to me right after he got back:

I survived B.C., barely, and am back. After pursuing moose for a few days and seeing everything but big bulls we went after bears. We were in heavy grizz country and hunted the rivers. It rained almost the whole time. No it poured almost the whole time, and this bear was shot in the river. It is a 7 1/2 bear shot at 15 yards. I also had a close encounter that I can now have for the magazine all on my own. Had a sow and a cub charge us at 10 yards, yes I brought extra shorts after that one. While moose hunting we saw three huge bears that would have gone 9 feet but that was in a different bear unit. This was the biggest we saw in our area hunting for bears. Tried to get on some black bear, but saw them in the areas we couldn’t hunt them and couldn’t get on the ones in our area. Three shots all in the same place with the 300 mag took the grizz down for the count. Hard to put down even at close range. Rule of thumb, keep shooting until the bear stops moving, or you run out of bullets, whichever comes first.

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