Of all the day to call about a moose, it’s when we are sick.
So at about 12:30pm we go a call about a moose that needs to be harvested. Sweet! So I call the Alaska Moose Federation, whom I have a membership with, to pick up and deliver the Moose to our house. Awesomeness!
So I send the husband out to guard our moose because me have poachers/vultures in a sense, that will steal the whole moose or literally cut chunks out of it.
It doesn’t cost anything to be on the Salvage Call list, you only need three adults or more in your group. That’s it! But people still won’t sign up, I just don’t get it.
Anyways so we purchased a years membership for this place to come pick up and and deliver the moose to us, $100 a year! We have had two delivered this year. The first was destroyed, it was a young calf hit by a semi.
So my husband calls me saying he can’t find the moose because it isn’t where the trooper said. The trooper give me further info on the Moose. It was hit by a TRAIN! My heart sank, I’m thinking it is going to be gut shot and worthless. So I get more info on the location of the moose and relay it to my husband. He finds it, he says it’s beat up and that it looks like it was drug and that the guts are mostly gone. He sends me these photos.
So after looking at the photos its looking a bit better. Yay!
The guy who delivers the moose to us was just turning in his truck to have he breaks done, and just transferred his stuff to his wife’s truck when I called for his help.
He is about two hours away, and suppose to be getting more employees soon. Good thing the temps are in the single digits, and the train gutted it for us.
The delivery guy had a hard time finding the place just like my husband. The train delivered it to a train overpass, where they have all their electrical boxes and stuff for the train maintenance.
Eventually the guy got there, used a winch to pull it up onto his flat bed truck and delivered it.
We set up a tarp for processing the moose on. Both @alaskatactical and the delivery guy did a great job on dropping it on the tarp.
They take the lower jaw for fish and game so they can keep track of ages on the harvested moose.
Since the guts are mostly gone we focused on getting the quarters off. We started on the left hind and left front. One of the back straps seems to be shot. 🙁 But we got a lot more from this one then last.
We have been working for 12 hours and are finally on the last leg. We try to use as much as possible.
Tools we used.
We have made 20 roasts, 30+ steaks, close of bot more then 100 pounds of burger.