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🗓️ 31 October 2025
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Want to shoot, process, and pack out 5 mature bull moose in 3.5 days? Me neither, but that's what professional elk guide Tate Bradfield and his group did last month. This episode, Tate tells us about the rifles, cartridges, and bullets the five hunters choose for their special trip (which included the taking of a Boone & Crockett bull!) and shares his observations on the various results. He also has some sage advice about shooting moose in thigh-deep water, as well as useful suggestions on how to pack moose quarters on the bone. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | What does it take to kill a moose? |
| 0:01.8 | We have a man right here that shot five. |
| 0:04.8 | He and his friends in three and a half days? |
| 0:07.2 | Three, well, yeah, three and a half days. |
| 0:08.9 | So he knows how to kill a moose, his decision-making process is maybe in question. |
| 0:14.8 | But today, we're going to talk about the cartridges and the bullets they used on these big Alaska Yukon moose. |
| 0:22.2 | And what he observed, what Tate Bradfield of process-based hunter observed, |
| 0:28.1 | shooting big moose with really puny little guns. |
| 0:32.7 | I mean, even the big guns, puny compared to a 1500-pound moose. |
| 0:36.8 | Yeah, and they will make you, even if they're 20 yards from the water, they will make you feel small. |
| 0:42.1 | Yeah, and they like to die in the water. |
| 0:44.4 | One of them died in the water. |
| 0:46.3 | Yeah, it's just a personality trait of a moose. |
| 0:51.1 | Thanks for coming back on the show, Tate. |
| 0:53.0 | Oh, thank you for having me. |
| 0:55.8 | Yeah, it's always a good time. |
| 1:02.0 | And we talk about fun stuff when you're here. So I've got lots to talk about that I've experienced. |
| 1:08.6 | Most of you guys are familiar with Tate, I'm sure. But for those of you who aren't, Tate is a local outfitter and guide and educator in the area in which I live in |
| 1:13.0 | southeastern Idaho. Together we host the elk hunting boot camp each summer. And it's maybe my |
| 1:21.0 | favorite three days of the year that aren't hunting. Right. It's just a good time. Oh, |
| 1:25.7 | it's great fun. We rub shoulders with a lot of great people, have some great instructors on a great facility, great mountainside ranch, lots of shooting, scenario-based type shooting. Great food. If you're interested in that, look up process-based hunter, and I would book soon. Next is June, right? Yeah, next one is in June and we're |
| 1:45.9 | already just over half booked. Yeah, very cool. And you need to book quickly or it will be. |
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