A Wyoming outdoorsman took a break from elk hunting Tuesday and called a bull moose to within 10 feet, simply by grunting at it.

Owen Miller said he’s called bull moose in a few times, though never quite that close. No game artificial game call is requires, such as the tubes hunters use to imitate the bugling of bull elk.

“I just grunt. If you listen to them (bull moose) it’s an easy grunt to imitate. It’s like you’re saying ‘rump’ with a grunt,” he said.

He wasn’t hunting moose, but there are a few around in the area where he’s been hunting elk, he said, without disclosing any specifics about the location.

Moose are in the rut, or mating season this time of year. When he gets an opportunity to call a bull moose in, and the circumstances seems safe enough, he takes it.

“I always make

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