Can anyone recommend a good/reliable Moose outfitter in Manitoba?

I am looking for a 50"+ Moose. I understand this province has this class animal.

I can recommend coming to BC if you can!!!
Why Manitoba?

trapntrav,

My brother and I are coming to BC in the Spring of 2008 on a Black and Griz hunt w/ Collingwood Bros out of Smithers.

Check this link:

http://www.bigsandlakelodge.com/moose_hunts.html

Click on the Results link and check out the size of the Moose taken. The cost is approx $2-3000 less, including all the charters, than I have found elsewhere, apples to apples.

I know there are big moose in BC. Just thought this might be a lower cost alternative.

Open for suggestions.

Smoke

The closer you get to Alaska the bigger the moose are. Manitoba seems a strange place to go for a moose hunt. NorThern BC or Northwestern Alberta has very big moose.

Regarding Big Moose.

Before the hunting pressure got too heavy there were some big moose in eastern Canada. I have seen a few racks from the Black Bay Peninsula on Lake Superior and the islands on Lake Nipigon that were over 60 inches. If my memory serves me correctly, and these day it seldom does, the widest I have seen myself was 67 inches from The Black Bay Peninsula. I have also heard of some 70 inch plus moose from Ontario and Quebec in the old days but haven't seen them. They don't get much chance to grow up these days especially near Indian reserves and mining towns.

VBR,


Ted Gorsline

I got one. I am in the photos page with the biggest antlers. http://www.huntsinmanitoba.com/

Manitoba does have some big moose,but northern B.C. has much higher numbers of big moose and much higher success rates for killing big moose.

There are 50"moose in every province if you can find them,but don't expect them to be behind every tree.This is hunting and not just driving up and shooting one.There are a lot of non-res come up and don't see a booner white tail go home and trash the outfitter and the province.Moose are similar, for every moose in the population 1 of 10 is a bull and 1 of 25 bulls or less is a 50"er.I hunted bulls on an general tag for 30 years and never saw a bull while I had a gun and a tag at the same time.I finally got a cow draw,shot the cow in the first hour,and saw 12 nice bulls while we were hunting whitetails during the rest of the season.There is no guarentee of a 50"bull same as no guarentee of a 150+ whitetail but come up and try anyhow..

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for every moose in the population 1 of 10 is a bull and 1 of 25 bulls or less is a 50"er.

That does depend a great deal on your hunting location.I have hunted in northern B.C. in places where the bull density is quite high and I saw several mature bulls every day.On one hunt,I hunted 8 days and in that period ,I saw several 50" bulls.

For those who think that all the big moose are in northern BC I suggest a perusal of the Canadian Moose category in the 2005 edition of the Boone and Crocket record book.What is mind boggling is the number of RECENT entries from the state of Maine and the province of New Brunswick. Big Moose are where you find them.The outfitter mentioned by the original poster here obviously has done well recently.

The main problem in eastern Canada has been overhunting which is easy to do in country where a floatplane can land anywhere.

They get to be about 7/8th the size of Alaska moose. The reason big Canada moose come from new Brunswick and Maine is because they were protected for so many years and allowed to grow to adult size.

VBR,


Ted Gorsline

In the Manitoba Record Book, there are nummerous moose with over 60 in. spread.