Here is a couple of photo's of a big bull I shot. 2 1/2 mile pack out!

A "walking" away view!

Good looking bull. At least you had some help packing it out, but I bet there were a few comments about where to shoot one next year.

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Originally posted by Alaska Hunter:
I bet there were a few comments about where to shoot one next year.

Ain't that the truth.

Frostbit,

Now that I'm old, I'm a much better moose hunter when I'm by a river.

We've taken a canoe out in the tundra, loaded half a big moose in it and 2 to 3 guys can just pull it along pretty nicely. Saves a lot of work on ankle breaking ground.

Thanks guys. That is my only 70" bull. Actually I shot a 63" bull solo right about 1/2 mile from where this one, so that ended up being a 3 day solo pack! Here is a picture of that one!

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Originally posted by Northway:
A "walking" away view!

I've only shot one moose ... so far. Hoping to get another this fall. I packed mine out in the same manner and remember being worried about looking like the "wife's deer hunting hat" from cartoons. I made sure to have hunter orange streamers tied all over the rack while packing it trough the brush!!

Those pictures make my back hurt!!

Great Bulls! Hope to get a moose one day.

Northway some questions sent via PM

Beautiful moose! Love the picture walking away with the rack on the pack frame.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:

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Originally posted by Northway:
A "walking" away view!

I've only shot one moose ... so far. Hoping to get another this fall. I packed mine out in the same manner and remember being worried about looking like the "wife's deer hunting hat" from cartoons. I made sure to have hunter orange streamers tied all over the rack while packing it trough the brush!!

I've done the same with elk antlers (though a moose is way heavier). That whole grizzly thing makes packing that moose out even a bit more exciting ... Congrats on a great moose and a great hunt

Hey, Northway - Since you have so much experience hauling moose over tundra, & swamps could you do me a favor? We'd like you to come over to our camp this next Sep. & haul our moose out for us too?

BTW, congranulations, too.
Bear in Fairbanks

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Originally posted by Bear in Fairbanks:
Hey, Northway - Since you have so much experience hauling moose over tundra, & swamps could you do me a favor? We'd like you to come over to our camp this next Sep. & haul our moose out for us too?

BTW, congranulations, too.
Bear in Fairbanks

Bear,

HA HA HA! While I would do it again, I am only packing a HUGE bull moose anymore. If it isn't big, I am not packing it out! Thankfully, I've been shooting moose that fall right where I can get my 6 wheeler next to! I used to do this pack hunt every year, but the wolves and bears have decimated the moose out there and it is slim pickens. Hopefully I will get one more good pack hunt for a monster bull one more time!

congrats nice bull!

Great Moose well done and good on you packing the critter out.

I never complain about packing out a elk after packing out three moose. Oh to be young and strong. Now I'm stupid, weak and old, and still have to pack my own critters out.

Great moose and I also love the picture of you packing it out! My buddy lives in AK and we ventured up to Tok and got flown out and dropped off by 40 Mile and had a great trip. We each got a bull his about 53" and mine 50". We had a long pack on my moose and when we were being flown out the Super Cup pilot laughed at me when we flew over where I shot my moose and I pointed it out.

Funny how guys shoot great big bulls in an area, then say the wolves and bears have decimated the moose.

Some of the biggest bulls have come from places with lots of predators, including the Boone&Crockett Number One taken north of Tok.

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Originally posted by cjfoster:
Those pictures make my back hurt!!

Great Bulls! Hope to get a moose one day.

Ha! That was exactly my first thought as well. That and, jeez, what a nice Moose!

Big is an understatement. That thing is friggin huge. Great animal.

Seems to me an Argo would come in handy- one of the reasons I don't hunt moose anymore. The last one dam near put me in the hospital. To big to much meat for just me. I don't hunt with others have not do so since the 1970's

I will have to get back up to Alaska to hunt moose again soon. My friend wants to do a float trip this year for Caribou and possibly a Moose.

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Originally posted by George Semel:
Seems to me an Argo would come in handy- one of the reasons I don't hunt moose anymore. The last one dam near put me in the hospital. To big to much meat for just me. I don't hunt with others have not do so since the 1970's

I agree! Any sort of ATV would have been really nice about this time! We were hunting in a non motorized area.

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Originally posted by Todd Williams:
I made sure to have hunter orange streamers tied all over the rack while packing it trough the brush!!

Good idea!