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Vintage Hunting Gallery—Volume 17

Vintage Alaska  

Alaska! Most hunters in the Lower 48 only dream of heading north in search of sheep, caribou, grizzlies, moose, and unbridled adventure. Other hunters moved to Alaska specifically for the hunting. We dug through our photo archives to find photos of vintage Alaska. Enjoy! 


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1956 

Keith Chisholm was just 11 years old when he killed this Alaska brown bear on Kodiak Island, Alaska, in 1956. He’s likely holding a Winchester M-70 in .30-06 with an old fixed 2x Weaver scope. 

B&C SCORE: 29-7/16 
LOCATION: Kodiak Island, Alaska  
KILL DATE: 1956
HUNTER: Keith Chisholm 

 


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1934 

Howard Newton was hunting near Rainy Pass in the Ptarmigan Valley when he shot this Dall’s sheep with a spread of 25-4/8 inches. Because he killed this ram prior to the Club’s revamp of its scoring system in 1950, it did not get re-scored and make it into the records.  

B&C SCORE: 25-4/8 
LOCATION: Rainy Pass, Alaska  
KILL DATE: 1934
HUNTER: Howard Newton 

 


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1959

Fred spotted what he called a “good caribou bull” near a creek lined with willow. On his hands and knees, Fred stalked the bull in the open. At 40 yards, he let an arrow fly with one of his experimental broadheads. Read the full account of this hunt in Adventures of the Archives.  

B&C SCORE: 417 
LOCATION: Little Delta River, Alaska  
KILL DATE: 1959
HUNTER: Fred Bear 

 


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1952

The World’s Record Alaska brown bear was shot by Roy R. Lindsley, who was a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee based in Kodiak. This was the first bear Lindsley had killed, despite having worked among these intelligent giants for many years. Read the full story on this bruin and find out why it’s currently housed in Los Angeles.

B&C SCORE: 30-12/16
LOCATION: Kodiak Island, Alaska  
KILL DATE: 1952
HUNTER: Roy Lindsley 
OWNER: Los Angeles County Museum 

 

 

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1959 

According to Boone and Crockett Club records, Bert Klineburger was the first non-native to hunt musk ox with a permit. The catch was that he had to be accompanied by a scientist (Dr. Thomas J. Heldt) so he could study its brain. The old bull ranks as 93 for the state of Alaska. 

B&C SCORE: 106-6/8 
LOCATION: Nunivak Island, Alaska  
KILL DATE: 1959
HUNTER: Bert Klineburger 

 


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1957

Alongside his guide, Alex Cox took this massive Alaska-Yukon bull in velvet the same year the Soviet Union launched Sputnik.  

B&C SCORE: 227-6/8 
LOCATION: Nabsena, Alaska  
KILL DATE: 1957
HUNTER: Alex Cox 

 

 


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1955 

Armed with a .30-06 that he took on every hunt in North America, Grancel Fitz was on a quest to find the biggest Alaska brown bear that Kodiak, Alaska, had to offer. Fitz found this old boar staring at him at only 30 feet. See what happened next at Adventures from the Archives.  


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1955 

James W. Brooks knew Alaska’s White Mountains well. He killed the great Dall’s sheep without camo, Gore-Tex, or high-powered optics.  


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1954 

Near Platinum Creek, Floyd Blick was hunting with a guide when he shot this unusual barren ground caribou. The bull had a wild-looking brown palm on the right side, and it currently sits at number six all-time for barren ground ‘bou.

 

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1960

In the Wrangell Mountains, G. W. Berry spotted this Alaska-Yukon moose, still very much in velvet. This bull scored 228-4/8 points.  

An American Elk Retrospective

Vintage Photos and Memorabilia from the Boone and Crockett Club Archives

A fascinating, comprehensive look at the story of elk hunting in America from the nation’s premiere big game hunting historians.

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A Mule Deer Retrospective

Vintage Photos and Memorabilia from the Boone and Crockett Club Archives

Sportsmen with an eye for the good ol’ days of big game hunting will delight in B&C’s visually stunning book focusing on the iconic mule deer of the West with hundreds of vintage photographs and score charts.

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