Vintage Hunting Gallery — Volume 16
Moose of Yesterday
In the Boone and Crockett Club's records, we recognize three categories of moose: Shiras', Alaska-Yukon, and Canada moose. For those of you lucky enough to hunt one of these enormous ungulates, you know how much work comes after the shot. Even so, there are few things that can compare to the feeling of putting your feet up once all the meat is wrapped and the freezer is more than full. We have no doubt that the hunters in these vintage images felt the same.
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Quebec 1941
With a pair of Canada moose racks, Harvey Jurgensen is heading back to his canoe on Lac Gallagher.
Wyoming 1944
Hunter Arthur Chandler (right) helps his guide Frank Tettering wrestle this massive Shiras' moose into the back of a pickup. To this day, it remains the #2 All-time Shiras' in the Club's record books.
B&C SCORE: 205-1/8
LOCATION: Fremont County, Wyoming
KILL DATE: 1944
HUNTER: Arthur E. Chandler
Alaska 1903
Major C. E. Radclyffe traveled from the U.K. to Alaska's Kenai Peninsula and took home a fine Alaska-Yukon moose. Thankfully, he packed his good suit and lucky pipe.
Yukon Territory 1950
This phenomenal rack belonged to an Alaska-Yukon moose taken by First Nations member Dave Moses in 1950. It scores 239-6/8 points and sits in the #16 spot for the Yukon Territory, according to Big Game Records LIVE. Holding the rack is Them Kjar, then-director of the game and publicity department for the Yukon Territory.
B&C SCORE: 239-6/8
LOCATION: Yukon Territory
KILL DATE: 1950
HUNTER: Dave Moses
Alaska 1954
While visiting from Sweden, Nils Danielson decided to make the most of his trip to Alaska and go moose hunting. He killed this outstanding Alaska-Yukon moose. Fun fact: In Norwegian countries, moose (as we know them) are called elg, similar to elk.
Alaska 1936
George B. Petty was hunting with his buddies on the Kenai Peninsula when he killed this great Alaska-Yukon moose. He used a Model 1908 Mannlicher-Shoenauer, with the trigger and the split receiver being the giveaway.
Alaska 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
Alberta 1956
Karl Weber (left) traveled from Zurich, Switzerland, to Alberta for a moose hunt. Near Narraway River, he took this great, big Canada moose.
Wyoming 1957
Traveling from Wisconsin to Wyoming, John Mahoney, Jr., killed this great Shiras' bull and gave the rack a big hug while downtown.
Alaska 1900
This is the one and only Grancel Fitz, measuring the main beam circumference on the A.S. Reed Alaska-Yukon moose (240-7/8 points) that is currently in the Boone and Crockett Club's National Collection of Heads and Horns.
Alaska 1897
This is Dall DeWeese of Colorado with his Alaska-Yukon moose. He went north looking for adventure and wrote about his hunt in the first issue of Outdoor Life magazine. If you want to read about his hunt, you can check it out on our website in Adventures from the Archives.