Vintage Hunting Gallery—Volume 19
The Packout
Most hunters know that the fun stops once an animal hits the ground for good. Sometimes that means dragging a whitetail a couple of hundred yards. Other times, that means breaking down 1,000 pounds of hide, bone, and meat into manageable chunks. The best stories usually happen the farther you are from your rig. This slideshow features old rigs, pack horses, and plenty of sore backs.
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SHIRAS' MOOSE
B&C SCORE: 205-1/8
LOCATION: Fremont County, Wyoming
KILL DATE: 1944
HUNTER: Arthur Chandler
In Fremont County, Wyoming, guide Frank Tettering put hunter Arthur Chandler on this Shiras’ moose still in velvet in early September. That moose is the second-largest Shiras’ in the records. Check out the number on that old license plate.
CANADA MOOSE
B&C SCORE: 214-6/8
LOCATION: Narraway River, Alberta
KILL DATE: 1956
HUNTER: Karl Weber
In the fall of 1956, Karl Weber traveled from Zurich, Switzerland, to Alberta, Canada, where his guide (and Charles Bronson look-alike) loaded up this massive Canada moose for the pack out.
TYPICAL MULE DEER
B&C SCORE: 200-2/8
LOCATION: Siskiyou County, California
KILL DATE: 1939
HUNTER: Wallace Bosworth
With a .30-30, a dog, a giant plug of chew, and a Studebaker, there was no way that Wallace Bosworth wasn’t going to kill a giant mule deer. He killed this buck in 1929 in the Black Fox Mountains of Siskiyou County, California. In 2009, his grandson Stephen J. Bosworth submitted the deer for scoring. Today, that buck ranks as California’s second-largest typical mule deer of all-time
TYPICAL WHITETAIL DEER
B&C SCORE: 170-1/8
LOCATION: Faribault County, Minnesota
KILL DATE: 1956
HUNTER: Harlan Francis
One of these bucks is not like the other one—because the buck on the right is a monster! Harlan Francis was hunting near Blue Earth River in Fairbault County, Minnesota, in November 1956, when he and his hunting buddy took these bucks.
TYPICAL AMERICAN ELK
B&C SCORE: 375-7/8
LOCATION: Flathead County, Montana
KILL DATE: 1966
HUNTER: Pat Roth
With his typical American elk, Pat Roth poses in the back of his pack mule in 1966. He killed this elk near Doris Creek in Flathead County, Montana, and it scored 375-7/8 points.
NON-TYPICAL WHITETAIL DEER
NON-TYPICAL WHITETAIL DEER
TYPICAL AMERICAN ELK
B&C SCORE: 372-6/8
LOCATION: Idaho
KILL DATE: 1929
HUNTER: Ben Holland
TYPICAL MULE DEER
LOCATION: Washington
KILL DATE: 1947
HUNTER: Ben Ellwanger
NON-TYPICAL MULE DEER