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The Top Moose Cartridges and Bullets
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › When it comes to suitable cartridge selection, most folks operate under the assumption...
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The Most Efficient Way to Pack Out a Bull Moose
As a long-time hunter in Alaska, I’ve killed a variety of big game, including sheep, caribou, bears, and moose. Which means I have also had to field dress and pack out all those animals. I know...
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10 of Alaska’s Best Custom Moose Buggies
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › In Alaska, we take moose hunting seriously. Up here, many families still don’t buy meat...
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A Moose Hunt in the Unmapped Yukon, From the Archives
This story, “We Hunted off the Map,” first appeared in the April 1959 issue. It’s the third of Elliot’s stories from his time in Alaska, during which he also hunted Dall sheep and caribou. While it’s...
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I Ditched a Bogus Outfitter for a Real Trophy Moose Hunt, From the Archives
This story, “I Wanted It Wild,” first appeared in the October 1971 issue. It’s the first of the author’s stories from a series of moose hunts. THERE WERE TWO MOOSE on the shore of the lake, both cows....
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Long Before the “Into the Wild” Bus Became a Tourist Deathtrap, It Was My...
STEPPING INTO THE BUS for the first time is a powerful experience. That’s not because I’m on a spiritual journey, or feeling the aura left by a man who slowly starved to death inside it. Yes, I’d read...
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Trying to Stop a Brown Bear Attack with a .38 Special, from the Archives
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › ORDINARILY a man doesn’t have any advance warning when the tight squeezes of his life...
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A Widowed Homesteader Learns to Hunt Moose, or Die Trying
Olive A. Fredrickson wrote six stories for Outdoor Life about her life as a homesteader, trapper, and subsistence hunter in Canada. Eventually, she turned her experiences into a novel, The Silence of...
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The Legacy, and Last Years, of Jack O’Connor
We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs. Learn More › FOR A WEEK we had been hunting chukars above the Snake River in eastern Washington, my...
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Fred Bear’s First Moose Hunt, from the Archives
Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in the June 1953 issue of Outdoor Life and it reflects the language and stereotypes of the times. A COLD OCTOBER drizzle was soaking the Ontario bush...
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How Big Is a Moose?
All moose are big. They are the largest remaining members of the deer family Cervidae. They’re also the second largest land mammal in North America, behind only the bison. But if you really want to...
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A Coveted Moose Tag Reveals the Complicated Reality of Western Big-Game Hunting
I WAS STANDING in a long line that snaked through a maze formed by Tensa-barrier stanchions, those portable stands with retractable webbing used by the TSA, concert stadiums, motor vehicle...
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What Do Moose Eat?
With their shocking stature and loud calls, it’s no surprise that people are fascinated by moose and all the finer details of their existence, including what moose eat. They are a popular game species...
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How Not to Kill a Moose, from the Archives
ΟUR PACK TRAIN edged over the lip of the glacial valley and down toward the headwaters of the Prophet River. Renie Dhenin, riding near the rear, pulled up his mount for a moment to look over the...
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Persistence Pays When Hunting Moose
I sighed in disgust at the wind I could hear whipping through the trees. My 5 a.m. alarm hadn’t been silenced for a minute, and I was already discouraged. Groggy and eyes blurry, I stuffed a few...
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After Spending $40 on Raffle Tickets, Bowhunter Tags World-Record Velvet...
For five years Trace Armstrong of Rolette, North Dakota, had been buying raffle tickets for the North American Game Warden Museum’s moose tag. He never expected to actually win the North Dakota moose...
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Why Do I Hunt? The Answer to Hunting’s Toughest Question
This story originally appeared in the November 2002 issue. IT HAPPENS almost every year. I sit on a ridgetop in September, hunting elk somewhere in the Rockies. Flocks of geese fly high overhead in V...
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An Ontario Moose Hunt Turns Into a 10-Day Survival Ordeal, From the Archives
I WANT TO say something right at the beginning that has been said 1,000 times before, but I want to say it louder: don’t ever leave camp or walk off a trail in wild country without a map, compass, and...
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Nevada’s First-Ever Moose Season Excites Hunters as Big-Game...
When Nevada big game tag applications opened at 8:00 a.m. sharp on Monday morning, the menu of offerings looked a little different than in the past. That’s because this year, the Nevada Department of...
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The Most Efficient Way to Pack Out a Bull Moose
As a long-time hunter in Alaska, I’ve killed a variety of big game, including sheep, caribou, bears, and moose. Which means I have also had to field dress and pack out all those animals. I know...
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