Great read, huge moose, awesome pics. Congrats!

I may have missed it, what was you bullet choice in the 28 nosler?

No pics of dressing him out. We started in on him at 0815. Finished by 3:00. Vigilance of both guys working and watching for brown bears was the priority. Sure, I had to time to take pics, however once the process started we never stopped. We had moose meat multiple times at the main lodge, some of it from my bull. Hate to say it but it tastes better than elk, and I love elk meat. I only took home the back straps and tender loins. Because I live in West, TX i couldn't fly Alaska Airlines home which is the cheapest route of getting meat out of Alaska when you are hunting in location where the closest town (i.e. Cordova) doesn't have a roadway to or from it. Only other option was to ship it Fed Ex or pay United thousand of dollars to get it all home. I went with the intention of taking as much as I could home. It just wasn't feasible. The meat was all donated to the community of Cordova (women's shelter, etc).

I also had a black bear and wold tag. Heard wolf's twice, and they wold respond to my guides call, however they never came any closer. We did find where they had better one morning on the beach, a whole pack of them but never saw or heard them. The black bear was very elusive in the area we were hunting. The second day I moved from moose camp, to the lodge, then to the mountains/higher elevation to hunt for bear and wolf. We only saw one black bear that was a shooter, and he was an absolute tank. Closest we got was 1300 yds. We made a play on him the second day as it would have put us back in camp the first evening we saw him around 10pm if we would have been successful. My guide wasn't strictly opposed to getting back to camp late, however he much preferred walking back with enough light that would allow him to interpret shapes and animals. That 2nd day, we basically switched spots with each other. We were where we had left him the night before. And he popped out just south of the ridge we had been on the day before. The black bears obviously are second fiddle the Brown bear which were everywhere. We had to chase off a 4-5 yr old off the meat we had packed down to the gravel bar awaiting the flight out. It was a tense moment and something I was uneasy with. He eventually let us be but not after some intense standoffs and some serious jaw clapping. About 30 mins later the Super Cub arrived and flew me out. Brown bear number 2, a 9.5-10ft bear was already on my carcass as we flew over. So about 24 hours after the kill. That seemed about the average time for them to find the kills. The other guy in camp had one on his in about the same amount of time.

I spent about an hour one day fishing for Coho salmon. Limited out in about an hour. Caught about 20 total in that period of time. Had some friends fishing with us as well.

We spent 3 days stuck in the lodge as a major storm rolled in and they pulled us off the mountain just before it hit. 50-60mph winds and an absolute down pour of a rain storm. It didn't let up for almost 3 days. I went back out and hunted 2 more days for black bears in a different spot along the coast. Never saw a bear.

great write up for a great hunt. What a stud of a moose too.

How'd the other hunters fare?

You should. 'Might learn something.

Awesome story and badass bull

Read the entire thing, twice.

Congrats to you!!!!!! And thanks for posting it up!

Amazing moose. Congrats!