NZ Hunter

SECOND TIME'S A CHARM

He runs a hunting and fishing outfitting business, specialising in moose hunts. His hunters harvest several moose per annum over the 70 inch mark – yes 70 inches!! Personally I wasn’t too worried about the width of a moose but had antler mass and big fronts in mind. I had paid for a moose tag, and also one each of a brown bear and black bear tag, although the chances of filling all three was very remote.

Having two bear tags in my pocket allowed me to be able to shoot a wolf or wolverine if we came across one, and still have the brown bear tag up my sleeve, which I could use for brown or black bear. So, I had options (Alaskan Fish and Wildlife have a system where they see brown (griz) as the top animal, then black bear, wolf, wolverine – so if you have the brown bear tag you can use it to shoot any of these other

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