Alaskan Moose Hunts

What to Expect:

Hunt Dates- September 15th - 25th (Rut)

Permits Needed: Annual Hunting License, Moose Harvest Ticket, and any other locking tags and harvest tickets for any “secondary game” you wish to take on a trophy fee (see pricelist tab for more information).

From the logistics standpoint, you will fly into Anchorage, where you will be picked up by either an A-Team Outfitting representative or a taxi service and shuttled to a hotel of your choosing in Anchorage, Alaska. The next morning, you will fly out to the field via wheel or float plane and into the hunting area. Since you cannot hunt the day you fly, once at camp, you will spend the day setting up tents, glassing for moose, and coming up with a game plan for the hunt. Most of our hunters bring at least a black bear tag with them, as there are typically bears in the area as well. You should expect to sleep in a 10x10 "base-camp tent" (you will have your own tent). You will be eating an array of freeze-dried foods (it is very difficult to keep fresh foods fresh on this hunt for more than a few days). You can expect to hike very little, at most 2 miles, as we try our best to bring those moose to you. Typically, we climb up to a vantage point and spend the day glassing and calling. After the moose is downed, we spend 1 to 2 days packing the meat, hide, and skull out of the field. We are required by law to get all the meat out of the field first before the trophy (NO EXCEPTIONS!). After the meat has been secured and exfiltrated from camp, we can hunt bears, wolves, or wolverines on a trophy fee (see pricing section).

The Hunt:

As far as the moose hunting itself goes, we spend pretty much the entire day from a good vantage point, whether that be on a glassing knob or in a large muskeg clearing. Once we are at a place where we can see, your guide will begin moose calling. We typically call off and on throughout the day, waiting for a bull moose to respond to those calls and come within shooting distance. This hunt can be very boring at times, especially if you're in a low-country swamp waiting for a moose to show up to calls. It will seem like there are no moose at all, and then, at a moment's notice, one will just be standing there looking at you. Therefore, patiently waiting and being quiet is how you will harvest your bull. I like to tell clients that moose hunting is the opposite of hunting elk during the rut. A rutted-up bull moose may only make a few grunting noises on his approach, and that is even if he makes a sound! Compared to an elk's bugle and thrashing of brush, and how bull elk are well known for charging right into your call, expect these moose to be very slow and methodical. We once called a bull for two days straight before we finally had the opportunity to harvest him when, on his own terms, he felt it was time to commit to those cow calls.

You will also have the opportunity to pursue Grizzly, Black Bear and Wolf on a trophy fee if you choose. (see “pricelist tab” for more information.)

Expect temps in the high 20s to low 50s. Be prepared for any type of weather you can think of; you may be wet and miserable for days, and the fog will drive you nuts at times. After the 20th of September, freezing rain, snow, and hail become common factors in the day's hunt.

After The Hunt: Your meat is then flown back to town and hauled to a meat processor. We will take your hide(s) and skull(s) to "Arctic Wolf Tannery" in Anchorage; they do a lot of work for us, and this is by far both the fastest and safest way to get your animal tanned, packaged, and shipped to either your home or your taxidermist of choice anywhere in the world.

Most hunters take 50 - 150 lbs of meat with them after the hunt, usually packing it into a cooler frozen (we use "fish boxes" found at most local stores). Again, since it's a Class-C felony to waste edible game meat in Alaska, any meat not taken by a client will then need to be "transferred" to us via a "Meat Transfer of Possession Form."

This, in turn, makes the unwanted meat our possession. Our staff uses what we can from the harvested animal, and then we donate the remaining balance of meat to local organizations like homeless shelters or people in need.