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Rolly,
No trolling hunting here!
Been hunting for OVER 62 years! But you are right, I am still a young hunter and will always be! Thanks for reminding me!

Bob, I live in the Yukon and we have twice as many moose as people. If I knew how to get a 72" moose I would be doing it myself! However any one who wants to come up and give it a whirl has my blessing and lots of hunter friendly folks up here. Good luck!

Enjoy shopping for your record book trophies.

Hey Bob

Don't mind you asking around for guides, how else might you find something that suites you.

To come here new, and think this site will fail because of answers given to someone thats book driven is nuts though.

Some of us are amazed that the only thing that matters to some folks is a name in a book.

To follow that up, I have a name in an exotic book with a pistol, and it didn't do a dang thing for me, other than to remind me its not how big it is that matters. Its the experience of the hunt. I"ll never enter another thing in a book. A book is to show off to others IMHO, and I ain't good with that.

I'd take the hardest hunt possible to get the wariest doe and remember it much longer than the largest deer ever taken. IE by difficulty. And the largest bucks I've ever taken have not been hard at all, they walked by, I was right place right time, and shot em.

Now the mounted doe hanging on my wall... that was one of my hardest whitetails to bring to bag ever...was nothign lucky or easy about here at all.

Good luck on your quest. IMO your initial post comes across a bit unrealistic and I posted what I felt accordingly. I guess in the future I will try not be an "internet tough guy".

Yes, maybe some of the more enterprising outfitters can get together and provide pictures of their more promising offerings so that the gentleman can select the colour scheme that will match his carpets.

North61,

you know where they are and dont disclose that information even to the people you know ... lol

all the bst.

Phil

Bonnet Plume Outfitters is where I would try. I've hunted deer with him in his Alberta camp and watched his videos of his hunters moose and dall sheep kills from his Yukon camp.

No one is likely to promise you a 72" Moose unless you first promise them you are the luckiest hunter on the planet.

But he will give you a good hunt, and he takes big moose.

Well..you have to be a bit cagey eh? My freighter still awaits your inspection.... Greg

My Dad, Uncle and I hunted Bonnet Plume Outfitters last fall for Yukon Moose. I can tell you first hand that 72" Bulls are few and far between...and when I say far between, I mean in distance and years as well. In general the top 5 outfitters in the northern Yukon concessions average around 60" year after year. My uncle brought a 56" moose home. I took a B&C book 62.5" moose and my Dad shot a monster 71" moose that now sits I think 11th in the world all time per B&C. He just got his certificate from them in the last couple of weeks. I don't think you can do better than BPO from a quality animal standpoint. If you are serious about a 72" bull, you are better off just searching the internet for pictures. Doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but I would tone your expectations back quite a bit. For what it's worth, my 62.5" bull looks incredible on the shoulder mount.
Also, don't expect to stumble upon herds of wolverines either. Yes they are there, but you will see a lot more moose than you will wolverines.
I wish you luck and hope you are happy with what you pull together.

bobrhess

Be sure to post pictures of your 2014 Moose and Wolverine hunt. Don't worry about us, no really don't loose any sleep over us. We'll all still be hanging around the fire years from now. I am sure another post like yours will come around again. Of course we'll all be here after that one too.

Are you going to stop the wolverine and take a measure before you shoot it? Wait let me guess you are an expert at estimating skull sizes right?

Good luck on your 2014 quest. Please post pictures for the rest of us.

That's really impressive. I had no idea. Are you sure you're not from Texas?

Classic.

I suppose I should apologize to most Texans.

bobrhess. part of the probablem is you walked in here unannounaced looking for the almost impossible.

5-6 guys came on strong about a year and a half ago like walking into a strange pup full of Marines thinking that they were something well what do you think happened??
your post was not to different, somewhat arrogant like nobody can hunt as well as you or has your money or prowness.
You gave us no background not many here read bio's before we respond,
Welcome to the FIRE [ pun intended] pull up a log and settle in a little do some listening before talking to much, you might like us you might not . The fire can be brutle but is also the best friend, FAMILY, around.

norm

Shooting for a 65" bull moose is a bit more realistic than a 72"er. I've seen a few bulls that might have gone 65" but was never able to close the deal on them but I've got a friend that did. He did a european mount and that is one of the most beautiful bull moose mounts I have ever seen.

As an aside, belonging to 30+ hunting clubs/organizations doesn't make you a great hunter or even a good hunter............but i'm sure you knew that already.

me thinks that

bob r hess has left the scean,, happy hunting