Taxidermist just called, my mount is ready. This moose charged and was shot at 5 yards charging. Thankfully he charged the muzzle and ran into the bullet.
The artist that made the Alaska foam forms retired in ‘16. Both Canadian and Shiras moose forms are readily available. In early ‘19 I got the call from the taxidermist that he finally found a source for the forms. It was supposed to be a 2 year wait.
That explains a lot. Hadn't considered that the underlying form would be in such short supply, but it stands to reason that they arent a "stocked" item.
There are several artists who make the Alaska moose form, but my taxidermist didn’t like any of the options, so we waited until he found a new artist that he liked the form.
I have a 60 1/4 and a 56 in the shed that I need to do something with. I had this one mounted because of the long weird brow tines.
Quite a beast. Well, maybe not in the scale y'all have there, but that's probably about 5 whitetail deer. Have never hunted anything that requires quartering to get it out of the woods.
When I went to Alaska fish and game to turn in the hunt tag. The biologist came out measured head, neck, quarters and estimated the weight between 1,800 and 2,000 pounds.
OK, 9 or 10 whitetail. About how much meat poundage off of a moose that size? I'd figure somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 - 250# range. That's a fair amount of meat stored.
I figure meat at 50% of live weight. So the meat yield was in the 900-1,000 pound range. And will fill 2 large chest freezers.
Seems to me that we get around the same amount in a WT, maybe a bit less. Just figured with the dense bone structure required, a moose would give up less meat. Have no idea why I thought that. Chazsbetterhalf would likely get "moosed out" before long.
Fixed that up for ya. Never had moose meat, but always willing to try it. Bison is another I've wanted to try. Heard it's pretty good.
My moose was the best tasting wild game I’ve ever ate. Even better than elk. My cousin shots wild bison in Wyoming a couple years ago, wasn’t near as tasty but there was lots of it. & tougher than a tractor tire. Grind it into hamburger, then place it in a crockpot for a week or so, then run it through a pressure cooker for about 24 hours and then you can chew it
Did you have the antlers made removable. I wish I would have. Wasn’t a problem in my first house. But when we moved it had to go through a basement window that was going to be replaced. It wouldn’t go down the stairs. If I ever move again someone will either get a free moose when they buy the house....or more likely have to reinstall a basement window
Maybe I'll skip the bison. Perhaps an isolated incident, I've got a friend that loves bison, he had some when he was out west on vacation. Now, that may have been domestically raised for all I know. I'm sure that would make a huge difference.
