Alaska Moose hunt
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From: HuntSeeker
12-Nov-24
I am looking to do an Alaskan moose hunt in 2026 with a budget of $35k and most likely will do rifle(sorry) and am looking for recommendations on an outfitter please. This is my ultimate bucket list hunt I have been dreaming about since I was 15. I am 58 and can finally afford it although body is a bit beat up but not bad. Thanks for any help
From: Gib
12-Nov-24
I’d check out Jim Shockey if it were me , good luck
From: Buckdeer
12-Nov-24
Check over on Rokslide. com,theres lots of moose info
From: Jeck66
12-Nov-24
Congratulations! I am 45 and that is also the dream hunt my wife and I are going to do at 57 or 58... depending when we retire. Please update who you decide to go with, and then update how the hunt goes when you make it out there. (I don't care if it is a rifle hunt!)
From: whipranger
12-Nov-24
Call Jonah’s Alaskan Outfitters
From: B2K
12-Nov-24
Heck just pay for my trip, we'll book a transporter, and you can keep what's left of the $35k :o)
From what I've seen, guys hire a guide mainly because they're worried about packing out a moose. A guide knows he's not likely to get much help from the client. Therefore, guides typically tether their clients to a tent stake so that the pack distance is minimal.
From: Jonsey
12-Nov-24
Renfros
From: JG
18-Nov-24
I went with Jonah this year. I believe most, if not all, gun hunters filled their tag. I stuck with a bow but could have shot a 53” and 63” (guides estimate) with a gun. Well run operation.
From: DonVathome
18-Nov-24
When you find someone check a lot of references from him and online. Time well spent. You have a good budget and should find a good outfitter. I also suggest rokslide forums.
FYI most good ones will be booked beyond 2026, if it is a cancellation make sure it really is that - lots of guys get burned.
You are doing good looking this far out, but you may need to wait another year - be prepared to wait longer if needed.
From: Altitude Sickness
19-Nov-24
There are AK units that are over carrying capacity with moose. Call the state biologist and ask.
Hunt one of those units. With a rifle you can kill a moose without a guide. They are very easy to hunt. If your in a good area. Book a drop hunt the last 2 weeks of the season. And take another younger, fit hunter with you. Don’t hunt rivers that locals pound 10 months of the year
2 hunters, two moose= $20k then spend the other $10k somewhere else.
From: welka
17-Dec-24
2nd Jonah. Check out his website as they kill monsters every year and most tags are filled every year. Great guides also.
From: standswittaknife
17-Dec-24
Jonah has a great following but could be booked up for years
From: Tony
21-Dec-24
Not Alaska but my bro has had a couple hunts with Yukon big game outfitters and highly recommends
From: Rob in VT
22-Dec-24
Went to NW British Columbia in 2023 with Fire Mountain Outfitters.
From: Dale06
22-Dec-24
Don’t rule out the Yukon. I’ve heard lots of good reports on Ceasar Lake outfitters.
From: Pyrannah
22-Dec-24
Ceaser has pricing online…
Just seems so crazy to me.. I don’t get it…. I want to go sooo.bad, I could afford it, but I just can’t justify paying that kind of money….maybe If I had, Elon musk money, then I guess ok…. But damn…. This is out of hand
From: Leo17
22-Dec-24
Jonah’s Alaskan outfitters My dad’s bull from this year. He shot with rifle. My father’s 67.
From: Leo17
22-Dec-24
I was bowhunting and didn’t get a bull but had some great encounters. I did get a black wolf that I shot with my dads rifle.
From: Bou'bound
22-Dec-24
How far was the wolf shot
From: Leo17
22-Dec-24
The wolf was right at 200. A pack of 9 came in. I immediately had my eye on this one.
From: stealthycat
07-Jan-25
I'm surprised there isn't a couple of guys on bowsite needing a 3rd or 4th seasoned, in shape, willing to spend 2 weeks going to AK and hunting moose in a group at a discount .... guys like me who would love to moose hunt just once in AK but really have no way to set it up with a group. Its not like solo hunting in Colorado for elk !!
From: t-roy
07-Jan-25
Check out Stan Parkerson with Denali Hunts. He’s an archery only outfitter. He’s a straight shooter.
From: MA-PAdeerslayer
07-Jan-25
Troy did you catch him with a rod and reel or shoot him with an arrow? He’s living in the river! Lol
From: Pyrannah
07-Jan-25
Stan is no longer moose hunting based on a call from this past fall
From: APauls
08-Jan-25
Looks like Troy shot him beside someone's front lawn. It's another WR elk situation...
From: t-roy
08-Jan-25
I certainly wouldn’t want to get caught by the guy badassed enough to cart a lawnmower up to this spot! ;-)
From: Bou'bound
08-Jan-25
Stan is Jo moose outfitting any more? Still doing bear?
From: Pyrannah
08-Jan-25
sounded like he might be selling his business and just not taking moose hunters for foreseeable future.. He had two or three griz hunts open yet...
this was from last fall, things may have changed, but i couldn't locate his website..
From: t-roy
08-Jan-25
He’s still doing moose hunts, but I think he’s booked out a couple years.
From: Boreal
08-Jan-25
I'll be grizzly hunting with Stan in May. He did tell me he's retiring. I think I may be one his last spring grizzly hunts.
From: Bou'bound
08-Jan-25
He’s one of the best
From: Pyrannah
08-Jan-25
Wish I could have went with him
From: BOWUNTR
10-Jan-25
I'll be moose hunting with Stan this September... and we'll be hunting Coues Whitetail in a few weeks. Looking forward to it. Ed F
From: Pyrannah
10-Jan-25
Good luck
From: Jonsey
15-Jan-25
Renfros has very good guided moose hunts.
From: LDPete
16-Jan-25
I did one with Kirk @ devils mountain lodge in Nabesna, Ak a couple years ago. In your price range, great guys very high success rate and lots of bulls are dying from old age in there area. Mine was upper 50s wide & 11-1/2 yrs old, hunting partners was younger but 60+. Pretty easy physical hunts. Liam or Jesse are both great guides to go with for several Alaskan species.
