Welcome back, Len. Looks like you might need a bigger boat!

Awesome to see you back. Who'd of thunk a teacher would end up a horn buyer. Bringing money to western Alaska. Will you be using the area you used to? Somewhere around KSM?
Looking forward to your adventures!

Curious to hear about those moose antlers and that potential WR!

Yes I was able to broker the new world record shed set and single. It was found in unit 18 in December 2022 side by side.
I was not able to get my hands on it until March. Photos had not done it justice. The thing was gargantuan.
I took it to Alpine Wyoming in June of 2023. The bidding didn’t start until it was officially scored. The bidding came down to two different bidders. The winning bid was over $20,000
The left side antler is the world record single. Score 97 3/8
I have been responsible for putting quite a few in the record books in the last 5 years. Many of them nontypical moose. I work with my shed hunters. If they find trophies. I broker them for them the best I can.

Awesome.Congrats

WOW now that's impressive to say the least ! Good for you to share the wealth !

Allan

That was (is!) an amazing bull! Wonder how old he is?

Pete

Dang....I can just imagine the beastie strolling with swag , sporting those antlers...

Those inspire me to draw them on a big bull , sometime.

So much for the number of brow-tines meaning anything. Amazing set of antlers.

One of the bummer parts to this process was I had it score two inches higher. Approx. give or take a few 1/8s.
Which amazed me. Due to the shape of the antlers there was definitely some judgements calls. It was not really straightforward due to the curve of the paddle.
When it was all said and done the official scorer called this brow time nontypical. Costing me a point. As well as a point I had given for it. Meaning had it not been a nontypical I was spot on.

Western AK sure is pumping out giants.

Bummer about the score system. B&C has always perplexed me in deducting an animal for antler growth.

In my opinion, a random point on a mostly typical animal should just not be counted towards net. For instance a 4 X 4 70" moose that scores 240" but it had a small 3" kicker brow tine on one of the brows (like yours) is now 237"

It's still a 240" moose with extra growth outside of the typical frame.

I don't make the rules, but it's silly.

B&C only deducts a point per tine. No inches measured as SCI.
Ya it should get extra points if it has them! somehow give credit for extra growth. ;0)
But they love their symmetrical adherence.

Be careful out there Len. It ain't like we are young anymore. You didn't miss much the last 5 years. Pale marten struggled and found record low prices at Auction, It is getting better, so if you catch pales like you used to you shouldn't be really disappointed.

Good Luck!

P.S. Junked out two late 80's Bravos and snagged two better bodies out of the boneyard and made two rebuilt ones this fall. The dents had dents and the patches had patches on those 30 plus year old trapping machines.

FT - glad you are back. I had always enjoyed following your adventures.

Welcome back Len trying to spend a little more time on here myself these days