Heavy duty meat pole! How did they get those moose up there? Wisconsin Hunters with Moose and Deer on the meat pole near Madison, Circa 1933. Hunting History!

Wonder what the rocks in the foreground were for?

we have a similar picture kicking around but it was of three bulls a cow and calf that was shot at our old hunt camp my dad shot the three bulls within 5 minutes of each other. that is a great hunt in that pic as there is also some big bucks hanging as well a lot of work went into getting those moose out of the bush whole and hung specially back in the 30s i would think they used horses to haul them out maybe a tractor

The boys did good, great picture.

I love these old pics. I hope folks share more of yhem

Great photo. That's a lot of weight on that pole, it looks rather stressed. I wouldn't stand that close to it.

I did a Google search of the image and it pointed me to a neat article by Patrick Durkin about the origin and history of the photo.

https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/anthropology/the-greatest-moose-hunt-that-never-was

Here is the uncropped version of the photo. Long story short, it's from somewhere in Canada and reproduced by someone in Madison in 1933. Wisconsin didn't have a deer season in 1933 and the last moose was harvested here more than a decade earlier.

Very nice

I would think that would have been around land of lakes area more likely

Rockefeller had his "camp" on the Michigan size and Jim Lowenstine owner of Central Steel had his on the WI side they joined each other on the border.

they were the steel barrons of the US

when Jim passed in 1996 the conserve school foundation was formed to turn his camp into a outdoor education school.

my son and I toured it in 2019 , if he had gone he would have been there a few weeks before covid hit.

guys with Mauser rifles in 1933 had $$