Moose Jaw may not have the world's biggest moose statue at the moment, but a local hunter bagged the biggest moose in the province this hunting season.
Blake Dixon recently learned that the moose he shot in late November was the biggest in the province in 2018 with a total score of 200 4/8 inches.
"The crazy thing is that I actually ended up shooting the second-biggest one in the province last year," Dixon said. "It's kind of unheard of do that back-to-back."
The Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation uses a system that takes into account the span of the moose's antlers — the spread of Dixon's moose was 56 inches — plus the width and length of the palm and the circumference of the beam at the smallest place.
Dixon bagged his moose near Hudson Bay, Sask. during his annual hunting trip.
"We go camp way back in the bush and sleep in a tent at the end of November and then go out walking in the forest," Dixon said.
The site has been good to him as both of his large moose came from the same camping site, albeit they were shot in different locations.
Dixon was informed by the SWF that he had the biggest moose this past year and would be invited to their annual awards night as the Henry Kelsey Big Game Awards honour the top two scores in each species.
"I'm going to be getting a shoulder mount and mounting it in my house next to the one I got last year," Dixon said.
Heath Dreger, the who was SWF president up until this past weekend, had the biggest moose of 2017 with a score of 195 3/8.
The biggest moose ever shot in the province and recorded by the SWF was by Ray Hornseth in 1959 with a score of 233 6/8.
Given the recent moose rivalry between Moose Jaw's Mac the Moose and Storelgen in the town of Stor-Elvdal, Norway, Dixon got wondering if anyone in Norway bagged a bigger moose in 2018 than he did.
Fraser Tolmie politely asked the hunters attending the Saskatchewan Wildlife Federation's 90th annual not to shoot Mac on their way out town. Dixon said that if the City wants to remodel Mac and make him bigger, he will have a pretty impressive set of antlers mounted on his wall that they can use.
