A huge bull moose shot last month by a hunter in Canada’s northern territory of Yukon could be the largest one ever harvested. Heinz Naef says he didn’t at first realize how big the animal was.
“It didn’t set in until we were in the midst of butchering the animal,” Naef says. “It’s not the first big moose we have but we didn’t realize how big it actually was until I put the tape on him and measured him, then it was really big.”
560 kilograms
Naef estimates the moose weighs more than 560 kilograms and he measures the antlers at 191 centimeters. The antlers shrink as they dry out, so he must wait two months before they can officially be compared to the current world record held by a moose that was shot on the Alaskan side of the border.
Heinz says he hunts for meat and has no interest in the antlers, so if they turn out to be a world record size, he would like to see them displayed in public.
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