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<blockquote data-quote="alcesgigas" data-source="post: 531767" data-attributes="member: 34925"><p>As far as I know there's but three kinds of moose--<em>alces</em>--indigenous to North America: <em>anderson</em>i, better known as Canadian moose, <em>Shiras</em> moose of the western states, and <em>alces gigas</em>, the Alaska-Yukon moose, the largest cervid in the world, (my "handle" on this site). These are also the only moose recognized by Boone & Crockett and probably Roland Ward's too (the European moose is Elch). Very few taxonomists cling to the older taxonomy which included the eastern moose as <em>americana</em>. I just googled sisk moose and without going to the specific site there appears to be a reference to moose on Sisk Mountain in Maine, among others. Maine moose are Canadian moose.</p><p></p><p>If you were to purchase or rent "Monster Moose" (a video which used to be available--and may well still be--from Cabela's you would hear and see Virgil Umpenour, who is a commercial fisherman and master guide, exclaiming the merits of the Koyukuk River moose--as being the largest of the largest. I live on the upper Koyukuk above the Arctic Circle and while not sure Virgil is correct, but I'd hate to think there's any larger. Some people refer to our moose as Clydesdale's with antlers and a temper. I waited two years for the National Game Management Institute's text that's considered the"biblical authority" concerning moose globally. It is edited by Valerius Geist, formerly of the (then) Soviet Union, but emigrated to North America. The institute has similar publications on elk, Sitka, blacktail and mule deer, and whitetail deer; superb reading a fantastic <em>collection of articles by experts</em>. Most of my info originated there.</p><p></p><p>Like this website, a <em>collection of riflemen and women</em> who probably--certainly collectively--are the authority on long range hunting and shooting by dint of their enthusiastic immersion into the science.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="alcesgigas, post: 531767, member: 34925"] As far as I know there's but three kinds of moose--[I]alces[/I]--indigenous to North America: [I]anderson[/I]i, better known as Canadian moose, [I]Shiras[/I] moose of the western states, and [I]alces gigas[/I], the Alaska-Yukon moose, the largest cervid in the world, (my "handle" on this site). These are also the only moose recognized by Boone & Crockett and probably Roland Ward's too (the European moose is Elch). Very few taxonomists cling to the older taxonomy which included the eastern moose as [I]americana[/I]. I just googled sisk moose and without going to the specific site there appears to be a reference to moose on Sisk Mountain in Maine, among others. Maine moose are Canadian moose. If you were to purchase or rent "Monster Moose" (a video which used to be available--and may well still be--from Cabela's you would hear and see Virgil Umpenour, who is a commercial fisherman and master guide, exclaiming the merits of the Koyukuk River moose--as being the largest of the largest. I live on the upper Koyukuk above the Arctic Circle and while not sure Virgil is correct, but I'd hate to think there's any larger. Some people refer to our moose as Clydesdale's with antlers and a temper. I waited two years for the National Game Management Institute's text that's considered the"biblical authority" concerning moose globally. It is edited by Valerius Geist, formerly of the (then) Soviet Union, but emigrated to North America. The institute has similar publications on elk, Sitka, blacktail and mule deer, and whitetail deer; superb reading a fantastic [I]collection of articles by experts[/I]. Most of my info originated there. Like this website, a [I]collection of riflemen and women[/I] who probably--certainly collectively--are the authority on long range hunting and shooting by dint of their enthusiastic immersion into the science. [/QUOTE]
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