"On September 6, Gabe Evan and Flora Paukan picked me up to go camping at Tucker's Slough. We set up camp at Mtn. Creek Slough. We didn't see any moose on the first day, but later on in the evening we saw a black bear behind the camp and we shot towards it to scare it away.

The next day we drove around in the slough, but we didn't see anything. So we stopped at a big meadow where we saw two cows and a calf. The cows and calf were in the meadow all day waiting for the bulls to come out, but the bulls didn't come out all day. We waited for them too, but for three days we didn't see anything.

On the fourth day we went up to 12 Mile Slough, but we didn't see anything there either, so we went back to Tucker's. We went back as far as we could go in Tucker's, but we didn't see anything. After stopping to eat lunch, we started to ride around again. Finally, on the fourth day around 2:00 p.m. we saw a bull moose. I shot at it once, but it turned around and ran into a meadow where it stopped and didn't seem to know where to go. I shot three more times at it before I killed it. That was the first time I'd even killed a moose from that far away. It had to be 300 yards or more. We didn't measure the antlers because they were deformed."

By: Nick Duny

As told to: Willie Paul Fitka III