Last Ride of ‘Old Ugly’: Record Moose Comes Home After 55 Years

Ed Hall, 95, is returning a record-book bull moose nicknamed Old Ugly to Ontario, where he shot it more than 50 years ago.

On Aug. 5, a 95-year-old Michigan man will pack up a moose head the size of a recliner and make one last trip to the Canadian bush. Edward A. Hall, a lifelong resident of Eaton Rapids, is returning his record-book bull, affectionately named Old Ugly, to the place it was shot more than half a century ago.

It was the fall of 1970, long before GPS and satellite tags, and Ed Hall was flying into the wilds of Ontario. He had one goal: to kill a moose worthy of hanging on the living room wall…

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