Alaska Moose — Unit 5A

Alaska Unit 5A covers 2,327,688 acres and lies 128 miles north-west of Gustavus. In 2025, 156 people hunted moose here and took 65 — 42% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):42% Size:2,327,688 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a moose license in Unit 5A in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Alaska moose hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Ketchikan Kake Cordova Delta Junction Kodiak
Unit 5A within Alaska
1C 1D 5B Gustavus
Unit 5A and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

How the hunting has gone

What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Alaska's figures come from mandatory harvest reports and sealing certificates rather than a hunter survey, so they are counts of animals reported, not estimates.

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 156 65 42% 2.8
2024 152 58 38% 2.9
2023 129 50 39% 2.3
2022 136 52 38% 2.2
2021 140 63 44% 1.8

Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)

Harvest: 2025 Moose General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

Harvest: 2024 Moose General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

Harvest: 2023 Moose General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

How we compute draw odds · All Alaska moose hunts