The game is on for moose, brown bear, goat, deer and waterfowl, and Haines hunters are heading out into the forests, rivers, lakes and mountaintops of the Chilkat Valley to find and take their quarry.

The Tier II subsistence moose hunt opened Sept. 15, and seven legal bulls had been taken through Wednesday morning. Three met the spike-fork requirement, and the other four had at least three brow tines. Bulls with an antler rack of…