The story that was published in the Fairbanks News-Miner said the workers contacted Fish & Game and told them what had happened. F&G was initially skeptical, but after mulling it around they decided that the workers should just shoot the bull because one of them had a rifle available. They salvaged the meat and the rack was supposedly in the office of the Pogo Mine for some time after the incident. It wouldn't make much sense to tranquilize him and then shoot him. They'd just shoot him and save the drugs for later. It doesn't really matter though. The point is, the pictures are real and the moose was shot after he was brought down. Definately one of those only in AK stories.