This painting was illustrated in a Winchester Repeating Arms Company calendar.

N.C. Wyeth refers to The Moose Hunters in a letter to his friend Joseph Chapin dated November 11, 1919. He wrote: "In the meantime opportunities in the illustrating field have piled in beyond anything I ever experienced, particularly for the advertising houses. To date I have turned down all the latter with the exception of a single painting for the Winchester Rifle." (as quoted in D. Allen and D. Allen, Jr., N.C. Wyeth: The Collected Paintings, Illustrations and Drawings, New York, 1972, p. 141) Allen and Allen note that The Moose Hunters was not Wyeth's only commission for that firm; he had painted another scene for a Winchester calendar in 1912, with a bear as the quarry.

This work is included in the N.C. Wyeth catalogue raisonné database that is being compiled by the Brandywine River Museum and Conservancy, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.