Moose Jaw's Mac the Moose might not be making headlines on a daily basis anymore, but that doesn't mean "Team Mac" isn't doing hours upon hours of work for this project.

The hope is that our city's mascot will get a new rack to reclaim his title, however, the question of whether or not he can he handle it remains. 

A team of professionals in various industries hopes to answer that question in the not-so-distant future. 

Tourism Moose Jaw's Executive Director Jacki L'Heureux-Mason said members of the team have been in and out of their parking lot the past few weeks conducting various tests and gathering information for the engineering report in a variety of ways.

"We had Sask Polytechnic Engineering students here running scans of Mac, this is going to help them create some 3D imaging (and) once we get the green light from the engineers we can start making some antlers that fit Mac's head appropriately," explained L'Heureux-Mason.

In order to get the information they need to do a thorough check over of Mac they had to climb into the 'belly of the beast'.

"They cut a big hole in Mac's belly and they crawled up and took a look for any signs of weakness that would make this project not safe and feasible. We hope to know a little bit more about the engineering assessment in about seven to ten days is what we're all thinking.".

She added that her favourite way to execute a project is to do it with a collaborating team, noting that she couldn't have chosen better people to sit around the table with.

"I think that we're going to have some very, very proud participants in this Brysen from Steady Metal Works was like a kid in a candy store getting up there and Ory who came from Concentric Engineering said 'I will probably never stick my head in the belly of a moose again. There's a lot of excitement, it's a unique opportunity and what it means to the community just makes it more special."

Once the engineering report is shared it will then determine if Mac the Moose can once again be the tallest in the world again with a new, larger rack.