If you really wanted to hunt Alaska, what is stopping you?

If you really wanted to hunt Alaska, what i

BIG BORE
Actually you could drive and if ya want to use a Hand gun
there are plenty of outfitter and gunshops you can send your
weapons to and stop by and pick them up or If ya take the ferry all the way up just bring them with you and ya can drive to any part of the state once here. After August the 10th is actually some of the best time of year for sheep, goat, black bear and caribou and some areas Moose season opens aug 20th .Sheep and Goat as well as Grizzly Bear require a guide for non resident.This last season there were 2 groups 6 guys from califorrnia and 4 from South Dakota that had done exactly that,They drove and used the marine option and brought campers and ATVs with them they were hunting in the area around Manley off the Elliot highyway this was their 3rd year they all had a big Moose 50 inch or better and 4 caribou .They come up every other year I met the californians 6 years ago they are quite a nice bunch of guys and have learned to hunt Alaska quite well and very inexpensively they said they had spent about 900.oo each on license and fuel and food they brought two vehicles .That first year i taught them how to call a moose and boy did they catch on.
They said they looked at all the cost they had in trying to hunt
in the over crowded areas that they had been hunting in at home and decided what the heck.The scenery alone was enough for most of them and they could not get over how friendly and helpful most of the people in Alaska were.They said that a lot of people hunting on public or a so called deer lease back home were just to competative and were down wright Rude to you. That if ya was to come up on there camp and tried to even talk to them ya might get a adverse reaction of the finger. Hunting in Alaska is not a competition sport its a way of life to be enjoyed by everyone that wants to be part of it.Try it youll love it and the people of the Land.

To get there meat back they took it into fairbanks and had a processor freeze it for them after letting it hang in camp about 4 to 10 days or till done hunting its plenty cold enough that time of year september
somtimes august especially at night. Another trick is while meat is hanging wipe it down with vinegar water or citrus acid mixture for good ph balance and no bacteria or flie blow.Take the meat and bone it all out and put it in the large waxed fish boxes that hold about 75 to 100 lbs then freeze. They hauled a car trailer with them for the atvs and I told them about insulated commercial fish Totes, they are large polyurethane salmon fishery bins and they bought two insulated ones 2oo. bucks a peice the first year
one will hold three to four moose boned out.they put them on their trailer
they used them to haul extra gear on the way up.After the hunt all gear was thrown in the camper.They were so sucessful they donated 2 large
caribou to the locals. They were some happy hunters.


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