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    Healthy bread; What is there?

    But in biblical context it must be baked using human feces as firewood.
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    Alaska Caribou

    That only applies to big game and even with that there are exceptions. Commercial airline flights don't count, and it doesn't apply to deer hunting.
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    Alaska Caribou

    I’m old with bad knees so I didn’t hike very far on that tundra. I was dropped off by airboat on the Ivishak River. If I were to hike the 5 miles I would do it in the foothills of the Brooks Range and avoid the tundra altogether. I was pursuing a small bull at the bottom of Atigun Pass north...
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    Alaska Caribou

    I made the mistake of NOT putting my ammo in my gun case and I arrived on St. Paul Island Alaska with a gun and no ammo. My bag with ammo arrived the next day but still I missed out on an evening hunt. So now I always keep my ammo and gun together. Flying in the US that is.
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    Alaska Hunt Regs

    The regs are typically published on July 1 but is there an earlier date when you can know what’s coming ? A unit that I’m interested in sometimes is open to NR and some years it’s not. Just planning ahead for 2025
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    Last hike before empty nest

    Both my kids left home within 2 weeks of each other. Daughter to college and son to the Army. Hit me harder than expected. Good luck Now I’m about to experience Empty Nest 2.0 as my grandkids who live 15 minutes away and visit me at my shop at least twice a week, are about to move 4 hours away.
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    Shipping meat home

    The whole point was cost efficiency flying into town on a scheduled flight. Bush planes are expensive and landing near town in a bush plane would negate the whole plan. If I’m going to spend on a bush plane I might as well go big and fly into the headwaters of the Sheenjek and float to Fort Yukon.
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    Shipping meat home

    I’m discovering that there’s a “fly in the ointment” in my affordable scheduled flight in and out. Apparently those 2 native villages don’t like outsiders and are not welcomed. I have flown into 2 other native villages; Old Harbor and St. Paul Island. Both were very kind and hospitable even...
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    Shipping meat home

    I have always brought meat and hides home as checked baggage and even carry on. Checked baggage weight limit is 100 lbs. on Alaska Airlines and cost $150 each bag. If I’m seeing correctly cargo cost around $1 per pound.
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    Friday August 2nd , Tunage: Its all Special

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    Friday August 2nd , Tunage: Its all Special

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    Shipping meat home

    If I don't drive up I won't take out at the Yukon River Camp Bridge. Float down to Venetie and fly out from there. So that would be maybe a 3 day float. Even if I floated all the way to the bridge I think the meat would be fine as long as it was kept cold and dry.
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    Shipping meat home

    The more I think about it I’m flip-flopping and now leaning towards flying up without my lab. I’m going to miss her a lot but flying up to Fairbanks for free is the ticket and then air cargo the meat home assuming I get a moose or caribou.
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    Shipping meat home

    Driving to Alaska won’t have any time constraints. We’d make it floating to the bridge eventually. If we fly we’d be on a schedule and more stressful.
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    To hang bear bags or not to hang bear bags when backcountry hunting.

    Sounds like we have the same size but I pack for 2 (my wife) and we typically go for 2 weeks. Flying to our destination complicates weight and volume.
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    Shipping meat home

    Scheduled flight to Arctic Village and float down to the Yukon River to the bridge on Dalton Highway. Would be careful of where to hunt as it flows between National Wildlife Refuges and Native Lands.
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    To hang bear bags or not to hang bear bags when backcountry hunting.

    I have one but you can’t fit many freeze dried meals inside and they are bulky and heavy.
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    2 months till Opener for the King

    September 1 dove opener doesn’t do much for me, too hot. I’ll do it for a couple of hours. September 14 for White Tailed Ptarmigan high up in the Sierras will be much cooler. October and early November in Maine for upland and waterfowl. On the way home from Maine (driving) I want to try for...
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    Shipping meat home

    I’m sure I can convince my wife to go but she’s already saying “Alaska again” That said if I say I’m going with or without her she’ll come with me. My biggest hurdle is my Labrador. I could leave her with my daughter but I would rather have her with me. I’m scared to death of flying her in a...
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    To hang bear bags or not to hang bear bags when backcountry hunting.

    Camping on Kodiak where it’s treeless hanging wasn’t an option. First night we left our food just outside the tent and a fox got into it so the rest of the time it stayed inside the tent and we took our chances. Never saw a bear. The following year we camped at the same spot. Never saw a fox...
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