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[WNC2500]

Congratulations @wllm on the tags and being a new father. Just to bring us up to speed:
What gun are you using, or taking multiple for the different animals?
What are the dates? When does your first hunt start, and how much of the hunt will you able to hunt multiple species?
Thanks for taking us along!!

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Idk what to say! From the draw odds, the time management aspect; for both you and the in-laws, the picturesque landscape, the baby on the way… I’d probably be stressing a LOT harder than you appear to be!! Very excited for you, that moose is UUUUGE I can’t wait to see what you get!! How’s the corgi do when it comes down to the important moments like stalking or shooting?

A thread for the ages, so excited to follow along

Gus does great in the field, keeps quiet and gun shots don’t bother him, he freaks out when I get the bow out I think he thinks it’s “speed fetch” with the arrows… but also mom said bear bait wasn’t allowed to come along on a sheep hunt.

 

[BackofBeyond]

gonna be epic - both the hunting and the baby. congrats man.

 

[LousyResident]

Congrats across the board @wllm!! I can't wait to see how this all plays out. The timing is perfect as I don't imagine you'll be doing something this nuts for several years after that baby is born LOL

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Congratulations @wllm on the tags and being a new father. Just to bring us up to speed:
What gun are you using, or taking multiple for the different animals?
What are the dates? When does your first hunt start, and how much of the hunt will you able to hunt multiple species?
Thanks for taking us along!!

Thank you and great questions…

I bought a tikka veil .300 win last fall and took a cow elk with it, that’s coming along with 180grn shock hammers, loaded with 7828ssc, 76 grains I think would need to check my notes. Super easy powder to find in MA so that’s what I went with.

Caribou is August 10- Sept25, heading in tonight or tomorrow morning.

Sheep and moose are sept 5-17 and sept 1-15 respectively… which is a bit of a debacle. Current plan is hunt sheep, come back to in laws, dump meat in the freezer, if we get one, and then meet the horse packer at the trail head the next morning.

 

[Bowmannate2000]

Oh, and my wife is expecting… first ultrasound was in Alaska. So I was a little distracted

Congrats!

 

[crock239]

You do realize that by dropping baby news in a Live Hunt thread for AK moose caribou and sheep you run the risk of breaking the internet, right??

Congratulations and welcome to fatherhood, it's awesome and you'll be a great dad!

 

[LuketheDog]

Whelp I guess I should kick this thread off… sitting at Sea-Tac waiting to catch my ride up to what will no doubt be a month I won’t soon forget.

Back in December when I was applying, and looking at draw odds I didn’t think I had a chance at a tag, but then that 1 in 100,000 event happened and I found myself with not just 1 but 3 hard to draw tags. Ecstatic I called my in-laws in Alaska, before I could even tell them the my news they tell me “we’re going sheep and bison hunting.”

“Oh you looked up my results?… wait bison”

“Sheep, did you look at her?…”

Nope, they hadn’t, my SIL and I had drawn the same sheep tag, and she was hunting bison as well.

In someways ways my draws were a bit poorly planned as the tags had similar/overlapping dates. With a trove of tags, work obligations, kids, etc we came up with a bit of a daunting schedule for the fall.

I hope I can do these tags justice as I know lots of people applied for them, I’m not using a guide (sheep with second degree kin), and won’t be flying in for anything, though I did cave a bit on my plan for my on-foot moose hunt and will be getting a ride in on horses.

Last couple weeks as I’ve been dreaming of this month I’ve tried to set my expectations, I’m doing this the hard way and the cheap way… so there is a lot of potential for coming up short in terms of antlers and horns but I hope not in memories/experiences.

Can't wait for this one! Maybe you should ride over to our side of the bay and hang out a couple days! You know, to check out the bull I'm going to kill and stuff

Oh, and my wife is expecting… first ultrasound was in Alaska. So I was a little distracted

Just casually slid that news nugget in there huh? Congrats man!

 

[Flatbrimmer]

Just casually slid that nugget in there huh? Congrats man!

That is how babies are made, after all….

 

[Deleted member 16014]

Congrats Will; twins no doubt, based on your defiance of odds. Looking forward to reading about your hunts.

 

[Cheesehead]

Can’t wait to hear how the trip goes.
The ultimate baby wllm baby shower gift … I assume he/she will want to be spreadsheeting in no time

 

[Nameless Range]

Oh man. Share as ya can but enjoy the hell out of it all! Baby on the way, drowning in opportunity, challenges ahead and forks in the road, good country to explore. What a time to be alive wllm! Soak it up.

 

[LuketheDog]

That is how babies are made, after all….

That's good enough for another spit take gif...get your mind out of the gutter man!

 

[TwistedSage]

Congratulations all around Will!

 

[Hem]

Not to be outdone, I predict Gerald is chasing his wife around the kitchen as we speak just so you guys can share the baby thing too.

 

[Dsnow9]

Oh man, can’t wait!

 

[ashersdad]

This will be an adventure of a lifetime! Super excited for you! Good luck!

 

[Valley1320]

Man, goodluck and have fun and be safe!

 

[S-3 Ranch]

Congratulations all the way around, enjoy it , your only young once.
this old man has the desire , but the body says no

 

[Oak]

Ah, so this is how you're going to catch @noharleyyet in blue thumbs.