gonhunting247
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I'll start by saying I've been blessed to hunt the great state of AK a fair amount. With 3 sisters living in AK, I have more hunting opportunities than a lot of folks. I have successfully hunted sheep, goat, moose, grizzly, black bear etc.. That said I have been successful on small caribou, but never a really nice mature bull. I drew a a special hunt tag in 2018, but struck out on caribou after a long grueling adventure. We saw a grand total of 2 caribou on the last day, but they were a few miles and a couple drainages over and we were down to our last day. I did luck out and shoot a nice blueberry fed black bear on the hike back out. I wouldn't want to come out without something to pack on our 7+ miles out .
Fast forward to this years draws and low and behold I drew it again! After a few calls and some conversation with folks here, we decided we'd try to access some area quite a ways up the drainage from the first go around in "18"
The area we would be hunting is a restricted travel area, with no use of wheeled or tracked vehicles to access or for retrieval of big game. We would be using my brother-in-laws little plane, which are allowed with the mandatory wait time before hunting after flying, and then hiking in. We knew from the first trip this was going to be physically challenging. But, I was determined to make the most of the opportunity.
Some pics from trip #1 and the fat little blueberry fed black bear that took the place of my missing caribou!
Fast forward to this years draws and low and behold I drew it again! After a few calls and some conversation with folks here, we decided we'd try to access some area quite a ways up the drainage from the first go around in "18"
The area we would be hunting is a restricted travel area, with no use of wheeled or tracked vehicles to access or for retrieval of big game. We would be using my brother-in-laws little plane, which are allowed with the mandatory wait time before hunting after flying, and then hiking in. We knew from the first trip this was going to be physically challenging. But, I was determined to make the most of the opportunity.
Some pics from trip #1 and the fat little blueberry fed black bear that took the place of my missing caribou!
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