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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Linking old 2018 DiY thread: 2018 DIY Musk Ox and Mountain Goat
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    Help finalize the "Dixie Zipper" (Mini CBK) for a group buy

    @hereinaz will you have some photos of the handle colors for the first preorder? I’d like in that list. Sent you a pm.
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Now after having done both, as cool as it was to see that black hulk out on the frozen tundra, I would pick the summer hunt if I were ever able to go again. The weather and conditions are so much more pleasant and the meat has to be better marbled throughout with a couple inches of fat all...
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    My S28 Hunt

    🤣 yep that’s going to take those .00001% odds to .00002%
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Once back in town I needed to go to the wildlife office and take care of all the paperwork and get export permits for the meat, hide, and skull to travel to all their appropriate destinations. Super nice people!
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Barren Ground. We also saw some Central Barren Ground Caribou. I was pretty excited about that; they are the 26th of the NA29 that I have seen in the wild. I was really hoping to see a polar bear as they are one of the 3 species left and I’m not in polar bear country very often! We did see...
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    The hunt. In 2018, I drew a musk ox tag for Nunivak Island Alaska. I put in for this hunt because it was the only hunt in the entire world where I could get a musk ox without having to hire a guide. It was fantastic. Classic spot and stalk. I took a bull that comes up just short of Boone &...
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Better shot of the travel system. Inside the Sitka Nomad are a couple soft duffels for bush plane, horseback, of sled. One a Sitka Drifter which I used to bring back a whole hindquarter. I put it in a game bag, then a contractor bag, then wrapped in a sleeping bag. I packed it away on a Monday...
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Evening entertainment consisted of various Arctic wildlife coming into camp to snack on an old caribou quarter or table scraps. Arctic hares are HUGE, they looked like deer out in the fields 100 yards from camp. Had a camp Arctic Fox. Ptamigan flocks flew in every evening to roost among the...
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Camp. I cannot convey how comforting it is after 10 hours that first day in the sled to have camp pop up into view from the white abyss! I was prepared to stay in a double wall canvas tent spiked into the Arctic Ocean. Instead we were treated to a 16 x 20 plywood shack on the banks of the...
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    WY Corner crossing update

    You corner crossers better up your fitness game!
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    My S28 Hunt

    I love it when a plan comes together. Congratulations on a job well done.
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    More sled details: You can’t see there is 1/4” steel plate running along the length of the bottom of the runner. That is because HDPE plastic gets chewed up by the rocks. I can now understand how igloos are made. That snow is not like lower 48 snow! Those sleds are HEAVY without...
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Transportation. The hunter rides to camp in a “sled” which is pulled by the guide with his snowmobile. I am an engineer and to me these units were a never ending fascination. Everything about them had been honed to perfection over time…a kind of Land Cruiser perfection not a Lexus 😂 One would...
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    2025 Spring Nunavut Musk Ox

    Clothing. Rent their expedition gear. I have incredibly warm gear. Nothing a normal North American hunter has in his arsenal is made to keep you comfortable being hauled around in a Jed Clampet sleigh for 10-12 hours a day and over 100 miles in -40 to -20 temperatures. The jacket and bibs are...
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