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    Moose Meat Drag?

    https://alaskagearcompany.com/products/backcountry-lb-flex-sled?variant=42094176895033 There’s no doubt an application and place for it. I just sold mine a couple months ago after taking it to 4 moose camps and never unrolling it. The main uses I could see are if you had a long portage on...
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    The Rokslide Stock Traders Thread

    It likely won’t. $2 gas is always a big promise of the Trump campaign. Gas is about $3.25 today and oil is hanging around $70. The break even point for new drilling is around $65/bbl. If we hit $2 fuel, we’re looking at $50 oil and every rig in the patch stacked in the weeds. You can have $2 gas...
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    Telepathy - truth or science fiction?

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    Alaska Non-Resident Moose Changes??

    It didn’t pass. As mentioned already, anyone can write a proposal on anything and the board will address it. You could write a proposal that only NR hunters can hunt moose if you’d like; the board will deliberate at it. They did require a moose orientation class be completed to hunt in...
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    The Mulchatna herd and bears...

    I could name 20 NR guys that would have a deposit down by the end of the week if they were allowed to hunt a grizz DIY. It’s all within easy range for wheel and float operators from Dillingham, Bethel, and Illiamna; and the price would be cheap because you just need to extract a hide. Even if...
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    Flying with elk, moose or caribou skull?

    Not sure about elk and caribou. No problem for moose. Don’t need to be cleaned or split as long as it doesn’t stink (maybe an absolute monster needs split. But if it’s that big, consider yourself lucky to fork up a few extra $100 and ship it proper). Wrap the skull with a roll of shop towels...
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    Boycott hunting Canada? Yukon Plans to ban Trump Jr.

    do whatever helps you sleep at night. The lines are around the block. The boycotting/cancel culture of the hard line blue/red teams is getting so incredibly old to the rest of us in the politically exhausted majority.
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    Kodiak island blacktail

    Buddy, I’d mange expectations. There’s a whole lot of BS “hardest hunt ever” stuff on this website from one-timer ultra-badasses that is wildly over dramatic and then there are fair warnings from guys that have hunted hundreds of days all over this state. This is the later. You guys seem to be...
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    "Real" food to prep for Alaska

    For 10ish day moose hunts where we have moderate weight allowance, I’ll make 5-6 days of breakfast burritos wrapped in foil and bring them frozen. Just throw em on the heating rack when the alarm goes off. By about that 5th day, you can tell they’re getting to the end of their safe consumption...
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    Alaska Caribou DC 590

    The other perspective is that you can flip through the % hunted and % success on this tag through the years in a matter of minutes. Participation in this hunt has been over 50% one year since 2013 and that was 2020. Participation % is within a less than 10% range since 2013 and the % success of...
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    What is the single most important thing you will do in 2025 to enjoy your time outside more?

    Health. 2024 was the wake-up call and realization things are different at this age. Haven’t had sugar or alcohol in 2025 (see gout thread) and have not had a sign of gout and don’t miss either of them poisons one bit. Between that simple change and moderate working out a couple times a week...
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    Alaska Draw

    A bit relieved I don’t have to get in shape to hike into DCUA. Get to stick with a lazy float moose/grizz hunt and Kodiak trip for the fall.
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    Alaska draw. What’s my chances?

    I’ve never seen this clarified to the public what exactly the “apps received” column represents. Does that mean individual souls or does that mean choices submitted? Do I represent one of the “apps received” or six? If it represents individuals who applied, then the actual number of choices...
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    Alaska draw. What’s my chances?

    That’s a mystery I’ve always wondered myself and can never seem to find the answer. Even if it’s total choices and not individuals and 49 people that each put in 6 times are removed from the pot. That only removes about 300 from the 10k+. So your odds are 6/10000 as opposed to 1/10250. Either...
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    Alaska draw. What’s my chances?

    Previous year draw odds are published in the back of the supplement booklet. 10,000+ applicants for 100 tags……..I’d say not great. But someone has to draw em! Edit: according to the same supplement, available tags for this year’s draw were dropped to 50. So even less great.
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