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  1. william schmaltz

    How much money after everything is paid for?

    Comparison is the thief of joy. Take care of your 4 walls and plan for your future. Everyone seems to be nailing it, but someone (almost everyone) must be lying or they have a MUCH higher risk tolerance than myself. Average US debt per CONSUMER not including mortgage or HELOC: Auto: $24k...
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    Dept of Interior Reaffirms Its Commitment to Fully Developing Public Land Green Energy.

    Please don’t make this post political. Listen to the last 12 minutes of this podcast. It’s exactly about this issue. It’s absolutely fantastic and I think most can resonate with it. One of the most influential and intelligent environmentalists of our generation going hard in the paint. I’ve...
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    Dept of Interior Reaffirms Its Commitment to Fully Developing Public Land Green Energy.

    I worked a few years as a roughneck in ND, so I’m by no means anti-oil. I’m sure you can find several guys who have shot deer next to drill pads, but anyone who claims it’s the same out there with a pad every 4 miles as it was 15 years ago is on crack rocks. No one ever talks about all the...
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    DIY Moose hunt, Pilot needed

    https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=hunting.transporters https://www.commerce.alaska.gov/cbp/main/Search/Professional
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    What's wrong with more grizzlies in Idaho?

    More moose attacks than bear attacks every year in Alaska. Let’s round up the boys and whipe em out! I rarely warn my boys about bears or wolves. Every time they walk out the back door to play we remind them to look for moose and ask them to recite to us what they do if a moose walks in the yard.
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    What's wrong with more grizzlies in Idaho?

    This isn’t true. We’ve given dozens upon dozens of grizzlies/brown bears our wind and once they hit it, they exit the country very quickly. Some of the areas we’ve done this in, it’s hard to imagine they’ve seen too many humans. I’ve had one sow with second year cubs purposely get my wind and...
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    Alaska Known Shipper Help

    The Known Shipper program was started after 9-11 by TSA. TSA put it in place as a database of shippers approved by TSA for transporting cargo on passenger aircraft as another terrorism measure. The airlines have no say in how or when it applies. When the rule was put in place, intrastate cargo...
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    Moose weather - what is warm?

    Here’s the first AK bull we’ve ever got. Time stamp is September 5th at 4 PM. We called an approx 60” bull right to camp the next morning. It was HOT this particular year. We called for a pick up 3 days early because of meat concerns. Granted, we didn’t have a clue what we were doing. For 2...
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    Books to read while hunting

    “Make Prayers to the Raven” while out on the AK landscape hits hard. Arctic Dreams
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    Jimmy John kills potential new state record sheep in NM

    No need to charge more for the tag. Drop the guide rule, put it on limited NR draw. Keep the same draw structure and charge $10/entry. The state would make millions (especially with PR matching). Require a sheep conservation stamp to apply if you really want to help the species. Of course you...
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    Jimmy John kills potential new state record sheep in NM

    I’m going to get checked for eye cancer after reading this thread. If AK lifted the ridiculous must be guided rule for governor tags, the amount they could make by raffling those tags would absolutely blow the top off what the same tags are being auctioned for.
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    For all the "preppers" out here

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    Would you keep a cow moose hide?

    You can have a tanned hide backed for pretty cheap. The taxidermy part of a bear rug is what adds up. I got a winter mtn goat hide tanned and backed that we would let our babies play/nap on because it was so well insulated. Now it just hangs over a chair. Have a really pretty caribou that I...
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    Flying meat home?

    Just booked a flight yesterday and here’s most updated rates from the confirmation email.
  15. william schmaltz

    2024 AK Moose Prep

    I dumped 4+ inches out of my rain gauge last night. I think I saw we’re the third wettest year on record so far and we had snow at 3500 feet late last week! Hopefully whoever was playing Jumanji has finally wrapped it up! We had a call with our 2024 hunting guest last night to make sure she had...
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    5 yo first time shooting questions

    Interesting thread. My oldest is 6 in October. We went the BB gun route and probably won’t start the others that way. Heavy trigger, heavy safety, impossible for a kid that age to load, and the sights made his frustration outweigh any fun. I bought a decent air rifle and he’s loving that. Got...
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    Which game bags? (Brand/size)

    I have a set of TAG bags that will be going on moose hunt #10 in a few weeks. Been packed around on external frame packs, hanging from trees, in and out of several float planes, onto pallets in cargo planes, thrown into the pickup, etc. And moose quarters aren’t light, so they had their fair...
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    GoHunt

    Any other codes out there to stack? Free shipping? Shipping to AK for 10 Peak meals is more than the 20% savings.
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    Who else is running an AirBnb property?

    Thanks for following up. I just sent info on a 5 acre piece of land to my wife this morning. We have a recreational area exploding and there is nowhere to build hotels in the area. Our friends went the route of doing a 5 night minimum. They have no problems getting a couple groups a month. Even...
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    Summer Olympics?

    My #1 Olympic hero still remains Turkish shooter man winning a medal with his hand in his sweatpants pocket. BUT, this breakdancer from Australia trolling the breakdancing competition is a strong second place finisher in my heart!

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