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  1. Kevin Dill

    $15,000 Reward for Missing Haul Road Hunter Steve Keel - OP updated to show locations

    I have trailed wounded deer at night in familiar country. In the process of studying the animal's movements and often needing to search in semi-circles for sign, it's almost inevitable to get disoriented without any familiar visual clues. The bottom line is that without your eyes in the game...
  2. Kevin Dill

    $15,000 Reward for Missing Haul Road Hunter Steve Keel - OP updated to show locations

    Thinking like a person lost and suffering from exposure... Easy to imagine finally giving up and sheltering (as best as possible) in a brushy clump of some sort, thus obstructing one's self from view of searchers. Illogical to imagine him staying in the wide open if/when he realized he needed...
  3. Kevin Dill

    Garmin InReach FAILURE - test yours

    Just came off a trip in AK. Partner used a Zoleo w/phone and I used an inReach Explorer+. Both of us had no issues communicating home, or with a friend using an inReach 40 miles to our north. I concur that ANY device you depend on for comms and especially for emergency rescue needs to be tested...
  4. Kevin Dill

    Archery for alaskan moose

    To me this is simple. If you're primarily a bowhunter at home then you're primarily a bowhunter in Alaska and everywhere else. Use the rifle if you must, but know you're compromising your satisfaction by doing so. I stay away from judgment on this issue as it matters not to me what anyone uses...
  5. Kevin Dill

    SO 6 man/ redcliff floor space

    I've owned and used a Sawtooth, (2) 8-man tipis, and currently a Redcliff. Here's my take: Tipis offered me less usable floor space due to the round or elliptical shape which forces the bedroll, cot, etc more toward the center of the shelter. Tipis do typically offer a bit of extra headroom but...
  6. Kevin Dill

    Traditional Vs Floorless shelter

    Things I can do (or do easier) in my big floorless shelter: Walk in and out. Stand up to get dressed. Stand up to use a pee bottle at 3 am. Walk in with boots on. Burn a woodstove. Prepare and eat meals. Hang and dry clothes. Sit in a chair to eat or relax.
  7. Kevin Dill

    Who's Moose Hunting Alaska 2022?!?

    @AKDoc .....You are a blessed man. Sincere congratulations on a real sledgehammer!
  8. Kevin Dill

    $15,000 Reward for Missing Haul Road Hunter Steve Keel - OP updated to show locations

    No proof of this, but someone stated the missing hunter had his cell phone with him. Notwithstanding it could have been a clunker (phone) there's a logical chance it was equipped with a compass, if he knew how to access and use it. Even if so, he'd still need to trust it. I'm basically 100% on...
  9. Kevin Dill

    $15,000 Reward for Missing Haul Road Hunter Steve Keel - OP updated to show locations

    Right now imagination and conjecture are all we have. Unless there was undulating terrain or fog between tent and backpack, he would have been within sight of camp. 0.6 miles on open tundra looks very short to the eye....same as it does in the desert. I'm still perplexed about why an...
  10. Kevin Dill

    $15,000 Reward for Missing Haul Road Hunter Steve Keel - OP updated to show locations

    The use of a compass or nav device only works as long as you believe what it's telling you. If you're disoriented, confused or hypothermic it's very easy to disbelieve a device. I've seen guys totally discount a compass and walk the wrong way. The biggest mistake often made is to wait until one...
  11. Kevin Dill

    $15,000 Reward for Missing Haul Road Hunter Steve Keel - OP updated to show locations

    I think it would be extremely difficult to fake your own death and not have that discovered very quickly in those circumstances...unless you had help. Just seems unlikely. Had no GPS mark on the pack location so he was hoping to spot it. Was the pack found intact and undisturbed? Likeliest...
  12. Kevin Dill

    $15,000 Reward for Missing Haul Road Hunter Steve Keel - OP updated to show locations

    A question I would have: Why did he drop his pack just over 1/2 mile from camp on open tundra?
  13. Kevin Dill

    Who's Moose Hunting Alaska 2022?!?

    Here's hoping everyone has fine adventures and great stories to tell next winter. Shooting the longbow 2x a day now. Everything coming together. Working down a punch-list of things to do before departure. Thankfully my surgically repaired knee feels good, and I'm hopeful it stays that way. I...
  14. Kevin Dill

    Who uses the UDAP Bear Fence?

    I got on Ebay and bought a 36" piece of 1/2" T6 aluminum tubing. I cut it down to 30" so it fits in my arrow case. I've tested it and it makes a great ground rod / support stake for the S12.
  15. Kevin Dill

    Helinox Cot Lite vs thermarest

    I had a Luxury Lite (now Therma-Rest) cot back before Helinox was even a thing here. I used it for 12 years and it never failed me once. I'd still be using it except for the fact I caught a new one at a price so low I couldn't turn it down. I sold my old one here on the forums and never looked...
  16. Kevin Dill

    Cimmaron vs red cliff

    We all know this more about preferences and less about what actually will work. If you leave gear outside you can always fit more people inside. Some of us use our shelter as a basecamp home with certain luxuries as opposed to some who mostly just sleep in their shelter. Crowding up some is fine...
  17. Kevin Dill

    Who's Moose Hunting Alaska 2022?!?

    Cushioned seat? Oval or elongated? 🧐
  18. Kevin Dill

    meat drag

    No matter how it gets moved, manually transporting moose meat is always a drag. The sled is a great idea. It wouldn't be ideal in my setting due to rough ground, scrub birch, willow and snaggy ground.
  19. Kevin Dill

    Barney pack question for whole quarters?

    I had a Barney's frame with shelf (no bag) and sold it...only because I needed something different for my hunts. Great frame and zero complaints. I think you could pack a transmission on the meat shelf. I've never had to pack moose quarters so not sure anything is clearly best. I'm pretty...
  20. Kevin Dill

    2022 drop hunt gear review/trip planning help

    If you have the weight allotment for it, bring the small axe...IF you have a stove to burn wood. For campfires my advice is forget them in caribou country...not worth the energy of gathering sparse dry wood. The fact is, in all the years I've hunted moose and caribou (NWT, Yukon, AK, BC) I have...

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