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  1. Ray

    1st Dall Sheep Hunt - Need Advice

    Looks like NPS is awarding new hunting concession contracts for the next decade. Should have been awarded this month, but no news listed or updates posted on the NPS site. Their hunting concession list has not been updated since 2018. Mont is not listed on the NPS site. My guess, is that Mont...
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    Car for the Mountains

    Elk Car Dodge Colts seem to work for some folks as well.
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    So, thinking about moving to Alaska

    1 - the owners of Rainy Pass Lodge keep horses. They haul feed in on every single flight from anyone that has room on the weight capacity of the aircraft. They still have to pay for feed flights. I do wonder if they have a winter cat train pulling hay in from the valley. I've never seen hay up...
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    Anyone hunt unit 25A in Alaska

    Hmm, nice to see that nice camp put to use by a new operator. The guy that built it was hard to deal with over the years. My coworkers had a hard time keeping him from taking materials from our facility up there.
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    Living in Alaska

    My best friend was born and raised in Anchorage. He recalls his mom, being frugal, buying naval oranges at the store and searching for all the light weight ones to keep the cost down. Those light weight oranges were dry as popcorn farts and tasted like some kind of bitter fungus. These days...
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    Living in Alaska

    Last year I chatted with a military guy that was really disappointed that he could not drive his jeep all over the state like he could in MT and CO and access hunting areas. He also had issues with there not being white tailed deer all over the state. Then he started talking about turkey...
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    Boat Latches

    The lowest profile and easiest "latch" you can make would be a couple of holes and a rubber bungy strap to hold the door down. Draw Latches would be the next thing to look at. The link shows several types. The flexible ones may work best for protecting waders and gear.
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    AMEX getting hacked...all of my cards. Anyone else?

    Read an article over the weekend where investigators found the software had been installed on the POS system inside the gas station. All pump readers processed through the main POS system. These locations mainly did not have updated chip readers at the pumps. This was across several large gas...
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    Alaska Caribou: Is This Possible

    If this was a reasonable idea, wouldn't it already be exploited by the hunting industry? Starting off inside a national park on several hundred square miles of private land is not a reasonable idea. Walking over 25 miles to get out of the national park and off the private land is not a...
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    Counting brows...

    It is important to review what is a point, as well. The link posted by yellowknife explains it all.
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    Paperwork to export game meat from Idaho into Alberta, Canada?

    There is no US to CAN export issue that I am aware of. Only if you are coming back into the US after driving through CAN. A simple form is all that is needed for that. You will need to have your ID permit and licence on you when you bring the meat back into CAN. Your providence may have...
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    Used Tacoma

    Another comment on the 4 door 2005 and newer Tacos - there is not much foot room in the rear. Both my rental kids are giants compared to my bio kid. A 6 hour trip in the winter to Fairbanks cramped the two giants up pretty good. Watching them stagger around at 40 below in the snow was pretty...
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    Used Tacoma

    I currently own 39 years worth of Toyota pickups: a 1993 pickup, and a 2006 Tacoma four door long bed. My daughter talked us into buying her a 1999 Tacoma. the biggest issue with Toyota trucks in their mythology. They have moving parts. Moving parts need to be maintained. Mythology tells...
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    Bulletin for AK Bear injuries and deaths

    That summer has been written about by local folks. However, I can't find one to post up. Medred probably has a blog about it. Half that blog is probably his recounting for the 4000th time his own bear shooting event. Hard fall with a crappy berry crop in places. Odd warm winter. Early spring...
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    Bulletin for AK Bear injuries and deaths

    You like math? Then enjoy the data in this bulletin published today by the AK Dept of Epidemiology. http://www.epi.alaska.gov/bulletins/docs/rr2019_02.pdf TL;DR = bears injure quite a few of people, but don't kill many of them.
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    Who sells whole halibuts in Anchorage AK area

    The only other Anchorage place I would recommend would be 10th and M Seafoods. They are spendy. New Sagya has always been a good provider from what my friends tell me. I buy tuna from them once in a while if the family wants something different.
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    Alaska air/ammo

    Due to what happened to a buddy leaving Adak a few years ago, I travel with my ammo in plastic ammo boxes secured with a couple of rubber bands to keep them from sliding open. My buddy had his ammo in the factory cardboard box and it was destroyed by the water getting into his pack. All that was...
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    Creepy experiences in the backcountry

    Early 1960's: Dad took members of the USAF base skeet club up to near Black Canyon City, AZ to chase quail. During lunch they sat under a tree near the edge of the pull out the car was parked at. One guy walked over the road bank to take a leak, and found some interesting bones. Asked Dad what...
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    Cabin Build

    Unique? How about cordwood construction.
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    opinion for hunting tacoma or 4runner (already have a big truck)

    The first time I loaded my '93 pickup with camping gear and two caribou, I found out just how small it was. Once I had the 2006 taco I decided to always pull my ATV in a high ground clearance utility trailer. I could bag/tarp the meat and leave it in the utility trailer out of the dust and rain...

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