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    New (Used) Hunting truck

    As a long time Toyota user, there is an issue with the mythology of Toyotas. People think that these vehicles will run forever with no effort put into the maintenance. Sorry, moving parts is moving parts. Maintenance is needed, even on Toyotas. But, so many users don't do anything to their rigs...
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    Claude Dallas / Murder of 2 Idaho Fish & Game Officers Book

    I was in HS in NV when he escaped the jail and our small town went into lock down for a day or two. Then a decade or so later when my folks bought a retirement home in Orofino, ID, I spent some time there when I was off over the winter. The young man living across the street looked at me funny...
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    Best Place to Retire in Alaska?

    Very few regional airports here with scheduled service that are also on the connected road system. Kenai and Homer are the two obvious ones. For retiring up here you have to consider how comfortable you are spending huge amounts of money for things that are dirt cheap in the states. Then you...
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    Help me pick out a scotch/cognac/bourbon

    Aberlour A’Bunadh | Aberlour Whisky This is my favorite sipping whisky. Here in AK it is fairly "cheap" ranging from $85 to $95 depending on the store and town taxes. Aberlour 18 | Aberlour Whisky One of these days i will pony up some real money and get a bottle of this older stuff. Runs about...
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    Trump: Take guns first; due process second.

    For months, and is some cases years, I have brought up both 4th and 10th amendment issues with their gun control wants. And in some cases they even proposed Commerce Clause violations. Not a one of them understood anything about what I was getting at. They are so focused on the 2nd that they...
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    Better "stock" up boys

    Very good read: link TL;DR - "Five years after Columbine, the Secret Service partnered with the Department of Education for an equally definitive report, which analyzed every major school shooting for a 26-year period and offered startling assessments: That there is no single profile of a...
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    Shipping meat from Alaska to lower 48

    We Alaskan's live and die by our rubber maid totes and action packers. Fred Meyers will have several hundred stacked on the shelves at any given time of the year until late spring. In early winter is when they have sales on "storage" systems to move inventory. The only time I have issues with...
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    Clothing for end of September moose hunt out of Bethel

    In stead of puffy pants I would use heavy fleece wader pants/tights. Much more versatile in wet conditions and when using waders. If your hunt is water based, the only time you may be using the puffy pants is inside your tent.
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    Should we rent the Cabin?

    Do the math, if bears were an real issue then there would be hundreds of bear related injuries per year based on the millions of man-days spent in the AK wilderness. You will be fine in a tent 99.99% of the time. That last 0.01% wont be that scary, until it is. Its when you are coming back to...
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    Unique vacation ideas in Alaska?

    And if you want to see a bunch of old historical crap, nothing like a trip to McCarthy (Kennicott mine). Serious end of the road stuff and an almost forgotten about national park to boot. The lodge/hotel there is decent place to stay. Also has some flight seeing around Mt St Elias. The majority...
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    Unique vacation ideas in Alaska?

    After about August 10th, you can see hints of the aurora from midnight until around 3am to as late as 4am. It is best to be north of the 63rd parallel (Tok, Cantwell) and have a clear night sky well away from any town generating light polution. It won't be completely dark but you can see the...
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    Ryan Miller and Hook

    If I recall his instagram posts he has the 2016 and 2015 sheds. He is stalking Hook now for the 2017 sheds. May already have them. He implied at one point that the 2016 sheds were being replicated. But I might have miss understood that.
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    Ryan Miller and Hook

    The week in wildlife – in pictures | Environment | The Guardian Scroll down to the bottom to see one of Ryan's photos of Hook the moose. I've seen this moose once in velvet three years ago when he was "little".
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    Caribou Hunt

    "We are looking to do an economical caribou hunt, driving to Alaska from Minnesota, and maybe throw in some fishing." "Economical" and "air service for four" are not part of the same hunt. With that many people and gear, once you have four bulls down you will probably need a second flight to...
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    Arctic National wildlife refuge

    With today's ridiculous amounts of easy to find information, I am dismayed at what catches the attention of the masses. Drilling in ANWR has been an issue since the refuge was expanded under ANILCA by Jimmy Carter. I was a kid then, and now I am middle aged. Still on the radar and in news...
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    Arctic National wildlife refuge

    It is a long way from there to where the TAPS starts. There are dozens of documents to write. Studies to be finished under modern requirements. 20 years before infrastructure goes in. Whole lot of election cycles before that. The 60 plus year old permitted cat train route to Kaktovik will be...
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    Trip of a lifetime alaska 2018

    You need to start reading the regulations now. There will be some minor changes come July 1, 2018, but most changes will come from Emergency Orders published on line. Link King season on the Kenai river runs until the end of July. There are dozens of guides that can give you a chance at a few...
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    ice ax and crampons

    16.08 ounces according to here LINK
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    AK Sooty Grouse.

    ADFG link Another ADFG link There is a guy over on the 24HrCF Alaska forums that regularly hunts them. He starts his season on back country touring skis when there is still a lot of snow up top. The issue for you is that the season ends the week before tourist season starts. So, you will...
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    AK GMU23 Moose Draw/Regs Changing

    If you go to the Unit 23 hunting maps it shows that moose in Unit 23 is resident only. Either a registration hunt or a HT. When the regulations are updated on July 1 and published then the tables should show this change.

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