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    Alaska DIY Caribou (and so much more) by Billy Molls

    Its hard to tease out the data from the general harvest reporting database. It only reports successful hunts as far as I can get it to spit out info. And it includes all of 26B not just the highway hunters. On average there are 700 general season caribou bulls taken each year in 26B. How many...
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    Thoracic Outlet Syndrome

    Have they found the cause with an extra rib off your neck or defined the muscle group clamping the nerves or veins? Have you checked out Smashwerx? He just posted a video at the end of May, but has other shoulder rehab stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dae8sS5IAp0
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    Hunting Alaska as a Resident?

    A tiny cross section of the millions of square miles of vast emptiness.
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    Are isobutane stoves an option for a bush plane Sheep hunt?

    The issue for most transporters is what type of permit they are operating under. 40 Mile is a real deal airline with a scheduled weekly flight to Fairbanks. There is no way they can take a canister that is not USDOT compliant. Other transporters operate under a different kind of permit and have...
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    Hunting Alaska as a Resident?

    Alaska is a biological desert unless you are a plant or an insect.
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    Are isobutane stoves an option for a bush plane Sheep hunt?

    You could also take an alcohol stove. A titanium stove with an aluminium foil wind break and a bottle of alcohol would be pretty lite. Just slow to use. And you will need more fuel than a white gas stove. The cool thing about a whisper lite gas stove is that you can ask the pilot to fill your...
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    Hunting Alaska as a Resident?

    For things to do, there are miles of hiking trails on the hillside above Anchorage. Link For longer hikes in National Forest see this link look at the Eastern Kenai trials. If you want to get into petroleum stuff with your masters you should look at some of the service companies like...
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    Pack to haul a moose out of the buch with

    A new kelty frame pack will work fine. A old Camp trails frame pack with a new kelty belt and straps will work too. You can call Kelty customer service and talk them into selling you a replacement belt/strap system. Get a dozen cheap sleeping bag straps with ladder locks on one end and tie...
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    Backcountry Meat Pole & Knots

    When I was a young dude, an old dude showed me how he tied off his moose meat bags. He hunted solo a lot in the Fairbanks area. His meat bag gear box had dozens of items he had made over the decades. Using about a 3 foot length of cord, tie a simple half hitch wrap around the lower leg or top...
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    Zinke in Alaska

    New interior secretary says he's ready to share federal management duties with Alaska Natives - Alaska Dispatch News "As his whirlwind tour of Alaska begins winding down, the nation's new interior secretary said on Tuesday he would work to give Alaska Natives more opportunities to take over...
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    Hip Pain

    Hmm, my piriformis issue was a two month long ordeal with a chiro. One wrong move and I was crippled and couldn't move my left hip without screaming. The chiro ended up useless. A tennis/golf ball in my butt or his elbow would help for just a few minutes. I'd leave his office, walk to the truck...
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    AK Dall Sheep Gear and Prep

    For my knees I found the off the shelf neoprene sleeves worked great to keep my joints happy. Also turned out to be great knee pads for crawling through the small shards of rock when glassing and moving, staying low and out of sight.
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    • Post #24
    • Forum: Sheep
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    Best bear spray?

    I'm with snake529 on this compilation of reviews. They like the packaging, size, cost, shipping, and holster. Nobody used it on a bear. Meaningless data for a user of bear spray. The one thing that deters me from using bear spray is that it is nearly impossible for me to get on a plane, whereas...
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    • Post #20
    • Forum: Gear
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    "Like" "Like" "Like" - What the hell is happening to our English ?

    I spent most my life with a mild stammer. It slowly resolved through adulthood, but will pop up once in a while when I am physically tired. The result of this issue when I was younger was that every complete word was precious. I could not waste my energy on superfluous ones. Vocabulary is also...
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    "Like" "Like" "Like" - What the hell is happening to our English ?

    Him and Sturgill Simpson. My GF found that Willy Nelson will be playing at a small venue near Portland in August. Sheep hunt or Willy...had to see him before he dies, sheep will still be on the mountain even when I am older and crippled more.
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    AK Dall Sheep Gear and Prep

    Find some stairs and spend as much time as you can going down them under a load. Stadium or tall building. Its the only thing a flat lander can use to train for the typical issue that crops up for them in the mountains. And do some box jumps. Jumping down is just as important as jumping up.
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    Caribou Closures on Alaska Federal Public Lands (WSA 16-01)

    After what Don Young tried to do for Ahtna a few years ago, we need to be careful about getting congress involved through him. However, he does respond to his constituents, and if a bill shows up pre-drafted (with a suitable campaign contribution), he might put it in front of a committee...
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    How long can a recurve be strung?

    I really like my early 90's Hatfield T/D. Well made and affordable bow.
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    Trump begins repealing national park declarations.

    Why just 21 years back? Why not all of all of it back to 1906?
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    Gear chioices for Alone TV show

    I really can't believe your complaining about a scripted reality TV show, where the point is to intentionally put poorly considered people in fake peril. The entire intent of the show is to make you watch it. That is its only purpose. Watching someone who knows what they are doing will not...

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