william schmaltz
WKR
Welp, we gave it a shot. Ordered ammo based off some recommendations here (thanks) and picked it up in L48 few weeks ago. Got all sighted in and went west last Sunday. It was -10F when I landed. Wind blew for two days and air temp hit -13 Tuesday morning. We spent all Tuesday morning digging and thawing out the plane and building a runway to go see if we could locate any bears or wolves. Five hours of flying and not a single bear or bear track spotted. Weather must’ve scared em back in. Fine line of needing it nice enough to get animals out and cold enough to maintain snow. Found a pack of 10 wolves and had plans to chase them, but the next 3 days brought ground blizzards with gusts up to 50 mph. We will give the 77TMK brown bear run another shot next year!Where are people getting loaded ammo from? Anything in AK? I’ll be headed to L48 in a couple weeks so I can ship to where I’m going and fly home with it too if anywhere has it ready to ship.
Headed out west wolf hunting in April on snow machine. Talked to my hunting buddy last night and he already saw bear tracks while flying this weekend. Don’t want to carry two rifles and plan to bring an AR w/ a 16” 1:8 for our primary target. If I can find some pills, I’ll test this theory on Brown Bears inside 300 yds if the opportunity arises. But I do not load and will be too busy to learn to load my own in the given time, so does anyone have an easy button?