Creedmoor for Brown Bear Hunt

[jjohnsonElknewbie]

FWIW (probably not much) from what I've seen on Alaska TV shows, it seems that mil surp items are very popular and available. Old open sight Mosin Nagants, ARs, AKs, and SKS, seem to be very normal for natives/residents. Mossberg 500 and Rem 870 also seem to be popular which makes sense. Since everything seems to be quite expensive up there, I assume "premium" ammo for said rifles is also ridiculously expensive, true?

 

[thinhorn_AK]

Yeah you’re right. There’s a gun shop on the corner of every native Alaskan village. Right next to the McDonalds and in the same strip mall as the Bass Pro Shops where they can get all the ammo they want.

Gimme a break. Big, small or whatever. They use what they have access to in their family. If that happens to be .223 or 7.62x39 and a rickety mil surp AK 47, that’s what they use. My point is, they don’t hunt with gun A or gun B because of ballistic advantages. And I will certainly agree with you that the tactics at play (spray and pray) are far more troublesome than cartridge choice, but coincidentally .223 and 7.62x39 tends to go hand in hand with such tactics.

You’ll be shocked to learn that even those natives (that you know so much about) often go into bigger towns for medical, family and shopping trips. This isn’t the 1800s. On any given day, people come and go from villages all over the state.

 

[thinhorn_AK]

FWIW (probably not much) from what I've seen on Alaska TV shows, it seems that mil surp items are very popular and available. Old open sight Mosin Nagants, ARs, AKs, and SKS, seem to be very normal for natives/residents. Mossberg 500 and Rem 870 also seem to be popular which makes sense. Since everything seems to be quite expensive up there, I assume "premium" ammo for said rifles is also ridiculously expensive, true?

The only military surplus firearms I’ve seen in Alaska were:
-on TV
-in gun shops
-part of large collections

It’s not like many guys are out there with a mossn nagant and I’ve never seen an sks in person (here)

I’m out of this thread, watching people who have never been to Alaska talking about what “natives” do is extremely lame.