craig Holland
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This is correct.
also you can hunt grizzly or caribou along side sheep. Bring a grizzly locking tag with harvest tickets for sheep and caribou.
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This is correct.
also you can hunt grizzly or caribou along side sheep. Bring a grizzly locking tag with harvest tickets for sheep and caribou.
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I never said anything about incorrect population data.Can you please point me to this population data that incorrect? There is 50% fewer sheep in Alaska today than there was 15 years ago. Wer'e killing half as many sheep as we did 15 years ago, and the trend isn't going to change anytime soon.
I don’t think it’s possible with Alaska having such huge problems with their population and Canada having to absorb all the pressure
I really wanted to make a run on a slam, but with a stone sheep being a impossible task now days, especially for anything with 10-14 rings ( mature ram)
It’s now easier to get multiple desert bighorn and bighorn then a single stone,
And I wouldn’t trust a single sheep operator in Alaska now for a Dall
Might be a wild goose chase
OutfitterNot sure what a sheep operator is but if you're saying not a single AK sheep outfitter is worth trusting that's a pretty strong statement.
LOL. What service provider on the planet pays interest on a deposit, and of course it's non refundable, that's the whole friggin' point of a deposit?Outfitter
Yep truth hurts, but most want a decent amount of money for a deposit that is now none interest bearing and none refundable
Your friend had problems you can't fix with $50k.If I had a profession where I could manage it, I would just move to the Yukon or NWT.
LIving in Alaska, would work if you could live in a village that had subsistence hunting for sheep in the unit.
Liv ing in Alaska and not having the money or time to get out and hunt. sheep every year would be a waste of living there.
I tend not to think in circles of any hunt being the thing I wrap around my life. Odds are pretty high these days to go home without a sheep. Happened a lot during the 2023 stone and Dall seasons in Canada and Alaska. I don't know how 2024 worked out.
If you are lucky you will live through hundreds or thousands of hunting scenarios. To define your life at 5-12 days one August doesn't interest me.
Should you blow $350,000 on a slam? Or $35,000 on a Dall hunt? Yes, if it does nothing to your financial bottom line.
I knew a guy that won $50,000 in the early 1990's and went to Tanzania and killed everything in the Masailand area. 15-20 species. Got divorced, lost his house, eventually lost his job and ended up in poverty. That $50,000 would have changed his life today.
Do as much as you can do, but!
Be careful with what you do.
Can you please point me to this population data that incorrect? There is 50% fewer sheep in Alaska today than there was 15 years ago. Wer'e killing half as many sheep as we did 15 years ago, and the trend isn't going to change anytime soon.
The NR success rate is 30-40% less than it was 15 yaers ago and only half as many are coming. Many outfitters are booking less becaues they don't have rams to shoot.
Are there still sheep to shoot? Yep, can you still kill one? Yep Is the sheep hunting still "good?" That depends on who you ask. The hunting is a shell of what it used to be. Hunt'em until they're gone. No reason not to at this point. No one else is letting off the gas, I'm not going to either.
Trying to dissuade NR? Thats funny, considering most outfitters are booked years out.
The Dall population in Canada has also fallen off a cliff. 50% less sheep there too according the the most recent data.
big time and i do not think i will look for nwt sheep and work ... those are too far ... we did almost 2 decades and never regretted it but it is not for everybody ....If I had a profession where I could manage it, I would just move to the Yukon or NWT.
LIving in Alaska, would work if you could live in a village that had subsistence hunting for sheep in the unit.
Liv ing in Alaska and not having the money or time to get out and hunt. sheep every year would be a waste of living there.
big time and i do not think i will look for nwt sheep and work ... those are too far ... we did almost 2 decades and never regretted it but it is not for everybody ..
well summed up. i lived and worked in northern quebec and since there is not anymore the caribou the attraction will be least but great fishing.Road Alaska and Yukon is like living in Wyoming, Montana or Idaho, Other than length of season and the costs and availability of things. Not 100% but I never felt like road Alaska was hard, lived in Anchorage and Fairbanks and Sitka. Sitka was more of a challenge, but you just wait longer to get things and it cost more and the doctor is more of a pain in the ass. Sitka is considered to be road-light as it is on the marine highway.
Barrow was only slightly harder, as there were multiple daily flights to Fairbanks and Anchorage. Weather sucked way worse. I think the other hubs are similar, never been to them.
Real bush Alaska, Yukon and NWT, Quebec whatever is freaking hard.
The biggest challenge between Road Alaska and the Wyoming, Montana Idaho problem is that you need the equipment to get you to the wilderness. Or you need to be fit and back pack in. In Wyoming, Montana or Idaho it isn't a show stopper if you don't have horses, or a four wheeler or side by side. In Alaska road Alaska your OTC tag is a hell of a lot harder without an airboat or super cub.
The road communities that have subsistence tags for sheep and goats are clutch. Not all of them are equal, but they are awesome. Not sure of the current situation, bug Glennallen was fully living the dream on tags back when I lived in Barrow.
I would assume there is some overlap on the Yukon and NWT.
You might look carefully at the hunts that are backpack hunts. Those are tougher physically and might reduce the other folks driving up price. Get on some cancellation lists with outfitters. Good luck.Am I unrealistic in trying to find a dall sheep hunt for under 25k with a decent outfitter?
Cancellation hunts, have $15,000 ready to dump in July and be sheep fit. You might it for more $8000-22,000 the week before the hunt.You might look carefully at the hunts that are backpack hunts. Those are tougher physically and might reduce the other folks driving up price. Get on some cancellation lists with outfitters. Good luck.