Kotzebue early September

[Stid2677]

Awesome!! Way to pull out the save. Be sure to say high to POTUS for me.

 

[TEmbry]

Congrats man, great bull! All these success pics are getting me fired up.

 

[krossh]

Nice bull! How was the experience with northern air? How was the experience over all? Lots of walking? Spotting?

 

[realunlucky]

Nice bull! How was the experience with northern air? How was the experience over all? Lots of walking? Spotting?

I'm planning to do a write up as soon as my buddies send me some photos. Yes I would fly with northern trophy air again. Not the most organized outfit but went out of thier way to help us out. Matty Owens is a great pilot. We did lots of walking but most groups tagged out closer to their air strip. I didn't talk with anyone that didn't tag out when they came in. We were one of the first groups that they flew out so others were just trickling back in. Pm me if you want and I'll send my number

 

[Shrek]

Congratulations ! Glad it came together at the end.

 

[AK Shane]

Be careful of NAT. My wife and I used them in 2013. They were constantly having plane trouble and overbooked their flights out. There was a father/daughter that waited a day and a half to get flown out and it was not weather related. Also they are fond of leaving people in the field. We called in on the SAT phone and everything was a go to be picked up on our pick up day. They sent in another outfitter (Ram Aviation) for our meat/antlers and flew them out 1st. NAT was supposed to be coming right behind to pick us up. We then packed up camp and hiked it 3/4 mile down to the new landing strip and waited and waited. NAT never showed up. We ended up being picked up by the same Ram Aviation pilot that took our meat because he saw us all packed up and waiting but heard over there radio that NAT was done flying for the day. NAT was never going to tell us that they were not coming. I would not recommend Northern Air Trophy. I have also heard similar bad experiences from some of there other hunters. Ram Aviation was a much better outfit and had their shit together. I would go with them if we go again.

I had a buddy who had an almost identical situation a few years ago only it was Ram that left them sitting on a river bank. Do a little research on Ram and their owner and you'd probably not be using their services again. There's much better options out of Kotz than Ram or NAT.