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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #75 on: August 28, 2016, 09:48:23 PM »
Awesome write-up from an excellent hunt!
You guys did it right, other than the necessity of the rental car, it doesn't get any better!
Very cool solution for shipping your antlers back, adapt and overcome, right?
My teenager  and I flew out for a moose hunt last year and didn't score like you two did, very good planning and execution.
Congrats on a great graduation gift for the kiddo, having a son to hunt with truly is a gift to be cherished.
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #76 on: August 28, 2016, 11:04:22 PM »
Great story and photos, congratulations
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #77 on: August 28, 2016, 11:05:35 PM »
WOW...

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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #78 on: August 29, 2016, 10:24:51 AM »
Awesome write up of an awesome trip.

IMO, you were both very lucky to have the companions you did.

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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #79 on: August 29, 2016, 11:07:47 AM »
A dream come true.  Hope do this someday with my boys.

Great write-up by the way.

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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #80 on: August 29, 2016, 04:42:50 PM »
Thanks for the story and pictures! Good job! :tup:
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #81 on: August 29, 2016, 08:30:39 PM »
What kind of plane is the top photo taken out of?  The look like metal wings, I thought Super Cubs were fabric.  The bottom look like Super Cub cockpits

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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #82 on: August 30, 2016, 06:38:43 AM »
Not sure how I missed this til now. Congratulations to you and Jr. on a great hunt and great experience.  :tup:
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #83 on: August 30, 2016, 07:29:53 AM »
Great story
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #84 on: August 30, 2016, 07:54:12 AM »
What a great story to such a great hunt.

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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #85 on: August 30, 2016, 08:01:57 AM »
Great story, lots of good information in there for others thinking about doing a similar trip.

Thanks for posting with such detail.

Congrats to you and your son.
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #86 on: August 30, 2016, 08:17:15 AM »
Holy cow, Mark. What a trip. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for all the great info. Now I know what I want to do one of these days.
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #87 on: August 30, 2016, 09:13:08 AM »
What kind of plane is the top photo taken out of?  The look like metal wings, I thought Super Cubs were fabric.  The bottom look like Super Cub cockpits

We took two different planes to get to our area.  The first 60 minutes we did in a Cessna 206 (the white airplane) that seated 4 of us (3+ the pilot and our gear).  That flight landed on a semi-improved airstrip on the 40 Mile River.  There we unloaded gear and waited for the Supercubs (the yellow planes) to show up and ferry us, one at a time to our hunting areas.  The Cessnas were too large to land on the ridge that we were dropped on. 
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #88 on: August 30, 2016, 09:22:51 AM »
  The Cessnas were too large to land on the ridge that we were dropped on.

I've seen packs of gum bigger than what you described! :chuckle:
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Re: Pathfinder and PathfinderJRs Alaska Caribou Hunt
« Reply #89 on: August 30, 2016, 09:39:21 AM »
  The Cessnas were too large to land on the ridge that we were dropped on.

I've seen packs of gum bigger than what you described! :chuckle:

I have a video of PathfinderJR being brought in on the Supercub and landing on the ridge, but I can't get it from my phone to my computer.  I'll try to remember to do it when I get home so I can post it. 
I wish I had been filming when the pilot had to take 3 tries to land the day he picked up the meat from JR's caribou.  He had to try 3 different angles before he could catch enough headwind to stop.  Actually made contact with the ground the first two times and just bounced over the edge of the ridge and had to start flying again.  When he finally landed, he wasn't even able to use the long axis of the airstrip/ridge, he landed diagonally.  And we had a windflag set up. 
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