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Time to get into WA versus AK
« on: February 08, 2008, 12:11:48 AM »
Now my favorite animals, after this I guess I'll hang my Alaskan hat up and start wearing the Hunt WA hat..  As my wife suggests, and start seeing what is out there in this state, at least for the next 5-6 years..
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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2008, 12:15:57 AM »
Now my second favorite Animal

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2008, 12:21:51 AM »
Last but not least, my favorite and yet to get......the NUMBER #1 animal on quest list....
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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2008, 06:07:01 AM »
Ok I am ready to go caribou hunting now. Do you ever just want to go over there and pull their tail to see how they react?
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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2008, 06:17:25 AM »
I really could do Alaska, but your season is so short to put some of the best hunting and fishing in.  I guess you could trap though and exted your season into the winter.  Somehow spending the winter chasing wolves and wolverines and Lynx, just seems like it could be fun.

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #5 on: February 08, 2008, 07:27:56 AM »
That why, alot of folks when they first get there try to do it all in one very short season and find out they can't, I finally came to that conclussion after about three years of learning the hard way.  Then it was concentration on one animal (species) at a time, maybe a second... Then the season would be over.

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #6 on: February 08, 2008, 08:30:13 AM »
I can't believe moose wasn't on that list. 

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2008, 08:37:14 AM »
Damnit cohoho yer getting me fired up...just about to send a check up to Fairbanks for this Junes Bush Flight from Arctic Vill to where ever the "bou are.

Got some good pics (no not digital sorry) of a young Musk Ox bull couple trips back.  If I hadn't climbed up the river bank to rest when I did he and me woulda met head on 15 feet apart seconds later as he came around a blind corner.  When my sweat-deet filled eyes cleared and I realized that big brown blur wasn't a bear I laughed. He stared at me a bit before slowly walking off.  Stomping the **** outta every bush and branch along the way looking back to make sure I could see his display. He found a bunch of debris across the river and made a big show of stomping and throwing it around with his horns while shooting looks my way.  

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2008, 08:54:30 AM »
How do those ox jump over that pipeline?  They obviously can't craw underneath it. :o

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2008, 09:16:08 AM »
They have these game cat walks where the animals can cross over. But those areas are within the 5 mile coridor and you can't just shoot them as they come across!! :chuckle:
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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2008, 10:07:53 AM »
Cohoho,
I sure miss it up there. It seemed like you could hunt almost all year. I lived on Kodiak so I would start with deer,then goat,bear and then hunt fox  and ducks during the winter and take a couple months break and then right into spring bear. Of course then I had to toss in some fishing. Ok,I lied. I did a lot of fishing. That place is awesome!!!!!!!!Good luck comparing the two as there is no comparison.

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2008, 10:10:01 AM »
Um, this is a no brainer.  I would spend every living day of the sheep season hunting Dalls for the price of an the resident tag.  That would be unbelievable.  Every year kill a big Dall?  I would post them on here and make everyone jelous.

I've been trying to get my wife to move up just over the border to BC and I could work in Bellingham or somthing.  Do you know you can buy sheep tags at the corner store and go kill a huge ram up there?  Hey Bone, you can just go to Wal-mart and pick up a moose tag for probably $30 and go hunt them that afternoon!  Goats?  Just go buy the tag.  Premium areas are draw only, but did you know most of the draws are not that hard to draw.  If I didn't have a wife, I would probably be there already...

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2008, 10:19:06 AM »
I tried to get my wife to go to AK...she started looking at the cost of keeping horses and decided no way!  now look...we're paying through the nose anyway...and i'm no closer to great hunting  :'(

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2008, 02:15:55 PM »
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How do those ox jump over that pipeline?  They obviously can't craw underneath it.

What most people don't know is that musk ox are really only 150-175lbs, all that fur just makes them look bigger.  They're great jumpers. :chuckle:

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Re: Time to get into WA versus AK
« Reply #14 on: February 08, 2008, 04:06:07 PM »
WTF same with my wife.  Got her up there for one week in the summer for fishing, and she hated every minute of it.  No way period would she go back.

 


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