Time to get into WA versus AK

[cohoho]

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..

[cohoho]

Now my second favorite Animal

[cohoho]

Last but not least, my favorite and yet to get......the NUMBER #1 animal on quest list....

[Skyvalhunter]

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?

[boneaddict]

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.

[cohoho]

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.

[boneaddict]

I can't believe moose wasn't on that list. 

[MikeWalking]

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.  

[boneaddict]

How do those ox jump over that pipeline?  They obviously can't craw underneath it.

[Skyvalhunter]

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!!

[washingtonmuley]

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.

[popeshawnpaul]

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...

Shawn

[WAcoyotehunter]

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 

[MikeWalking]

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.

[dbllunger]

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.

[big game hunter]

thats great

[cohoho]

Premimum areas are extremely hard to draw, Chugach sheep areas, about a three percent chance of getting drawn, goat areas other than Kodiak are very slim percentages also, under 5%.  and consider that most general harvest sheep and goat areas are hit extremly hard by guides, locals etc...  Unless you got a plane or the willing ness and ability to hike in twenty plus miles each way and to do your own scouting it is tough, cause alot of the outfitter (air Taxis) will drop you off where everyone else is..  Everything is slowly going to draw, even Moose, wouldn't be surpirsed in a couple years that Non-Residents are required to have a Moose guide, they have been discussed for awhile now...  Guides are lobbing hard for that, of course....  All tags for a resident  (harvest Tickets) are merely nothing as in costs about fifty bucks for all tickets.  A brown bear tag (only in certain areas) $25..alot are open to general harvest, one or two areas that you can legally take two Brown Bears, but when you look up those taking two it is really a slim group, due to the remoteness and lack of accesibility for those two areas.  Bison is about 1% chance of getting drawn, Muskoxen now is limited to two areas and NOT along the haul road.  Also the Pipeline is really high off the ground (8-10 feet) in most areas, and some buried in other areas.  Anything north of the Yukon river can't be shoot within five miles of the road unless with a bow, of course there are exceptions, trappers and natives...  The animals don't seem affected by it as the Greenies would want you to believe. I belive the coordior is the right thing to do, if not it would be a blood bath for Caribou then they would be gone....  I have never have seen anyone else out the distance, ever, out past the cooridor... As with any where else, there are alot of A-Holes running around shooting anything, especially along the road and up in Chicken Alaska, this is a fine example of a situation that is out of control, ATV's and shooting everywhere and everything moving dies...

[ICEMAN]

........  If I didn't have a wife, I would probably be there already...Shawn

Uh...didn't think I would have to remind you....(since you are one)......but.....Isn't that what lawyers are for??? Taking care of the wife problem.....?