A few pics showing variety of animals and pack out methods in Alaska
The pics show two caribou packed in a snowmobile sled, a black tail deer in a backpack, and a small bull moose in a wheeled cart.
It can be tough to justify. Living in Alaska and having road access to a decent sheep spot, a sheep hunt costs me $200 and about a week off from work. I have a 30% chance of success in that location, and can expect about 50 lbs of packaged meat off a ram.
I typically do a road accessible...
I butcher all my own wild game, and make my own steaks, roasts, burger, sausage and jerky. When I first started, many years ago, I was too poor to pay someone to butcher my meat. I’m now too picky to allow someone else to cut my meat. The one time I took meat to a butcher, roughly 20 years...
Check the unit 14C harvest statistics on the Alaska Fish and Game website. Go to Hunting, Game Animals, Harvest Statistics, Advanced Harvest statistics, then look at the general harvest stats (not drawing or registration) for unit 14C. You can find the % of successful hunters and antler width...
I'm a big fan of the early season, when the deer are up high in goat country. A deer/goat combo hunt is a kick in the pants and produces some of the best eating meat around