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    What’s the best wild game meat?

    Musk ox is my favorite, with bison a very close second, followed by moose
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    Pack-out photos.

    And another backpack pic, since that’s my typical pack out method.
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    Pack-out photos.

    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.
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    How do you justify sheep hunting?

    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...
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    Butchering your own meat...

    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...
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    Moose in 14C?

    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...
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    17B and season dates... Responding to calls?

    After the 15th, the big bulls will already have their harems and only the satellite bulls, too small to compete, will respond.
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    17B and season dates... Responding to calls?

    This is the perfect time of the year to call. Both brush thrashing and cow calling should be effective
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    Kodiak early vs late

    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
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