Hunting the Haul Road

[Cade2040]

I am looking into hunting the haul road this year, I haven’t decided a time of year to go yet. I am an Alaska resident and have hunted almost every type of animal up here except for caribou. I do a moose hunt 15 days in September so that’s out of the question . I was thinking mid August, is that a decent time to go? Any info is appreciated.

 

[Mojave]

They usually cast their antlers mid-late October, but this can be after Christmas just depends on the deer.

They taste like crap during the rut. Worse than any other deer, though I have had some rutty moose that were bad too. That's most of September and October.

I used to hunt out of Barrow, but it was all winter conditions on a snowgo. We generally only shot antlered stuff without antlers. As it was Feb-March. Been 30 years. I can't give you any specifics.

The meat cooks down to nothing. I never really figured it out. Natives just boil it like they do everything else.