Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska Want to try Adak this year

Anyone here ever make it down that way to hunt caribou? Anyone want to go? I'm thinking early August, like around the 1st or so that way I can be back to hunt the sheep opener.

Any idea as to cost per pound?

I'm working on getting a rough idea on costs now. Also, would like to find the phone # of the person(s) down there that rent four-wheelers.

Ideally, would like to go down there for 4 or 5 days and shoot 2 caribou.

4 wheelers would be the way to go.


Unit 10, Adak Island

Residents and non-residents

Bag limit: no limit;
no more than two bulls, AND no bulls may be taken between Jan 1-Aug 9

Season dates: no closed season

Hunt requires harvest ticket

I was on private contract with the United States during the Cold War and Adak was a fall back when things became too "strenuous" while stationed on the so-called "outer-islands". Aside from the prostitutes allowed on-island during the 1980's, the caribou hunting was fantastic. The caribou were ecologically introduced via the Feds and the State, back in the 1950's, to support the military. The caribou came from the Nelchina Basin and the hunting on Adak has been phenomenal since then. Bulls in excess of 360 B&C inches have been killed there (Adak Island).

Did they get in the way?

Damn caribou!

Jack Stewart or joe galaktionoff are the guys I would talk to about renting atvs or trucks. I dont have their numbers handy. A lot of the island is off limits to atvs I think, but there are a lot of roads too. I've only really been there in the winter and in summer, but never during the fall. In the winter the bou tend to be closer to town, in the fall they are further south. You can fly there easily on airline miles as long as AK airlines keeps flying the route. You can rent a house from Aleut enterprise pretty cheap with a freezer in the garage. Fly up with coolers of food and fly home with meat.

Googled Jack Stewart and found this

http://ngwphotography.blogspot.com/2010/05/adak-caribou-hunt-story-in-alaska.html

Going there to hunt Caribou is on my bucket list. My guess it would not be an inexpensive hunt. Hunting Lic and tags aside, travel to and from and transport while there, along with food and drink( Milk and such, maybe a beer or two) and housing of some sort, I like tent camping myself, and the other stuff you never think about. My guess 6 to 8 thousand from were I am in CT should cover the bill I would think. Give or take a few dollars.

Here's an article regarding hunting caribou on Adak Island.

http://www.fws.gov/alaska/nwr/akmar/visitors-educators/caribhunting/adak.htm

KC

$1200 round trip from ANC. Flights on Sundays and Thursdays.

Is this the banana belt of Alaska??

If you have an Alaska Airlines Visa credit card you can fly for free. I could fly for free from Denver to Adak using my credit card points.

KC

I can fly to Maui or to the east coast for less money than that, $1200 is ridiculous for an instate flight.

And there are better places to hunt caribou than Adak.

The times I've flown out there it was 15k airline miles round trip. A pretty cheap hunt I think. That said, I agree that there are places I'd much rather go to hunt caribou.

15k is a cheap ticket as AA miles can be purchased at $27/k so $405... Problems are many though and planes are often diverted, delayed, and just plain cancelled...

Just for having a card? That's awesome. I'm in!

Pretty close. You get 25K points just for signing up.

I'll look into it. Thanks!

The Ak card has gone downhill somewhat since we first got ours, we use to be able to fly first class for the price of 1 ticket plus $100. Too many people bitched about not being able to buy a first class ticket so they scratched that option about 2 years ago.

You can still get a companion fare for an extra $100 so it's still a good deal.

If you're not a member already Mike, join the Club 49, that way you get free bags and some other bennies only good for us Alaskans. We've been members since it's inception and just the free bags are worth it (it's free to join).