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Tell us what you like best in your home state.

Mike

Goats, closely followed by deer.

For me it's deer, moose okay, but still too warm for that much work, plus the bugs, does fill the freezer though keeps wife happy. Can hunt deer 5 months of the year, excellant eating, limit is 5 per year, just plain fun!

what I've hunted the most is moose,


what I've enjoyed/ cursed the misery of doing so most is Dalls Sheep


and while I've not hunted them for myself personally, I always enjoyed hunting bears for clients or friends. Just no other thrill like hunting another predator

truthfully I'd rather have a freezer full of moose than sheep though I and my family really enjoy sheep meat, and thanks to docdb we had a meal of it not too long ago.


but I need to start doing some deer hunting. it's time


also need to start doing some wolf hunting, though it's a pretty tough gig.

Sitka Blacktails for me. 5 tags, very long season, multiple ways to hunt them, and great eating.

SHEEP! But, any hunting is good hunting.

Don't know if I have a favorite but I enjoy hunting caribou for the shear number of animals. Not that I want to shoot my limit of 5, me and the Mrs would likely be sick of eating them by the time we got through 5, but that I'm always amazed by the wonders of mass migration. And the opportunity to cherry pick big bulls, if you're in the right place you will have ample opportunities to get a trophy specimen. We saw about 3500-4000 head on our hunt this fall and had great time looking all the bulls over trying to decide which ones we wanted.

Moose, caribou... When you see a big bull moose it's 5 minutes of pure excitement. Caribou same thing thekid said.

And then? What comes then? Hours of agony.



I want to be miserable for days, so its got to be Sheep.

Ptarmigan, off snowshoes. Tracking a flock a couple of miles in fresh snow is the best. More action than moose and less work.

Good stuff guys keep it coming!

Wondering if your location dictates or you all pretty much travel to the game regardless. Alaske being its own country figure everybody travels some.

Mike

You looking for a challenging hunt or a meat hunt? I rather get meats VS the chase or the trophy animals.

I live in Anchorage,(unfortunately), and travel all over the state to hunt. This year alone I hunted bears on Admiralty island in SE, caribou 60 miles south of the artic ocean, moose in the copper basin, and am headed to Afognak next week to deer hunt. I've also hunted the AK peninsula, PWS, and various areas of the interior. I figure that I don't have any kids yet and I moved here to hunt, so I go hunt as often and as varied as I can.

OH yeah! Beyond sheep, I can't make up my mind.--Alpine hunting of any kind - goats, caribou, moose is way up there. Poking thru the weeds for moose has become a favorite also- possibly thru evil necessity of time, locality, and $....

If the Gods favor, the sea ice will be thick enough for the caribou migration to cross over onto the Baldwin Peninsula in a couple-4 weeks. It's running slush ice now. Hopefully there will be some snow cover for the snow machine by then. Rolling tundra hills with willow lines/patches is good!

Meanwhile, Tripper Lab's surgery should be healed up lick free enough by Monday I think, so I'm going out looking for Baldwin strays mid-week on the ATV. The tundra is frozen enough to past "bogging", anyway.

It's all good - and I'm down to fish and chicken in the freezer.

It ain't the species hunted so much as the country?

I think you hit it on the head, even though I"m not Alaskan... its not the species hunted or fished... its the country!

Sheep for me. I think it has something to do with those corkscrew horns on their heads.

The best part of Alaska is the variety though... there is just so much to kill!

I also like the Bou just because you see so many and for their size they usually carry large antlers. They are good eating unless it's a winter hunt bull yuck!! I also like moose because they are giant but a lot of work to skin and quarter those beasts.

Not for me just curious about the locals.

Mike

That.

You can call them in all crazy and orange horned, run the beaches or flame them high up and 200 yards from a mountain goat.