Originally Posted by Valsdad
Originally Posted by fester
Originally Posted by MIKEWERNER
79S-

Went up your way for a DIY moose last year. Mid-September.

Flew out of Casper......Salt Lake City......Seattle.....Alaska. Kids dropped me off after the zone 7 elk hunt......a bit exhausting, packing some elk out, a couple miles back.

After arriving in Alaska.....we stopped at Wal-Mart for tent and sleeping bags before hunt. Impressed by plug-ins for campers. grin

Bought a 2 man $34 tent. Bud's bought good sleeping bags.......but my frugal instincts found a red one clearanced for $9.97. Swooped, oh yea.

Mistake.

We hunted close to TOK. PO'd a few residents pronouncing it tock, instead if Toke.

50 inch minimum.....saw 36 inchers dime a dozen.

Froze rear end off in cheap sleeping bag.

The walking was good.....til you dropped knee deep in muck.

Lots of rutting sign.

Walking, walking, walking........many creeks looked like flowing coffee.

The MRC LH .338 came home bore-clean.

Lovely wife picked me back up in Casper after hunt.......followed by another archery hunt Wyoming zone 7.

Would I go again? In a second.

Originally Posted by 79S
I’m still waiting on anyone else besides billygoat to take me hunting??




Sounds like fun!
My son lives up there. Fairbanks.
He got a caribou last year. We are planning a moose hunt. Lol off his back porch. Dang things
come right up into his back yard


Dang, that would be the perfect emergency food supply for when the SHTF.

I've got deer, quail, Eurasian doves, jays, antelope walk by on occasion, and a herd of cows wandered in last week or so.

But man, a moose in the back yard, how convenient would that be.


Yeah, no kidding. I was standing on his porch, which is 12’ off the ground and have had them come
up to it.

You always look for them as you go out the door. They are dangerous and will ruin your day.