Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska The 60-inch Club (in the Fairbanks News Miner)

For your reading pleasure, here is the 60-Inch Club. It is comprised of Alaska hunters, most from the interior of Alaska, and their moose hunting success stories this year (2017). Enjoy:
http://www.newsminer.com/features/o...bc81dbc-b05d-11e7-82fb-03b76e7dd763.html

thanks Ray

Yes, thanks for the link. Some big boys.

Didn't put my bull in the paper but I am sure happy with it. After three years in AK I finally got serious about moose hunting and it payed off well. 61" is much better than I expected for my first moose! Also was blessed with a good caribou a few days later.

congrats! two very good animals

that first pic, sure doesn't seem like much water flowing under that Woolridge.

I was wondering where u were ....ain't seen ya around after randy u an I knocked some beers down !

A couple of VERY nice animals!

Randy, I wonder if the water flow is a clue that they're stuck on that bar?

Ed

Ed I only mentioned it cause I’ve seen that scenario up close and personal

I don't get over here to the 24hcf much until the sun heads South so it's been a spell since I've been on. Trying to hold down a job between the weekends is rough when theres so much fun to be had in the bush.

Thanks for the kind words fellas!

That Wooly wasn't really what I'd consider as stuck, more like slightly delayed. Three big guys and a moose in the boat and my not so expert boat driving got us to that point, but didn't take too long to get her back to a channel.

One time last year on the Tanana I managed to take it to where there wasn't any water flowing under the boat. Took the better part of three hours to float it that time. That was stuck.

Lol I much prefer slightly delayed over stuck

And yes I know the difference

Happy 4 u highcountry. Looks like a great time

I heard a story a long time back about a couple-three guys that got their boat stuck, I believe on the Koyukuk.

They found this nice big oxbow that went back a couple miles from the main river, blocked from the river by a beaver dam. The portaged everything over, come-alonged- the boat over, and had a successful hunt, repeating the operation over the dam on the way out.

Deciding there was an easier way to get into the oxbow than what they had first done, they cut some brush and made a ramp/slide where they could jump the boat over the dam without unloading.

I believe that was successful for a year or two, but at some point, they jumped the boat over the dam into a dry oxbow. OOPS!

Looks like the 30-06 and 300 mag are the top choice but all of them good from 308 to 375.

Seems like that is always the case with Jet Boats or 4 wheel drive if you get stuck you are really stuck.

Actually the worst, IMHO, is my airboat. Stick it, and its stuck... and the only typical thing that frees it is another airboat... LOL. But by then we are on dry ground a good ways to boot generally speakign.

Water that the jet boat is sitting in is childs play for an airboat. LOL.

I"m MUCH more careful where I try to go with an airboat these days.

The .30-06, .300WM, and .338WM are the most popular with big game hunters in Alaska. The 7mm Magnum is next, and then the .375H&H, specially by the coastline of Alaska because of the big bears.

Thanks! It was an amazing trip!