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Rifle cases and fish totes/coolers tend to get priority over regular luggage, so the ammo is safer traveling with the rifle. The downside is those rogue agents who will separate/confiscate ammo when packed with the rifle. And then there are the regs imposed by individual airlines sometimes. (Print out and carry hard-copy black and whites of the regulations.)

I appreciate the comments and opinions from those who are there, been there and who know.

I've read that native people kill the polar bear with .222's, etc.

If I'm gonna pay big bucks to go after BG in AK, I'll take the .375 H&H posted earlier. It's powerful enough for anything up there, I can shoot it well and it packs well. Having enough gun is just one variable I won't be bothered with, plenty of other stuff to be thinking about. I'd probably be using 250 TTSX's with RL-15. That load performs. The right bullets in my '06, 7RM or .300 WM would no doubt do the job. I just choose to use the .375...

DF

I have had hunters arrive missing one bag... rifle case made it, but bolts were in the missing bag. "Logic" being no one would steal a rifle with a missing bolt...

Ammo goes with the guns... always...

This stories are somewhat iffy. All depends on where the bear was hit. I have heard that a shot through the temple or close to the front of the ear will put any bear down, but I have no idea if it's true.

Sucks to arrive with guns and no f’n hip boots when you’re hunting where you expect to wear them daily...

At least a month before you go, ship a box of fifly to your contact in Alaska....make sure they have received them before you go....take that .338-06 and have a ball. Yes, it'll cost a bit to send them UPS but that way you know they got there.

Find a used M-70 on gunbroker for under $500 and add a barrel for under another $500.....you're well within your budget.

Apparently you've never shipped ammo to Alaska before.

UPS will only ship ammo UPS ground. That means lower 48, and within the states of AK and HI, not between the two. The only reasonable way to ship ammo to AK is to have it barged up via ocean.

Exactly...

... and you need a new barrel because you need that kind of accuracy for moose...

NOT!

you need a new barrel because the gun you bought does not have a .338-06 barrel

You ship the ammo a month in advance because it takes a long time to get it there.

The last time I shipped ammo kind of stuff by barge, I received.......after waiting 4-5 months, an empty cardboard shell of a box with a few lead BBs still rattling around inside. Made me happy that I only had to wait another year to have another barge order shipped.

You can get ammo shipped as fast as you need it, you just need to be willing to think outside the box.

Tis true. Legal, fast ways are somewhat expensive however. Felony shipping troubles are a rather high price to contemplate....and that's not improving by the day.

well I guess the fall of 2019 I will be headed to Alaska for month about ,my friend`s relatives that are full time Alaskan resident and kill plenty moose,bear ,caribou,wolves and some sheep prefer to use a 7 mm remington mag with160 grain partitions mostly,they want me to carry the same cartridge which I agreed too and purchased a Sako finnbear 7 mm rem. mag. the gun is like new and about 50 years old,which I am very happy with ,these older Sako`s are some of the finest bolt actions made like the pre -64 Winchester model 70`s were. I still prefer the 338 win.mag but will do as they have lightly asked me to do,use a 7 mag.

Just curious, what was their reason? So you carry the exact same as they do?

You won't go wrong with a 7mm Magnum. Lots of hunters use that caliber in Alaska.

reason we are a long ways out and if someone in our party needs ammo ,its sure easier to all have the same ammo at camp,there will be no Walmart out on the tundra.

Ray ,these moose hunters say the 7 mag. works super on moose and I like all calibers anyway.thanks,Pete53

Good lord someone is a bit on the anal side RE the same ammo. I have never been in a camp where we've all had the same. Actaully come to think of it have not been in a camp that there were TWO of the same calibers, save maybe pistol ammo or 22 or shotgun.

I've yet to have a shortage of ammo.

Nothing wrong with the 7 mag though and nice to do what they ask.

Jeff

no reason for me to argue with the free guide service in their camp in Alaska using their plane and boat, hell I will leave my ammo with them anyway,and bring them each a knife too. when I have a hunting partner or my son with we always try to use the same ammo, my father taught me that too ,including arrows on our elk hunts in the mountains,i have plenty rifles and if not I can just buy more,as I did for this future trip ,its just fun buying more nice rifles. and to top it off an old friend sold me that sweet old Sako finnbear that`s 50 years old ,when some of the finest Sako rifles were made.

Keep in mind that both the OP of this thread as well as Pete53 are coming to Alaska to hunt moose, and most of the responses have been from people who live and hunt in Alaska. Unlike Texas, a lot of Alaska hunters, including guided ones, hunt in very remote areas with no road access. In some isolated place it is always an advantage to have other hunters at the campsite (or campsites nearby), using the same ammo you use. That said, that does not necessarily apply to Alaska hunters, just to visiting hunters.

And I don't disagree with you when saying that not everyone at the campsite uses the same ammo, but in the areas I hunt near Fairbanks, should I have some troubles with my ammo, I would not have to travel home to buy some.