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Nice work!! Looks like a fun trip, caribou is damn good grub too
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Nice work!! Looks like a fun trip, caribou is damn good grub too Always a good time when your out hunting and camping with your kid! My family likes caribou better than moose so we cross all fingers and toes for a tag every year! Haha! Gonna hammer some backstraps and heart tomorrow. Had to cancel it for tonight as momma had a ladies bday dinner to go to. She didn’t want to miss out!
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Congrats...thanks for sharing the hunt. Great pictures.
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From a ga boy knowing zero about caribou... are tags for bulls only?
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From a ga boy knowing zero about caribou... are tags for bulls only? Depends on the hunt and the strength of the herd. This year my hunt was to be bulls only at first, but after the summer herd census they allowed for either sex.
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Nice work!! Looks like a fun trip, caribou is damn good grub too Always a good time when your out hunting and camping with your kid! My family likes caribou better than moose so we cross all fingers and toes for a tag every year! Haha! Gonna hammer some backstraps and heart tomorrow. Had to cancel it for tonight as momma had a ladies bday dinner to go to. She didn’t want to miss out! What tag do I apply for?? 🤣🤣🤣 Miss the days when my boy was little, but he just gave me a grandson on the 2nd, so it starts all over again!!
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From a ga boy knowing zero about caribou... are tags for bulls only? Depends on the hunt and the strength of the herd. This year my hunt was to be bulls only at first, but after the summer herd census they allowed for either sex. And other factors.. such as which herd/location/GMU. Varies. Wife and I hunted 40 mile herd this year, off the Steese Hwy north of Fairbanks. One either-sex registration permit each. Those August bulls are prime! A bit of a circus, at least the first day. Season is closed by emergency order when quota is reached. This year, 5 days. I took a fair bull day one, wife same on day 2 - then we had to haul ass for home before the meat spoiled- 700 miles . Temps were in 60's up there, 70's near home, 50's at night. Meat was just about rightly aged (4 days, including kill day) when we processed - mine first, one day, hers the next - tho it's better longer and cooler. About 38 degrees and 10 days is good! But we don't have a controlled temp meat place. Am considering a couple big coolers and ice, if there is a next time. Less hurried trip that way - I was thinking just yesterday I maybe should have left a snowmachine with friends in Kotzebue when we left last year. Come November, I could camp on their floor, and weather permitting, go out and whack up to 5 cow caribou per day.... tho 3 would suffice, one day only. I'd be all done.... Bull season is closed there from Oct 15 to Feb 1- Rut/Eskimo preference - incorporated into regs, big rutty bulls are referred to as "stink-bulls" -and inedible, tho bulls are again edible, tho fat-less, by Nov 10 or so. Not as good eating as all those pregnant cows. But there are lots.....:) Good hunt P!
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OK, I'll be the dumb one and ask.
Is the 40Mi herd named for being 40Mi from some town/trailhead or did someone see the herd from the top of some hill way back and decide that the migrating herd was 40Mi long?
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OK, I'll be the dumb one and ask.
Is the 40Mi herd named for being 40Mi from some town/trailhead or did someone see the herd from the top of some hill way back and decide that the migrating herd was 40Mi long? Fortymile is a river in NE AK and the Yukon, named during the gold rush.
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thanks for that post & pics cool to see places I will never see other wise
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OK, I'll be the dumb one and ask.
Is the 40Mi herd named for being 40Mi from some town/trailhead or did someone see the herd from the top of some hill way back and decide that the migrating herd was 40Mi long? Fortymile is a river in NE AK and the Yukon, named during the gold rush. from Wikipedia: History[edit] Prospectors named the river after gold was discovered there in 1886. The name reflected the distance of the river mouth from Fort Reliance, a former Hudson's Bay Company post upstream along the Yukon River.[3] Miners eventually extracted more than a half-million ounces of gold from the Fortymile watershed.[5] After the gold discovery, two Alaska Commercial Company traders, Jack McQuesten and Arthur Harper, built a post at the mouth of the river.
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OK, I'll be the dumb one and ask.
Is the 40Mi herd named for being 40Mi from some town/trailhead or did someone see the herd from the top of some hill way back and decide that the migrating herd was 40Mi long? Fortymile is a river in NE AK and the Yukon, named during the gold rush. from Wikipedia: History[edit] Prospectors named the river after gold was discovered there in 1886. The name reflected the distance of the river mouth from Fort Reliance, a former Hudson's Bay Company post upstream along the Yukon River.[3] Miners eventually extracted more than a half-million ounces of gold from the Fortymile watershed.[5] After the gold discovery, two Alaska Commercial Company traders, Jack McQuesten and Arthur Harper, built a post at the mouth of the river. Lots of this kind of naming went on... 20Mile River near Girdwood was named so because it is 20 miles from Sunrise, formerly a large mining town near Hope. Anchorage did not exist then...
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