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Was the Tennessee hunter found? I never heard that he was found. Winter ended the ability to function out in that country…
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Padded VA Hospital Rooms for $1000 Alex My ignoree,s will never be Rock Stars on 24 hr campfire.....Like me!!!! What are psychotic puppet hunters?
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The landscape is transformed to cement like - wind sculpted - snow. If his remains were someplace where the scavengers could get at it…there might be a remote chance of finding him that way…
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In the spring, rangers might find him by following wolverine tracks, I'm told.
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Considering they started looking for him on August 27th and knew where he went to pick up the Caribou meat he was going to pack in, it's doubtful Spring will yield any better results.
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I read one comment from the North Slope borough public information director that they didn't have permits to be hunting there. Anyone know more about this, did it affect the search?
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They didn't find him. I helped them out with Garmin Inreach problems a couple of times and prayed with them for finding him. It could be that he fell into a Peat pond. I hate to say it but I think he was murdered. The family put a lot of money into the search and found nothing. It is unlikely that he would not be recovered in the systematic grid pattern that they used and his proximity to the road with the resources that they put into his recovery. I know that it is Christmas and we wish peace on earth but there are bad people in the world.
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Not all those who wander are lost
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They didn't find him. I helped them out with Garmin Inreach problems a couple of times and prayed with them for finding him. It could be that he fell into a Peat pond. I hate to say it but I think he was murdered. The family put a lot of money into the search and found nothing. It is unlikely that he would not be recovered in the systematic grid pattern that they used and his proximity to the road with the resources that they put into his recovery. I know that it is Christmas and we wish peace on earth but there are bad people in the world. Hunting buddy, or other hunting party?
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All kinds of his family from Tennessee and a bunch of people from his church and people from the same church up here. They had their inreaches all screwed up so I had them synched with one master on a Garmin 66i from his brother. I gave them kind of a general grid pattern from where he was last seen and they didn't find anything.
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we had something like that here a year or to diver went missing with in laws on the boat . not found
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I have always thought if someone just disappears in an area like this hunter did, most likely he busted through the muskeg, peat, etc. No telling how deep the water could be underneath. If the shock of the cold water didn’t kill him, it would be easy to drown if unable to bust his way thru the muskeg trying to get out of it.
Once under the muskeg and in the water, no scent or thermal image.
My biggest fear is when I die my wife will sell my guns for what I told her they cost.
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I have always thought if someone just disappears in an area like this hunter did, most likely he busted through the muskeg, peat, etc. No telling how deep the water could be underneath. If the shock of the cold water didn’t kill him, it would be easy to drown if unable to bust his way thru the muskeg trying to get out of it.
Once under the muskeg and in the water, no scent or thermal image. We have a winner. same as my conclusion.
ALASKA is a "HARD COUNTRY for OLDMEN". (But if you live it wide'ass open, balls'to the wall, the pedal floored, full throttle, it is a delightful place, to finally just sit-back and savor those memories while sipping Tequila).
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I have always thought if someone just disappears in an area like this hunter did, most likely he busted through the muskeg, peat, etc. No telling how deep the water could be underneath. If the shock of the cold water didn’t kill him, it would be easy to drown if unable to bust his way thru the muskeg trying to get out of it.
Once under the muskeg and in the water, no scent or thermal image. We have a winner. same as my conclusion. Yeah except for the fact that it is frozen under the tundra that far north…
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I have always thought if someone just disappears in an area like this hunter did, most likely he busted through the muskeg, peat, etc. No telling how deep the water could be underneath. If the shock of the cold water didn’t kill him, it would be easy to drown if unable to bust his way thru the muskeg trying to get out of it.
Once under the muskeg and in the water, no scent or thermal image. We have a winner. same as my conclusion. Yeah except for the fact that it is frozen under the tundra that far north… Uh, nope. Not that late in the year. Lots of thawed patches, drainages, sinkholes. Lots of ways to lose yourself.
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I have always thought if someone just disappears in an area like this hunter did, most likely he busted through the muskeg, peat, etc. No telling how deep the water could be underneath. If the shock of the cold water didn’t kill him, it would be easy to drown if unable to bust his way thru the muskeg trying to get out of it.
Once under the muskeg and in the water, no scent or thermal image. We have a winner. same as my conclusion. Yeah except for the fact that it is frozen under the tundra that far north… Serious ? Frozen in August? Just asking.
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I have always thought if someone just disappears in an area like this hunter did, most likely he busted through the muskeg, peat, etc. No telling how deep the water could be underneath. If the shock of the cold water didn’t kill him, it would be easy to drown if unable to bust his way thru the muskeg trying to get out of it.
Once under the muskeg and in the water, no scent or thermal image. We have a winner. same as my conclusion. Yeah except for the fact that it is frozen under the tundra that far north… Serious ? Frozen in August? Just asking. Here is a link to pingos https://www.britannica.com/science/pingoThe aerial views give you some idea of the amount of flowing water on the tundra.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Native hunters used pingos as lookouts and often lost artifacts on them.
Over time they get too big or lose a bunch of topsoil for some reason and the ice underneath starts melting. There are a number of collapsed pingos along the Denali Highway. Especially near the McLaren. They are pretty far south as pingos go.
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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I have always thought if someone just disappears in an area like this hunter did, most likely he busted through the muskeg, peat, etc. No telling how deep the water could be underneath. If the shock of the cold water didn’t kill him, it would be easy to drown if unable to bust his way thru the muskeg trying to get out of it.
Once under the muskeg and in the water, no scent or thermal image. We have a winner. same as my conclusion. Yeah except for the fact that it is frozen under the tundra that far north… Serious ? Frozen in August? Just asking. Here is a link to pingos https://www.britannica.com/science/pingoThe aerial views give you some idea of the amount of flowing water on the tundra. Thank you, never heard of a pingo. Dangerous to say the least.
"Aim right, squeeze light"
" Might as well hit what you're aiming at, it kicks the same whether you miss or not"
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"Serious ? Frozen in August? Just asking."
Permafrost is pretty self explanitory - it can go down more than 1,000 feet, possibly much more.
At my remote cabin in Interior, hundreds of miles farther south than the missing hunter, , I can go to the bog 100 yards out back, dig through 8-10 inches or so of moss, and the ground is frozen, any time in the year. I have put fish there, covered them back up, and they keep indefinately, semi-frozen, with ice crystals in the flesh. Good beer cooler too, back in the day.
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