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If you own even one "sucks," you're good to go!

+1.

Also, make sure everything you leave at home is packed up and in storage. It'll be easier for whomever has to ship it to you when you never go back. Seriously.

Hey, Dennis!

How are things in Ketch? Hope the waters are smooth and the sun out at least some of the time

Do you get to hear from George much?

Looks like a Paradise trip might be planned for May 1 next spring. Would like to have a day there if it was in the cards...

Take care,
Mark

That was you?


Bastid!

Hey Bender,

In that pic there's lots of room on the right to pass that rig!

I wish I could make the trip again this year, but not gonna happen. Summer of 2014 might be a go and I'll be sure to let you two know ... gotta try some of that microbrew you're tappin' ... maybe some roadkill steaks, too! Enjoy your summer guys!

Fixed that for you.

Bob

cwh2,


Great thread, LMAO!

Here's another one:
- no, we don't have any, the Polar Bears don't eat them because they live in Antarctica!

Friday cheers,

Bob

this seemed an appropriate place to ask.....

Looking through the hunting regs for last year, the following items are available (somewhere....) in the months of June-August:

black bear - spring hunting in June
carribou - I think these were available in limited units in late Aug
and mountain goat - I think these were available in limited units in late Aug


I've never eaten any of the 3, and dont know anyone who has.

Which is the best eating, if taken during the above seasons. If you locals are guffawing at my ignorance, please know that I'm not being sarcastic, I'm really just genuinely ignorant. As I mentioned earlier.... we dont have alot of carribou, bear, or mountain goats here in North Texas... (which is why I'm coming to your state, and you're probably not coming to mine...at least, not in the summer!)

I expect to do a TON of fishing, but it would seem a tragedy to me to spend that much time in AK and never do any hunting, so I'm trying to work ONE hunting trip into the summer of 2017 vacation plan.

Please advise,

shane

I have not shot a black bear that late in the year, if I did it would probably be for rug only. Black bear will make good chili and sausage if you add pork fat to the chili and ground pork shoulder to the sausage. Haven't shot a goat or boo yet, but they should be fine, I would think, if ya take real good care of the meat. I make proper chili by the way, NO BEANS! Yea I am a Texas boy, grew up in Ft. Worth and lived in Quanah for a couple years before making the move. I head back to Quanah every Nov and hunt a ranch a buddy manages.

Practice skinning and quartering deer ON THE GROUND. Ya won't be able to throw em in da truck and do it in the back yard or garage. Things are done a WHOLE LOT DIFFERENT around here. Trust me on this one Bubba, the last thing I do when dressing out a deer is gut it, kind of. I make just enough room to get to the loins, heart, and if I feel like it the liver.

Goat will require a guide if you are not a resident. That's this part of the FAQ:

"Sheep, Goat, Brown/Grizzly Bear. You are good on Caribou and Moose. Of course it doesn't make sense."

.... unless you have a relative within second degree of kindred that is an Alaska resident.

That's this part:
"Father, mother, brother, sister, son, daughter, spouse, grandparent, grandchild, brother- or sister-in-law, son- or daughter-in-law, father- or mother-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepsister, stepbrother, stepson, or stepdaughter.



I've not eaten a goat. I have shot a fall black bear that was excellent. The way to hunt them in the fall is to find berries and not kill anything that isn't close to berries.

I've not eaten much Caribou, and what I have eaten was either not good or sausage. But I have heard that it can be excellent, and that should be a good time of year to shoot one for eating purposes.

A lot of goat, sheep, and caribou hunts open Aug 10 each year. I'd say all, but I'm not sure enough of that. Not a damn thin wrong with any of those critters taken in Aug. Nothing wrong with Aug black bear. (I just remembered the one my son killed last year).

June blackies here on the KP are tasty as we've eaten several.

Chris, wonderful thread and it's scary reading it I know and have heard about all the questions. Here are a few more:

Look up the average high add 25F, look at the average low, subtract 25F, expect blue skies and sun, rain and snow.

Yes, expect rain.

It's kinda out of the way and there isn't much to do there.

25 fish for head of household, 10 for each house hold member and no you can't participate. Yes, really.

Mail your clothing home and check the meat or fish as carry on.

5 miles from the centerline of the road. Don't be decieved by the topo map, tussocks will make you wished you'd used a bow.

If you can average 50mph you're doing good, and then add in another 30 minutes for road construction delays.

It's more of a trail than a road.

Don't be suprised if you don't see the mountain.

If you've never done that before, trying it for the first time 100 miles from the closest road probably isn't the best plan.

You might want to look into the logistics of that first.

Optimists. Bless their hearts!

Alphabet Dude!

Of the three, I personally prefer caribou the best. Marinated, wrapped w/bacon and grilled is delicious! We also used to make some into kolbasa, slice it and throw it in a crock pot w/bbq sauce and a bit of pineapple juice! YUM!!

Black bear can be quite good, but cooking method is usually the key to good taste. Bear is like pork and needs to be cooked well. Goat...well, mine had a good taste, but it was tough as hell. We burgered it all and I still gave most of it away. Might be good as sausage. Others may have a different opinion.

Best,

Bob

Its not "real" Alaska gear unless its covered with a blue tarp.

[bleep], you're still alive?

Everybody in Montana whose place you hunt thought the brain cancer got you

....and Tyvek

One of my very most favorite wild meat meals...caribou steaks on the grill. We make these by cutting the spine at the last rib and then right where the pelvis joins, so you have a section of back around a foot long. We wrap this section well with multiple wraps of plastic and freeze it. When we want steak, we take out a section and slice cross sections with a meat saw. It doesn't get much simpler than that, and meat cooked on the bone is absolutely the best. Moose is also good done similarly. However, the same section is a huge chunk. With moose we'll just cut these steaks out before we freeze them. Instead of individual steak however, we cut individual cross sections 2-3" think. That makes a nice roast close to a foot long, 7-8" wide. I use simple seasonings on such a roast, perhaps throw some onions, celery, carrots, or something in a roasting pan with it, and roast it for 3 hours give or take at 300�. Again, meat cooked bone-in is wonderful. (With apologies to those who bone the meat - they have no idea what they're missing.)

Laughing Paul... all good additions. Guessing you won't see this today, as I believe I saw you and your boat headed south out of town this AM?

Guessing? That boat is pretty unmistakable.