We have an upright full of last year's caribou, this year's sockeye for just the two of us. It will do.
Good thing too- 2022 was a total bust.
mid-August: 1300 miles rt driving, 5 days hunting , no caribou sighted. .
mid Sept: 1400 mile rt road, 400 mile rt river trip for moose twarted by a bent prop shaft (gravel bar), 3 miles after launching. Not my equipment, navigation or boat driving, so I'm golden...
Fall back to home, regroup for 1 1/2 days for a trip to the remote cabin back to Interior, and maybe a moose during last 5 days of season. Also a 1300 mile, 100 mile boat rt expedition (When I came to the fork in the road at Fox, I took it, per Berra. Dejavu all over again...).
35 miles down river my outboard started acting up, just 15 miles from the cabin. Camped overnight, headed back to Manley Hot Springs, motor ran perfectly. Refueled and headed out again. Made it 5 miles down the slough before it quit altogether - no idea what or how many of a half dozen things it could be. Fuggin 4-strokes!
Remnants of a typhoon hitting Alaska worked to our advantage, blowing us slowly back to the launch, sometimes with the aid of a tarp held up by my wife and I as a sail, sometimes by rowing in the wind shadow behind bends. I prefered the "drift"....
In Alaska, the fun never ends! We are retard, with no particular time schedule, so as a friend (he of the bent prop shaft) puts it, "Lucky people problems".
I'm just going to consider 2022 as "Conserving hunting ammo"......