In just a few short hours...

Let the wailing and gnashing of teeth begin 😉

been mashing the refresh button, I know the results aren't coming out until probably 8....but no harm in checking right?

I doubt 8 is the magic number, they have history of a wild range of times.

It's been 8 the past couple years, that's what I'm basing that on. I miss the midnight email days.

Dang it! Didn’t get a Bear, Moose, Bison, Sheep or a Goat again!!!😡




Just practicing my response😉

The ADFG website is already struggling...it was just down for about 5 minutes and now it is rather slooow.

Should be here when released.

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=huntlicense.drawresults

ADFG site now completely down...It had an error message up for a bit, but now total DOA.

Sloooow is not even the word for it.

LOL!

Anybody get in?

NADA....

I'm way ahead of you guys. I've known for weeks what my results are. No struggle, bashing keyboard, or gnashing of teeth here.



I didn't send them a nickle......

I know people outside are getting in and I cannot...

That’s not very “Alaskan”!
😆

Nuttin here.

Any fish counts needing checked?
🤣

See?

Caribou for me...

nothing here

I drew nothing. Etta drew a DC485.

Goose eggs here

Still have not come close to getting in.

$300 for nothing

Nothing...

http://drawresults.adfg.alaska.gov/DrawResults/

I drew goat, wife drew bench ‘bou .
WOOT!

Da fugg ?

Riley drew bench 'bou... and a friend drew a goat that may be like yours.

Don’t they all look similar?

Response to getting thru to the results. Then I did.

Nothing drawn here

Only put in for Unit 13 any bull, no surprise on not drawing that. Tier 1 bou was a given of course. Bou hunting is fun with the family anyways.

NADA!

Hell yeah! I drew desert bighorn in Arizona , elk tag in New Mexico, mule deer in Wyoming! Thanks alaska draw results you are the best!

I see the Governor drew a Musk Ox tag...

Good for him! Wish him luck!
😁

Can someone tell me what a DM516 is?

Draw moose in 15C

Can’t seem to get the website to load how are you all getting results?

Absolutely! Should be a good break for him.

Looks like ol ric is going goose hunting

Thank you

Above works from my fone.

I got a DC-485 (unit 13 caribou).

Oh, I see. KP bou not good enough for you!
😉

I tried! Everything I put in for was late season because of work schedules.

Thank you it worked, got any bull in the flats across from my house

Do we have to go through that birds and bees thing again?

Caribou for me.

I “herd”.

Fish and game when I ask for my results.

I drew....nothing of course.

However my dad drew DM783 (Richardson hwy moose). It'll be his first moose if he's successful.
This one's a muzzleloader or archery only tag. Does anyone know if I'd be able to back him up with a follow-up shot as long I also had a muzzleloader/bow?

Call wildlife troopers.

But, can’t see why not.

I drew that same hunt.
Unless your old man has some sort of legal handicap I am almost 100% the answer is no. Even if he does have a handicap the answer is likely no, unless it is a DLP kind of a backup shot. Calling the troopers to confirm wouldn't be a bad idea, like 'Bender mentioned.

Another donation year for me.

Agrees with what I have heard in other situations with these special tags... even though they encourage back-up shooters for bears and bison.

There's 2 of him!

Nothing here, but 2 buds drew sheep tags and one drew a goat tag. So I might get to shoot backup.

Oh, the horror!

Glad I practiced . . . The above is exactly what I didn’t get😂

For bison they specifically request a person be a backup with a rifle, and ask for you to officially designate them (through the department) as such. It may even be a requirement.
I was a backup for a guy who drew bison a couple years ago. I didn't get to shoot though.

DC475 here I come! First AK tag ever - Yessssssss!!

Got an offer for ya..

Just sheep for me. DS160 - any ram.

Sherpas may begin submitting their resumes . . .

Dang it! Missed the fall non-resident black bear hunt on POW. Second year I've tried it for that draw hunt. Would have loved to have done a surf and turf, with salmon being the surf, and bear the turf.

May still go anyway, just for the fishing. My preferred of the two anyway.

Oh well. Next up: the Maine moose lottery. Been trying that one for like 20 years, and one of these years its got to hit!

Oh my! Fancy tag!!!

the back-up issue may have changed.......i heard something about it yesterday but didn't catch it all.

it does cause problems as several times the shooter and back-up are looking at different critters and end up with two down.

Unit 13 is a pretty fair caribou hunt, especially if you get a supercub or whatever else to get you off the road system. I applied for it myself (DC485), but no bueno.

Wow......that would suck, or maybe in some cases it was being done on purpose??? I'd imagine some guys really do want to shoot one bad enough.

Nada for me. Guess it's back to the 40-mile cluster again this year.

Lol

My goodness.
You're braver than me. I saw the fall shïtshow from afar and am permanently scarred. The winter hunt wasn't as bad but I still see people chasing the herds on their snowmachines and taking 1000 yard hail Mary's.

Nothing for me. Guess that tank of a goat escapes me yet again here in town.

How long you been at Wainwright? Thought you were a Montana fella all this time. You ever make it down to the valley hit me up buy you a beer or Pepsi your choice..

DM788- for me. At least we will have meat in the freezer. I shot the last one in my archery range from inside my living room and there are more now. There is one cow that is brazen and potentially dangerous. She will be the first to go.

Done that the last two years. Steese. I didn't think it was that bad - in fact, it's kinda fun once you are a couple miles in. Lots of (mostly good) people of course, mostly gone after the first day or two. The first animal I took last year was limping from a clipped hoof- one of those idiotic hail-mary-shots from up valley. I'd already passed up shooting any out of that group earlier, but they came back past us with that one obviously wounded - but last year it was 2 any sex. We got 3 of our allowed 6. We don't care what we shoot, as long as it's enough. Be going again this year- either the Steese or the Taylor depending on herd location reports. Got my spots picked for both - not just locations- where I will sit and where I want wife and son to sit. Fog allowing.....

Visiting with some of tthe "usual suspects" we've met there the last two years is nice too.

Heck, I might leave the ATV's for wife and son on opening morning. I'd hike in and camp the night before in a nifty cave I found up top. Pad, sleeping bag, instant oatmeal and coffee, with a small heat source and I'm good to go for a night, or even two. Weather permitting, I'm on watch with coffee brewing at first light. Honey HalfLab likes camping, too, but prefers the camper.... especially if it is raining. She's a smart dog.

We took 2 cows and an orphaned calf last year - and are down to a few packages. Gonna have to be bigger and/or more, next year! Moose chances later on are on the doubtful side.

Wife bought her own ATV since, so we have 2 meat haulers. I suspect my wife is going to go way the hellngone back in - or want to - but there is no need. With a little patience, caribou will come to us (or have the last two years) less than 2 miles from the truck. I think I have the Rancher's ignition problem (kept quitting and then not starting for 5 minutes) or so straightened out, which worried me some up there on that ridge last year, so we pulled the plug after day two last year. Tow rope, tools, new ignition goes along next time, just in case. I'll find out if it's not the ignition (hopefully sooner if it's not) , I guess, but now have that covered.

If we go to the Taylor, it will be a 5 mile pack out of a walk-in only area probably. I know the camp site , at a timber-line saddle/"funnel" with wood and water. Not familiar with any other spots along the T.

We're old, but we ain't dead yet....but that's as far as I'm packing anything anymore!

Well, enough - I have a snow machine to go un-eff.... wife wants to go mess with the new rec cabin soon as a break from remodeling in the house. A busman's holiday, as it were.

I've technically been here 2 years, but had to spend most of the first half on a hotter and sandier work-trip.

I've only done the 40-mile once. Total zoo. Had a shot on a nice bull until it took off running for no reason. Turns out, someone let their dog run wild and it chased the herd out of our valley. I was livid!

We were on foot off the steese, so pickings were slim, but my wife shot one, and it was her first big game animal!

This year we'll at least have a quad to get back a little farther.

Goose Eggs for 300 Alex!

I'd imagine if you got out of sight of the road and trails the craziness would wind down quite a bit. I saw what looked like the 1st Mar Div and 101st Airborne headed towards Baghdad. It was seemingly bumper to bumper from Fox to Eagle Summit, many with HUGE campers doubled up with UTV trailers. I talked to a wildlife trooper and he suggested just sitting back with some beer and watch the show.

Not really, but he definitely gave me that impression.

Yep thousands of dollars in equipment, some cases hundreds of thousands of dollars.... hooting and hollering how they need to get their caribou or their family will starve to death..

The makings of reality TV.

Nothing for me this year. I had some decent luck with the draw for a couple seasons so can't complain. That was after a 25 year dry spell so maybe a little complaining!! The good part is you can hunt most game every year here without drawing. The draw does't change if but where I will hunt.

If the Steese and Taylor were my only choices I'd move to another state. Good thing its a big state with a lot of good hunting left in it. These are the good old days..

The BOG is going to need your input on crowd control for those Steese/Taylor hunts with the need to control herd growth in mnd.

I'm going to propose that Steese/Taylor hunts open only for those over 70 and they be allowed unlimited tags.

I am friends with a guy, that this seems just like him and [bleep] he would say. He has a $80K camper, $20K UTV, $180K boat, but yet he needs a moose, caribou, bear, and his limit of halibut and salmon each year or they will starve. While I could afford to miss some meals myself, he sure could! I just laugh every year at some of the crap he does. I think he buys half the crap he does to make himself look better to others. I got along better with him when he was going through his divorce 8 years ago, and had two older wheelers, and a lot older boat and was a lot more down to earth. He remarried a widow that had money, and they have cashed in tow of her investments to pay for all of his “toys”.

She have a sister? Asking for a friend. 😆

Ph uck I remember at one point I would spend $700 plus bucks in food, parts, fuel, etc to go moose hunting come back empty handed. I tell my wife I would’ve been better off buying a side of beef lol.. As a good friend says it’s all about the hunt/adventure! Come home empty handed oh well at least we had fun doing it!

I’ve heard about “armed camping trips” 😉

That's a help!

Two years ago wife and I went in on foot also, first trip up the Steese ever.. Maybe 20-30 people up there scattered along about a mile of "our" ridge, opening morning. We were the only hike-ins that day. Caribou everywhere. Shot a bull first day, got first pack-load back to the road (about a mile and half), around 2 pm. Of the 10 or so outfits in the parking lot that morning, ours was the only rig left. Everyone had limited out and were gone. Had the second load down by 8 pm.

Shot another bull 2nd day, and were back in Fbks by 10 pm. Only half a dozen people up there that day, including us. Slightly "mentored" a couple first time BG hunters from Wainwright between loads second day. By the time we got up there again they had a 2 year old double-shovel bull down not far from ours. Saw Eric again last year - that boy is hooked! . He also took a bull the first year, and again last year. Luck of the draw. He walked in both years, but I'm betting he'll have an ATV this year....

Last year I took my Rancher up, having scouted the situation - really saves the back and legs! I'm not that much into hunting off a vehicle, but will do it. Have done it.... Us old futs need all the help we can get for that kind of thing. My 70+ year old knees told me so. Still, I prefer to use power machinery only for access and hauling the take out.

"Going farther back" may or may not be a worthwhile thing, Caribou (and people) were fewer last year than year before, but we took 3 in the same place as first year, with all 5 within about 1/3 mile circle. A guy I hauled meat out for had hiked in 3 to 3 1/2 miles and took a nice bull. He said the caribou were more numerous back there, far side of next ridge, so maybe that's a good plan, if needed.. And yes - they were all being moved around by hunting pressure. We saw him again the second day and bummed a gallon of gas off him for our generator (better planning needed!). He had gone back to Fairbanks on his way home to Anchorage, and had called home. His 3 year old daughter had informed him she wanted the antlers, so he was packing back in to get them.

Kids!....

For that matter, both years there were bulls taken right there at the parking spot, one of them maybe 2 minutes before Icame off-trail unto the road 200 yards from the truck.

Fuggin idiots had been up running the ridges with their ATV's for a couple days prior to season, "scouting", which may or may not have gotten the main part of the herd to move farther away from the road. I know my opinion...

Might as well as fire a warning shot every time before the "real" one.....

Good theory on the herd moving.. But it was the federal hunters and youth hunters that got the herd hauling ass out there.. Trooper checked us I asked where the caribou were at? He said this is the tail end of the herd, the bulk of the herd is headed back to chicken/Tok.

Ironbender, she doesn’t have a sister. Lol!

Yeah, I heard that too. But a few dozen ATV's prowling all the ridges couldn't have helped either. I understand they only moved east a few miles tho- basically out of reach of us road hunters. For a time. The winter hunt seemed to go pretty well from what I've heard. The herd seemed to be a bit more scattered last year also, with the Taylor side having a bit more success than the year before in the early hunt.

The trouble with caribou, is that even they don't know what they are going to do next.

And as a friend says, "They are either coming toward you or going away, and you ain't going to catch them anyway". So the best thing to do most times is find a good spot and wait. Something will likely walk into you or you sometimes (in less pressured instances) see a spot and stalk situation. My favorite.

If you're referring to this year's winter hunt, I do believe it is going fairly well too. I have been trapping a bit up the Steese and all winter long I have been seeing caribou getting free rides to town.

I drew DS204, 3rd time in 12 years. Time to get back into shape.

Is that where your pizza oven is?

That's what we did. Walked a mile back, found a spot with good hard-cover, and waited until the others drove them past.

I really want to find an area with good spot-and-stalk hunting. I'll have to put some recon miles in this summer.

Hahaha, yup, you remember that huh?