gearguywb
AH veteran
- Joined
- Dec 11, 2023
- Messages
- 204
- Reaction score
- 400
- Location
- KC
- Hunted
- S. Africa, Namibia, Alaska, Germany
I am finally getting caught up so I thought I would do one more report from this year.
This was a DIY Moose hunt in Alaska off the Yukon River.
I was fortunate to meet and become friends with a great guy while hunting a couple of years ago. He told me that he had been in this area previously on a DIY hunt and that if I was lucky enough to draw a tag we could get together with anyone else that drew.
I have been putting in for draws throughout the west for many years without ever drawing. Wouldn’t you know it, Lady Luck smiled on me and I drew a tag the first year applying for moose in this area.
This particular area is a trophy area requiring bulls to be 50 or more inches in width or have 4 or more brow tines on one side.
Two of us drew and the plannng started! I will say that the toughest part of the hunt was the gear planning and organization!
I was fortunate to get on a legal bull the second day, and the second hunter took a bull 24 hours later. Needless to say it was a heck of a lot of work after you apply 2lbs of pressure on the trigger!
Used my Blaser in 300 WM, which did a fine job for me.I stayed in the KUIU guide tent which was its maiden voyage. Very impressed for such a lightweight tent!
This was a DIY Moose hunt in Alaska off the Yukon River.
I was fortunate to meet and become friends with a great guy while hunting a couple of years ago. He told me that he had been in this area previously on a DIY hunt and that if I was lucky enough to draw a tag we could get together with anyone else that drew.
I have been putting in for draws throughout the west for many years without ever drawing. Wouldn’t you know it, Lady Luck smiled on me and I drew a tag the first year applying for moose in this area.
This particular area is a trophy area requiring bulls to be 50 or more inches in width or have 4 or more brow tines on one side.
Two of us drew and the plannng started! I will say that the toughest part of the hunt was the gear planning and organization!
I was fortunate to get on a legal bull the second day, and the second hunter took a bull 24 hours later. Needless to say it was a heck of a lot of work after you apply 2lbs of pressure on the trigger!
Used my Blaser in 300 WM, which did a fine job for me.I stayed in the KUIU guide tent which was its maiden voyage. Very impressed for such a lightweight tent!
Thank you for sharing!
