Be Sure To Read About Our 2005 Season

 

January 25, 2006

Please check our weblog to keep up to date guys. We do currently have an opening for an early season sheep hunt, due to a hunter having to put his hunt date off for a year. Also we are now booking for the Alaska Peninsula again, but this time we are going to be a little more comfortable. We will be utilizing a permanent base camp south of Port Moller, some 235 miles west of King Salmon. The first hunter to book for this hunt will be able to do so at $11,500 which is around $5,000 cheaper than most everyone else in the area. This isn't going to last long though, so give us a call.

December 30, 2005

It has been a very busy time since the end of hunting in mid-September this year, and we apologize for the delay in getting news out. Of course those of you who read or subcribe to the weblog and newsfeed from the Alaska Hunts Weblog already know what went on during our 2005 season, but this page gets the news a little slower. To sum things up briefly, we had 3 of 4 brown bear hunters connect on bears this fall, and 5 of 7 sheep hunters went home with a ram. Of the two sheep hunters that didn't take rams one missed a shot, and the other hunter encountered some logistical trouble, so he will be back with us this coming fall. All in all it was a pretty great season, but we are expecting much more in the coming 2006 season, so stay tuned.

 

April 27, 2005

I want to make a note here about potential clients that use AOL e-mail accounts. If you have one, for goodness sakes, get an account with someone else. AOL is constantly the number one source of e-mail trouble I have, so if you have an AOL account and you try to e-mail me, you will probably never get a reply, because AOL simply rejects most legitimate e-mail.

Spring hunting this year was both exciting and disappointing, educational and painful! It was exciting due to the fact that we had the ability to cover so much real estate in our quest for bear, but disappointing due to the fact that our one golden opportunity to get our client (72 year "young" Tom Vaux) ended with another group of hunters cutting in front of us on the trail of the only solitary bear we spotted.

Access to the country we wanted to hunt was eliminated by open leads in the river, but we did have a great opportunity to learn a tremendous portion of the country, and this involved trips reaching out in a 30 mile radius from our base of operations. We did not see as many bears this year as we did last spring, and I suppose that some of this is due to the fact that we hunted April 8th-15th in contrast to the first week of May last year. We certainly saw more bears on foot last year, but lousy snow conditions in May, and the physical difficulties of snowshoeing in the bad snow of that month makes the April time slot look like the much better option. Of course the odds for a big boar are certainly better at this time.

It has been a tough initiation for all of us, especially our hunters, but the positive notes are encouraging. We have (myself and two of my assistants) learned a lot of the country, which is invaluable, and next spring we will have airboat access to cross the open leads of the river if we need to get the snowmachines across. Is it a tough hunt, certainly, but we expect to connect on good bear this fall, and next spring as well. Our ability to get around in the country continues to improve, with the snowmachines, and airboat availability, and we expect a Supercub to be available in camp as well in the very near future.

I should mention the fact that we only had one hunter on an 8 day hunt this spring, and we will only book for 2 hunters next spring. Hunters can expect to hunt hard, and spend 50-70 miles a day on the snowmachines in search of bears, fresh tracks, and dens, and I should say this kind of riding can be quite tough on the average hunter.

Only two slots are available for 2006, so if anyone is interested in one of these special priced 8 day hunts they should probably give me a call soon.

November 14, 2004

August and September hunting this year proved to be exciting for us, especially when it comes to sheep. For those of you who don't keep up with our weblog and the current happenings we had two sheep hunters that harvested 39" rams side by side this August, and I don't think I have to tell the educated hunter that this is a tough cookie to pull off in Alaska these days. Our brown bear hunting developements continue to get better, and better. While we had a couple of hunters quit early this year, we had our first successfull archery hunter for a brown bear this fall, and we have managed to develop a relationship with a local in our bear area that will be providing air boat services for us on our future hunts. The area has plenty of bears, but as is often the case in Alaska, being able to get around in the country can be the difference between an average hunt and a great hunt. Not only will we have ability to make major moves on the river system with the airboat, we will also have a new inflatable jet boat in camp as well, for the times when we just need to go a mile or two on the river. Spring hunting is also looking up as we plan (Lord willing and the creeks don't rise!) on being able to use snowmachines this spring, and we fortunately have an old professional snowmachine expert in the are that will be available to get us in and out of the mountains with our lives intact.

Registered Guide Tony Dingess and Derek Harbula with the 40" glacier ram from August 19th, 2003