lemaymiami
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Item #1 --Outlaw75... outstanding info from Royal Alaska on actually moving guns to Alaska - and the gun laws you'll find there.
Item #2 -- Whether you'll actually be able to live there? That's a different topic entirely... My one trip there to visit my brother -who's been living a full-bore subsistence lifestyle in the MatSu area (roughly 60 miles up the Glenn Highway from Anchorage) for many years left me with two distinct impressions... Everything I paid a dollar for here in Miami.. I paid two dollars for up there... Secondly, everyone I met was in much, much better physical condition than I was at the time (no one worked at it - you just had to be in good shape for the day to day stuff....).
As my brother noted long ago - everyone in Alaska is very polite with strangers since most of them are armed wherever and whenever you find them... He's a serious hunter (once again a full bore subsistence lifestyle - means he kills two caribou, and tries to kill a moose - each year and will add a young black bear, a "berry bear" for roasts and stews as well. His main rifles - .375 H&H... he has three of them...). Me, I'm a fisherman not a hunter (Vietnam cured me of hunting - unless my family needed the meat...), but I thought the moose was the best eating I've had, for game meat...
If it were me I'd want to leave most of my weapons and other goods in storage in the lower 48 - at least until I'd lived up there for a year or so and found it to my liking...(understatement)... My one trip there left me with no doubt that I wouldn't t consider living there at all... Of course I must admit that not many would prefer my world - since I guide in the saltwater Everglades - the opposite of Alaskan living (again, understatement...).
Whatever you decide, let us know since many dream of re-locating up there.
Item #2 -- Whether you'll actually be able to live there? That's a different topic entirely... My one trip there to visit my brother -who's been living a full-bore subsistence lifestyle in the MatSu area (roughly 60 miles up the Glenn Highway from Anchorage) for many years left me with two distinct impressions... Everything I paid a dollar for here in Miami.. I paid two dollars for up there... Secondly, everyone I met was in much, much better physical condition than I was at the time (no one worked at it - you just had to be in good shape for the day to day stuff....).
As my brother noted long ago - everyone in Alaska is very polite with strangers since most of them are armed wherever and whenever you find them... He's a serious hunter (once again a full bore subsistence lifestyle - means he kills two caribou, and tries to kill a moose - each year and will add a young black bear, a "berry bear" for roasts and stews as well. His main rifles - .375 H&H... he has three of them...). Me, I'm a fisherman not a hunter (Vietnam cured me of hunting - unless my family needed the meat...), but I thought the moose was the best eating I've had, for game meat...
If it were me I'd want to leave most of my weapons and other goods in storage in the lower 48 - at least until I'd lived up there for a year or so and found it to my liking...(understatement)... My one trip there left me with no doubt that I wouldn't t consider living there at all... Of course I must admit that not many would prefer my world - since I guide in the saltwater Everglades - the opposite of Alaskan living (again, understatement...).
Whatever you decide, let us know since many dream of re-locating up there.