Up for some Arctic hunting picts?

[caribou]

A little more remenicing..........
A fish "Kakak" fork for the BIG guys....


Sinew, in its various stages...thread, string ,cordage.....all the way up to rope with enough time and sinew...




And an really nice Caribou Parkee trimmed with Wolf.

 

[caribou]

sommmore....

 

[caribou]

sommore

 

[caribou]

lstone/PIC
These are dog harness's made from Caribou skin.

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Hope I didnt double any

 

[HM2PAC]

The pictures you have posted are just amazing. Many of us down here in the lower 48 can only dream of doing a fraction of the hunting that you folks do as a way of life.

 

[Floppy_D]

WOW. I'm stunned. The land is beautiful. You could fill many books telling all of the stories behind those pics, and I'd read every one. Thanks for sharing. Again, wow.

 

[koja48]

Can be a tough life, but WOW! Talk about "living the dream!" Thank you. Wonderful photo spread and kids who really understand, appreciate, and are "one" with nature.

 

[JDoe]

I love Alaska!

Wow! Thank you for posting those pics. Every time I visit Alaska my jaw is on my chest and I am truly tempted to never leave.

 

[Mountie855]

I can only envy you...Alaska is my dream, but not likely to happen, except for visits...

Thanks for sharing!

 

[caribou]

Well, now, posting and sharing is why I'm doing such....LOL!

Actually, I post on a couple other forums, and I got the "Invite" to post here LOONNGG agao....so Ive been stopping in and reading, and finnaly whent and did "it"....I registered and started posting.
Ive been a subsistance hunter regular like for 22 years now, have 7 kids and raised 11 kids (six still in the house) bwith regular Hunting/fishing /gathering.
My wife is an artist and she makes the $ so we can keep on doing it.

Family, hunting and guns are my only interests, and I have been collecting Mosin Nagants since the early 90's......what else could a fella do??


Ask questions, post your opinion, share some vids and pix, and learn something new...aint that the gist of being here???

I only posted a few pix, so's you fellas dont think I'm F.O.S........I'll post as I can on borrowd computers and I'll never know when, but it will be here.

 

[H&Hhunter]

Caribou (Tutu..)

I lived in Kotzebue in 1991. I was flying for Ryan Air Alaska. Thanks for the pictures and the memories.

Lets see if I can remeber a few...Kivalina, Kobuk, Ambler, Deering, Buckland, Narvik, Shungnak and a bunch more I can't remeber off the top of my head. Used to land up on Kelly Bar and used hunt up the Aggieshakshak.

I lived in the 21 unit. Last time I was there was during 9/11 was Caribou hunting with my buddy Alex Caskie. Did you know him?

Is Neil Henry still around?

 

[Funderb]

hooray for the mosin!

 

[caribou]

Cool, HnH....small world , aint it?

Ryan air ...little red planes....lemme see ...do you remember a red head pilot named "Kathy"? Man did that woman scare me like no other, flying!!!!

In the 80's I worked for Markair, unloading Herc's and dumping mail at your doorstep...LOL! 7c were ya?

Did you live in the Hospital 20 unit?, or by AC?

Neal Sager the Gunguy was a bigtime friend of mine, well, still is, but heres been a big shift in Airlines, with many falling out due to new laws (Cargo/mail only is gone) and fuel prices going nuts.
I use a boat and snowgo, gave up flying and the dogs, but the dogs are looking good again, simply 'cause gas is 7.55$ a gallon in Kotzebue now.
AV gas is way more.
Ever fly Candle? Its a dirt strip between Buckland and Deering, and we roam around there in Summer.
Kobuk River in the fall and winter, nowadays, as resources there are valuable to us now (FIRE WOOD!!!)

Kelly Bar Rocks! Salmon and Dollys by the pound or by the Ton.....the Noatak is a great river!

do write, and I'll be posting here more!
Cheers, from the Bacardi region!
Chip

 

[H&Hhunter]

Chip,

Looking back through my old photo's. Here is one of Downtown OTZ and one of the 207's I flew at Ryan Air Alaska.



I lived in the Apartment's down off the North side of the airport over by the hotel. I remeber them being called the 21 unit but I could be wrong it's been awhile since I was there.

Candle between Buckland and Deering. Yes I've been there a bunch of times. Back then there were a couple of old Stinsons rotting away on the side of the strip. I also remeber an old man in Candle I think his name was Tommy he was an old miner who'd come up in the early 1900's and had stayed his whole life in Northern AK. I'm sure he's gone by now.

Kathy,

Was she a kind of Strawberry reddish blond from like North Dakota? I think I remember a Kathy but I'm not sure if she was the same one or not.

Good talking with you.

That picture with the tusk...Was that out on the Escholtz?

Greg

 

[JShirley]

Welcome to THR.

I will live in Alaska one day.

John

 

[MinnMooney]

Two things :

1.) What is that woman washing in the lake? Is it intestines for sausages?

2.) I'm glad to see a Polaris snow machine in Alaska. I was under the impression that the Bombardier (SkiDoo) Elan was the most previlant due to it's bogie wheel set-up as opposed to every other machines' slide rails which wear rapidly on snowless tundra.

3.) - I can't count - Boy, would it be great to live in your state!! It's again becoming famous for being the home state of our next V.P.
The fishing, hunting, camping, back-country flying (I'm a pilot) and the beauty!! Wow.

 

[MinnMooney]

One more thing.....

My wish is to visit your great state at least once more before I die. I visited for three weeks back in 1960. My dad, brother & I drove the Alcan Hwy when there were only 52 miles of blacktop coming out of Dawson Creek and the rest was gravel all the way to Tok Jct.

 

[caribou]

Thanks!
The intestines are being washed in the ocean to be dried for sausage caseing's or the be made into waterproof clothing, to be sold.

POLARIS ROCKS!
Ive have a sweet '05 600RMK, with 28,000 miles and ticking soon...

 

[V1K1NG0]

WOW. Thank you for sharing. I have never been to your state before. I hope to one day experience "it". So do you all usually only hunt with Mosins??? What kind of ammo do you use.

You could write a book about this and make a killing.

Look forward to seeing more.

 

[killzone]

Thanks

Thanks for the pictures. Welcome to THR

 

[Catherine]

Thank you for these wonderful pictures!

Catherine

 

[BroughtEnoughGun]

Amazing pics. Life looks like fun to me.

 

[Byte]

Wow! The bear pics are great. Especially the b&w one with the two guys behind the big brown. Was that you? I'm jealous if it was you!

I was able to visit Fairbanks for the first week of March in '06 and was truly happy for the first time in years. Haven't seen snow piled up like that back home in Montana since the early 80's! At least we've gotten nice snow in the mtns of Colorado the last few years. I really look forward to the day I get to go back to Alaska. Hopefully it'll be for some type of prolonged stay.

Byte

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

I'm really enjoying all the pics - just amazing - thank you.

 

[9x19sig]

You have no idea how lucky you are, we can all wish we lived there.