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Great buck, I agree not little. Congrats wildwoody and son

I've used one a few times on strip hunts, etc...sometimes in low teens or single digits. I hate sleeping in warm weather so we would have good bags, place it by the cots and as soon as one of us would wake up get it started. Warm the tent up in less than 15 min enough to get dressed. Same thing in the evening. They heat that space quite quickly

blah blah blah rub it in Adam is as bad as these Instagram outfitters What a freaking joke it has become. Congrats!!!!

Sorry typo 2750.00

I have absolutely no idea what a guided hunt would even cost. Just for a rough idea. This boat provided all fuel of the boats, getting us to the dry land, food before and after and snacks/sandwiches. All power to dry out gear, no extra fuel charge and we booked the whole boat and it was I think $27500. + our flight to the boat was $250.00 If you use flight miles to AK etc.. you can get flights between $500-1000. Huntinfool had a great write up about it last year or the year before I've heard it is going up and the average is around 3k+ for a boat hunt but I'm not completely sure on that. The absolute biggest difference is that with a float plane they just drop you off. You are on your own for all food, gear, keeping dry etc... And it costs more to fly you to a new area. The greatest thing about the boat was the ability to get completely dry, generators running with heat, boot dryers de humidifiers etc..and a meal already prepared and ready. Doing a drop camp would allow you to get to some better areas IMO but very risky with weather. One group was planning on staying 10 days but had to leave early since there was so much rain and the weather hadn't dropped to freezing and the meat and capes were going bad. We had freezers and fridges on board the boat so no issue. A few groups that I talked to in the airport told me they ended up spending close to 6k on their float plane drop hunt. (all flights, food,gear, shipping etc..) That really surprised me as I figured I could do it way cheaper but that is what they said. I think the only way an outfitted hunt would be worth it is if they had limited access or a concession that was just for them, you may have better quality of animals. Other than that, they are small animals with heavy hides and fat, but easily taken off the hill with 2 guys. Every day we talked with the transporter about weather and what sides of the island and bays etc... he felt he could get us in land safely and we would look at the terrain and see where we wanted to go and head to shore.

Great target buck.! Some of my favorite and definitely rewarding accomplishments are those animals I have found and watched and followed over multiple months, seasons, years etc..and get it all wrapped up at the end. Stud

They are good bucks for sure...i think B&C is 100 and 108" all time...my guess is that the 2 biggest will be somewhere around 105 gross, but I didnt take time to score or anything and for sure didnt care. Pope and Young of course makes book at a much lower #.

Are you doing drop camp? Or boat? Or road system. We spent over 2 days in airports waiting on weather so we talked with a bunch of guys all doing it differently, so I have some decent info to share.

Nice buck...ive seen a few great bucks hitting the ground

I did a diy drop camp for Caribou in northern AK and a mtn goat hunt in Kodiak. It was extremely wet and alders are no joke but the mixed bag was the selling point for me. I could have killed all 3 deer but again my goal was to do as much as I can. I even sat on the beach and missed a black (silver tip ) fox. Sure wish I could have a re do on that one.

Ninilchik was awesome!! They are strictly a transporter and cant tell you where to hunt or how to hunt or even relay messages to others on the boat about where deer are etc...but food was great, keeping dry at night was invaluable and they did a wonderful job providing radios, getting us to where we wanted to be etc... Great way to hunt Kodiak

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They should be rotated now.

Straight up giant of a buck. This is the first year of many I haven't been on a Coues hunt yet, elk and my trip to AK got in the way. Sure miss those deer. Nice job on getting him on a stud.

It was a very good experience, one that I will most likely do again. You can do some of these hunts for about as cheap as Mexico so they are doable.

They are Kings and the limit is 2 a day, we got lucky and limited out in under an hour.

I love Canada, one of these days I'll be back. Looks like a great time!!

Very cool, very fun hunt. Good luck unless you killed already then congrats!

What an absolute stud. Beautiful buck has a little bit of everything.

Way to go Tyler and wife!! beautiful buck

Sweet buck! Congrats. No offense just curious are you sure it was a cactus buck? I saw a 4x4. In full velvet this week in Colorado. Weird year

yeah i wouldn't chase velocity with those groups. nicely done Lance

x caliber 1:7 very little to no pressure at 2900fps

I've been shooting the 25 Creedmoor that southernexpress built for me for a few months now. I'm loving the 131 ACE. Seen it do a perfect job on an Antelope and hopefully we will see what it does this weekend on a Colorado mule deer.

great pictures and story, too bad about the hunt.