Alaskan Adventure
Back in 2006 3 friends and myself spent a week in the Alaskan bush, up near the Arctic Circle. We had worked at getting ready to do for over a year, previously. We were hunting wolves and bear, and while we never connected it was one of THE BEST hunts I have ever done! I believe everyone else felt the same way. To this day it was one of the best memories of hunts that I have.
We all met up in Fairbanks and then drove up to Circle on the Yukon River. There we put the boat in the water and went North until we found a site that looked good for camping and hunting. An amazing time in amazing country!
I had posted photos and text on Leverguns but somehow the link to them was never posted. Just yesterday I discovered they are still on there and if you are interested, you can access the pages via this link: https://www.leverguns.com/alaska/Default.htm
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Alaskan Adventure
Looks great! Bugs don’t sound like much fun, though…
Looks like you had a 71 Winchester n assuming a 348? Did you carry a handgun too?
Yes. I had the .348 and my Freedom Arms 454 Casull
The Model 71 belonged to one of the Founders of The Shootists ... Robert Smythe. He bought it brand new in the 1930's and I got it from his widow after he passed. When I moved to Mozambique I sold it to Bill Gilson with the provision that it always stay in The Shootists, should he be moved to sell it.
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Alaskan Adventure, well sort'a
I worked the Alaskan pipeline during 1975-1976. About 10 weeks during 1975 starting around mid September until mid November. My first hitch starting just past the Yukon for a few weeks at one work camp, then on up the road a bit to camp Old Man. A few more weeks and wrapped up that hitch in Coldfoot camp, just inside the artic circle. Got caught up in a layoff for the winter and went back in the spring of 1976 for a 14 week straight hitch, 90% of which I was at Coldfoot Camp. The Brooks Range is gorgeous. Coldfoot sat along a fork in the Koyukuk River, beautiful. And the northern lights there have to be seen to believe.
I do wish it had been a hunting trip like I'd read about from my younger days. None the less, I was blessed to have gotten to spend the time there.
Murphy