Posted By:
Ric-Seward
Guest
12-07-2004 12:59
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Osamamo, well congrats on the move. If you are any kind of an outdoorsmen then AK is the place for you.
Eileson AFB is about 77 miles to the north of me just outside of North Pole.
A friend of mine just PCS from there to Minot and he always had good luck hunting on or around base.
The big game hunting is allright, and so is waterfowling, the biggest thing with waterfowling is the effort in scouting it takes, and the season for the most part is pretty short. The geese usually push through in three weeks and then your pretty much stuck hunting ducks.
The weather isn’t to bad, -50 -60 is common or it used to be, were having another warm winter. All in all AK is a great place to live you just have to be an active person.
The darkness effects each person differently, my wife and I it dosen’t bother us but other people it does, you wont know until you get here.
Well hopefully this helps you out some.
take care
Posted By:
osamamo
Guest
12-06-2004 17:14
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I found out today my wife and i are moving to AK. She’s in the Air Force and we just moved to AR from Idaho. we move in September of 05. She’s stationed in Eilson (sp) by Fairbanks. I was wondering what the waterfowling is like up there, what the weather is like, and what big game hunting is like. I was raised in Idaho, so I am used to being mildly cold in comparison to y’all but i dont know what dark winters and light summers would be like. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thx.
Posted By:
Ric-Seward
Guest
Delta 11-24-2004 21:42
Cloudy, High Winds – 10-20 Degrees – Ice
Been hitting my late season hole here of late and have been doing pretty well. Usually pull out 3 or 4 nice big fat northern mallards each time I go.
The area is so concentrated with ducks in such a small area that they are very wary so I limit myself to 1 -2 times out a week but a little duck hunting is better than none.
Hope everyone has a safe and happy T-Day.
later
Posted By:
FLYBOY100
Web Member
11-12-2004 18:19
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John Cole,Jr
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Posted By:
Ric-Seward
Guest
11-06-2004 14:02
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AKDUSE will do.
Posted By:
Irondog
Guest
11-05-2004 20:59
Arctic Blast – 0-10 Degrees – Ice
HUNTER WILL BREAK ICE FOR DUCKS
IRONDOG
Posted By:
akduse
Guest
11-04-2004 11:44
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Ric, give me a call or drop me a email
srudolph@gci.net
Let us see what we can do about the Cordova hunt. Era $ 119.00 RT from Anchorage
Posted By:
Irondog
Guest
Jim Creek 10-31-2004 21:35
Cloudy, Snow Flurries – 25-30 Degrees – Open Water
Hunted in the blowing snow, got seven mallards and one drake gadwall. The water was low and freezing slush, had about 3 inches of snow on the ground so I wore my white outs over my camouflage gear, had birds almost landing on me.
Irondog
P.S The pup did great!
Posted By:
Ric-Seward
Guest
Delta 10-29-2004 15:33
Cloudy, Accumulating Snow – 10-20 Degrees – Open Water
AKDUSE, glad you have gotten to do a little hunting. It is always our pleasure to have you up here. Are you ready to go to Cordova?????
Hit the Clearwater River today, the dog had been driving me nuts. It was snowing and blowing real hard out of the west.
Lots of mergies probably had 30 mergies drop into the dekes, only seen one hen mallard.
Watched the mergies drop in for 30 min and poor Bomber couldn’t take it anymore so I dropped one for him. He chased that thing for 5 minutes and was ice from head to toe as soon as he got out of the water. After the ice and snow accumulated on him I started to feel sorry for him so we limited the hunt to a hour and a half.
Posted By:
akduse
Guest
10-26-2004 23:33
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Sorry Ric, been so busy with work after my trip to Delta that I haven’t had a whole lot of time to be on this.
As for hunting been out a few times with a bird here and there and was out this past weekend with Skybust and we did manage to pick up 2 green and 1 hen. Went out on Sunday and got 3 green and 2 hens. The hen was the biggest hen I’ve shot in Ak since leaving ND. She must have been 5/6 lbs.
It is trying to freeze up some sloughs but hope to get out this next weekend and should be caught up with work to be able to hunt quite a bit next week.
Hey I have to let you know how much I enjoyed my time hunting with you and the great hospitality you and the wife provided.
Take care and keep the post coming
