It's here. Moose season in Alaska. Last year I pulled a solo caribou hunt in the mountains and encountered terrible weather for a week. This year I'm going solo again, but for moose. I originally had a hunt scheduled in a totally unfamiliar area, but that got changed. I'm heading to familiar country...terrain wise...but to a location nobody has hunted. It's simply only accessible by plane and there has been no landing strip there until a few weeks ago. The bottom line is that I'll be hunting moose which haven't been affected by previous hunting. Age structure of the bulls should be outstanding. Bulls have been seen in there from the air but nobody has been there to mess with them. Pretty rare to get that chance, and rarer still to have a pilot who will put a solo bowhunter in there first.
Just a couple days ago I received this text:
"Too bad you aren't at your new location hunting right now. I flew by and there's a cow, a medium bull and 2 monsters within 300 yards."
I know from experience that most bulls don't look like monsters when viewed from an airplane hundreds of feet above. Pretty interesting!
The area is a side tributary of a tributary of a small river. It opens into a decent valley a few miles in length and has excellent habitat for resident moose. Good water but no huge ponds or problematic crossings. It almost sounds too good to be true. Maybe it is. I'm about to find out in just a couple days. The weather looks to turn just about perfect on my fly-in day which is a huge relief. No fun establishing camp in a cold Alaska rain...I've done that. I will have 14 days alone to hunt moose in this new area. I'm looking forward to the challenges and starting a new adventure.
Topic: Into The Unknown: Solo Alaska! (Read 6572 times)
