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10x
12-03-2011, 05:28 PM
Just a little about me to raise some envy in you Yankees..

I am located some 400 miles East of Ketchikan, AK. Here is some of the territory I hunt.

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lundgark/Hunting/Montagneuse.jpg

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lundgark/Hunting/Muledeer.jpg

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lundgark/Hunting/field.jpg

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lundgark/Hunting/riverbreaks.jpg

And here is a mule deer my uncle George killed in the 30's.

http://www.telusplanet.net/public/lundgark/George/georgehunting.jpg

I'm looking for one that is bigger...

Reg
12-03-2011, 05:43 PM
Picture number 3, is that a wheat field ?

:popcorn:

bmanis
12-03-2011, 05:46 PM
The pic with your uncle is a great pic. Wow

10x
12-03-2011, 06:05 PM
Picture number 3, is that a wheat field ?

:popcorn:

That was either wheat or barley. I suspect it was barley.

You really have to look carefully to find out after it has been combined.

DLCTEX
12-03-2011, 07:22 PM
:sad:I can't get my wife to move to Alaska.

GaryN
12-03-2011, 09:28 PM
I like everything about Alaska except for the winter when the sun never shines. The cold is starting to bug me now too. I guess I'm turning into a wimp.

clodhopper
12-03-2011, 11:53 PM
Nice looking country thanks for the pictures.

Jailer
12-04-2011, 12:05 AM
If it weren't for the long harsh winters, AK would be the perfect place to live.

The older I get the more I hate winter.

Nice pics 10x, thanks for posting. You truly live in Gods country.

Adam10mm
12-04-2011, 12:36 AM
:sad:I can't get my wife to move to Alaska.
She can stay in TX. You can move to AK. :smile:

AkMike
12-04-2011, 12:46 AM
Folks... Get a map out and look 400 miles EAST of Ketchikan... That's B.C. Canada..

Good Pics 10X!

10x
12-04-2011, 08:29 AM
Folks... Get a map out and look 400 miles EAST of Ketchikan... That's B.C. Canada..

Good Pics 10X!

It is 60 miles into Alberta....
The river is the Peace and the tributary where the the photos were taken is the Montagneuse.

http://travelingluck.com/North+America/Canada/Alberta/_6076685_Montagneuse+River.html#local_map


BTW: I grew up about 5 miles from there in Royce... It wasn't that open in the sixties and the farmers kept the wildlife populations down by eating most anything that crossed their land. The Peace Canyon there is about 1000 feet deep. I own 360 acres just a mile off sec highway 729 - Got a D.U. project on one quarter.

lbaize3
12-04-2011, 01:09 PM
Would you please adopt me? I can be packed and ready to go in about 2 hours.

10x
12-04-2011, 02:23 PM
Would you please adopt me? I can be packed and ready to go in about 2 hours.

Send a copy of your tax return. I gotta see if you can support me in my old age...

Reg
12-04-2011, 03:29 PM
Your area reminds me a lot of a place where I have done some whitetail hunting west out of Coffeyville Kansas. I do think you are a tad colder however.
Nice pics !!

:wink:

472x1B/A
12-04-2011, 05:35 PM
I don't think there is a bad spot in Alaska except for Shemya or Attu.

10x
12-04-2011, 08:57 PM
I don't think there is a bad spot in Alaska except for Shemya or Attu.

The eastern slopes north of the panhandle are rugged and cold in the winter. Any place close to Snag in the Yukon where it hit -83 F in February of 1947 - no windchill reported. When I was a teenager February temperatures would hit - 50F or colder. And one year it was cold enough to freeze store whiskey but not moonshine....

472x1B/A
12-04-2011, 09:20 PM
I do belive you 100%. First time at King Salmon in '83 the temp dropped to -43 with a wind chill of -74. NOBODY went outside except fireman, NO exception. At Shemya the wind blew so hard it would push trucks into each other 5-6 deep in the parking lots. It would rain, snow, sleet, fog in, sun shine, and freeze trucks to the ground in 24 hours time, some weeks. Alaska is a great country to live in.

10x
12-04-2011, 10:15 PM
I do belive you 100%. First time at King Salmon in '83 the temp dropped to -43 with a wind chill of -74. NOBODY went outside except fireman, NO exception. At Shemya the wind blew so hard it would push trucks into each other 5-6 deep in the parking lots. It would rain, snow, sleet, fog in, sun shine, and freeze trucks to the ground in 24 hours time, some weeks. Alaska is a great country to live in.

We were lucky. When it drops below -35F the wind drops to almost nothing here . It is a nasty surprise to have a bright sunshine day that is -40F - it looks so inviting through the window.
Plastic freezes, shrinks, and breaks. Electrical contacts come apart, metal gets brittle and breaks, engines do not want to run. Windshields crack when you turn the defroster on. The first windshield on my Tundra had a section at the bottom that was heated. It took less than five minutes with the mirror/window heaters on to put the first crack in it.

4719dave
12-04-2011, 10:21 PM
Wow thanks for shareing

10x
12-04-2011, 10:54 PM
Here is a bear from my yard
http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj231/Norinco22/?action=view&current=100_2574.jpg

And part of the deer herd..
http://s273.photobucket.com/albums/jj231/Norinco22/?action=view&current=100_2684.jpg#!oZZ12QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2 Fs273.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fjj231%2FNorinco22 %2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3D100_2695.jpg