Great Alaska Hunting Pictures

[crabo]

www.adn.com/bighunt

[starmac]

Great photos.

[LUCKYDAWG13]

yes those aer real nice thanks

[Bad Water Bill]

Great photos but I wonder about some comments and common sense.

One photo showed a polar bear with the comment "shot with a 243 at 150 feet"

Who in their right mind would try that?

[P.K.]

"First mosse with a .223." These are Inuit folks right?

[10x]

Those photos are the stuff that dreams are made of

They are great memories - thank you for sharing them.

[lbaize3]

Wow! Talk about "Wish I was there!"

[clodhopper]

Great photos but I wonder about some comments and common sense.

One photo showed a polar bear with the comment "shot with a 243 at 150 feet"

Who in their right mind would try that?

A person who had a polar bear approaching to 150 feet that carried a .243!
I wonder how many polar bears and moose have been killed with .22 hornet or even .22 long rifle.
Both much more effective than a spear.

[BruceB]

Somewhere here I have a photograph taken by a friend in Coppermine, Northwest Territories. The village sits on the shore of Coronation Gulf, part of the Arctic Ocean.

The photo shows seven polar-bear hides hanging on a clothesline in winter. All those bears were taken with a .223!

The natives generally use their seal rifles for everything, and this includes bear and caribou. Since the .223 is by far the most-popular seal rifle.....

Of course, it helps to have a dog team helping to distract the bear (the dogs are turned loose when the hunter nears the bear).

[BOOM BOOM]

Hi,
wow,
how to make the rest of us envious.

[MT Gianni]

A person who had a polar bear approaching to 150 feet that carried a .243!
I wonder how many polar bears and moose have been killed with .22 hornet or even .22 long rifle.
Both much more effective than a spear.

My idea of a genius is the person that put the crossbar on the spear 24" from your hands so the bear couldn't run all the way up the spear and kill you before he died.

[P.K.]

Somewhere here I have a photograph taken by a friend in Coppermine, Northwest Territories. The village sits on the shore of Coronation Gulf, part of the Arctic Ocean.

The photo shows seven polar-bear hides hanging on a clothesline in winter. All those bears were taken with a .223!

The natives generally use their seal rifles for everything, and this includes bear and caribou. Since the .223 is by far the most-popular seal rifle.....

Of course, it helps to have a dog team helping to distract the bear (the dogs are turned loose when the hunter nears the bear).
Thank you sir! That's why I asked, for I had no idea on native affairs aside what I see on "Alaska State Troopers."

[starmac]

Great photos but I wonder about some comments and common sense.

One photo showed a polar bear with the comment "shot with a 243 at 150 feet"

Who in their right mind would try that?

Very few natives have magnumitus, they learned long ago that you can't kill them deader than dead. lol

[Bad Water Bill]

Somewhere here I have a photograph taken by a friend in Coppermine, Northwest Territories. The village sits on the shore of Coronation Gulf, part of the Arctic Ocean.

The photo shows seven polar-bear hides hanging on a clothesline in winter. All those bears were taken with a .223!

The natives generally use their seal rifles for everything, and this includes bear and caribou. Since the .223 is by far the most-popular seal rifle.....

Of course, it helps to have a dog team helping to distract the bear (the dogs are turned loose when the hunter nears the bear).

Thanks for the info Bruce.

223 0n polar bears,moose etc is a good reason for really learning and becoming proficient at SHOT PLACEMENT.

[starmac]

There is a guy, that post on AOD a lot, I don't think he is native, but is married to one and gets to subsistence hunt and fish. He uses an old mosin for everything, even the full metal jackets.
He hunts and fishes for a living year round and it works fine for him.

[scrapcan]

looks like caribou in picture 15 might have been taken with a 10-22.

And then later on a seal taken with an Aleut throwing board ( aka atlatl and dart). that is cool!

[.45Cole]

Looks like a few caribou were taken with a 10/22!!! Looks like a lot of fun up there.

[greywuuf]

Most of the 'Boo taken with a .22 are taken while crossing the river. one GMU here has a provision that swimming 'Boo may be shot. the practice is to shoot em in the ear while along side in a boat. it is not hunting, it is a subsistence "gathering" method.