How does one approach an elk hunt on Afognak?

I am guessing their are boat outfits that will float you over to the rock and pick you up weather permitting at the end?

I guess the hard part is killing an elk and ending up with any of it not being bear food.

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Originally posted by D99:
How does one approach an elk hunt on Afognak?

I am guessing their are boat outfits that will float you over to the rock and pick you up weather permitting at the end?

I guess the hard part is killing an elk and ending up with any of it not being bear food.

Lots of transporters in Kodiak, Air or water. Guides are available. I killed a huge dry cow in Malina Bay 10 yrs ago. You gut the animal fast then move the meat as fast as possible, Shooting a Bear that claims your kill aint DLP

Well there are two draw times, mid Sept and Late Sept-early Oct. Once the draw hunts are done any left over qouta goes to registration. There are a few boats that will take you but the cost is pretty steep, better off flying. The bulls don't get very big and the success rate is something like 15%. The mid Sept hunt is tough because all the alders still have leaves. Did that hunt a few years back, my hunting partner missed a nice 5x5 on that hunt.



I've been a couple other times on a friends boat and haven't seen anything. We went last fall in early Nov. Here's the group we were after.



Here's some pics of the 3 bulls we took. Did I mention they are huge not to mention we were 2 miles from the beach.





We went over on a 60' cod/crab boat that a friend of a friend owns. It was nice sleeping in a bunk instead of with the bears. Of course we got one bull out the first night but had to leave the other two. A sow and two cubs had claimed the carcass and a nice 9' boar had drug off the 4x4. We were able to chase them off without too much of a problem and also able to salvage most of the meat from this guy.



A lot of packing, but the ride home was nice.

Awesome thanks for sharing.