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Everyone has been up all night waiting for ADFG to update thier site on this years draw results.
Me too!
Come on Santa!

what time are results available?

By noon today as per ADFG

The results are up! I pulled a DC485 Nelchina Caribou tag so I'm pretty stoked! Now to just get up there this spring and do some exploring as I've never been there before!

The wife got her DC485 Caribou and is stoked as well as her friend
Women folks did good men folks nada on draws this year.

I have just as much luck buying Powerball tickets when I travel Outside. No soap. Good luck to those who won.

Only put in for three tags for me and two for Joyce all low percentage draws. Needless to say ----- didn't draw.

I also drew DC485. It gives me an option to go hunt the Denali hwy or up the Taylor hwy now

0 for 18. Congrats to all that drew!

Wifey and I both drew a big goose egg. Looks like I'm doing the five mile death march for caribou this year.

My son drew DC485 also.
Me, I'll be a tag along as I drew nothing, but most of my requests are for sheep which we all know are usually pretty low % on the draw.

I hedged my bets this year and at least got the Tier 1 caribou for Unit 13. Has anyone used a transporter/fly in service to the herd's core area? I normally hunt off the Denali Highway, but I want better chances and avoid the shit show that's been developing there.

I think Cal Pappas used a fly-in last year? I'll look through last years posts to double check.

Well........wife and I did "OK" this year. She drew DM 413 the winter cow moose hunt. I drew DC 485 and will join the fracas up North, but.........I also drew DX 003 Nunivak Island spring musk ox hunt!!!!!!!!

My wife didn't draw dc485 and she's the only one I know that didn't. I drew that one last year and shot a cow in the non motorized area. I did draw west Ugak bay brown bear on kodiak and archery moose on JBer.

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Originally posted by BrettAKSCI:
Well........wife and I did "OK" this year. She drew DM 413 the winter cow moose hunt. I drew DC 485 and will join the fracas up North, but.........I also drew DX 003 Nunivak Island spring musk ox hunt!!!!!!!!

Congrats!

That is going to be awesome. Is the same guy still transporting over there?

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Originally posted by Big Wonderful Wyoming:

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Originally posted by BrettAKSCI:
Well........wife and I did "OK" this year. She drew DM 413 the winter cow moose hunt. I drew DC 485 and will join the fracas up North, but.........I also drew DX 003 Nunivak Island spring musk ox hunt!!!!!!!!

Congrats!

That is going to be awesome. Is the same guy still transporting over there?

Not sure which one you are talking about. There are at least 4 doing it. I'm going with James Whitman. I believe he's been doing it for over 30 years.

Brett

Mike Meekin/Blue Ice, or Lee's, or McMahan should all be able to get you in there.

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Originally posted by A7Dave:
I hedged my bets this year and at least got the Tier 1 caribou for Unit 13. Has anyone used a transporter/fly in service to the herd's core area? I normally hunt off the Denali Highway, but I want better chances and avoid the shit show that's been developing there.

I think Cal Pappas used a fly-in last year? I'll look through last years posts to double check.

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Next Year.....

Friend from Ketchikan drew a unit 13 bou tag. So we can hunt together again this year. I just do the subsistence hunt. I've got (my spot) . Farthest I've had to sled one out is 360 yards. This year a young friend packed one from 373 yards for me. His fault as he didn't want me to throw my bou sled in the truck.
The trick to hunting the shit storm is . DON'T GO UP THERE ON THE WEEKENDS !!!!
I mostly hunt Tuesday,Wednesday and Thursday. My wife works at The Hub so we know when all the Anchorage and Valley hunters are enmass.
The other trick is, find a good spot and stay glued to it. I watch a hundred rigs go back and forth all day long. Back and forth, back and forth. No horns or hooves showin. While I fill my pickup.
I've had plenty of guys get ants in their pants after half an hour, jump in their rig and before they are out of sight up the road there are a dozen bou standing out in the muskeg. I get there before daylight and park . So some knuckle head can't say I'm hiring in on their spot.
The other mistake / hilarious thing I see people do . Is try to put the sneak on a band of caribou in the brush. All those eyes, ears and noses, Noisey brush, ect.
There are places a caribou will tolerate movement and noise, out in the brush is not that place.
Course , it took me several years to figure out how to hunt migratory caribou.