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Is anybody interested in sharing a boat for a self guided fall black bear hunt out of Homer.The transporter is Alaska Coastal Marine.The hunt cost is $2450 each for 6 people.A $500 deposit is required to book the week from each person.The hunt would be the last week in September.This appears to be an excellent outfit with a great reputation.You can check out their website if you have any questions or PM me. Thanks It's always so quiet when the goldfish die.(Bror Blixen) DRSS Merkel 470 NE | ||
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What are the services included for the $2450? Is it just the boat ride to an island and back? Mike Legistine actu quod scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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Six people plus on a boat is pretty crowded .How many skiffs do you have to get to hunting areas? Late September the weather is somtimes a factor even in southeast were I live can get nasty that late. Good luck , if it doesn't rain and flood the streams you will probably do good. outfitter,southeast Alaska, brown bear, black bear ,mt goat | |||
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Late Sept in South Central,  Cook Inlet / Kenai peninsula / PWS is 90% of the time(last 10yrs)Good hunting weather. Although a week is not very long!! | |||
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What do the other expenses run? License, transport, etc? This is exactly the type of hunt I've been thinking of doing. -+-+- "If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun." - The Dalai Lama | |||
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It's not uncommon for the first cold, clear, wintery weather to show in late September but targeting pink salmon streams for bears is past prime. The pink salmon in PWS usually stage at their spawning streams toward the end of August and with the typically heavy rains of September, surge up stream to spawn. Trouble is that they weaken fast, spawn, and die and get washed out of the creeks. In addition, the beach grass is no longer a good food source and if the berry crop is good, that's where the bruins will be. Bears actually put on a lot more fat from the berries than fish anyway (good ol' carbs vs. spent protein and whatever fat is left on the fish). That being said, the bears don't disappear, they just don't spend as much time along the shoreline as they would when the fish are fresh in early/mid September. If I were boat hunting fall blackies, I'd target an earlier period and be prepared to sort through some fish hungry bears. | |||
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PWS what week would you say would be prime.I have tried to send PMs to all that had guestions. It's always so quiet when the goldfish die.(Bror Blixen) DRSS Merkel 470 NE | |||
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RSM, If I had to hedge my bet, I'd go the beginning to middle of September for maximum number of bears on the salmon streams. The bruins know when to make a move on the fresh fish arriving into the freshwater. It is true that different salmon species in different drainages have different run timings but generally, the pinks, (which are everywhere being intertidal spawners), are done by the end of September. Silver salmon, however, will be in the streams as late as the end of October but not in huge numbers. Later on, bears will swing by the streams to grab a fish or two instead of camping out on them. If optimum timing for you is late September, you still will have good hunting, just not the absolute best the coastline offers. I'm not familiar with Katchemak Bay so you might be targeting berry slopes for some spot and stalk hunting anyway. Be prepared for rain no matter when in September though! Hope this helps! | |||
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PWS is right on I would say. the earlier in September the better the pink runs and better the weather . If the streams flood out due to heavy rains hunting can be tough. There is a reason they don't open the season in August would be to easy for use hunters. outfitter,southeast Alaska, brown bear, black bear ,mt goat | |||
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15 & 7 are open all year for Blackies. Boating out of Homer I dought they will motor to PWS even unit 7 seward is a long trip around & no hunting in Kenai Fjords Nat. Park  | |||
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