I Wanna Go Back!!!

Here's the rest of the hunting pics.... These two pics are of a moose that bub and my cousin saw the first day we were hunting.. Bub didn't shoot it because he was trying two make sure it was legal. Needless to say it was legal by 20'' or more. By the time Caleb decided it was big enough to shoot they had spooked it and it got away... We saw it the next day and tried to stock it... By the time we got into shooting rang and spotted it again all we saw of it was its rear going into the tall brush and we lost sight of him for good... Later on in the day we heard for shots..... My dad and uncle who have bear phobia were fishing and ran across two small grizzly bears.... Well the pics below tell the rest of the story... Poor teddy bears!!! Here's Doug skinning the bear hides out.... After another day of chasing bull moose around and ending up without any thing to show for it. We decided to get up early the next day and get to our hunting spot... Because they seemed to be moving around more in the early morning. This time we decided to try to call them to us instead of us going to them.. It was about two miles in and threw one swamp to get to our spot.... On the hike in we spotted a bull moose close to the spot we were headed for... Here's a pic of the view from are special spot.... It was a really amazing sight... Any how we got to our spot and found that there was two bull moose in the area... They were about a half a mile away.. So we started calling them and they took there time but started heading are way... After about an hour of calling they finally made it into shooting range.. One we could tell was legal the other one was questionable... We finally decided that the smaller one was not legal... The bigger bull started to circle us to get our sent... So bub and Doug moved up about fifty yards to cut it off from getting behind us.... Finally the moose came out into the open where we had a good shot... So bub tried to shoot it but was to shaky so Doug let him use his shoulder as a rest.. bub Finally shot but it didn't even flinch so my cousin let one fly but it still didn't drop.... So Doug shot it one more time and it finally fell........ Then all the fun like really quickly died.... :( Because now we had to cut it up and hall it out to miles..... It took all four of us two trips and twelve hours to get it out.. Bub's 73'' bull moose One night during dinner twelve bull caribou ran by the camp.. after much much firing and running across rivers and threw the trees chasing caribou, we ended up downing six of them... Boston and bear poo... need a even comment.... there both on the same level... We finally got caribou when my cousin ditched his Boston hat...




Waiting for the plane... we did this for twelve hours... the plane was late... and lets just say certain people were vary grumpy about that... I didn't mind i could have stayed out for another week.... I was mad thou that i melted a hole in my pants sitting by the fire when i was waiting for the plane to show up...

When we got back to kotzebue some people were dying for a real bed and shower so we rented a hotel room and crammed six guys in it... Umm ya it stank.... but that shower felt amazing after seven days in the wild...