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I’ve always had a thirst for adventure and a passion for remote
wilderness hunting and this adventure will take Mgrs. Ruth
Cusack, my good friend Andrew Mueller and me to the southern
end of the Alaska Peninsula on a quest for big, coastal brown
bear. Andy’s looking to take his first brown bear and I am on the
hunt for a real trophy class bear. Mgrs. Ruth took a great coastal
brown bear in the spring season of 2012 and she is tagged out
until fall of 2015. So for this adventure, she will be shooting a
camera.
Hailed by some as the land of the smoking giants, the Alaska
Peninsula is well known for its rugged beauty, a long list of active
volcanos and home to some of the largest salmon runs and brown
bear in the world. Each year, tourists travel to the peninsula from
all parts of the globe to visit, fish, explore and hunt this beautiful
area of our state and although it is only 350 miles as the crow
flies from our home, we’re just as excited to go there as any one
of them!
Hunting brown bears on the Alaska Peninsula comes with its own
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set of challenges and we’re headed back to
the land where if you don’t bring it, you don’t
have it and if something goes wrong, it’s all on
you! This is wh ere the 40-foot waves are seen
crashing across the bows of the boats on “The Deadliest Catch”,
slam against the shoreline and where the wind can blast you off
the tundra. Our destination is the southern end of the peninsula
and we are excited for the opportunity to test our wit and our
skills against the best and the worst Mother Nature has to offer.
Hunt Preparation:
Remote wilderness hunting in Alaska requires more than
competence with a bow or rifle. The logistics of a hunt like this
requires a lot of planning and my motto has always been: “Plan
Your Hunt and Hunt Your Plan.”
Hunt preparation begins almost a year prior to our departure,
where the logistics of getting gear, food and flights must be
coordinated well in advance to ensure that everyone and
everything arrives on location.
There are many ways to plan a hunt like this and one of our first
decisions is route and
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