From Kodiak Island

This is a bruiser I found up there a few weeks ago. Trip of a lifetime. I believe this to be a bear kill.
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MuleyMadness
What an awesome pic! :thumb

That is a big ole buck also, how was the hunting?
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HighLander
Great find...my cousin lives there!! He loves fishing with all the bears around...he shot a moose with his boiw last year...I have to get up there and hunt sometime!!
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brn2hunt
the mass is crazy on that. were you able to keep it?
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MULIES4EVER
Yes I kept it. I searched the regs and couldnt find anything that said I couldnt. I brought it home. When I got home I contacted a friend in Alaska and double checked skull finds with him. Ok to own.

I had a great hunt up there. My wife and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary there. I took 2 bucks and the meat is so incredible. I made fillet mignon Saturday night. (at least my version of it) INCREDIBLE!
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MULIES4EVER
Also the bears were really cool. We saw more bears than deer. Kodiak is 3000 square miles with 1 bear per square mile.
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beautiful!
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MuleyMadness
Nice work. Any pics of bears or your deer you took?
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MULIES4EVER
Unfortunatly I did not get any pics of bears. I met a guy up there that did and I will ask him to email me a few. I got 2 Sitka Blacktails and I do have some pictures of them. I need to post a story on it. Should I do it in the mule deer section?
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I love that place , my oldest daughter is living on Kodiak Island . Her husband is stationed in the coast Guard there. We went there fishing and visiting with them and the grand kids. They will be moving to Ohio soon !!! :>/

We fly fished the Buskin River.

We landed 100's of Dally Vardens , Pink Salmon and a couple Chum on 4 and 5 wt fly Rods .


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My favorite photo .
My grandson with a salmon on his snoopy pole !!!!!

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Beautiful place !!!!!!!!

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MuleyMadness
Sweet pics ROB!
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MULIES4EVER
Wow those pictures are great. Thanks for sharing.
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brn2hunt
that place looks awesome
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"MULIES4EVER" wrote:Wow those pictures are great. Thanks for sharing.
That is a amazing black tail rack .

When we were in Kodiak is saw a lot of black-tail racks in different homes and shops , none were that big .
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We also went fishing with my son-in law . We brought back 60 lbs of Halibut and smoked salmon. I am not a halibut fan , but the Salmon we smoked was great.

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My sun-in law , daughter and grand kids. It was a day of halibut fishing and whale watching . Boy i would love to go back !!!!!!!

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MULIES4EVER
Man the fishing looked fun. We did some whale watching ourselves. While I pulling a crab pod two humbackes surfaced near us. It was incredible.
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