Kodiak Island Sitka Blacktail hunt

I recently came home from a Kodiak Island hunt. It was incredible. My wife and I celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary up there. The deer numbers were a little low and the hunting was hard. Last winter took its toll on the deer there. However the bag limit is still 3 deer per hunter. My wife didnt want to hunt. She loves photography and enjoyed taking pictures. I managed to take two sitka bucks and found a monster rack that is shown in my avatar. I believe it was a bear kill.
Kodiak Island is 3000 square miles with 1 bear per square mile. We saw more bears than deer. Luckily only from a distance.
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MULIES4EVER
This buck was my first buck. the smaller one was my second. I called him in.
This buck was basking in the sun. The weather started great and got progressively worse. I shot the smaller buck because time was running out and I was eager to get my second tag filled. His body was rather large for a young Sitka.
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Here is another pic of the bigger buck.
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Here is another view of the bear kill that I found.
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And the one that is now my avatar thanks to Brett. (Thanks again Brett.)
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MULIES4EVER
Well I guess I can only post it samll now. Sorry. Anyway here is a view of it on my pack. I set my pack on this stump while I was waiting for the boat to come pick me up. It looked neat so I took a pic of it.
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Here is a cool shot of the sporting goods store back in town. They had a sign that that said, "YES, WE HUNT!"

The sitka doesnt get near as big as Mule deer but the meat is tasty. They are real neat looking with their double throat patch.
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AGCHAWK
MULIES4EVER, Great pics and it looks like a great hunt too! CONGRATS!

My mother lives in Anchorage and I plan on using that as an excuse to get up there and hunt them Sitka blacktails one of these days myself.
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Looks like you had a good time. Maybe I'll have to make it Kodiak and try to get a blacktail. Nice pics.
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Those are some great looking bucks! It looks like you had a good time... What kind of rifle is that in the picture?
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MuleyMadness
Nice work, loved all the pictures. Be fun some day, but likely a long shot for me at this point.
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MULIES4EVER
It is actually more affordable than you might think. The rifle is a 7mm. I also brought my bow but it got messed up at the airport. :>/
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brn2hunt
congrats that looks awesome
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Hiker
Nice job on your Sitka Blacktails. They would be a kick to hunt.
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H#ll ha i went to kodiok 2 years a go. my dad and i won a free hunt to larssen bay or uyak bay. i killed two buck and my and killed one my friend Josh killed two buck and his dad killed one. one of my buck score 115. and the other score 98 my dad was a really old two point. my big was the big for buck for the year at our guide. the my friend Josh killed one the was a hear bigger a that was the biggest one. then our guide killed the # 3 non ti. it was a 5 by 5 and we seen only one bear the tip. it was about a 12 foot borr.
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that really looks like larren bay and some of the mountain we climed
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silvertip-co
Cool pics. Good to see non tourist shots of Kodiak. Nice lookin buck too. COngrats.
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killerbee
"the king of muley" wrote:H#ll ha i went to kodiok 2 years a go. my dad and i won a free hunt to larssen bay or uyak bay. i killed two buck and my and killed one my friend Josh killed two buck and his dad killed one. one of my buck score 115. and the other score 98 my dad was a really old two point. my big was the big for buck for the year at our guide. the my friend Josh killed one the was a hear bigger a that was the biggest one. then our guide killed the # 3 non ti. it was a 5 by 5 and we seen only one bear the tip. it was about a 12 foot borr.
 HUH? :))
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