Good morning Eska, Yes I agree with that, all the newcomers like their high velocity Weatherby’s or Ultra Mags.
You should post an article or some historical facts about what the Alaskan Scouts used during WW2 when they assisted the US Army in defending Alaska from the japanes invasion.
I would but I need to get to work here in Wasilla, I just flew back in from Modesto, Ca last evening, my mother passed away friday morning and I have been gone since thursday.
Condolences on your mom’s passing.
Most everybody out here has old military guns, WWI & WWII vintage, some M1's and nowadays AK's too for caribou. I'm an AR guy myself, have 5 and plan on getting a few more. I killed a few caribou last year with 6.8 SPC and just got an AR-10 338 fed.
Quite a few locals are getting those Russkie Mosins for $110. They are super cheap, accurate, and if ya leave it in a cabin and river tourist steals it, no big deal.p>Been to potlatches where there were 30-40 guns on the floor for gifts, all 30-30's. Indians think 30-30's have some spiritual power and more grizz have been killed with them than any other gun by the local Indians.
I like weatherbys also, ha, have a couple 30-378 mags. I keep telling the wife I need a barret 50 to pay on over the nx winter for those long shots up on summit, maybe she sez.
My nephew just got back from Afghan, stationed in Anch with AK Air Guard, para rescue. Those guys go get what state police can't due to resources. Back last month a helo was shot down and 2 PJ teams had to go in get them. My nephew was with another PJ dropped near chopper, but pilot was dead. Other pilot was 400 yards up on hillside and another team dropped in to get him. Soon as they got on the ground, Afghans opened up and also hit their blackhawk and flight engineer; left the nephew & other pj on ground and flew back to base. He was stuck there for 5 hours getting shot at every 15 minutes. They were hiding under rocks and didn't think they were going to make it out of there. Afghans started firing on downed bird and blew it up, nephew had to run down ravine to get outta there. Anyway, 5 hours later A-10s and apaches showed up, rocketed the Afgahns outta there and they got out without losing anybody else. Nice writeup in AF paper about incident, check it out. Nephew just got back to AK 2 days back. I wonder if shooting a bunch of caribou will even interest him anymore after what he experienced in Afghan? Check it out, good read. http://www.bagram.afcent.af.mil/news...p?id=123254042