The official Unit 13 caribou thread. (2013-2014)

[.300wby]

Looks like someone is fishing. :lol: And of course getting bites.

 

[Steve_O]

Any word on the Federal Subsistence tags. I read somewhere that Fed lands are still open for Fed subsistence hunting just facilities are closed. For some of us that may be an option but.....

 

[Dirtofak]

This is a meat hunt.

Killem and grillem.

 

[Mr. Grayling]

There is not going to be a winter hunt. Was hoping to get another chance.

 

[GAredneck]

There is not going to be a winter hunt. Was hoping to get another chance.

Nope! Might as well file your report on line and make you a tag sandwich. The wife and I ate ours the other day LOL! We too were hoping for a late season.

 

[hodgeman]

Any word on the Federal Subsistence tags. I read somewhere that Fed lands are still open for Fed subsistence hunting just facilities are closed. For some of us that may be an option but.....

Steve- if you read the EO it states the Federal hunt will remain open. IF you already have tags...there's no one in BLM Glenallen to issue tags due to the furlough.

Looking forward to getting out again with the kid with the long fall we've been having.

 

[jmg]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/17/world/europe/uk-yeti-dna-mystery/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

 

[holtsy907]

Good man!

A friend has been trying for a bison permit probably as long as there has been such a thing, with no luck.

He finally said this year, if I'd just kept that money, I could have saved it up and used it to shoot one of the farm raised ones in Delta.

your friend must be 200 years old?

 

[akbrnbear]

This will be my first unit 13 hunt. Does every one camp at the parking lots and atv i
n for day trips, or do they pack a camp in for the week?

 

[hodgeman]

This will be my first unit 13 hunt. Does every one camp at the parking lots and atv i
n for day trips, or do they pack a camp in for the week?

I've done both. Largely depends on what the caribou are doing and what your goals are. I've shot caribou 30 miles in and 30 yards from the road.

 

[AK Bearcat]

This will be my first unit 13 hunt. Does every one camp at the parking lots and atv i
n for day trips, or do they pack a camp in for the week?

It depends are where you are going to hunt. For us when we hunt the Eureka area, we go back in and set up a camp. There are some long stretches before getting into the area that caribou area 'normally' in. If we are hunting the Denali highway, then we set up camp along the road and hunt from there. As has already been stated we have shot caribou from where we were camp to 10-15 miles back in. The main thing is to find some place that you can get high and sit an watch the area. Caribou are moving all of the time. Just because you may not see any right now does not mean that they are not there.
Good luck

 

[JOAT]

I know it is just a really small sampling of Unit 13, but I drive the Glenn Highway constantly and there are more caribou between Eureka and Glennallen over the last 3 months than I've seen in the last 13 years of driving that road. At least a dozen caribou have been road killed in the last 2 weeks alone. Last night I drove the route in the late night with a lot of fresh snow coming down the entire way. I only had to break for one cluster of a half dozen standing in the road, but there were batches of fresh tracks crossing the road at least every 100 yards, especially from Lake Louise road all the way to downtown Glennallen. It's just nuts to see that many caribou in that area.

While the dramatic increase in sightings of bou on the Glenn might be pure coincidence, it is interesting that this increase coincides with the year that ADF&G claimed the #'s were drastically down (per their air survey back in July) and the hunt quota was cut by something around 2/3 with the winter hunt shut off entirely.

Bad air survey count?

The herd heard that the winter hunt was cancelled so they all went to Glennallen for the winter?

They started breeding like rabbits and using A-Rod's growth hormone... er, I mean "protein powder", to get full sized babies double quick?

Global warming?

Yeti?

It's the same dozen caribou wandering back and forth along the Glenn making frequent crossing marks in an attempt to fool the enemy into thinking they have a much larger force?

 

[anchskier]

I know it is just a really small sampling of Unit 13, but I drive the Glenn Highway constantly and there are more caribou between Eureka and Glennallen over the last 3 months than I've seen in the last 13 years of driving that road. At least a dozen caribou have been road killed in the last 2 weeks alone. Last night I drove the route in the late night with a lot of fresh snow coming down the entire way. I only had to break for one cluster of a half dozen standing in the road, but there were batches of fresh tracks crossing the road at least every 100 yards, especially from Lake Louise road all the way to downtown Glennallen. It's just nuts to see that many caribou in that area.

While the dramatic increase in sightings of bou on the Glenn might be pure coincidence, it is interesting that this increase coincides with the year that ADF&G claimed the #'s were drastically down (per their air survey back in July) and the hunt quota was cut by something around 2/3 with the winter hunt shut off entirely.

Bad air survey count?

The herd heard that the winter hunt was cancelled so they all went to Glennallen for the winter?

They started breeding like rabbits and using A-Rod's growth hormone... er, I mean "protein powder", to get full sized babies double quick?

Global warming?

Yeti?

It's the same dozen caribou wandering back and forth along the Glenn making frequent crossing marks in an attempt to fool the enemy into thinking they have a much larger force?

See the story here: http://www.adn.com/2014/01/13/3271983/change-in-caribou-migration-could.html

Not a case of more caribou, just a change in their winter migration, or lack of migration, this year for whatever reason. Apparently only about 1/3 of the herd migrated to the normal winter grounds this year while normally it is about 90% that goes.

 

[.300wby]

A change "back" maybe. Years ago, there used to be lots of bou that were all over the roads ALL winter long (Eureka, Glennallen, entire Denali hwy, Lake Louise rd. etc.) And I'm talking a good bit more than 13 yrs. back. probably just reverting back on migration a bit. I think people forget.... Or just weren't around to know it's not so unusual. So, now that a handfull have been hit, they better get a "hot spot" hunt going ASAP! (Joke) Like Valley nuisance moose hunts (which really are a joke)

 

[SkinnyD]

Finding Bigfoot - coming to the Interior

Finding Bigfoot - coming to the Interior

http://www.newsminer.com/blogs/staf...cle_eab4c16c-f5ca-11e3-b69d-0017a43b2370.html

I can't wait for the results of their research.

 

[AK Ray]

http://www.newsminer.com/blogs/staf...cle_eab4c16c-f5ca-11e3-b69d-0017a43b2370.html

I can't wait for the results of their research.

So they googled AK and came up with the Yeti posts and think it is credible....

BTW, our work firewall blocks the news minus since it is a "credible source of malware/viruses"....

"Geeze, you send out one popup ad, and the government shuts you down."

 

[bearpawoutdoors]

Is there any updates on the caribou in unit 13? I drew a tag and was wondering if it would be a good hunt to take my small kids on? They will not hike a ton, but I want to get the kids outdoors.

Derek

 

[danmiotke]

Had to save this lady from one last weekend, I was hunting 4 miles off the Denali between Paxson and Cantwell


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[Tearbear]

Yep, sure looks like she needed to be saved! :topjob:

 

[Mammoth Hunter]

Dude, you got there just in time! That's the start of thier mating pattern......then again maybe you should have waited