I live below sea level -40 ft in the Imperial Valley California. Drove up to the North Rim Grand Canyon to hunt Merriam’s at +8,000 ft.
Arrived the afternoon before opener and drove around not seeing anything until about an hour before sunset. So close to sunset I figured they’d be roosting...
Capes salted, skull caps boiled.
Majority of my waterfowl were skinned and salted to reduce weight and volume but some were frozen whole.
Drying the capes is difficult along the coast but easy inland away from the coastal moisture.
Hunting in Kentucky was never on my bucket list but now that my sister (CA born and raised) moved there last spring, I’m wanting to get an Eastern Turkey there. I’ve killed all the subspecies and Ocellated but haven’t pursued the Eastern yet.
Also I’ve never killed a whitetail deer, not counting...
Found a way to get an Alaska Airline flight direct to Anchorage from Los Angeles, so that means I have more confidence in taking my lab with me.
After arriving in Anchorage I take an Alaska Airlines flight out to Adak.
In the past I always booked it all together as one booking and it always had...
Hunted from a boat. You can kill commons from shore or an island but not the kings, they prefer open sea far from shore and deep water. They seem to like clusters of icebergs.