My last shed hunting trip I scored an awesome set of ram horns. From the looks of it, they have been out for a few years.


I also went on a camping trip with a couple of younger guys. Both have never caught a sheep, never shot their rifles besides the sight in before the hunt. They were eager to learn and full of questions, their back packs were also pretty small. I took them to a place called Ram-bo, its not on a map and their is no traditional name for it. Rambo came through and we ended up scoring a couple nice rams.


Of course I packed one sheep and the younger guys split the other ram. Reality hits them when we start our long hike down the mountain, sheep meat is pretty heavy!

yippee sheep pics already. Nice you took the boys out but next time buy them huge back packs and you take the small one. Help the boys build some character.

Looks like fun I should try and do that if the dumb rain and wind ever stops.
Nunamuit: ring seals in fresh water; is there a way to hook them before they sink when you shoot them?

I promise to have more pics next trip. We actually seen another 2 groups of Rams further back in the valley. One group of 8 which look like some nice Rams for sure! I have a couple of extra backup packs that they will get to use for sure. I was making fun of their packs,"Why did you bring your college packs guys? Sheep school requires bigger packs!"

All the seal hunting I did on the coast was in a boat, all you can do is haul arse and harpoon them before they sink. If we hunted from the shore in small stretches of water before the lead ice went out we used big grapple hook like "Da King of Da Swap" with about 100' of parachute cord. Swing that thing like an old school sling and throw past the seal, then pull back until you feel the hook hit the seal and pull hard to sink the hook in. Oh I miss hunting seals!

OK I'll have to get some of them grapple hooks for seal. Mine sunk like a rock. Could see blood and ukaruk but could not hook it with a hook or drag. Water was three meters deep.

If you can see the blood and oil coming up you would need to anchor your boat about twenty-thirty feet away and use a hook with lead weight on it. Make sure the hook is sharp. You can loop lead weights or steel on the bottom of the hook where the prongs bend. We usually hunt in shallow water here and are easy to harpoon with a metal deep water spear. Most of the time we try to harpoon first or shoot the nose and then harpoon.

Can you post a picture of your seal recovery system? Sounds like what Da king of Da Swamp uses but be nice to see one. I will have to make a couple.

I am traveling for work right now, will probably head home at end of the month, will post a few pics of it then. For now, here is a pic of my 6.5 grendel I built this summer.

Check this out, all the way from Canada. Even has a picture of Muskrat and Boco on the back.

Ok YukonJeff you got me. I'll be the one on the left.
You will be dressing like TheWildNorth this winter. Have to start watching you videos just for all the cursing.

I can't find the muskrat. I think I see a beaver, though..........

Hey all, how it is going? Just dropping in and checking in. Been a while. Still working on the cabin and back to school. Been crazy.

Will try and get some pictures up of the cabin. Working on the inside now, but going much slower as I like to take time to do some fishing now that it is enclosed.

-TJ

Good to hear from you !! Our spelling has suffered without you.

For the seal hunters, Not sure what your tides are like where you hunt but the old timers in SE Alaska would go into little inlets that had fresh water coming into them at high tide and shoot seals as close to shore as possible. They would sink like rocks. The hunters would then wait for the tide to go out and they would just pick up the seals from the beach as the water receded.

Our tides are not that great. That won't work up here. Next time I'm going to wait for it to climb up on the beach before I shoot it.

Muskrat
Here on the Yukon, all seals are hunted in fresh water. The trick is....don't kill them. Use a shotgun and harpoon it before you kill it. folks here will yell at you if you shoot when its too close, or you hit it too hard and it sinks. Bad jew jew then.

Also, some make throwing spears and spear it first, then harpoon it, and then shoot it. I have a set of spears and a thrower around here somewhere.

That will be my plan next time then and plus I'm still waiting for pictures of the king of da Swamp treble hook from "That Fool". Make one of those and follow your plan and I should be good to go next ring seal I see.

You think the bad l;uck was why I did not see any caribou yesterday? Saw a monster bull moose though. Its rack took up the entire creek it was soaking in.

Cloud berries are almost ripe were going to check the closer patches this afternoon.

Muskrat shoot it in the head and than speed to it and harpoon it. We got 6 bearded seals this summer over 8 feet long that way. Only way I know of.

Bring plenty of shells = lots of fun. keep them underwater ,they tire, then get easy to harpoon.