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Sitka Blacktail - POW Island, AK
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<blockquote data-quote="Country Bumpkin" data-source="post: 1477408" data-attributes="member: 92230"><p>Without further adieu ..... my buck!</p><p></p><p>8/30</p><p>Let's be honest, this island offered up the most challenging terrain we have ever hunted. We both live and hunt the mountains of Central Idaho (including the Sawtooths). We are no strangers to steep and difficult hunting conditions. POW is a different animal. It's cliffy/ledgy steep, it's always wet and slippery, there's this charming plant called Devils Club, it's remote and dreary. There's nothing hospitable about this island except for the happy locals who are eager to hear if you had found success. It's a potentially dangerous place to hunt should you elect to pursue alpine bucks on the wrong mountain. There are no "trails" to these peaks so you must be comfortable with navigation, have your gear dialed, very competent with mountain hunting conditions and in top physical conditioning to stay after it for 10 days. Just think, we lost at least 3 days to weather (fortunately it was when we happened to already be down and off the peaks). In the end, we found such great satisfaction in our two bucks that we elected to simply enjoy the rest of our time on POW. We discussed it and decided that it would be both greedy and foolhardy to tempt the "Buck Gods", as Tom calls them, to pursue two more bucks in our short remaining time on the island. We ended up doing some laundry, organizing our gear, shooting some cross-canyon 650 yd rocks, and finding a nice camping site for our last two nights. We are, in our minds, rather maturely foregoing the young-and-determined week and destroy option in lieu of simply enjoying our surroundings and company before we get back to the demands of modern life as we know it. It's been a great adventure for both of us as great friends, we couldn't bare to spoil it</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Country Bumpkin, post: 1477408, member: 92230"] Without further adieu ..... my buck! 8/30 Let’s be honest, this island offered up the most challenging terrain we have ever hunted. We both live and hunt the mountains of Central Idaho (including the Sawtooths). We are no strangers to steep and difficult hunting conditions. POW is a different animal. It’s cliffy/ledgy steep, it’s always wet and slippery, there’s this charming plant called Devils Club, it’s remote and dreary. There’s nothing hospitable about this island except for the happy locals who are eager to hear if you had found success. It’s a potentially dangerous place to hunt should you elect to pursue alpine bucks on the wrong mountain. There are no “trails” to these peaks so you must be comfortable with navigation, have your gear dialed, very competent with mountain hunting conditions and in top physical conditioning to stay after it for 10 days. Just think, we lost at least 3 days to weather (fortunately it was when we happened to already be down and off the peaks). In the end, we found such great satisfaction in our two bucks that we elected to simply enjoy the rest of our time on POW. We discussed it and decided that it would be both greedy and foolhardy to tempt the “Buck Gods”, as Tom calls them, to pursue two more bucks in our short remaining time on the island. We ended up doing some laundry, organizing our gear, shooting some cross-canyon 650 yd rocks, and finding a nice camping site for our last two nights. We are, in our minds, rather maturely foregoing the young-and-determined week and destroy option in lieu of simply enjoying our surroundings and company before we get back to the demands of modern life as we know it. It’s been a great adventure for both of us as great friends, we couldn’t bare to spoil it [/QUOTE]
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