Jim in Anchorage

Hard to do when you're only 4 foot tall.

I was on a fly in float out river moose hunt. The Kashwitna,if you care to look on a map. Just me. Super cub drops me off on a sand bar. Plan is to use my 11 foot inflatable raft to float the 30 miles out, hunting along the way. Well it was geting late when I was dropped off so I just set my tent up and did some moose calls nearby. Climb out of the tent next morning and damned if a legal bull is not standing right where I was calling the day before, beating his anthers on a bush. I shoot him and he drops like a stone. 30-06 180 Nosler if you're interested. Now the work begins. I spent all that day cutting up moose meat into chunks I can carry and get in the raft.The meat stayed near camp, I had no choice. Now the Kash is full of salmon, therefore bears brown and black. That night I get woke up by some thing swatting at the tent. hard, angery swatting. I am scared silly and start shooting blindly with my revolver. The swatting stops so I get my flashlight and go out and find a very dead brown bear next to the tent. Now I know some of the posters on this thread will call me a coward for doing that but I can live with it.

This whole thread got dumped?

Oh I am going to to enjoy our next weekend phone call. Me- "are you sure that's J&M? I thought it was Pat's? Turk[old nick name] You know, I think you're right. How did you know that? Only my hairdresser knows for sure.

I will not tell you the stories because you would be incapable of understanding them in your urban world. Nor do I care to pass on my Alaska hunting stories to someone who cannot understand, much less appreciate them. Go on, bait me. You will never understand a Grizz trying to rip your head off till you have shoved a gun in his face and blew his brains all over your sleeping bag. Enough. Now go shop for grapes and let me be a coward.

Well that's all fine and dandy. How does that relate to me who go's on solo fly in/float out moose Hunt's on a bear infested river?

Good. Been in some situations where it was me or the Brown bear. Looks like I won, sorry to disappoint you.

Well then maybe the locals need to get off their ass and use the rich resources they have. Are not the colony days over?

Yeah the guides never hire locals. The huge permit money all goes to the guide. Think, then type.

Uh huh. The hunter that dumped thousands into a impoverished African country is bad.

Fine English rifles do not jam sir. Perhaps you had a unsatisfactory experience with a rifle from the Continent? You city slickers never fail to amaze me. A life or death shot pulled off, and you wish the gun jammed?

Ahh. Here Kitty Kitty- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9D64GKHhBw Thats how you handle cats.

Is that line from a movie? I often see it here and have no idea what it means.

I choose to keep it brief. Could go on all day.

Exactly. His coach turned into a pumpkin long ago but the dough still rolls in.

Ah a true Bills fan. .500 is fantastic.

And the poor kid will grow up with the nick name "Cockroach".

Could be just a hurt paw. Or maybe the dog didn't wash his hands after going to the bathroom.

Is that where you learned it? [i assume you don't lick yourself?]

Says the guy with 15,000 posts on Bills forum :P

I thought it was unisex like Pat? Classic SNL skit BTW. "Its Pat!"

Well I have the cash to decorate my home with chrome bumpers and pink flamingos if I wish. I choose not to.

No, he went with moon unit.

How can someone with such poor taste acquire so much money? A full size horse statue with a lampshade on it's head?

Was he good about washing his hands?