HUNTING IN ALASKA AND WHAT TO EXPECT

Hunting for Alaskan Big Game

Hunting big game in Alaska is a substantial investment, not only financially but includes spending a lot of time preparing, researching, and planning to find a reputable Guide/Outfitter hunting service for your hunt. Alaska Bush Adventures knows the importance of providing in-depth logistical information to prepare our client’s before, during and after the their trip in hopes of ensuring a great Alaskan hunting experience.

We are not a fly-by-night hunting service and we believe action speaks louder than words and that our “hands on knowledge” of the our GUA’s, local game populations and the habitat where you will be hunting is beneficial and relevant in your choice of a Guide Outfitter. 

Alaska has a healthy Big game population of Moose, Caribou, Brown Bear, Black Bear, and Wolves, but in part, due to its size has fewer big game animals per square mile than any other state. They are in general thriving best in remote regions of the state with the type of habitat that is vital to sustain them year round and have not been over hunted for decades due to easy access and being close to heavily populated areas.

Year after year we have learned something new and or a better way to fine tune the Alaska hunting services we make available to our client’s. Because of the financial investment and what a hunting experience of a lifetime like this represents to you, we encourage you to call us to discuss in detail our services and to better answer your questions. There is a lot to go over about the infrastructure, full-service logistics, and a variety of useful services in Anchorage for taking care of your harvested game.

Our river base camps have comfortable accommodations and offer one a great chance for harvesting Moose, Brown/Grizzly Bear and Black Bear. We have large 15′ x 20′ wall tents for common use & dining with ample table fare, large 3 burner propane stoves for cooking meals, a wood stove for heat, hot showers, generators for power, a refrigerator/freezer to keep food items fresh, a hot water showers and an toilet outhouse.

Hunters sleep in 6-man extreme weather-type tents on full-size cots with sleeping pads. The base camps will have an Iridium Satellite phone for communications and emergency use. Client’s can use the phones to contact love ones but we ask to keep the call to about 5 minutes. The Guides have video cameras to capture the daily activities, the hunt and actual harvesting of your big game animal for you. Our Guided Client’s will hunt for Moose using Jon boats powered by jet-drive outboard motors which provide a huge advantage when traveling within the rivers shallow branches, ox bows and back water sloughs where Bull Moose are rutting and gathering up their cows to breed. 

The DIY river float hunting trips for Moose, are fully outfitted/supplied with camping equipment/gear and a generous arrangements of food/drinks for your meals. These hunts are also outfitted/supplied with rafts, cargo platforms, rowing frames, oars, life jackets and the balance of the necessary equipment to complete this type of a float hunt for Moose. All you will need provide is your hunting and personal gear . The Alaskan Barren Ground Caribou hunts are fully outfitted/supplied fly out spike camp hunts that take place in the low rolling foot hills on the Northwestern side of the Alaska Range. You will be provided a “suggested personal gear list” and detailed lists of all the equipment/supplies, food and drinks included by Alaska Bush Adventures for your hunting trips in Alaska.

We strongly suggest taking advantage of the information provided on the FAQ (frequently asked questions) page within this website, as it will have these lists and much more helpful information to help prepare you better for a hunt with Alaska Bush Adventures. We provide our clients with a complete Itinerary of the logistics and information to illuminate the other types of services available to them. Information on Hotels, Bush Plane flights, Meat, and Trophy care options, and shipping info to get your game home. Meat processors, Taxidermists, Expediting Services, a Suggested Equipment List, and much more. We encourage you to also contact our references as often, they are happy to share their experiences with you and are able to answer some of your questions in a different light providing valuable first-hand knowledge.