http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=084174

Brushing up on shot placement! The link has some great cross sections of several animals. He's geared to bow hunting, but the info is great.




You may have to copy the URL to your browser, I couldn't make it a link.

Nope. Folks from around Palmer.

Weather has been absolutely awful !

Aknative Here is url that will work. Pretty cool stuff.

Thanks Len!

Glad you are alright, and back.

Same here. It was a loooooooooong 3 weeks !

A good friend of mine & his son popped a goat a couple days ago,....

Fine looking Billygoat there,,nice looking country!

Good looking goat



Got to watch my son harvest his first big game animal.

Lots of good stuff going on with kids hunting these days

I get alot more joy watching the kids get after the critters, its fun, but I still like to get after them also, he was bragging about it, then the ol' man had to walk up the dang hill and show him how its done LOL both are our first bou's

are we going to hear the story of everything that happened ken?

Looking good Okie !


222. Well heck I left here to go to the saw bones and have some tests. While waiting in town I planned to do some work while I had some down time waiting for other stuff. Soon as I got online my network card died so i couldn't contact the folks I needed to send digital engineering drawings to. Then Barb realized she couldn't remember the password to retrieve voice mail off the cell phone. Meanwhile, people are leaving messages. Important messages.

Next day friends from Wisconsin show up and we start an extensive road trip. After a few days around the state we head for Dawson. One of my favorite places. We pass through Chicken and witness the federal thugs practicing tyranny. On to the Canadian border. While at the crossing the agent and I have a disagreement about his manners concerning my sun glasses but not his. His mom obviously never talked to him about double standards or common courtesy. I was however, pleased (on some level) that I had left my 45 with Pete in Delta.

As we descend the slope to the Yukon at Dawson, we pull onto the ferry and the brakes go out. The Ol' Blister is driving so I'm trying to decide whether to ride it out or bail over the side. I was worrying for nothing. Barb was a teamster and drove Euclids on the north slope back during the Pleistocene so she managed to get it stopped before the swan dive off the front of the ferry.

On the other shore we locate a mechanic who can fix the brakes but of course the parts have to come from Whitehorse...and it's friday. So they say they can't get the thing fixed until tuesday. I suggest that they fly the parts from Whitehorse and they look at me like I have two heads. But they did it and first thing Monday they installed the parts and we were on the way. But..........in the meantime I figure I can get to the library and use a computer to get caught up on work emails, and hopefully find a machine I can stick a thumb drive into. Alas, the library is closed for three days to celebrate "Discovery Days" in Dawson. So more time for things to go awry. Meanwhile, the project I am running in Holy Cross is in crisis and they can't reach me. No cell signal either.

Not to be outdone, Barb now realizes that all the hotel reservations she has made for the trip back need to be changed. She manages to do that but it's a hassle. Almost everything is full. Our friends also need to change their plane reservations because we are now three days behind schedule. They take care of that with no hassle. After all, who wants to go to Wisconsin ?

Now Barb tries to change our plane reservations. Not a chance. Every hunter in North America is trying to get to McGrath. All flights are full for a week and just to make sure, Penair cancelled one flight. So we end up camping in Anchorage for 7 days before we can get home.

I finally did find a network card for my 12 year old laptop and got the phone working. Put out most of the fires in Holy Cross and caught up on my sleep.

Did I mention that there were only three dry days between 8/12 and 9/4 ? We still had a good time with old friends and saw some amazing stuff.

If anyone has not been to Dawson it's a trip worth making. The Top of the World Highway has some cool scenery and the historical Dredge #4 in Dawson is worth the trip all by itself.

Be sure to take a camera...........and sun glasses.

Sun glass's huh?

Thanks for sharing!

Canada Eh !

Are you supposed to register your sunglasses, or just claim them at the border? Maybe send notice of intent to import 30 days prior to arrival.

All the above

Wow..that was better than a "choose your own adventure" book.
Good read.

Ken, like my rifles I'm not going to register my sunglasses.