Awesome Story!

Great Story. Man do I love Alaska. Only been fishing so far, but hunting Alaska is on my list.

Great story. Hope you get the pictures to work.

Excellent write up. Enjoy the caribou meat as I know it is quite tasty!

Chris

Very entertaining story of your adventure. Good job both of you. Exceptional shooting for your daughter. Thanks for sharing!

Good job and well written, need to adopt a bald headed son? I am available, but probably twice your age.....jk

Thanks for the hunt...
Both of you done good.
Again, thanks, read.every word and enjoyed it.


Donnie

Lets's try this again.

That was a picture of her pre-bipod practice this past summer.

Cute little rifle !!

Our view looking north, downstream from camp on a nice day? From this vantage, we spotted quite a few caribou, mostly mature bulls. The Arctic Ocean is about 30 miles distant, give or take a few.

Oops! Another rookie photo error.
Note rifle propped up on gravel. We drug this 'bou across the channel to the drier island behind her to cut up. Arctic Piranhas gathered in that channel to glean scraps and clots rinsed from my knife.

I'm planning on doing something like this with my daughter when she gets older! Good job!!

Camp, the day prior to scheduled pick up. That's the tent that withstood strong winds. I wasn't outside in the worst of it, but my rough guess is around 30 knots. Those winds died down just in time for it to start snowing. We had good enough gear that we were never cold, or even uncomfortable, just a bit damp. We had plenty of food, and it was easy to make coffee from my sleeping bag with our MSR isobutane stove carefully tended in the tent vestibule, (another technological upgrade). I brought double the coffee I thought I'd want, and I enjoyed almost all of it!

Thanks White 17 for the pix fix. That little sliver of bright green is the top of our meat cache tarp.

I can't see for sure from the picture , but is her elbow on her knee or hooked past her knee?

you want the flat of the back of the arm against the front of the knee , the elbow on the knee rolls and is hard to make stable

still not as stable as a bi-pod but possibly an idea why she was having difficulty with it

You are correct, sir. In the picture, her point of elbow is on top of her knee, which I agree, is quite wobbly. We have since worked on better positioning of that elbow. She has also decided that she prefers sitting to kneeling, opposite of me.

Professional pilot? Who do you work for/06? I turn wrenches at Everts. First bou hunt I ever did was landing my plane along the tag, out west.

Air Arctic, east ramp