I received an update from my friend, Doug Moore in Talkeetna, Alaska. You will remember Doug as the guy who showed me Southeastern Alaska in 2007 after the Mayors Marathon. Doug came down to California last May to shoot the Western Classic Trail Shoot as well. He drew a mountain goat tag on Kodiak Island. He took his son Justin along with a Kodiak deer tag.

Justin and I just got back from Kodiak from a 10 day trip that was supposed to be a mountain goat and blacktail deer hunt. Unfortunately the lake I was supposed to fly into was amazingly still frozen. This left only two other lakes in my unit I could hunt and they were already full of other hunters. We decided to bag the goat hunt and concentrate on a deer hunt. The air taxi was able to drop us into a nice lake that was in the middle of deer country. The weather was terrible, typical Kodiak, but we hunted hard. On the second to the last day Justin was able to connect on a nice buck at 326 yds. The deer was bedded and Justin took a long time to settle in on a long uphill shot. I’m really proud of him. I doubt I will get any more hunting in this year, so this will be all the fresh wild meat we get. The deer was actually very large bodied for a Sitka blacktail. We got 70# of boned out meat off of him. That was about 10# more than I usually get.