Just returned from my Greenland muskox hunt.
Awesome adventure in freezing temps.
I'm not much of a storyteller but will rough it out.
I booked a 6 day hunt with 4 hunting days. It took 3 days to get there. I did go a day early just to be safe and fortunately I did. I was the only hunter in 3 camps that made it on time. Everyone else was 3 days late and left with just over 1 day to hunt. Just very limited flights into the area currently.
Roughly 100 miles round trip on snowmobiles in below zero temps. I actually only saw 3 muskox myself. Snow levels are really bad this year.
The stalk was far longer than I expected and right at 2 kilometers. Could see them in between but finally made the shot from 50 yards. I could only see 1 at the time and although he's an ancient battered bull his horns are busted up pretty bad.
After the bull was down I spotted a fox barking at us from up on the rocks and was able to use the bull as a rest and took him also at 130 yards.
All in all a great trip but wouldn't do it again due to the extreme amount of travel and costs have increased over 25% since I booked my hunt. I had 11 flights total round trip.
2 other hunters were successful with the 1 day they had to hunt but actually stalked multiple herds to get it done with over 5 miles on foot.
Side note. Couldn't tell muskox apart from beef and I ate quite a bit of it while I was there.
Awesome adventure in freezing temps.
I'm not much of a storyteller but will rough it out.
I booked a 6 day hunt with 4 hunting days. It took 3 days to get there. I did go a day early just to be safe and fortunately I did. I was the only hunter in 3 camps that made it on time. Everyone else was 3 days late and left with just over 1 day to hunt. Just very limited flights into the area currently.
Roughly 100 miles round trip on snowmobiles in below zero temps. I actually only saw 3 muskox myself. Snow levels are really bad this year.
The stalk was far longer than I expected and right at 2 kilometers. Could see them in between but finally made the shot from 50 yards. I could only see 1 at the time and although he's an ancient battered bull his horns are busted up pretty bad.
After the bull was down I spotted a fox barking at us from up on the rocks and was able to use the bull as a rest and took him also at 130 yards.
All in all a great trip but wouldn't do it again due to the extreme amount of travel and costs have increased over 25% since I booked my hunt. I had 11 flights total round trip.
2 other hunters were successful with the 1 day they had to hunt but actually stalked multiple herds to get it done with over 5 miles on foot.
Side note. Couldn't tell muskox apart from beef and I ate quite a bit of it while I was there.
