2016 umingmak/muskox hunt.

Otokiak

Otokiak

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I travelled outland this weekend searching for umingmak/muskox & found a lone bull. Shot him with my PGW 308 rifle at 170 yards. I did approx 150 mile round trip by snowmobile but on the gps I was only 44.3 miles from home on a straight path. Coordinates were N63' 12.234 / W093' 12.685 if you look on a map or the net. Sadly I cannot post pics from my cell so if somebody is kind enough to post a few for me my email is jtodd@gov.nu.ca as I could send a couple.

Thank you fellow CGNers,

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
 
I love caribou meat but I REALLY love muskox ground up with bacon fat and burgs or in a spaghetti sauce.

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
CANADA
 
Muskox is 100% deliciousness. I'm hoping someone takes pity on this poor kablanak and hooks a brother up some time. Next guy down from Nunavut has to bring me some country food!

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Congratulations That's a good looking animal
I have only seen one muskox wen I was up in the Arctic it was hanging out by the core drill I was working on
I find them to be a fascinating creature
 
Hey Big O..........good to hear from ya........glad to see you're still alive and kicking. Zapped another Ox I see, well done !!

I'd love to come up and hunt with you sometime...........if you'd have me that is !! That would be the perfect venue to try out my .50 at 1500 mtrs on an ox.........It's not like they can get away, out there on the bald ass tundra.
 
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Adventure comes with a lot of backstory that goes untold, Otokiak endures winters and at times isolation (and food prices!) southerners can't imagine. Guys like Dogleg worked decades in industries that burn many people out in years to fund adventures that frankly are ridiculous, like shooting a hundred one-ton animals culling in what, a week? c-fbmi built a company in a hard place and hope he doesn't mind me saying went through a couple wives in the process. Guides I've hired have done and seen unbelievable things, for $100-150 a day away from their families for huge stretches. Bush pilots and offshore fishermen are often without families or lost them to their career choice. This all sounds rather dramatic but I think the simplified message is none of it is easy, unless you're Donald Trump Jr, but then those types never really see the grit of it to be out there which rather undermines the experience some. If you want to do some wild things put yourself in some wild and uncomfortable situations. :) Heavy on the uncomfortable at times. You can do a Muskox hunt for $6-7k with flights making the right moves, and anyone can make $6-7k with other right moves that'll likely cut into family time. Or take a bush career and be away far more than you're home, but you'll see and do a lot, at the expense of your family much of the time.

This all said above all I admire a guy who invests in his family and is happy, that's the ultimate wealth, regardless where you are or what you do. A very select few whom I don't include myself somehow manages to do both, I'm struggling to find that path. Forgive the musings!
 
Ardent, well said. I will add that when we have hunters in I always have a soft spot for those guys who did the cash side jobs, whatever it took etc... on top of their day jobs to come and have a hunt of a lifetime or saved for years to do it. The harder you work and the more you sacrifice to live that adventure will undoubtedly in my opinion make those memories obtained on the hunt that much more valuable.
 
Thank you/qujannamiik for the pics & comments my fellow CGNers. Im lucky enough to live where I can hunt such animals & see terrain that is amazing & at the same time brutally harsh at times. Three of us did approx 150 miles round trip to get this bull & others but sadly in the 3 days he was the only muskox we seen. We saw tons of caribou & they dont mix with muskox. We travelled thru an area with rolling hills & boulders everywhere that made it somewhat difficult to drive our skidoos around. In the end it was fun, hard work but fun. From clear weather to whiteout grey overcast super windy to calm beauty out again days. I checked on gps and laughed as I actually caught him only 44.3 miles straight from home on the map. My coordinates are here if you want to see on a map where i found him.

N63' 12.234
W093' 12.685

Thanks again for helping post the pics and the comments. I have some more from the trip but will post another time when I get myself a new laptop. Cheers my fellow CGNers,

Otokiak
Rankin Inlet, NU
Canada
 
Thanks for sharing. I recall you are the gent with the 50 cal iron sighted PGW rifle. I believe you mentioned that plan was to take a whale with it. Any success?
 
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