Hunting season is LONG over and it is the time of year when we grind burger (on an upcoming weekend) and watch hunting videos. I don't like to post hunting videos until after the permit draw lottery is closed - no need to get other hunters excited about say elk hunting on Afognak and having them put in for the same draws I want to get. It would lower my odds. So at 5PM today the lottery draw closed, and now it is time to post links to both a south end deer hunt, and to our annual elk hunt. Philip made the elk video and as usual he did an amazing job.
I took some stills from my deer video and posted them here. I kind a liked the top one - it is a double exposure as the video blends from one clip to the other. Kinda artsy. I looked closely at the deer in the video and realized it is what is colloquially known as a 'steer deer'. These are male deer that for some reason do not have testicles. They tend to be very fat - best eating deer there are! - and never lose the velvet on their antlers. They also tend to have wacky antler configurations. As you can see in the 2 pictures below this deer still had velvet in late September, was VERY fat, and had multiple eye guards. I strongly suspect he was a steer deer. We should have harvested him!
Anyway you can see him running away on the video - we had already shot a deer and had no interest in harvesting him.
Here are the links to the videos:
South end deer hunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juXsy6tx8YQ
2022 Afognak elk hunt:
Enjoy!
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