EP 92: DIY Caribou in Alaska with Jeff John and The Epic Crew

Epic Outdoors Podcast

John Petersen

Bighornsheep, Rifle, Muledeer, Hunting, Jasoncarter, Wilderness, Sports, Adambronson, Biggame, Epicoutdoors, Bowhunting, Elk

2.4 • 632 Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2018

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

EP 92: DIY Caribou in Alaska with Jeff John and The Epic Crew. In this episode of The Epic Outdoors Podcast, Jeff tells us about his recent trip to Alaska for self-guided DIY Caribou. Jeff along with his dad and brother made the long trip and were successful on 3 nice bulls. After months of preparation and planning, new gear, and preventative maintenance on equipment Jeff and his family set out to Alaska with a camp trailer and four wheelers in tow. The stars aligned and Jeff and crew had timed the trip perfectly to hit the Caribou migration. If you've ever wanted to try DIY Caribou in Alaska this episode will shed some light on what it takes to make it happen.

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0:00.0	When we started getting into the caribout, there were caribout everywhere.
0:05.0	This is the definition of velvet dreams.
0:08.0	Well, you got quotas and things, yeah, that could close in a matter of days, so you may need to adapt and move.
0:13.0	Anything to do with Western big game.
0:18.0	Welcome to the Epic Outdoors Podcast, powered by Under Armour.
0:21.6	Hey, everybody, Jason Carter, and the Epic Outdoors crew.
0:24.8	We got Jeff John, John Peterson, and Adam Bronson here with us here in the studio today, kind of a rare occurrence.
0:31.4	We're going to be talking about Jeff's caribou hunt in Alaska.
0:34.7	So it's going to be a lot of fun.
0:36.4	He did it start to finish from basic maps, even to locating Alaska, to going up there
0:45.0	and killing bulls and fishing and doing it all on their own and trekking across Canada
0:51.1	and a truck and trailer.
0:52.2	So pretty fun, pretty fun stuff.
0:54.2	Pretty awesome time for these guys.
0:56.4	Before we get started, we want to thank Under Armour for sponsoring these podcasts.
1:00.1	A great job that they do in developing great gear.
1:03.6	And, of course, we appreciate our relationship with them.
1:05.9	They've supported us from the start and have a lot of great gear and products hitting the website at ua.com
1:12.4	and then they've obviously you can go under men and sports and hit click on the hunting and all
1:17.7	the hunting gear will come up so all summer long we've been listening to jeff at times maybe talking
1:22.9	to biologists or different people you know he to tee it up for you you were and your dad and brother, and I guess your mom went up with your dad just because
1:32.1	they drove up.
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