Did a bow hunt last month on Kodiak Island, Alaska for Sitka Blacktail deer. Myself and a local buddy had been scheduled for a week-long unguided hunt, with Homer Ocean Charters as our host. After getting to the island by commercial flight with no issues, the first two days of our hunt week, unfortunately we spent stranded in the town of Kodiak on the north end of the island. This was due to high winds that halted any bush flights by our transporter, Island Air. We finally got some better flying weather on the third day, and our full group of 8 hunters took our bush flight and made it to our boat home on the south end of the island. We stayed each night on the boat, and were transported by skiff each morning to the beach where our hunt would begin.
Deer sightings and rut activity were fairly good, but hunting was made a little more difficult due to a lack of snow that allowed the animals to spread out high and low. In summary, the net result over 4 days of hunting was that 7 bow hunters ended up taking just one buck. And there was one hunter in our group of 8 who was rifle hunting who also killed a buck.
I got very lucky to arrow this decent representative type buck.
