Alaska Moose & Brown Bear Hunting
Alaska Bush Adventures Base camp
Family Owned Hunting and Outfitter Services
Welcome to Alaska Bush Adventures located in Southwestern Alaska
Moose, Caribou, Brown-Grizzly Bear, Black Bear
Hugh Krank came to the great state of Alaska in 1978 to experience hunting big game in Alaska's vast secluded wilderness and became forever hooked on the Great Alaskan Outdoors. After years of awe-inspiring, hunting and fishing adventures, he discovered a region in Alaska that offered tremendous hunting opportunities where no other Guide/Outfitters were operating. In 1985 he started Alaska Bush Adventures, ("ABA") a small family owned Alaskan Guide and Outfitter Service in a remote and quiet area of Southwestern Alaska. Hugh and his Son Ryan, are both Alaskan Master Guides and their long time employees consists of Roy Austin, Registered Guide and Mike McCarey, Assistant Guide, have been part of the team since the 90's. They have many years of experience in Guiding for Brown Bear, Black Bear, Caribou, Moose and all are experienced in calling and raking for Moose plus the habits of all Alaska's big game species, which will give you an edge on harvesting these big game animals.
For over 38 years they have operated their family owned Guide and Outfitter Service with seasoned Alaskan Guides, respecting the rules and concepts of ethical fair chase hunts. Offering authentic and unforgettable Guided Alaskan Big Game hunting experiences for Moose, Brown/Grizzly Bear and Black Bear.
The DIY river float hunting trips for Moose, are fully outfitted/supplied with camping equipment/gear and a generous arrangements of food/drinks for your meals. These hunts are also outfitted/supplied with rafts, cargo platforms, rowing frames, oars, life jackets and the balance of the necessary equipment to complete this type of a float hunt for Moose. All you will need provide is your hunting and personal gear . The Alaskan Barren Ground Caribou hunts are fully outfitted/supplied fly out spike camp hunts that take place in the low rolling foot hills on the Northwestern side of the Alaska Range. You will be provided a "suggested personal gear list" and detailed lists of all the equipment/supplies, food and drinks included by Alaska Bush Adventures for your hunting trips in Alaska. We strongly suggest taking advantage of the information provided on the FAQ (frequently asked questions) page within this website, as it will have these lists and much more helpful information to help prepare you better for a hunt with Alaska Bush Adventures.
The territory where they provide hunting services or their Guide Use Areas (GUA’s) is a quiet and secluded region, 250 plus miles west of Anchorage. It takes a minimum of 2.5 hours by a bush plane on floats to reach these river systems to hunt within the wild untamed wilderness country of Southwestern Alaska. All guided clients will enjoy numerous creature comforts of the well-stocked and maintained basecamps located along the river. They will hunt for Moose using Jon boats powered by jet-drive outboard motors which provide a huge advantage when traveling within the rivers shallow branches, ox bows and back water sloughs where Bull Moose are rutting and gathering up their cows to breed.
This is the only location on the river within this Alaskan Game Management Unit where you can both land a float plane safely take a fully loaded plane of harvested big game animals and the hunters off the river and back to town. We typically use DHC-2 De-Havilland Beavers equipped with wing tip fuel tanks to provide the plane extended flying time to safely reach out to our hunting area and back to town. The distance from any major community and the restricted access to land a plane in the area undeniably affords hunters an enhanced opportunity to achieve success and enjoy a significant level of comfort while doing so. Being able to hunt in Alaska without having to worry about another hunter ruining your stalk on an animal or hunting pressure from hunters in the area, is a wonderful experience.
Hunting for Alaskan Big Game
HUNTING IN ALASKA AND WHAT TO EXPECT
Hunting big game in Alaska is a substantial investment, not only financially but includes spending a lot of time preparing, researching, and planning to find a reputable Guide/Outfitter hunting service for your hunt. Alaska Bush Adventures knows the importance of providing a variety of logistical information to prepare our client’s before during and after the their trip in hopes of ensuring a great Alaskan hunting experiance. We believe that our “hands on knowledge” of the our GUA’s, local game populations and their habitat where you will be hunting is beneficial and relevant in your choice of a Guide Outfitter. We are not a fly-by-night hunting service and we believe action speaks louder than words. Year after year we have learned something new and or a better a way to fine tune the Alaska hunting services we make available to our client’s. Because of the financial investment and what a hunting experience of a lifetime like this represents to you, we encourage you to call us to discuss in detail our services and to answer your questions. To gain the knowledge necessary and to be familiar with what to Know and expect before, after and during your hunting trip in Alaska, we encourage you to call us and spend some time visiting on the phone. There is a lot to go over about the infrastructure, full-service logistics, and a variety of useful services in Anchorage for taking care of your harvested game.
Alaska has a healthy Big game population of Moose, Caribou, Brown Bear, Black Bear, and Wolves, but in part, due to its size has fewer big game animals per square mile than any other state. They are in general thriving best in remote regions of the state with the type of habitat that is vital to sustain them year round and have not been over hunted for decades due to easy access and being close to heavily populated areas.
We provide our clients with a complete Itinerary of the logistics and information to illuminate the other types of services available to them. Information on Hotels, Bush Plane flights, Meat, and Trophy care options, and shipping info to get your game home. Meat processors, Taxidermists, Expediting Services, a Suggested Equipment List, and much more. We encourage you to also contact our references as often, they are happy to share their experiences with you and are able to answer some of your questions in a different light providing valuable first-hand knowledge.
Our Alaska hunting camps are located within sight of the Alaska Range in the Kuskokwim Valley and its numerous tributaries. Our Guided Clients hunt can from any one of our three base camps located on remote wilderness river systems. These hunting areas are only accessible by a bush plane on floats with extended range fuel tanks. We have enhanced the only access and exit landing strip on the river for bush planes that allows for the plane loads needed to operate efficiently within the headwaters of the river systems where we Guide and Outfit our hunts.
There is healthy, Moose, Caribou, Brown Bear, Grizzly Bear and Black Bear, population in our area. Most of our hunts take place on the rivers using Jon Boats with Outboard Motors powered by Jet Units instead of props or we can take advantage of our 8 wheel drive Argos to hunt for the Moose and Bears in the surrounding rolling hills & valleys. Having the advantage of Jet powered Jon boats and the Argos offers an increased level of service & success, especially for those who are not in the prime of their life or may have physical disabilities.
We fully outfit our DIY Unguided Moose hunters to do river float hunting trips within the remote upper headwaters of the same river systems we conduct our Guided Clients Moose hunting trips on utilizing Jon Boats powered by Jet-drive Outboard Motors.
