Cold Bay Alaska with a Parker

[Larry the Gun Guy]

During the month of September my brother and I took a trip to Cold Bay Alaska to hunt ducks, geese and ptarmigan and catch a few fish. This was a seven day hunt starting on the 14th of September and ending the following Saturday on the 21st.
Just getting there is a small adventure by its self. Located roughly 687 miles southwest of Anchorage, it's at the tip of what is referred to as the peninsula, before the archipelago of the Aleutians start. After arriving mid-day Saturday we immediately went to the "pier" to fish for halibut and cod. Catching one halibut, a few black cod and multiple sole, we headed back to the lodge to prepare for the first day of hunting. As we experienced each day, the pintails and brant geese were very numerous along with lesser Canada geese and various other ducks and all of them decoyed very well. It was never a problem to harvest our daily limit of two brant each plus a few different types of ducks, including mallards, pintails, teal and a few harlequin ducks that weren't colored up yet. We ended up taking 5 banded brant and one that was double banded. Two of which I am having mounted. One day we took 48 pintail, 12 brant and a few Taverners lesser Canada geese. Out of the 48 pintail 37 were drakes. Almost every day we saw Emperor geese, which have been illegal to hunt since 1985 and they are beautiful. Also there are several brown bears, foxes and we did see one wolf. There is some incredible shooting up there and you're typically the only hunters around.