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Air Taxi for Sheep out of ANC area?
« on: February 23, 2005, 07:54:54 AM »
I'm looking for an air taxi to take my partner and I sheep hunting this August out of the ANC or Palmer area?  Does anyone know of a reputable one?

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try Glennallen/ Tok area pilots?
« Reply #1 on: February 27, 2005, 10:43:53 PM »
I don't know of any to recommend - not a sheep hunter myself.  Have you considered some of the folks from the Glennallen, Gakona, Tok area?  Surely there are some pilots in the Palmer / Anchorage area too.  I'm surprised you have no help so far.  You might try calling some of the sheep guides to see if any are also air taxi licensed and willing.  What about McGrath too?  

Don't know if I've added confusion - hope you find someone.  I know one sheep hunter but I think he mostly walks into or boats into his hunts - one tough young man.  

His pal once told how he used a rubber raft, 40 hp Jet outboard, canoe paddles, wet suit and helmets to get up to a hunt area! The helmets were for when they dumped the raft (Wrangles I think).  The jet unit helped on the easy water but at times only held their place and the paddles were used to make upward progress.  Sounds like a tall tale but the guy was a rock, had lots of photos of successful hunts, is a serous wolf trapper, pilot and all around hunter.

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Air Taxi for Sheep out of ANC area?
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2005, 07:21:16 AM »
You might give Regal Air a call out of Anchorage.

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Air Taxi for Sheep out of ANC area?
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2005, 05:36:54 PM »
Call Wiederkehr Air at 907 745-4002. Bill Wiederkehr is an excellent pilot and a favorite with the local die hard sheep hunters. He operates in the Chugach Mountains between Knik Glacier and Matanusuka Glacier and in approx'ly the same area north of the Glenn Highway in the Talkeetna Mountains. He is a very experienced cub operator and specializes in sheep hunting. He has been flying these areas for 20 plus years and knows any and all the landable locations....not cheap....but the best rarely is. Good luck