I'm able to do this because my brother lives up there. He lives in Nome and has a cabin down towards Council which is south of Nome about 80 miles. Over the last 4 years I have taken 2 Moose, 1 at 57", the other at 55". The 55" was a lot nicer. I've also taken a nice Boar Grizzly. I just bought the Marlin 1895 SS. I've mounted a 4x Burris on it, shoots great. The only loads I've run through it are factory 300gr Hollow Pts. I ordered some loads from Buffalo Bore, items 8A and 8C. This Tues I'm going to go see which shoot the best. Never having handloaded rifle cartridges, I'll wait until I get back from Alaska to start learning how. Loaded lots of shot shells. I'm curious how hard cast bullets do. I've never used them before. What got me interested in this rifle was my 44 mag. I bought some hard cast loads from Federal, 300 grains. I was really impressed with the penetration. They were penetrating at 30 yards as much as my .300 Weatherby was with Noslers. Later I was talking to a guy in a gun store about that and hunting in Alaska. He had a 45-70 Guide Gun and told me about Randy Garretts website, I looked, was hooked, and then next thing you know I was the owner of a new Marlin in 45-70. Ever since, I've been trying to learn as much as I can about these guns. The first gun I hunted with was a .300 Savage, then went to 7mm Rem Mag. Moved up to .300 Weatherby, .340 Weatherby. Now I'm back with the levers. Thinking about getting another Savage in .308