Wildman Hunting Brochure - Alaskan Brown Bear Hunting

Let Experience be your Guide to Alaska
Gary “Butch King” - Master Guide
Starting as the “camp boy” for legendary Alaska Guide Lee Holen in
1966, Butch came up through the ranks of Alaska big game guiding. He
has done every job from camp boy to Master Guide and has guided and
outfitted several hundred hunts during his long career. This is not a parttime job for Butch, who spends six months of the year in his guiding area.
Butch has dedicated his life to guiding sportsmen in Alaska where he shares
this unique lifestyle and great responsibility with his wife Kathy. Butch first
learned to fly at age 14, and obtained his student pilot license at age 16. A
commercial pilot by age 18, he has logged well over 10,000 hours while
flying the Alaska bush in all types of aircraft. He currently holds ratings
to fly both floatplanes and single or multi-engine wheel planes, in visual
or instrument flight conditions. Butch is also an FAA licensed aircraft and
aircraft engine mechanic with Inspector Authorization.
At the 2000 Safari Club International Convention named Gary “Butch”
King its “Professional Hunter of the Year”, at the Safari Club Convention in
Reno. In 2004, Butch and Kathy received the Dallas Safari Club “Outfitter
of the Year Award.” But what Butch enjoys most about being a guide is
showing people Alaska, where he and Kathy were born and grew up. Butch
has retained much of Lee Holen’s vast guiding area on the Alaska Peninsula
and has also secured long-term Federal guiding concessions in the Alaska
Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge. This guarantees exclusive guiding
rights to thousands of square miles of Alaska’s best moose and brown bear
habitat for several years to come.
Today, Butch and Kathy are assisted by Alaska Registered Guides and
Bush Pilots; Brad Adams and Wilford “Wild Bill” Lomax who each play
a major role in the management
and operation of Wildman Lake
Lodge. Wild Bill joined Butch
guide back in 1983 as a pilot and
guide, with expertise in remote
bush construction. Together Bill
and Butch took Wildman Lake
Lodge from a modest hunting
camp to Alaska’s premier hunting
and fishing lodge. Brad Adams
joined the operation in the spring
of 1990 worked his way up from
Butch King, Jan Erik Blom & Brad Adams
hunting guide to Chief Pilot &
with the new #1 SCI Brown Bear , 1996
Guide and Lodge Manager at
World Hunt Award #1 No. American Trophy
Wildman Lake Lodge.
Gary “Butch” King - Master Guide
Butch King - Pilot / Master Guide
Guiding Sportsmen on the Alaska Peninsula Since 1971
Alaska Brown Bear - Trophy Alaska Moose - Wing Shooting & Fishing
Gary “Butch” & Kathy King
home at Wildman Lake Lodge
Butch King & Bill Lomax with the 81 inch
Trophy Moose taken by Mark Rose, Awarded
#1 Alaska Moose - 25th Boone & Crockett
Awards
Three 10 ft. plus Record Book Bear:
Scott Ackleson 29-0/16
Ray Cuppy 29-5/16
John Smoll 30-6/16*
*The 1994 World Hunt Award # 1 North
American Trophy & #1 SCI Brown Bear
Website: www.wildalaskahunting.com - Email: [email protected]
2024 Stonegate Circle - Anchorage, Alaska 99515 - Phone (830) 640-3536
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Wildman Lake Lodge - Alaska Peninsula Hunts
Website: www.wildalaskahunting.com - Email: [email protected]
2024 Stonegate Circle - Anchorage, Alaska 99515 - Phone (830) 640-3536
Guided and Outfitted Trophy Hunts
Aircraft, Equipment and Facilities
Alaska Brown Bear
The safety, comfort and success of our hunters are our primary
concerns. Unlike most Alaska guides, whose base camp is a pup
tent, we have established
a first class hunting and
sport fishing lodge right
in the heart of the Alaska
Peninsula wilderness.
Wildman Lake Lodge is
a modern facility with a
professional kitchen, spacious dining room and comfortable “Trapper’s Den”
overlooking Ocean River and the Aleutian Mountain Range. Wildman Lake
Lodge has eight guest rooms with showers and bathrooms, full time heat,
electric and satellite communication including WiFi, making Wildman
Kathy’s professional kitchen staff at
the ultimate Alaska hunting and fishing lodge. Four jet boats and four
Wildman Lake Lodge
specially-equipped bush aircraft are based at the lodge, used exclusively to
transport our clients, gear and supplies to and from our strategically located
spike camps. These camps are checked regularly by radio or Sat-phone and
serviced as needed by our experienced Wildman Bush Pilots.
Our professionally guided and fully outfitted Alaska Peninsula
Brown Bear hunts have consistently produce some of Alaska’s largest
trophy brown bears each season. Our bear hunting clients have
received numerous awards from Safari Club International, the Alaska
Professional Hunter’s Association and Boone & Crockett. On three
occasions, our clients have received the World Hunt Award from SCI
for the “Best North American Trophy.” Two of these were “Number
One” SCI Brown Bear and the other bear placed “Number Three.” At
this writing, our clients have taken five of the Top Ten Alaska Brown Bears in the Safari
Club International Book of World Records. What this means to you, a potential bear hunter,
is that this area produces the biggest Brown Bear on the Planet!
Our big game hunting concessions are well managed for trophy quality and total
population. We hunt thousands of square miles of Alaska finest trophy brown bear and
moose habitat, managed by the Alaska Department of Natural Resources as well as two
huge Federal Guiding Concessions in the Alaska Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge.
Combined, our areas are nearly the size of Kodiak Island. We enjoy exclusive guiding
rights on the major portion of this huge area, thereby controlling a very selective annual
harvest.
Spring and Fall Hunts
We have bear hunting seasons each year on the Alaska Peninsula. On even numbered years, we have a spring season
in May. On odd numbered years, we have a fall season in October. Our hunts are one hunter per guide unless two hunters
which to hunt together. With about a 90% opportunity to take a very nice bear, our success rate is high on trophy class bear.
Each season, our average bear hide squares in excess of nine feet. Several ten to eleven foot bears are taken each season.
Although not everyone takes a bear, and not every bear taken is a ten footer, there are hundreds of record class Brown
Bear in our area. You won’t have a better chance to take a record book trophy bear anywhere in the world. Regardless of
bear size, every client gets our full effort on every hunt. Here are five of the Top Ten Safari Club Records, all taken
by our hunting clients.
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Jan Erik Blom 30-8/16 SCI
Albert Carlton 30-07/16 SCI John Smoll 30-6/16 SCI
Al Landreville 30-6/16 SCI
Peter Ma - 30 0/16 SCI
Alaska Moose
Moose hunting is done in some
of the more brushy country in our
concession areas, where they feed
on willows and begin to gather their
cows for the rutting season in midSeptember. The Alaska Peninsula
moose population is on the increase, providing an excellent opportunity
for hunters looking for a trophy moose. Hunting is done on foot from
comfortable spike camps. We are hunting trophy moose in the 60 and
80 inch class and have maintained a very high success on huge bulls up
to 81 inches, in recent years. Our clients have received several awards
for top ranking trophy Alaska/Yukon moose in both the Safari Club and
Boone & Crockett record books.
Trophy class bull moose
in the 60 and 80 inch class
are the rule, rather than the
exception on our fully guided
trophy hunts!