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 Buckey
Winkley came to Alaska during May of 1961,
and has been a full-time professional
Alaskan Registered Guide since 1964.
Registered as licensed guide #34 Buckey has
hunted Grizzly Bear, Moose, Caribou,
Ptarmigan, Deer, Dall Sheep, and much more. Buckey
has enjoyed experience as his teacher.
From ash pits of Cold Bay on the Alaskan
Peninsula, to Kodiak Island and south to the
jungles of Yakutat, Buckey has been among
large Brown Bears, Grizzlies, Blacks, and
Glacier Bears. He has been a bear
guide living adventure every step of the
way.
Buckey came to Alaska out of high school
from Danvers, Massachusetts, twenty miles
north of Boston. In those days you
either went to college or
were drafted so Buckey enlisted for three
years of service in the Army and wound up
stationed in Alaska. What better way
to serve your military obligation and see
Alaska, than at the expense of Uncle Sam.
Buckey's many years in the wilderness have
given him time to study wildlife within
their natural habitats, experiences few
other guides can boast. Hunting puts
Buckey where the game is. Dall Sheep,
Moose, Caribou, Bear, and Sitka Blacktail
Deer, are all very familiar to a man who has
pursued them most of his life.
He vividly remembers the numerous
experiences and is a master at sharing the
many stories of his hunting adventures.
He has witnessed wolves chasing caribou
across frozen tundra. His memory
reveals the story of two giant bull
 moose,
both with antlers well over a sixty inch
spreads, struggling to separate from locked
combat. He vividly recalls stalking
rams in a blinding snow storm and watching
as they disappeared just two hundred feet in
front of him. He boldly relates the
time he stopped an eight foot brown bear in
full charge at fifteen feet with a .44
magnum revolver. As the great bear
charged ever closer Buckey had only seconds
to draw a .44 magnum from his holster, aim
and fire, saving his life by a scant fifteen
feet.
Buckey knows bears first hand, through
experiences like the time he awoke to find a
black bear in his tent with its chest
against his cot, or the many hunts he has
lead that brought home record sized
grizzlies.
Years of wilderness adventures with wildlife
have enabled Buckey to give his life the
excitement many can only dream of.
But, more than anything else, Buckey loves
to hunt and is a master at it.
So, if you are searching for the adventure
of a lifetime, the opportunity to bring home
a trophy, and an experience that you will
cherish for the rest of your life, your only
choice for a world class hunting guide must
be Buckey Winkley. |
