According to this article, the allowance of hunting big game (primarily deer and caribou) in the state will take effect in July of 2022. Read here for more details https://hardairmagazine.com/news/alaska-to-allow-big-game-airgun-hunting/
Alaska Will Allow Big-Game Hunting with Air Guns in 2022 (article)
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@gvlasak Good question. I’m not familiar with that sort of climate, but it’s been discussed on past threads. Personally I’ve had a few airguns out in below freezing temps overnight and they still performed. I don’t think temps dropped below the 20s in my outings. I’ve hunted in snow without issue. If I can locate the link I’ll post one from an older discussion on the topic.
edit #1 - it’s going to take me a while to find the link I had in mind. There’s a lot of information discussing your question. Run an AGN search using key words “cold weather.”
edit #2 took some time to find the link I was searching for, but I found it. https://www.airgunnation.com/topic/how-cold-is-too-cold-to-go-out-with-our-pcps/page/2/#post-1201679
If you decide to search further there’s a lot of other info on the forums. Concerning how PCPs perform in cold weather.
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Much of Alaska isn't very cold. It's primarily a coastal State, with mild weather like Seattle or Portland. If you go across the coastal range towards Fairbanks and the Yukon, it gets cold. But not so many people live there.
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Hope it's a mistake hunting muledeer and whitetails in Alaska would be tough? They do have them but both are extremely rare and very limited in range. When they speak of deer it's the Sitka blacktail. Trust that is what was meant by deer, and the reporter is a clueless goob. Otherwise it would be like opening hippo hunting in Arizona to airguns?
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@fuznut I'm pretty clueless about the details until the state publishes something new on it. I don't know any more than I've read. Their Department of Fish and Game has over 20 departments (districts) with varying regulations. I thought the topic would be interesting to airgunners and sportsmen that travel and hunt out of state.
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Alaska and it's game laws are hard-core, air gunners gaining a toehold there is no small accomplishment. The gains made in the last few years are beyond what most would dare to dream possible.
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@fuznut After reading the article I looked over some of their hunting regs. They appear to vary greatly between departments. I did notice that hunting small game with air guns (with rifled barrels aka air rifles) was permitted with calibers larger than .20, if I remember correctly. I think big game hunting is what attracts more out-of-state hunters though. Let’s see what stipulations the Alaskan legislature produces.
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