Color Hunting Brochure - Alaskan Brown Bear Hunting

Gary “Butch” King - Master Guide
Let Experience be your Guide to Alaska
Guiding Sportsmen on the Alaska Peninsula Since 1971
Gary “Butch King” - Master Guide
Starting as the campboy 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 campboy to Master Guide and has guided and outfitted several
hundred hunts during his long career. This is not a part-time 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.
At the 2000 Safari Club International Convention, Butch received the
“Professional Hunter of the Year” Award. 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 Lee Holen’s vast guiding area
on the Alaska Peninsula and has also secured long-term Federal guiding
concessions in the area from both National Park Service and the Alaska
Peninsula National Wildlife Refuge for Cinder River and Wildman Lake
Lodges. 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 joined by Registered Guides; Brad Adams
and Wilford “Bill” Lomax, who
assist in the operation of Wildman
Lake and Cinder River Lodges.
Bill Lomax started as a pilot and
guide at Cinder River Lodge in
1983. Bill is a pilot and Lodge
Manger at Wildman Lake Lodge.
Brad Adams joined the Cinder
River operation in the spring of
1990, as an Assistant Guide and
pilot. Brad is now that lodge’s
Butch King, Jan Erik Blom & Brad Adams
Manager and Vice President of
with the new #1 SCI Brown Bear , 1996
Cinder River Lodge, Inc.
World Hunt Award #1 No. American Trophy
Alaska Brown Bear - Trophy Alaska Moose - Sport Fishing
Butch King - Pilot / Master Guide
Gary “Butch” & Kathy King
home at Wildman Lake Lodge
Butch King & Bill Lomax with the 81 inch
Trophy Moose taken by Mark Rose , 2003
#1 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.wildmanlodge.com - Email: hunt@wildmanlodge.com
2024 Stonegate Circle - Anchorage, Alaska 99515 - Phone (907) 522-1164
acp451521209
Wildman Lake Lodge & Cinder River Lodge
Website: www.wildmanlodge.com - Email: hunt@wildmanlodge.com
2024 Stonegate Circle - Anchorage, Alaska 99515 - Phone (907) 522-1164
Guided and Outfitted Trophy Hunts
Alaska Brown Bear
The safety, comfort and success of our hunters are our primary
concerns. We go far beyond what most Alaska outfitters are
able to provide to their
clients, by having established
permanent base lodges in the
heart of the remote Alaska
Peninsula wilderness.
Each lodge has kitchen and
bath facilities, electric power and satellite communication.
We own and operate several specially equipped bush aircraft. Two
experienced pilots are based at each lodge to transport our clients, gear and supplies
to and from strategically located spike camps where the
guided hunting takes place. These camps are checked
Kathy’s professional kitchen staff at
Wildman Lake Lodge
regularly by radio or Sat-phone.
Wildman Lake Lodge and Cinder River Lodge 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, FNAWS
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.” We have taken several others which place in
the top ten of all time. What this means to you, a potential bear hunter, is that this area
produces the biggest bears in the world.
Our concessions are well managed for trophy quality and total population. We hunt
thousands of square miles of State land as well as three huge exclusive concessions on
National Park Service and National Wildlife Refuge Lands on the remote Alaska Peninsula.
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 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. All hunts are one hunter per guide. With about a 90%
opportunity to take a 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 foot bears are taken each season. Although not everyone takes a bear, and not every
bear taken is a 10 footer, there are hundreds of big 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, everyone gets our full effort on every hunt.
Jan Erik Blom 30-8/16 SCI
John Smoll 30-6/16 SCI
Al Landreville 30-6/16 SCI
Aircraft, Equipment and Facilities
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
mid-September. The Alaska Peninsula
moose population is on the increase,
providing an excellent opportunity
for hunters looking for a trophy moose. In many cases, we hunt specific
trophy bulls which we locate during our aerial scouting. Hunting is done
on foot from comfortable tent camps. We are hunting trophy moose in
the 60 and 70 inch class and have maintained a very high success on these
huge bulls in recent years at both Cinder River and Wildman Lake Lodges.
Our clients have received several awards for top ranking trophy Alaska/
Yukon moose in both the Safari Club and Boone & Crockett record books,
some antler spreads are over 80 inches.
Trophy class bull moose
in the 60 and 70 inch class
are the rule, rather than the
exception on our fully guided
trophy hunts!