Alaskan or Canada Caribou

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I'm trying to decide on where I'll hunt caribou. Never done this kind of hunt before and with a chopped up leg and titanium knee, I'm about certain that this will have to be a guided hunt. Anybody know of any decent outfitters? This is a once in a lifetime deal for me so I want to make sure I have all my ducks in a row before spending the cash. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Looking at a 2005 hunt. Thanks........

Coot
 
I'd be interested info as well. I'm a bit up there in age but thought a good caribou hunt next year might be something I could handle.
 
I am no expert. I have hunted caribou twice on my sheep hunts. This outfitter also does caribou only hunts in September. Success is about 100%. These are mountain caribou. It is done on horse back in very remote country, in the Northwest territory. I would recomend it. Price 4500$ last year.
 
Alaskan caribou on a DYI really is pretty easy. I've done it twice and you don't need to have an outfitter to help you hunt an animal with an IQ equivalent to domestic sheep. I've most recently gone with Mark Bell out of Kenai and they fly over past Lake Clark and hunt the Mulchatna herd. You can probably do the whole thing including airfare and extra costs for 2500 to 3000. You can dink around out on the Kenai peninsula for a few days before and after and do stuff like halibut fishing out of Homer and maybe catch a few silvers in the Anchor river if you time it right. Flyfish the Kenai. Plus these caribou are bigger than most of the Canadian types and the country is spectacular. Drop me an email if you have any ?s.
 
Do what Buckspy is telling you. I've hunted the area he is speaking of many times. Thats strong advice, run with it.
 
Guess I need to clear up a few things first. Damned near lost my leg from a really bad knee injury and infection last fall. Still have the leg, but lost about 40% of the bone stock in my femur. Aside from walking around and carrying a pack across the tundra, getting a bull out would kinda be tough. I still can do the walking but after awhile, the rest stops would undoubtedly become more frequent. I'm gonna do this hunt come hell or high water; just don't want to get in some trouble and find myself in a position where I'd have to go through another surgery down the road or sooner than expected. With this knee thing, I can only see myself doing a guided hunt of sorts or going with a couple of other guys.

Coot
 
Coot...If I were you I would look into hunting the central canada barren ground subspecies in Canada's Northwest Territories... There are only a handful of outfitters up there and they tend to be honest and well oragnized( unlike some outfits in QUEBEC)...

The migrations tend to be more predictable than Quebec or Alaska...

Best of all for you, in most of the camps up there folks with limited mobility can hunt from a boat, traveling around and glassing animals until you find you want in a place where you can go ashore and make a stalk...These hunts are all guided, either 1x1 or 2x1 and your chances of bringing back a big one( or two) are very good, certainly better than going unguided in AK...In many camps the success rates are near 100%... I went up in '94 to Adventure Northwest's Little Marten Lake camp and had a wonderful hunt...Lots of animals, great food and accomodations, and the Inuit guides were a hoot...

Along with Adventure Northwest, I have heard good things about Peterson's Point Lake Lodge and Mackay lake Lodge, and others that I can't recall right now..never really heard any bad reports about any of NWT's oufitters...
 
I went to Canada a few years back hunting the Quebec Caribou at Tunulic Lake up in the Arctic circle and had a great time. I shot two caribou and my biggest one placed number 10 in the most recent copy of Pope and Young, in the velvet class. It was a fully guided hunt and all I had to really do is pull the bow and shoot the animal. Our Inuit guides would do the rest, although I did help cape, quarter and pack out my animals. The hunting was good, out of 14 hunters, we harvested 28 bulls, and a couple bears. I hunted with Arctic Adventures and they put on a great hunt. I know a guy that takes care of one of the camps every year and he says that the hunting is great. If you have any questions, let me know and I will help you out anyway I can.


Muledeernut
 
Cooter, you could take a good friend to help with packing and such much cheaper than hiring an outfitter. Just a thought....
 
I'm a little weak on the friends list. Probably would have to take the Knack with me & hope that nobody bothered to make a surprise visit into out hotel room. I'm still trying to work on this so if I hear of anything that works, I'll keep you all posted. Thanks a bunch for all the good stuff and info.

Coot
 
MuleDeerNut,
Did you have to get a passport? How long is that process? Did you have to register your firearms inorder to cross international border?
-Raptor
 
LAST EDITED ON Jul-14-04 AT 08:32PM (MST)[p]No passport needed, fifty bucks at the border for registration if all firearms go under one name. I always tell them they are all my guns or else it will cost you fifty bucks for eaach person that wants to claim ownership . It's good for one year. Might wanna check and see if the firearms need to be registered in advance now with the daily changing regulations. No hand guns for US citizens ,I make the trip often.
~Jeff~
 
Not yet..............but I'm looking for any good stuff right now. Any worrd on Babe Winkelman's Dream Trips or is this just a big bunch of baloney?

Coot
 

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