Any Caribou hunters out there?

[Don@Tahoe]

I'm looking to book a hunt for next year, do any of you guys have suggestions on location and outfitters, I'm just beginning the process....

[Spyder]

I'm very curious too. Not quite bucket list item.

[taperxz]

Bucket list item.

[MJB]

Alaska or Canada

Tundra or woodland?

[Don@Tahoe]

Alaska or Canada

Tundra or woodland?

Good questions! lol
A long time military buddy is retiring from his second career, we've been friends for 40 years and this has been a bucket list thing since we were kids, but like I said in the post we are just starting the research process and looking for as much info as we can get...

[Canucky]

Pack your long-johns. Sounds like a great time.

[Don@Tahoe]

http://www.weguidealaska.com/

Looking at the guided hunt option, would have loved to do the unguided in my younger days, email sent.

[Bull Elk]

Bring a face net and lots of bug spray.

[lewdogg21]

Bring a face net and lots of bug spray.

Caribou is on my bucket list. Biggest drawback is that... I hate mosquitoes. Growing up in Michigan with a swamp behind my house was like rice field bad sometimes.

[tony270]

Here's the link to non resident caribou opportunities:

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=caribouhunting.opportunities

Here's the link for caribou hunting in Alaska:

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=caribouhunting.main

Recently there was an episode on one of the Alaska wilderness reality shows that showed a native hunting technique for cariobu.

[Don@Tahoe]

Thank you Tony, great info on those sites!

Here's the link to non resident caribou opportunities:

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=caribouhunting.opportunities

Here's the link for caribou hunting in Alaska:

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=caribouhunting.main

Recently there was an episode on one of the Alaska wilderness reality shows that showed a native hunting technique for cariobu.

[JackEllis]

I did a caribou hunt 15 years ago with a friend who lives in Alaska. The area we hunted was near the confluence of the Mulchatna and Stoyahok rivers, which at the time was home to an enormous caribou herd. It's been badly decimated by foot rot so non-residents can't hunt there today, but when I went, residents could take 5 a year.

Biggest challenge is packing out a critter because walking on tundra the wrong way will get you a broken ankle. Field dressed caribou run 140 pounds, so we'd each take half, but you have to walk between the tufts of grass, which tend to collapse unpredictably if you walk on them in order to avoid getting your boots wet.

Wear pac boots or muck (rubber) boots that will keep your feet dry, and get in shape.

Where there are caribou (and moose) in Alaska you will also find brown bears. Arm yourself accordingly, because brown bears have been known on occasion to make a beeline for the source of the gunshot and take possession of a kill. You can't shoot a bear out of season to keep it from confiscating your kill, but you can shoot the bear if is a threat. Someone in your party should have a .300WM or larger, just in case.

My caribou is not very impressive (most of our house guests don't know that), but that hunt was a blast and it got me hooked.

[Don@Tahoe]

Thanks for the insight and experience Jack, the guides have been saying pretty much the same thing, they want us to wear breathable waders with seperate boots without felts, looks like we may have to cross a river or two. We were thinking about an unguided trip, then a what if scenario was presented to us, say we are packing meat and a bear was following us, and we are walking towards a bear at the same time, how do we handle that? My answer was, I don't have a clue! lol The guides are super experienced with these brown bears, we are not, and you are right, a gunshot is like a dinner bell. We are going September 2019 for 5 days.
I would imagine Caribou meat is pretty good, did you like it?

I did a caribou hunt 15 years ago with a friend who lives in Alaska. The area we hunted was near the confluence of the Mulchatna and Stoyahok rivers, which at the time was home to an enormous caribou herd. It's been badly decimated by foot rot so non-residents can't hunt there today, but when I went, residents could take 5 a year.

Biggest challenge is packing out a critter because walking on tundra the wrong way will get you a broken ankle. Field dressed caribou run 140 pounds, so we'd each take half, but you have to walk between the tufts of grass, which tend to collapse unpredictably if you walk on them in order to avoid getting your boots wet.

Wear pac boots or muck (rubber) boots that will keep your feet dry, and get in shape.

Where there are caribou (and moose) in Alaska you will also find brown bears. Arm yourself accordingly, because brown bears have been known on occasion to make a beeline for the source of the gunshot and take possession of a kill. You can't shoot a bear out of season to keep it from confiscating your kill, but you can shoot the bear if is a threat. Someone in your party should have a .300WM or larger, just in case.

My caribou is not very impressive (most of our house guests don't know that), but that hunt was a blast and it got me hooked.