Caribou

 GREENLAND CENTRAL CANADIAN

BARREN GROUND CARIBOU $8100
INCLUDES LICENSE AND TAX
HELICOPTER HUNT $12,500

This outfit offers 3 options, River Camp, Helicopter Camp or Town based. The terrain is easy hiking through valleys and some rolling mountains, but it can require hiking 3 to 8 miles per day.

RIVER CAMP is from August into early September and accommodations could be cabins or well setup tent camps. Caribou will start shedding velvet late August. Weather is normally down to 40 degrees for a low and 55 for a high. Camp is accessed by jet boat. 5 or 6 days at $8,100 and a second caribou can be added for an additional $3,500 or a straight caribou/muskox combo is $11,100.

HELICOPTER CAMP takes place from mid September into mid October and accommodations could be cabins or a well setup tent camp. Caribou capes are turning whiter, and antlers are more polished. Helicopter into camp then hunt by foot or boat to access more area. Temps run about 30 degrees for a low and 50 for a high. 5 or 6 days combination muskox/caribou or 2 caribou is priced at $12,500.

TOWN BASED hunts run from mid October to the 31st when the caribou are rutting with white capes. You will leave town each morning and use ATV’s to access the hunting areas and sometimes river jet boats are used depending on the water levels. This may be the least physical of the hunts due to better access either by ATV or jet boat. Temperatures are colder, averaging 15 for the lows and 30 for the highs. 5 or 6 days is $8,100 for one animal. Second caribou is $3,500 or a caribou/muskox combo is $11,100.

Lodging, meals, guiding, licenses, taxes are included in the pricing. Rifle/ammo and sleeping bags are available at no additional cost but must be reserved in advance.

Not included are flights to and from Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, your hotel accommodations before and after your hunt, tanning of hides, cleaning skulls, and shipping of the trophies, which takes place several months after your hunt. Prices could fluctuate with currency changes.

Travel to Greenland is typically best by flying to Copenhagen, Denmark and overnight at a hotel of your choice at your expense then fly to Kangerlussuaq, Greenland the following day. Limited 2024 availability on the Helicopter hunt and Town based hunts. 2025 is open but expect some price increase.

HCU’s Bob Wodzisz has been on both the River Camp and the later helicopter hunts. He can explain these hunts in detail along with travel and trophy shipments. He can be reached at 330-730-3473. Hunt CU299.

ALASKA PENINSULA
BARREN GROUND CARIBOU
6 DAYS GUIDED $12,500

These caribou are the Alaska Peninsula Herd and even though they are constantly on the move they are not considered migratory. Hunters are flown into spike camps, consisting of 6-man Cabela Guide tents with cots.

2023 his 12 hunters tagged 11 caribou, one hunter just couldn’t walk and was unsuccessful. They flew some hunters up onto a lease they have and the bulls seemed to be much larger and more of them. Best bull grossed 418 and plenty of upper 300’s were taken. They are now offering this leased land hunt at $14,500, besides their usual Peninsula hunt priced at $12,500.

2022 his 18 hunters killed 14 bulls and missed a couple. Bulls overall were a little smaller this year and the top bulls went in the high 300’s.

6 day hunts guided 2×1 September 24 to 30 are $12,500 including lodging, meals and one caribou or $14,500 on their leased land. Fall brown bear hunts take place on odd years, 2023 then 2025, and are $28,000 and a caribou can be added for $5,000.

Once the hunters are tagged out, they are flown back to the comfortable main lodge, where they can fish for silver salmon, char and Dolly Varden at $350 per day, spinning gear and equipment will be provided, but fly fishermen must bring their own gear.

Hunters fly into Anchorage and then to Sand Point, approximately $1,200 round trip, where they are met and flown into camp at the outfitters expense. There is a $100 freight charge to fly antlers and cape from Sand Point to Anchorage and the meat is donated to the natives. All licenses and tags are available on-line and should be purchased prior to arrival at camp. Hunt CU781.

NORTHWEST TERRITORIES OFFERS
WORLD CLASS MOUNTAIN CARIBOU
$17,000 9 DAYS 2X1

We work with an outfitter in the Northwest Territories that offers premier mountain caribou hunts. Success generally runs at or near 100 percent on bulls with average gross scores of 360 to 380 Boone and Crockett, with some scoring into the 430’s and typically about 20 percent score over the 390 record book minimum. They normally take 20 to 30 bulls per year, either on straight caribou hunts or as extra animals on the sheep and moose hunts. Hunts require a round trip charter out of Norman Wells priced around $2,000.

9 day backpack hunts guided 2×1 from July 26 to September 19 are priced at $17,000 plus $100 preservation fund and 5 percent tax. Caribou can be taken on a $10,000 trophy fee as add-ons for his sheep and moose hunts. HCU consultants Bob Wodzisz and Cliff Graham have taken moose and caribou with this outfit. Hunt CU250. CU250 Hunt Photos.

NEWFOUNDLAND WOODLAND CARIBOU
$15,200 ARCHERY OR RIFLE

This outfitter offers archery hunts during this special season the last week of August and first week of September just before starting their gun hunts in mid-September.

2023 in Area 40 they killed 11 bulls for 12 hunters and in Area 45 they went 4 for 4. Quite a few record book bulls were taken over the season.

2022 in Area 40 went 11 for 11 and Area 45 finished 4 for 4. Plenty of trophy book bulls were taken.

6 day hunt is priced at $15,200 plus 15 percent HST tax and includes your $675 license and airport pickup in Deer Lake. Moose can be added for $6,500. Next availability is in 2025. Hunt CU709.  CU709 Hunt Photos.