Bambistew
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Wyodeerhunter (banned) and I made a 3 day trip up north to fill a tag or two. Its been a pretty tough year finding caribou. We'd both been out a couple weekends with limited luck finding bulls. They just weren't in their normal spots.
Took my little guy up to look for moose and caribou one weekend, he had fun. Plan to take him again this winter.
We decided to make one last heroic effort to check out some new country and maybe pull off a multi-species hunt. Little did we know that an easy hunt would turn into the suckiest meat pack to date either of us had done. Some of us are slow learners I guess...
We finally found some caribou in a high basin, passed up a couple nice bulls to kill a really nice one. Long story short, the "easy" pack up and down to the river turned into camping out on the side of the mountain and getting back to camp with a whole caribou (bone in + ribs) about 24 hours after Wyo shot it... Packs were heafty, so much the rack was left on the mountain prior to camping out. Easy come easy go. I think it was about 8 miles the way we went, all to avoid a nasty, cliffy creek bottom. Looking back we should have went down the creek, the river bottom wasn't any better.
We saw 7 bears, and one that we should have shot. We just didn't have the energy to skin one out, and had our sights set on getting home. He watched us walk down the river bottom from a pearch about 300 yards above, and didn't run off... just watched. First for either of us on that kind of encounter, zero fear.
I still have a tag in my pocket, and will be making a run back up later this month to fill it. Caribou hunting is pretty fun. I think they are highly underrated game animals on many levels. Finding a "good" one isn't hard, finding an exceptional one takes patience and usually a lot of walking. I think its quite similar to hunting mule deer. Lots of glassing, waiting for a good one to show up.
Took my little guy up to look for moose and caribou one weekend, he had fun. Plan to take him again this winter.
We decided to make one last heroic effort to check out some new country and maybe pull off a multi-species hunt. Little did we know that an easy hunt would turn into the suckiest meat pack to date either of us had done. Some of us are slow learners I guess...
We finally found some caribou in a high basin, passed up a couple nice bulls to kill a really nice one. Long story short, the "easy" pack up and down to the river turned into camping out on the side of the mountain and getting back to camp with a whole caribou (bone in + ribs) about 24 hours after Wyo shot it... Packs were heafty, so much the rack was left on the mountain prior to camping out. Easy come easy go. I think it was about 8 miles the way we went, all to avoid a nasty, cliffy creek bottom. Looking back we should have went down the creek, the river bottom wasn't any better.
We saw 7 bears, and one that we should have shot. We just didn't have the energy to skin one out, and had our sights set on getting home. He watched us walk down the river bottom from a pearch about 300 yards above, and didn't run off... just watched. First for either of us on that kind of encounter, zero fear.
I still have a tag in my pocket, and will be making a run back up later this month to fill it. Caribou hunting is pretty fun. I think they are highly underrated game animals on many levels. Finding a "good" one isn't hard, finding an exceptional one takes patience and usually a lot of walking. I think its quite similar to hunting mule deer. Lots of glassing, waiting for a good one to show up.
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