BC Dream Hunts

[45ACPKING]

i think that today a bc dream hunt is in the Yukon.

yes we do not have huge quantity of boar grizzly but still OTC, we do not have rocky or california bighorns but we have dall ...

and for most it OTC and still and so far not that much hunting pressure if you do a little of planning ....

aren't non Yukon residents required to go thru a lottery process to be able to hunt or has something changed?
I had big plans to hunt up there a few years ago as I have several friends in the Yukon. That year they put the licenses on lottery and then reduced the available numbers in subsequent years. I suppose anyone can go and pay an outfitter but a guy can't just buy non resident license and tags and go hunting can they?

 

[dgradinaru]

Not a dream but a goal. Plan on doing a fly in Caribou hunt in the near future. Something about large bull caribou and country they live in that gets me all excited and fascinated. It will be done with an 8x57 mauser.

 

[medvedqc]

aren't non Yukon residents required to go thru a lottery process to be able to hunt or has something changed?
I had big plans to hunt up there a few years ago as I have several friends in the Yukon. That year they put the licenses on lottery and then reduced the available numbers in subsequent years. I suppose anyone can go and pay an outfitter but a guy can't just buy non resident license and tags and go hunting can they?

the resident special system is very simple lol 100 a year plus 25 for bison hunting in the winter. they add the 25 on the total numbers but today everybody got a friend to host lol ... they reduced at the request of some groups including outfitters on one big thing: today an host will get a caribou or a moose not anymore both. grizzly has been removed but that was only in the southern lakes.

the lottery has in place for now 2 years and as the regular one for the residents it is rigged but this is the yukon lol ...

no you cannot just get a non resident license the tags for big game and go.

 

[Suther]

Not a dream but a goal. Plan on doing a fly in Caribou hunt in the near future. Something about large bull caribou and country they live in that gets me all excited and fascinated. It will be done with an 8x57 mauser.

That seems like something best done in the territories or Alaska, no? I know BC has caribou but I didn't think we had a lot? Not like the thousands you'll see on a migratory route farther north?

 

[Ashcroft]

Residents for caribou, look at the limited entry draws in Spatsizi and Edziza if available. Open season try Horseranch Range near Good Hope Lake and Cassiar Mountains if these are still an option. These are some of the best mountain caribou areas in the province, some are fly in, some you pack in.

 

[medvedqc]

Not a dream but a goal. Plan on doing a fly in Caribou hunt in the near future. Something about large bull caribou and country they live in that gets me all excited and fascinated. It will be done with an 8x57 mauser.

caribou is the best meat i ever ate and my favourite hunt but you have to be at the right moment and of course at the right time .... interesting to hunt with an 8x57.

 

[savage 110L]

I’ll be in the float plane August 21 for a caribou hunt on the Kawdy plateau. My fifth time to this area. Hoping to get into some big bulls this time.

 

[Ardent]

And yes as per all of us, definitely regret not hunting Grizzly bears when I lived in the Northern Interior. For some reason that is the area I would really like to hunt them and not on the coast.

Having done a bit of both, you pick your preferred discomfort, bug bites or dampness. Bears are much bigger on the coast and much more beautiful inland. Personally I find the coast more dynamic, but mountain hunting grizzlies is a wild game too.

i think that today a bc dream hunt is in the Yukon.

yes we do not have huge quantity of boar grizzly but still OTC, we do not have rocky or california bighorns but we have dall ...

and for most it OTC and still and so far not that much hunting pressure if you do a little of planning ....

No need to worry on the state of BC hunting Phil BC is a gigantic place within 10% the size of Ontario and largely mountains, with 1/3rd of the people and 19 of the 29 North American big game animals in habitat from true rainforest to true desert. Nowhere else in North America has as varied of habitat or game animals. Few BC residents see all, I certainly haven’t. Yukon is utterly spectacular too.

That seems like something best done in the territories or Alaska, no? I know BC has caribou but I didn't think we had a lot? Not like the thousands you'll see on a migratory route farther north?

This is what I mean by few BC residents seeing it all, or evening knowing what’s out there (not a dig at you Suther this is common). BC has mountain caribou, and woodland caribou. The northern mountain caribou are one of our most impressive species in the province. Ours aren’t migratory / barren land, they’re mountain caribou a much different subspecies, and there are a lot of them in BC. Woodlands aren’t faring so well.

I’ll be in the float plane August 21 for a caribou hunt on the Kawdy plateau. My fifth time to this area. Hoping to get into some big bulls this time.

Good hunting, sounds spectacular I know the area enough to be envious .

 

[savage 110L]

That seems like something best done in the territories or Alaska, no? I know BC has caribou but I didn't think we had a lot? Not like the thousands you'll see on a migratory route farther north?

Oh boy are you missing out. If you hit it right it's an unbelievable hunt. You can wear yourself out chasing those buggers. And a bull caribou in northern BC is BIG! Especially when they're fat in August.

You won't run into thousands but get into 10-20 bulls in a bachelor group, it gets pretty exciting.

 

[savage 110L]

Looking at Ardent's photos I can almost smell the heather on the mountain and the decaying salmon in the streams again. We hunted everything in BC, all over the province, been on many a mountain and plenty of coastal salmon streams , goats, sheep, elk, moose and griz being a special addiction. The legs and lungs aren't up to mountain hunts anymore, griz is finished in BC and elk and moose are just too d'md heavy for an old man to wrestle, so it's smaller species and easier hunts now. We lost our grizzly hunt, caribou are next, who knows what is after that? Go while you can, the world is shrinking and your opportunities with it.

You are correct sir! Don't wait, it's not going to be here for long.

 

[Prairie Plinker]

Not a dream but a goal. Plan on doing a fly in Caribou hunt in the near future. Something about large bull caribou and country they live in that gets me all excited and fascinated. It will be done with an 8x57 mauser.

Never thought I'd get to do something like hunt Caribou, but in 46 days and counting me and the Dad are driving up to Watson Lake, YK, then taking a float-plane to the camp. 10 day horseback hunt with options for moose/grizz/goat if the opportunity arises and either of us think "I gotta have that!" We have thought and talked about doing something like this for literal decades, and somehow the stars aligned.

I've no idea what to expect, never been on any kind of guided hunt before. Trying to get my gear together now, was supposed to be all set months ago so I could do a test run or two out in the bush nearby. Just pulled the trigger on a new point-and-shoot camera a few minutes ago, now it's time to start researching backpacks! I'm guessing my old "Kelty" from about 25 years ago isn't going to cut it this time.

Get it booked DGRADINARU, time keeps ticking, the world keeps getting smaller and smaller, we keep getting older and older... gotta try and enjoy this beautiful country while we can!

 

[Prairie Plinker]

caribou is the best meat i ever ate and my favourite hunt but you have to be at the right moment and of course at the right time .... interesting to hunt with an 8x57.

That's why we decided to drive all the way up there. Not trying to be greedy, but no one is getting a "donation" from me...every single gram of Caribou, should either me or my dad get lucky enough to get one, is coming back home! Bringing a trailer out with an old chest freezer attached.

Oh boy are you missing out. If you hit it right it's an unbelievable hunt. You can wear yourself out chasing those buggers. And a bull caribou in northern BC is BIG! Especially when they're fat in August.

You won't run into thousands but get into 10-20 bulls in a bachelor group, it gets pretty exciting.

Stop...just STOP! I'm already too excited. If I see even one I'll be a happy camper!

 

[45ACPKING]

Never thought I'd get to do something like hunt Caribou, but in 46 days and counting me and the Dad are driving up to Watson Lake, YK, then taking a float-plane to the camp. 10 day horseback hunt with options for moose/grizz/goat if the opportunity arises and either of us think "I gotta have that!" We have thought and talked about doing something like this for literal decades, and somehow the stars aligned.

I've no idea what to expect, never been on any kind of guided hunt before. Trying to get my gear together now, was supposed to be all set months ago so I could do a test run or two out in the bush nearby. Just pulled the trigger on a new point-and-shoot camera a few minutes ago, now it's time to start researching backpacks! I'm guessing my old "Kelty" from about 25 years ago isn't going to cut it this time.

Get it booked DGRADINARU, time keeps ticking, the world keeps getting smaller and smaller, we keep getting older and older... gotta try and enjoy this beautiful country while we can!

good for you! sounds exciting
my wife lived in Yellowknife for several years and she bugs me every hunting season to bring her home a caribou LOL
Have never hunted them but it does sound like an exciting trip

 

[medvedqc]

That's why we decided to drive all the way up there. Not trying to be greedy, but no one is getting a "donation" from me...every single gram of Caribou, should either me or my dad get lucky enough to get one, is coming back home! Bringing a trailer out with an old chest freezer attached.



Stop...just STOP! I'm already too excited. If I see even one I'll be a happy camper!

i hear you for the meat. i was bringing 4 barrenground caribou when i was guiding and i had a lot of friends lol .....

 

[Ashcroft]

Caribou meat is fine grained, usually tender and can be of superb mild flavour. I say can be because all that goes out the window on mountain caribou, once the rut kicks in about 4-8 September where I've hunted them the bulls start drinking the cow's urine and this goes throughout the meat. Cooking it will stink up the house like an old beer parlour urinal and nobody will eat it but the dogs. It can be the best or the worst but at it's best it is my wife's favourite game meat. You are in for an awesome hunt, maybe the dream hunt of a lifetime, take lots of pictures and savour every moment, rain or shine. Good luck.

 

[conor_90]

Good luck prairie plinker!

Is there a huntable caribou herd that is in the northern rockies?

I've only seen guys hunting the barren ground caribou online, I'd imagine the hunt for woodland caribou might be a lot like elk or deer hunting.

I know the situation with some herds has become tenous. I count myself lucky to have seen them in the Nation lakes area, have yet to see one east of the rockies, just their tracks.

 

[Longwalker]

I wouldn't spend any money an a "canned" plains game hunt in South Africa, but would gladly hunt plains game on a large fenced S.A. game ranch again. There is a very significant difference that I feel must be pointed out That said, my BC hunting goal has been to hunt mountain caribou again, in a region like the Stikine / Spatsizi plateau. It's wonderful hunting above treeline in the high alpine. Having spent most of my hunting career on the plains, I can relate to the wide open vistas and absence of trees. Just a little more bumpy terrain, and as pointed out caribou are very good to eat in early fall!

 

[savage 110L]

Good luck prairie plinker!

Is there a huntable caribou herd that is in the northern rockies?

I've only seen guys hunting the barren ground caribou online, I'd imagine the hunt for woodland caribou might be a lot like elk or deer hunting.

I know the situation with some herds has become tenous. I count myself lucky to have seen them in the Nation lakes area, have yet to see one east of the rockies, just their tracks.

You can hunt caribou in the northern Rockies all right. The country is much more rugged than the cassiar range so you are working a lot harder just to get around. I’ll take one of the big plateaus every time. Kawdy, spatzizi, level mountain. And there are way more caribou too.

 

[Longwalker]

This. Wonderful country, and horses make it even better!

 

[freddyfour]

Absolutely amazing! So jealous