QUEBEC CARIBOU HUNTING

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I recently came back from a Quebec caribou hunt. When we arrived at the main outpost camp there was no caribou movement at all. Fortunately the owner agreed to fly us out to a migrating herd where a float plane landed on a nearby lake and we than pursued the animals. If this gesture was not offered we would have sat in a camp for the entire week and never got shooting. Has any one had a recent experience with a caribou hunt where the outfitter puts you in an unproductive area or are there generally caribou near the camps. What outfitter did you use and would you recommend them.

By the way did tag out! Pics will come
 
that's cause due to global warming, the periods and regions when/where the caribous migrate have been shifting, so you havent been shafted really
 
I was told never to book a caribou hunt unless the guide was willing to change camps to where the animals were moving.
I've heard of situations where guides, for whatever reason couldn't or wouldn't move their hunters to new spots and no caribou were taken.

That would suck for sure

Oh yeah, more details on your hunt and pictures when ever you get a chance :mrgreen:
Brambles
 
cool is it true that the caribou rome in massive herds in qubec???
i got my first boo this summer :D but all we saw were 10 or 20 a day...
talk to ya all later
Riley
 
yes

depending on time of year you go, you might see packs of 10-20 or heards of many many thousands

There is an estimated 1 million caribous in northern québec
 
I went a couple years ago for a winter hunt. We tagged out the first day (4 of them). I had fun but do not consider it as a true hunt...more like just shooting. we saw an estimated 4000-5000. All in heards of 50, 100, 200 or more. The girl friend loved it. She knocked em down with a 6mm rem. using 70 gr BT's :D
 
jeff 710 said:
I recently came back from a Quebec caribou hunt. When we arrived at the main outpost camp there was no caribou movement at all. Fortunately the owner agreed to fly us out to a migrating herd where a float plane landed on a nearby lake and we than pursued the animals. If this gesture was not offered we would have sat in a camp for the entire week and never got shooting. Has any one had a recent experience with a caribou hunt where the outfitter puts you in an unproductive area or are there generally caribou near the camps. What outfitter did you use and would you recommend them.

By the way did tag out! Pics will come
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I think any Quebec outfitter that didn't move you is incompetant.

Caribou aren't hard to scout when you are north of the treeline.
 
I went last year. 4 of us got our 8 caribou on the first day in about 3 hours or so. There were other hunters from another camp down the road about 1 hour or so that made the trek past our camp to the herds. We went the last week of November. I may tend to agree with the canuk, due to the warmer weather. Up where I was I think only one outfitter would take you to the herds. But everyone for the 3 or so days in there before you should be able to let you know where the animals are. As said earlier again, you can possibly see hundreds and hundreds of animals. There were times on the way in we had to stop on the road to let them cross.
 
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