Caribou antlers August 19 - 28?

[YellCoAR]

What should I expect as far as antlers velvet or hard horn? Should be in the field North Slope from August 19th - 28th. I have watched several youtubes but not many state the actual date.

 

[kwackkillncrew]

i hunted a different herd that time of year and most of the ones i saw were in velvet or just starting to shed.

 

[BowMan86]

I have hunted up there the 1st week of Sept the past few years. I would say that most were still in velvet at that time. Some of the bigger bulls had shed their velvet though. We have shot 5 bulls off the Dalton highway the 1st week of Sept. All still in velvet.

 

[Nick Muche]

Velvet

 

[Larry Bartlett]

Yup agree with Nick. small to average large bulls will still have velvet. Few mature bulls might have hard horns but just starting to loosen up on the palms, some may be losing some velvet strips from damage or sparring, but agree expect velvet at large.

 

[bmrfish]

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[chukarhunter_nv]

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Awesome bull. Headed up Aug. 7. Was this a DIY bull?


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[MightyWhitey]

I shot my first caribou last year on Aug 26th in full velvet, but it was falling off in my hands when I was handling him. We only saw one bull that was hard horned.

 

[jhm2023]

They will mostly be in velvet going into the beginning of September. The real big bulls will start shedding velvet first and I've seen some of the toads with somewhat ripped up velvet the very end of August early September. The velvet quality won't be very good late August early September though with most of the fuzziness being gone and likely that the velvet will be getting ripped up and peeling off when they do the dirt dance or when you start to handle them. Again, it depends on the size of the bull.

 

[bmrfish]

Awesome bull. Headed up Aug. 7. Was this a DIY bull?


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[chukarhunter_nv]

Fly in drop off then on our own

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Hoping to have a trip like yours! Great job.


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[LCoult]

Awesome bull. Headed up Aug. 7. Was this a DIY bull?


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How was it in early August? any luck?

 

[chukarhunter_nv]

How was it in early August? any luck?

It was a little tough last year. The weather was warm and the migration hadn't really kicked off yet. That being said, we both harvested nice bulls on days 7 and 8.

 

[Jfarrell13]

Hell yeah we did @chukarhunter_nv

 

[LCoult]

It was a little tough last year. The weather was warm and the migration hadn't really kicked off yet. That being said, we both harvested nice bulls on days 7 and 8.

Hell yea congrats! So highs were probably 50-60s?

 

[diamond10x]

Hell yeah we did @chukarhunter_nv

pics or it didn't happen... ;-)

 

[chukarhunter_nv]

Hell yea congrats! So highs were probably 50-60s?

It hit 70 a couple days


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[LCoult]

It hit 70 a couple days


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Geez! What’s the coldest it got to at night? Sorry to ask so many questions, me and sum buddies are heading up from the 6th-15th this year and I’m just trying to judge what all clothing I need to bring

 

[Smtn10pt]

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did you preserve the velvet? If so what was your method? I'm going up this August and would like to keep a nice velvet bull if I get one.

 

[chukarhunter_nv]

Geez! What’s the coldest it got to at night? Sorry to ask so many questions, me and sum buddies are heading up from the 6th-15th this year and I’m just trying to judge what all clothing I need to bring

The weather was very unpredictable. We did get snow on the same trip. Average temp was 50° I’d say.


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