I like caribou hunting because it is mostly in open country kind of like hunting pronghorn antelope here in eastern Montana.
I shot my first caribou on a DIY hunt in Alaska with friends back in 1980. The transporter pilot dropped us off by a small lake somewhere out in the tundra. I shot the biggest antlered bull of all of the bulls that our group shot, but he was dwarfed by a B&C bull that we saw a couple of days later, after we all had tagged out.
I didn't hunt caribou again until 1999 when I shot a Canadian Mountain Caribou on my Dall sheep hunt in the MacKenzie Mountains of Canada's Northwest Territory. I shot my Dall ram on the first day of my ram hunt, then my guide flew us to a different area where he had seen a lot of caribou on the hunt before mine. Unfortunately most of the caribou had moved out of that area, but the second day we saw a good B&C bull that outsmarted my guide. The third day I shot a bull from our camp that we had passed on the first day.
My next caribou hunt was again in Canada's NWT, above the Arctic Circle on a combination Caribou and Muskox hunt. There were 4 hunters in camp, and we were each allowed to shoot 2 bulls. All of us shot B&C bulls.
I then went on a combination Moose and Caribou hunt in Newfoundland, Canada. Unfortunately we didn't see any caribou that week, and I passed on all of the bull moose that we saw.
My last caribou hunt was in Quebec, the last year that they allowed nonresident caribou hunting. I again got lucky and shot the B&C bull in my avatar the first day. We saw a lot of caribou, and everyone in camp filled their tags.
It seems like caribou are constantly on the move, and you just have to be in the area that they are moving through. Most caribou bulls have basically the same antler structure, but if you are wanting a true trophy bull, study pictures of B&C bulls so you know what features score the higest. Like many other antlered animals, a high scoring B&C bull just looks big.
