The issue of the herd either being there in the thousands or none at all is real. The baron ground caribou in Quebec and Labrador is a migratory animal and you hunt can be a success or complete failure if getting an animal is the top consideration. If it were me I would hunt woodland caribou in Newfoundland instead. Using a guide is mandatory but the woodland caribou aren't really that migratory. Instead of going for hundreds or thousands of miles they often only go 50 miles from their summer range to the winter range. I went 3 years in a row and never had a time in camp when all the sports didn't get nice animals. The last time out was 2 years ago and out of the 4 of us we got 2 SCI book animals and the other 2 were almost book. The hunting is pretty physical with lots of hiking into the different bog areas or lookouts for spotting. The hunt was really fun and the guides and outfitter was great. The costs were usually less than a baron ground hunt because only one animal was to be taken as opposed to 2 in Quebec. Additional tags could be purchased which put the hunt about at what a baron ground hunt would be. I always used Snowshoe Lake Hunting and fishing and give them my absolute highest recommendation. If anyone needs additional info feel free to PM me. The woodland stag has to be about the prettiest animal on earth.