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Caribou is the finest meat I have ever tasted. I like it better than elk or moose. The people of Newfoundland are the nicest I have ever met. Can't wait to go back this year to see some of my new friends!

DaNewf, when do stags usually drop their antlers?

. . . Rob

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Rob in VT,

From what I've heard bull caribou (especially the big ones) start to lose their antlers as soon as the rut is over, late October. I did a quick internet search to see what I could find. I found a couple of sites confirming that mature bull caribou start losing there antlers directly after the rut and by January most of them are antlerless. Cows amd immature bulls often retain their antlers until late winter/early spring.

In an earlier post I said I thought Newfoundland had the only huntable herds of woodland caribou in Canada/US. I still haven't been able to confirm this but I didn't realize how bad a shape woodland caribou are in outside of NF. There is only one herd left in the US. They are endangered in western Canada and threatened or managed in eastern provinces. But NF has between 60,000 and 70,000 animals and I'm almost garaunteed to draw a license every year I apply for one. Sometimes you don't know how good you got it.

L8r.

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can you eat caribou? Is it good?

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Did a winter hunt in Quebec, the first week in Dec. 2001. Saw 700 animals the first day and at least 50% of bulls still had Antlers. Just remember, don't shoot too soon you won't run out of Caribou. The 2 main herds are estimated to be around a million animals, and in 1999 sport hunters only took about 17,000. Everyone we saw tagged out on 2 animals and there were some very large bulls on the back of trucks. I shot two medium size bulls cause you get caught up in the shooting and I didn't pull the trigger until I let at least 150 bulls run by. The largest bull was taken at 7:45 am the first day and the second largest was at 4:00 pm on the last day, both better than 4 ft. wide.The meat is VERY good, don't give any of it away.

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Northern Manitoba has some great hunting. I hunted with an outfitter in 98 and shot a 350 class animal. I called to get all the info but fellow wasn't there. When i can I will get and post contact information. MB has now changed and has two tags for the area.
I never looked but there should be a list of outfitters on the MB government tourism web site. The guy I hunted with was Ted Jowett. He is out of Winnipeg.
His camp is 16 miles from the NWT border and if i'm remembering correct the herd is 450,000 animals.
On another note, MB has a season on the Penn Island herd,come from Ontario, that are woodland. MB gives 75 licenses for non-treaty to hunt. Treaty need no license. I don't think that there are any tags for non-Canadians to obtain one.
The northern herd is barren ground.
When i have more info i will pass on.

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I was just curios because meat off of a big buck is real tuff, so I didn't know if meat off of something that big would be good or too tuff.

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Further to my earlier reply I hunted up the outfitter I hunted with in Manitoba. Info is:
Ted Jowett 204-667-3094 Winnipeg Manitoba
His hunts are $3395.00US Airfare from Thompson, MB
His camp shot the largest non-resident Caribou for the Manitoba in 2002. Scored 399 7/8.
Worth talking to this guy.

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Nattybumpo--------What outfitter did you use? I tried to book with Mirage but they are full for 2003.