RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

Maybe you should leave the whitetail woods and actually see what a challenging hunt really is.

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

Mr. Longbeard,

Given you feelings about the matter, I recommend you simply not go caribou hunting and just leave it at that.

Personally, to me there is more to it than just the stalk and the kill. I like the idea of just going.... the vast, remote terrain, different climate, diffferent cultures, being away from home ---- way away from home, the immense migrations, and the newness of it all. If it is easy, then I'll take it. If it's not so easy, well that is hunting.... it is not very often that everything goes "just right" so I just try to enjoy it when it does. For every hunt that is "too easy" there are those hunts that try men's souls and take the full measure of one's "mental and physical toughness".

But hey, that is just me.... the guy that said there are different classes of hunters. ;):D

Good Luck and Good Hunting,
EKM

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

Too bad for Mr. Longbeard that he can only appreciate hunting whitetails in pressured areas.


Personally, I love caribou hunting. In fact, I am going on a caribou/moose combo up near the Bering Sea this Sept. 15-25. We will be flying in to the Brooks range. I'll try to remember that I am only "justifying" my hunt as challenging or difficult becuase I have 800 lbs of meat and antler to backpack to my camp:)


I will have to inform my Prozac-deprived friends who are into Dall Sheep and Goat hunting that their hunts are not difficult and require no skills because the animals do not flee at the mere sight of a human. I am sure that thought will comort them while they are negotiating the rocky ledges.

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

It dosen't take skill to have a wall full of trophy's. Just money

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

I do not agree with that statement. I can take you into the wilderness areas where I hunt elk/mule deer. The elk & mule deer do not care how much money you have. The hunting is hard for everyone. If you mean that with money you can shoot a trophy animal in a very small cage? Then you are correct.

I watched the show you are talking about. I was very happy to see that man get two bull caribou. They were just in the right place at the right time. The odds of that happening are pretty low. These guys were hunting wild free roaming caribou.

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

I don't think all caribou hunting is a joke. Yeah, I have seen hunts on tv where it looks like they are hunting the dumbest animal on earth, but aparently they aren't that dumb, or they would have been wiped out years ago by bears and hunters. By the way, haven't you ever seen a whitetail hunt on tv that looked a little too easy? Or turkey? Elk? Of course. We have all had those hunts when everyything worked out perfect. I wish I had a dollar for everyone that didn't! Maybe hunting caribou isn't for you.....don't rail on everyone else about it. Money doesn't alway put trohies on the wall, either. Unless you are talking about hunting on a 15 acre high fence "game farm" with $4,000 trophy fees. Most would agree thats not what hunting is all about.

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

I'm betting in reality, it takes both!

Even if you are a "do it yourself" guy with plenty of connections you will spend lots of money to hunt enough to get a wall full of quality trophies. Even if you hunt with a guide, if you can't shoot, can't walk quiet, can't dish up some good size helpings of mental and physical toughness you are not going to get the trophy (or anything else).

Hunters for the most part are notoriously "cheap" and many will not hunt beyond their local game patch because they simply can't afford to play at that level and there is no crime in that. However, some want to go in the worst way, but can't and they know it ---- at that point it is not uncommon for a defense mechanism to kick in, .... "Ah, anyone with money can do that.... that is too easy.... no one is going to tell me how to hunt .... the kind of hunting we have right here is the apex of the hunting world, no need to look further ---- some of these folks "proudly choose" not to engage in that kind of hunting.

Now if you've got the money and have ranged away from home some and done a "big game/remote/away from home" hunt AND THEN concluded, "you know this is okay but I really like it better back home...." THEN that is a little different.

SELDOM, have I observed this latter version to occur, in fact usually just the opposite.

JMHO,

EKM

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

I'm going on a "high dollar" hunt this fall. It took me 7 years to save up the money to take this trip, to AK. But, even with the amount of money I am spending on this trip, nothing, absolutely nothing, is guranteed! SO, when I come back in mid. Sept. and come on here and "hopefully" have a success picture and story to tell, My Longbeard, I hope you don't look down on me for hunting "unpressured" big game, even though the country the game lives in is some what larger than the little world you hunt in!!

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

Just being out there is enough for me. Handicapped or not.

Now if these caribou were in a pasture and this was going on I might have a problem with it. Otherwise it's all good it's predators (us) getting prey (caribou) with our large brains. If caribou are not as wary as they could be then our predation is acting to select individual caribou who are wary. Thus improving the species...which is natural selection at work.

:)

RE: Caribou hunting a joke
 

"quote:

It dosen't take skill to have a wall full of trophy's. Just money "



Well actually you must have "skill" in order to be successful and have money to spend. So the fact that you can hunt on private, managed land, and have the money to have a wall full of trophies goes to show that you do indeed have skills.