Pygmy
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For Moosie, Dan S., T-Bone and all of the others considering an Alaska trip for caribou...
If you are hunting an area where you have good chances to kill caribou AND if you are interested in getting a good head for the wall, it is a good idea to buy two tags, if the limit is two in the unit you are hunting...
No matter how much you study the things before you go, when you see the first mature bulls trotting across the tundra they ALL tend to look big..Several of my friends have gone up and bought only one tag because they only wanted to have one bull mounted...That's all well and good, but most of them were disappointed that they had only one tag, because the first bull that they shot turned out to be smaller than they thought, and, of course they ended up seeing bigger ones after they had already filled thier tags...
Considering the price of the trip overall, the $325 for a second 'bou tag ain't that much, AND if you consider the fact that you can use it for either a caribou, a black bear, a wolf or a wolverine, it's even a better deal...
Add to that the fact that caribou is IMHO, one of the best eating game meats...To my taste, it is the best I have ever eaten....
A good strategy is to shoot the first decent bull that you see, and then hold out for a real buster...
If you are hunting an area where you have good chances to kill caribou AND if you are interested in getting a good head for the wall, it is a good idea to buy two tags, if the limit is two in the unit you are hunting...
No matter how much you study the things before you go, when you see the first mature bulls trotting across the tundra they ALL tend to look big..Several of my friends have gone up and bought only one tag because they only wanted to have one bull mounted...That's all well and good, but most of them were disappointed that they had only one tag, because the first bull that they shot turned out to be smaller than they thought, and, of course they ended up seeing bigger ones after they had already filled thier tags...
Considering the price of the trip overall, the $325 for a second 'bou tag ain't that much, AND if you consider the fact that you can use it for either a caribou, a black bear, a wolf or a wolverine, it's even a better deal...
Add to that the fact that caribou is IMHO, one of the best eating game meats...To my taste, it is the best I have ever eaten....
A good strategy is to shoot the first decent bull that you see, and then hold out for a real buster...