I got busy and forgot to get a down payment in on a caribou hunt in Alaska for this Sept. and don't want to wait till 2015, shoot, old enough, not sure we;ll BE HERE next year, lol..so does anyone knonw of a reasonably priced Caribou hunt in Alaska, for this season?

The forty mile herd hunt Sept 3rd & 4th is about as cheap as you'll get. Plane tickets, license, rent van for 20 bucks a day, a little over 1000 mile round trip drive. Most everybody gets one, and some nice ones are taken too. It's like a zoo with all the hundreds of hunters from Fairbanks & Anchorage, but no orange and they all deserve their caribou too. Subsistence folks get to hunt from Aug 10th till end of Sept and then in winter, so nobody gets upset at all the outsiders. Actually the herd is slowly growing, F&G is doing an outstanding job; we really have a good bunch of people in TOK.

People hunt from Chicken all the way to Eagle, usually bou are spread out in small bands, crossing the road in all the traditional places. You don't even need a 4 wheeler, but they are nice. I have actually seen over 8000 caribou spread out as far as the eye can see, 5 foot apart in past years. Usually hunters find an area the bou are crossing and set up off the road. Quite normal to see wolves too, as they follow the caribou. My nephew got a grizzly bear during that hunt last season, everything is movin.

I think as non res, you'll spend 400 on license.

I have seen years, where we had 1500-2000 caribou sticking around our summit, and there were maybe 20 huge bulls, like you have never seen on any of the hunting tv shows. If you live around the area, you find the super big ones and hit them as soon as subsistence starts; but you know with caribou, you can't predict when they will show up. I've seen them here late July, early August, and then some years they don't show up until the last week of August. Only can remember one year that they weren't here for the first day of season. Though sometimes the bou come through further South (Chicken) or North (HIghway to Circle).

Most affordable hunt still available on a permit you purchase at F&G. Use to be many more available but declining numbers have closed many of the hunts to draw or subsistence. Thank F&G for doing a great job with the caribou, only reason everybody can still go get a bou every fall, no joke.

Guided Hunt or unguided?

As of Thursday, one of our outfitters has one spot left on a raft hunt north of Fairbanks....dates are Aug. 10th-17th. 1 caribou hunt with trophy fee on 2nd. Grizzy also avail.on a trophy fee. Normal price is $6700.....now $5800

Also have a couple of spots open in Manitoba....

Drop me a line if interested.

Thanks for the info.. I knew I posted a want post somewhere, but couldn't remember where. need to look into the drive out and do it yourself, thing.. had a great video on that some years back, but loaned it to a guy who put it in front of his forced air heater, when done, and melted it. Can't justify $5,800 for caribou hunt. Again , thanks, need to do some quick looking and see if an airline ticket can still be gotten cheap.. flew to Anchorage in 96 and drove all over that area.

If you have a good bow and know how to shoot longer distances, the Haul road is an option. Fly into Fairbanks and rent a vehicle (if they allow you to drive the road) and drive north.

Lots of advice on this site: http://forums.outdoorsdirector...ul-Road-Report/page3

and we cant still hunt the 40 mile one in Yukon ....

One of the 2015 F-150 new colors is " Caribou ". Will that be necessary for the hunt ??

In unit 13 A and D they still aren't moving where they can easily be got to. The tough part is being where they are when they are there. The vaugeries of caribou hunting.