This dude is seriously palmated, you can see his antlers sticking up on the
horizon there.
On today's episode we're gonna go north about as far north as you can get in the
Canadian Arctic, we're gonna go hunt Quebec Labrador Caribou with our good
friend Mike Cantrell. You know about five years ago these caribou suffered a
severe die-off and they cut the hunting back to one bull, but they're starting to
rebound let's go catch up with myself and Brandon Mason as we head north after
big trophy caribou bulls.
The Arctic Bush is a very surreal place from the air endless miles of vast
wilderness with almost no human interruption patiently await our arrival.
All right here we are first day of a big caribou hunt in Canada 2014 and me and Cantrell
appear are heading out on the water heading across the water to get some
other country and, fight the bugs as you could probably see. A little bad. Leaving
camp away we go.
The bugs are absolutely horrible, we've got almost a hundred percent DEET on.
There still buzzing in our ears and everything, head nets are definitely
gonna have to come out. We're up on this big rock glassing for
caribou. What ya think? Bug stew for supper. Oh. We are all bug suiting up here.
The weather's finally cooled down somewhat thinning out the bugs that were
such a problem during the first two days of the hunt. There's finally a few good
bulls moving around in our hunt area. I think it's a lot nicer than it has been
I think you guys are full there's no bugs out here. There isn't today we had enough yesterday in
the day before to last a lifetime. Now all we need to do is get a caribou. How's that gonna work out?
Not to good.
Um, not unless we go across swam across the lake to cut them off 50-50 chance. The
traveling bulls finally ended up working their way into a high point and bedding
down for the day seemingly in a stalkable position.
The one on the left. The bedded bulls get a whiff of danger before Brandon and Mike can get to their
destination to rest the rifle on the big glacial boulder.
He's hit. Thanks to Brandon's predator hunting skills he's able to make a quick
perfectly placed snap shot on the bull right before he turns to leave the horizon.
He's down what a bull, oh man I can't wait to get up and see how heavy he is.
He is heavy all the way around right on thanks buddy.
Man look at that guy look at how heavy he is.
Look at those double shovels nice business his Toffs are huge and this guy
was the big brother of the bunch for sure he has got mass to spare he's got a
little bit of a smaller frame but he's got everything else. What a beautiful
bull he's got double shovels, nice business huge tops, back scratchers and
everything I just cannot get over how massive he is right here. It took us two
days air travel just to get here and it's been worth every single step of the
adventure something I've been dreaming about for over 20 years and I hope I can
do it again soon one of these days, and remember fair chase is the only way to
hunt and take trophy a big game we'll see you next week right here on
Eastman's hunting TV.