Quebec Winter Caribou Hunting
09-03-2009, 07:23 AM
#1881
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 12
It is a law??
I found what works best is to bark the animal, cut the front legs off, cut through the hind quarter to where it attachec to the spine and then cut the spine, chest cavity from the hind quarters. Now you can jam some of the legs in the chest cavity and put in you meat box without taking up much room.
When you get home to butcher you have larger chunks to work with and your loins will be better beacuse your not cutting through them to split the bou up there.
09-03-2009, 07:46 AM
#1882
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 12
Sorry!
No joke you are not allowed to just pull meat and leave a carcuss, when leaving you have to stop at the check station at 381 and have your animals recorded, They require quarter's so they can count the animals by matching parts. The Cops will make you unload the truck to look in boxes, coolers ect. I asked why this was and the officer indicated that if it is just meat how can he identify how many? This makes sence now! if I shot 3 animals and boned all the meat i could say I shot two unbeleivable 500# bulls!!!
I found what works best is to bark the animal, cut the front legs off, cut through the hind quarter to where it attachec to the spine and then cut the spine, chest cavity from the hind quarters. Now you can jam some of the legs in the chest cavity and put in you meat box without taking up much room.
When you get home to butcher you have larger chunks to work with and your loins will be better beacuse your not cutting through them to split the bou up there.
I found what works best is to bark the animal, cut the front legs off, cut through the hind quarter to where it attachec to the spine and then cut the spine, chest cavity from the hind quarters. Now you can jam some of the legs in the chest cavity and put in you meat box without taking up much room.
When you get home to butcher you have larger chunks to work with and your loins will be better beacuse your not cutting through them to split the bou up there.
09-03-2009, 11:50 AM
#1883
Spike
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 66
No thanks for info drawbow.. ive always gutted my animals but i take a little more care and time than most ive seen so it should'nt be a problem! Just wanting to save space. If we bring trailer for a three day hunt we had to pull it for six days?? (Great story bob you dont read that kind of stuff in brochue,,, You going up this winter bob??)
09-03-2009, 12:01 PM
#1884
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2007
Posts: 12
Trailer's
As far as trailers 3 of us two years ago went up in a f150 crew with like a 6' bed also and we got everything in except the hides and horns, which we put on a hitch hauler. I was a little nevous having the horns back there all I could imagine was getting rear ended and loosing the horns.
09-03-2009, 12:48 PM
#1885
Spike
Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 66
Well i know the other boys will probally shoot small cows ...but i might need a peterbuilt to get mine home... We dont want to take trailer at all, but we will see, thanks for posting we went almost a week before somebody said anything i thought i was going to go crazy
09-03-2009, 01:59 PM
#1886
Spike
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 50
No perry, I am not going this winter due to being out of vacation going on the fly in, but hope to next year. After 3 different trips hunting caribou, I found the winter hunt the most enjoyable and the only one I would want to do over.
09-07-2009, 02:47 PM
#1889
Typical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 679
some say the winter caribou meat is better than the fall caribou ,don't know why it would tast better especialy after the rut the bulls are a lot thinner ..any way i am leaving the 10 of sept. for a 7 day hunt with explo sylva ..i still believe that the middle of sept. is the best time for big racks ..