4-5 SS Caribou

  David Holbrook owns the Rocking H Outfitting service about 46 miles northwest of Cortez, Colorado. He became an outfitter because of his love of hunting. He has hunted all over the world. Needless to say he has had some rather remarkable experiences and he shared one of them with me when I recently visited his camp. This particular trip was a Labrador caribou hunt up in northern Québec. My dad and I were in a canoe and it was a river hunt. We didn’t do any shooting in the river of course, we waited for the caribou to get out. It was chilly and we pulled out and my guide made the fire and he made a of tea. I am sitting there and I am glassing on the other side of the river and there is a bunch of caribou coming over and I saw this big bull coming over. I thought I had better take a look at the bull as he got in the river so my guide and I jumped in the canoe and we went out there and cut him out of the herd so that we could see him. What I thought were non-typical points on the racas velvet hanging here and there. He was beside the new and I grabbed that Caribou’s tail and he was pulling that canoe like you would not believe, kind of like a 10 hp outboard motor.  I reached in my pocket and got my camera ready and the picture I let go of the tail and I snapped the picture. It is an experience a person has to go through to believe what happens in a situation like that, it was neat. A 10 hp Johnson named caribou. There you go, exactly.