What to Expect After Your Hunt

Hunt Completion

You will fly out on the last day of your hunt date. You and your guide will need to arrive back in camp the evening before. We will need to fill out a hunt report/declaration for you. Before you leave, sometimes we will take measurements and age your animal(s) for our records. And put our custom information tags on hides, horns, skulls so we keep them organized. If your hunt is delayed due to weather, we can help reschedule your flight and contact your family. We will always be there to help you. When you arrive in Town, you’ll be met at the floatplane dock by our expeditor or other arrangements will be made. Arrangements will made to get your heads inspected and or shipping/taxidermy done. Watson Lake is a small town and office hours are limited. Animals CANNOT leave before inspected and export permits in hand. Most hunters leave these with us… They will be taken care of.

NOTE* If you decide to LEAVE EARLY and before your regularly scheduled charter flight, you can, but ALL FLIGHT EXPENSE IS ON THE HUNTER.
The charter flights are expensive and to keep the cost to a reasonable amount for you, we must fill the plane with paying customers both ways. Extra flights are about $3000 depending on how many people and the size of the load or the plane used. We also have a busy schedule with hunters coming and going, flights for fuel, food and organising hunting camps and guides which has to fit in with the Flight charter company (which is extremely busy during these months) and hope you understand we will make every effort to work around your needs but have a schedule we will need to strictly follow.

Meat

When you harvest an animal, you will be able to take whatever meat will fit on the commercial flight (approx. 50-70 lbs./person). We have game bags, compactor bags for taking meat home with you but we suggest you buy a Cooler in Whitehorse if you plan on taking meat home on the plane. Your guide will help label and pack the meat. Make sure to help your guide label all meat and hides with your name and license information, once you get back to base camp and before flying to town. Chest freezer and Generator if driving are the best way.

Some hotels in Whitehorse will freeze meat for you also. More information will be provided upon booking or request.
We Harvest lots of moose per year and are not able to cut and wrap your moose for you before you leave. If you are taking moose meat with you expect to take “chunks” in bags to be processed when you return home.

If you plan on leaving meat with us it is greatly appreciated and welcomed. Any meat left will be given to the outfit and NOT your guide. Left over meat will be split between all guides and staff along with local communities in need. Thanks for your understanding.

Trophy Care & Shipping

Our guides will cape and flesh your trophies for you. If you want a life size mount, you should talk with your taxidermist about whether they prefer a Dorsal or Standard cut. A Dorsal cut is great for standing and laying animals. A Standard cut is better for unique or jumping type mounts. If you’ll be doing a Pedestal mount, you’ll need to let your guide know, as more hide is required than just a shoulder mount. The fleshed and turned hides will be salted or frozen for your return trip. We ask that you bring a pillowcase or similar stuff sack for taking your cape to town. It will keep salt from spilling all over the place.

If you shoot an animal at the end of your trip (last day) and we do not have time to flesh/salt it in camp, you’ll need to let our expeditor know, so that they can make sure a local taxidermist can do this. You might have to pay a small fee to finish the fleshing and salting of your animal, ($200) unless you wish to freeze it at the hotel and take it home with you. If you harvest an animal with no antlers or small horns (sheep or goat), you can generally take the animal with you on the airplane, (check with the airlines), but your animals have to be inspected before you can take them with you. Larger antlers (moose or caribou heads) can be split, taped & secured for putting in your duffel (not recommended) or left with us for shipment to the U.S. (best option). Before you can take any animal home with you, a CI (Compulsory Inspection) is required. It is often not available the day/evening you arrive and before your flight, the next day, so that is why leaving the trophy with us is often the best choice.

If you leave your heads / hides with us to transport, record all of your personal contact info, species tag, hunting license, hunter declaration and CI number on the sheet provided. And on the tags provided at camp. Leave this special document provided by us, containing all these numbers, with our expeditor or local taxidermist, so that our guy can ship everything through a U.S. / Canada border, and to make applying for your export or CITES permits (Grizzly and wolves) much easier. Make sure your antlers and cape are in good condition when you leave them (salted and all meat and brains removed – your guide will help you with this) and properly labelled with tags or tape so that no one gets confused about what belongs to you.

If work needs to be done on the hide – it is really wet or meat left on it - let our expeditor know so that it can be properly cared for by the local taxidermist. Trophies will be stored safely until October when Ray Wiens will pick them all up at the end of the season. Rays phone number is 1 (778) 241-0208 feel free to call him and discuss his program. Its slick!

KEEP ALL TAGS AND LICENSES AND FORMS RELATED TO THE HUNT UNTIL YOUR ANIMAL IS SAFELY IN YOUR HANDS!