Labrador has the largest herd of free-roaming caribou in the world. The George River herd, numbering some 800 000 barren ground caribou, migrates from the Labrador Sea to James Bay in Quebec and range an estimated one MILLION square kilometers of territory.
Barren Ground caribou are much smaller than woodland caribou, with prime stags tipping the scales at about 200-225 pounds on the hoof. But their racks are huge in comparison with body weight. Many Boone and Crockett specimens have come from the George river herd. The herd migrates from Northern Quebec and Labrador in the fall down to Western Labrador and Eastern Quebec and then travel back north in the late winter, where they calf in the spring on the northern barrens of Quebec and Labrador.
Here are some pictures of some of the animals out of this herd.
as you can see, these are real trophy animals.
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