THE GUN AT HOME AND ABROAD 
are only found at the end of the season when they are commencing to gather 
for migration. The first fall of snow at the end of September generally 
starts the herds in movement, and in Newfoundland this is generally 
in a southerly direction. Immense numbers come from the northern 
peninsula and cross the line between Gulf Topsails and Bay of Islands, 
but these are nearly all females and immature stags. The same weather 
produces a movement in the centre of the Island, the deer moving south 
until they eventually reach the south coast at the end of November. 
In Newfoundland there are generally two distinct movements, which 
vary according to climatic conditions, the first as already described and 
the second at varying dates in November. 
It is, however, obviously reasonable that the hunter should only be 
concerned with the first of these movements, because all the best stags 
shed their horns between October 28 and November 7. I have killed a 
stag whose horns dropped off as it fell on October 26. 
Newfoundland is still the easiest place where the hunter can obtain 
some good caribou heads for his collection, but he must remember that 
if he wishes to get really good specimens he must go with Indians and into 
a place where others do not hunt. There are still good districts I know of 
in the north and south central portion of the island where sportsmen have 
not been and which are worth a visit; these are all a little difficult to 
reach, but present no obstacle to a man with a little originality. The next 
best place is Cassiar, in Northern British Columbia. Here the heads are 
magnificent but not always easy to obtain, as the climate is vile, the 
Indians surly, and cost of the expedition enormous. Nevertheless, if the 
hunter can accept these conditions he is nearly sure to see and probably 
to obtain some of the finest trophies the world produces. The same, too, 
can be said concerning the chase of the Labrador caribou and those of 
the Kenai peninsula ( T . r. stonei). A good head of T. r. caribou is rarely 
obtained in New Brunswick, Ontario or Quebec, for the proportion of fine 
trophies of this variety is small and the deer by no means numerous. 
Several hunters have successfully performed the journey to Great Slave 
Lake and the Mackenzie basin region and have found the so-called “ barren 
land ” caribou, and returned with trophies during the same year, but it 
is a long journey and by no means certain in successful results, nor are the 
heads of this variety comparable in any way with those of the varieties 
already mentioned. 
Several hunters, too, have been very successful in finding the caribou 
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