Kugluktuk is the easiest and the best community north of the Arctic Circle engaged in the hunting of Musk-ox and Grizzly Bear. It is reachable from any point in the USA overnight. It has no commercial slaughterhouse taking thousands of animals out of the herd each year.

Kugluktuk is the easiest and the best community north of the Arctic Circle engaged in the hunting of Barren Ground Musk-ox and Barren Ground Grizzly Bear. It is reachable from any point in the USA overnight. It has no commercial slaughterhouse taking …

Hunt the largest of the Musk-Ox family in a record-holding area. The Musk-Ox-only hunts are based out of Kugluktuk, Nunavut. We take many bow hunters each season. These are very good hunts that are 100% successful. We are still harvesting many bulls that will make the B & C and P & Y record books each year.

Create a combo hunting experience by adding a caribou to your fall muskox hunt. An exciting, high success arctic hunting adventure for bow and gun hunters alike.

WHY KUGLUKTUK AS A BASE. Kugluktuk is the easiest, the cheapest and the best community north of the Arctic Circle engaged in the hunting of Musk-Ox and Grizzly Bear. It is reachable from any point in the USA overnight.

Kugluktuk is the easiest and the best community north of the Arctic Circle engaged in the hunting of muskox and Barren Ground grizzly bears. It is reachable from any point in the USA overnight. This is the classic Arctic hunt, snowmobile travel, camping out with your Inuit guides in …

Muskox hunting trips take place near the communities of Baker Lake, Cambridge Bay, Gjoa Haven, Grise Fiord, Kugluktuk and Resolute. The most important terrestrial big game animal to the Inuit is the caribou — called ‘tuktu’ in Inuktitut — which has been hunted for food, clothing, shelter and tools by humans ever since the Stone Age.

Mar 12, 2025 · A short news story noting that hunting of the Dolpin and Union herd is now closed for hunters from the community of Kugluktuk, as the allowable harvest of 105 animals has been reached. The latest (2020) estimate of the herd's size was 3,800 caribou.

Hiking, camping, hunting, fishing and snowmobile riding are popular outdoor activities. Herds of caribou migrate nearby and the sea contains abundant ringed seals to hunt. Char and whitefish are plentiful here. Ravens are playful year-round residents.

Life in Kugluktuk relies mainly on traditional hunting and fishing for food and clothes for its families. The future growth of Kugluktuk relies on the mining economy, as well as government and tourism sectors.