Alaska Caribou — Unit 8
Alaska Unit 8 covers 6,008,916 acres and lies 41 miles south-west of Kodiak. In 2025, 24 people hunted caribou here and took 14 — 58% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 8 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Alaska caribou hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.
The country
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.
How the hunting has gone
What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Alaska's figures come from mandatory harvest reports and sealing certificates rather than a hunter survey, so they are counts of animals reported, not estimates.
| Season | Hunters | Harvest | Success | Days per animal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | 14 | 58% | 4.9 |
| 2024 | 40 | 6 | 15% | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 57 | 9 | 16% | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 75 | 31 | 41% | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 63 | 31 | 49% | 4.0 |
Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)