Species you would like to hunt

[long shot]

following on from the "Species you wouldn't hunt " thread
what would you like to hunt ?????
seeing I have shot 7 species of deer in the UK (still looking for a gold roe buck ) I would think I would like to hunt Cape Buffalo,
I think it would be challenging and quite exciting

 

[www.yorkshireroestalking.]

Always fancied DALL sheep etc, don't thik will ever happen as i hate riding horses and thats how they get up most of the time I think.
So would try my hand at calling coyotes.

 

[conibear]

Always fancied DALL sheep etc, don't thik will ever happen as i hate riding horses and thats how they get up most of the time I think.
So would try my hand at calling coyotes.

dall sheep hunts are flyin hunts mostly! they normally land in mountain lakes right in dall sheep country!and its hike and spot and stalk on foot from there!

some outfitters do hunt using horses, some use atv,s but you have the choice to go on foot if you prefer!
north west teratories in canada is a good destination!

calling coyotes is good fun here in british columbia,you never know whats coming in from coyotes,wolves,lynx,couger,fox and bears in the early predator season!

last season I had a black wolf come in to a rabbit distress call!
did not get a chance for a shot as i screwed up!
did manage to call in a nice lynx the next week using the same sound,60 yard shot!

 

[www.yorkshireroestalking.]

dall sheep hunts are flyin hunts mostly! they normally land in mountain lakes right in dall sheep country!and its hike and spot and stalk on foot from there!

some outfitters do hunt using horses, some use atv,s but you have the choice to go on foot if you prefer!
north west teratories in canada is a good destination!

calling coyotes is good fun here in british columbia,you never know whats coming in from coyotes,wolves,lynx,couger,fox and bears in the early predator season!

last season I had a black wolf come in to a rabbit distress call!
did not get a chance for a shot as i screwed up!
did manage to call in a nice lynx the next week using the same sound,60 yard shot!

Many thanks you have wet my appetitie

 

[Max]

Ibex and the wonderfull big white billy of BC.

The Ibex will not be too bad on price but the billy is another thing, and all before I get to old and past it. Or maybe Im both already

Max

 

[calmac]

for me it would have to be a velosiraptor , , , thing is cant find a time machine so in present time whoul have to be an artic fox not lamping eather.. i bet they are as hard to spot as the deer in D&G

 

[conibear]

Ibex and the wonderfull big white billy of BC.

The Ibex will not be too bad on price but the billy is another thing, and all before I get to old and past it. Or maybe Im both already

Max

a mountain goat hunt here in bc will cost around $10,000 but its a fantastic experiance and a tough hunt not for the faint hearted!they live in some tretcherous places!
but most guided hunts are successful!as the numbers are good!
I went on a non guided goat hunt in 07 ,did not get 1,
but i did get very close to them the day before open season!
they were gone the next day(sods law)

 

[MJ75]

I know a good salt lick in Jasper national park where you can get pretty close.

Shame theres no goat hunting allowed there.

 

[conibear]

I know a good salt lick in Jasper national park where you can get pretty close.

Shame theres no goat hunting allowed there.

yeah, they take a dim view of hunting in the national park !

 

[Adamant]

I'm hoping to take various plains game species and the odd dozen Baboons in South Africa next month, followed by Moose and Boar in Sweden in October. The species I'd like to shoot in the future would be Bear, Elk and Wolf in the US, then some of the mountain species in places like New Zealand (Tahr) and the unpronounceable 'Stans' (Ibex and some of the sheep species with mad horns). I'm also hoping for a really good Sika stag in Wicklow again this year.

Since my old man died of cancer last month at the age of 70, I've decided life is too short and I'm going to spend my kid's inheritance for them...I might only have 29 years left

I'd also like to do a bit of exotic varminting too - prairie dogs in the States, dassies in Southern Africa etc, as it would make a change from endlessly blitzing rabbits with inappropriately large calibres over here (and yes, I do have vermin listed on the conditions for my .270 ).

Adam.

 

[doghound]

I am not too fussed about species but whatever it is whether fur fin or feather it should take a long time. I dont mean a week or two, but months, with plenty of camping, not your North Face Swaddled micro tent camping but a proper wall tent, log burning camp stove. You know the thing fried breaky fresh coffee BBQ meat etc.

Terrain, prefer the Scandinavian Fjall or Canadian tundra so i suppose its cold climate game again, moose/Alg, european bison etc etc throw in some willow grouse, its starting to sound good.

Travel by dog sled, I like that (once they have have emptied in the morning) quiet steady and good way to see the local wildlife.

Well I think I have talked myself into it....

 

[Patrick A]

So much left to shoot and so little money. There are still a whole load of African species ( I won't list them but it doesn't include cats) I'd like to get as well as a few in Europe and the US. Still fancy Black Bear, might donate it to make into a Bearskin...... Pronghorn Antelope, big Muntjac, Big Wild Boar - driven and the least pc of all Polar Bear as I'd love it as a rug........!!!

Oh and a 300 brace double gun Grouse day!!!

 

[conibear]

i would like a nice big heavy bodied and antlered red stag to go on my wall!and good meat as well!

would also like to go on a chamois hunt !

and shoot a 300 pound wild boar with my recurve bow!

and oh yeah take a 70 inch+ yukon bull moose with my recurve as well

 

[centralbeltstalker]

adamant,

sorry about your dad mate.

enjoy life your right, i will be spending all my kids money on syndicate memberships and then will move in with them ha ha
i work in an industry where my clients are 60+.. no need to save it all your life spend it now now now.

i think i am lucky i have no desire to shoot anything special, just want to be able to shoot till my train stop comes

atb f.

 

[Patrick A]

would also like to go on a chamois hunt

Enjoy it, hope you're fit I nearly had a heart attack!!!

 

[paul k]

Where do I start? It's a mixture of places and quarry. Quarry first - I'd like a big woodland red stag from England or Wales, I got my cross hairs on one in Devon a few years ago but couldn't take a safe shot. I'd like a good medal roe buck, ideally from from Wales, it would mean a lot to get one from home ground, but Gloucestershire would be OK.

Outside the UK I'd also like to hunt one of the bighorn sheep species, a Rocky Mountain Elk, a Spanish Ibex, an Alaskan Moose, a Mule Deer and maybe a Cape Buffalo. In terms of countries apart from the places that my quarry list suggests, I'd like to hunt red stags, thar and sika stags in New Zealand (I also want to fish there for trout, kingfish and striped marlin) and big woodland red stags in one of the Eastern European countries.

It might sound stupid but I'd not need to pull the trigger on all of these, the experience of being close to them in the wild would go a long way to meeting my dreams and I'd want to hunt not sit in a high seat.

All I need now is to win the lottery before I'm too decrepit to do it!!!

 

[cockerdog]

dall sheep hunts are flyin hunts mostly! they normally land in mountain lakes right in dall sheep country!and its hike and spot and stalk on foot from there!

some outfitters do hunt using horses, some use atv,s but you have the choice to go on foot if you prefer!
north west teratories in canada is a good destination!

calling coyotes is good fun here in british columbia,you never know whats coming in from coyotes,wolves,lynx,couger,fox and bears in the early predator season!



last season I had a black wolf come in to a rabbit distress call!
did not get a chance for a shot as i screwed up!
did manage to call in a nice lynx the next week using the same sound,60 yard shot!

I wish I had the variety which you have in BC when I lived in Ontario, the best I got was White Tail, the odd Black bear and lots of Coyotes.
Hunting those critters was fun, and watching one coming into the call on a freezing snow covered dawn from half a mile away really got the heart racing.

As for what's on my list to shoot, well never having shot driven boar I still look forward to having a go at them, and second would probably be having a crack at Chamois, if the knees would take it.

 

[zaitsev]

Goats in Wales. Boar anywhere. Bongo in the Congo (I've heard that they're quite a challenge). Scrub bulls and Water Buffalo in Australias Top End. Dall Sheep (I hear that they're lovely to eat). Zebra, as I explained to a friend, they're just like nasty tempered ponies and make a better rug than an Exmoor

 

[sikamalc]

Bongo is a spiral horned antelope I would love to go for, but its expensive now (come to think of it, its always been expensive)
But to me its not the taking of the animal, its the environment and the experience that is more important, because if its fair chase there are no gurantees, because thats hunting.

I would love to go back to Botswana, and hunt again with the Bushmen. I have been lucky to hunt with these phenominal people in 1990 in the Kalahari desert. Just to be with these people one can learn so much, they are the true hunters of Southern Africa and their bushcraft and knowledge of the environment they live in is unbelievable.

One word of advice, which Adamant spoke about, IF you have a desire to do it, and the time and money, GO DO IT. You will not regret it, Life is indeed very short at times, make the most of it, life is not a rehersal.

ATB

Sikamalc

 

[cockerdog]

Well said Malc, sound advice, just give me the time and the money because I sure have the desire