I was hunting grouse along an old logging road once. The road had seeded with clover that had grown in thick. Both grouse and bears like to eat the clover, and there was plenty of bear scat on the road. My mind was thinking bears when a grouse flushed at my feet...
Worst thing about grouse is they generally let you walk past them before they flush. It’s one thing to have something take off in front of you. But a whole other level on the pucker factor when they do it right behind you!
Yes some of the Africa hunts are challenging, but except for the Buffalo, Elephant, and Lion, not a lot more challenging than some of the things you hunt in Alaska.
My dad was a PH in Zimbabwe most of his life and he got caught by a black Cape buffalo that was wounded by another PH and his client. nearly killed him and now he has his back and neck fused and lives with chronic pain! Definatly some seriously dangerous animals over there and growing up in Zimbabwe I’ve heard a lot of stories and had some close calls myself!
Happy Myles: Thank you. Very kind
geetar and wyodoug : And the other side of the coin---women have mentioned to me that what men tell them while standing at the bar does not always match up to their abilities later in the evening----BUT--I am sure that does not apply to you gentlemen
Harley, bag limit: good one ---see if you can find the original video of Toby Keith--I am not as good as I once was--the two girls in the first verse might work for geetar and wyodoug---both ways
Since this is a hunting forum I will use this one. The only time a man thinks about a candlelight dinner is when the powder goes off.
Randi : Rhino: You can still hunt the Black in Namibia but you need very deep pockets. The white can be hunted in S. Africa. The Indian, Javan and Sumatran can not be hunted .
I will answer your pm here young lady. As to toughest, it varies tremendously. I thought the Snowcock in Nevada was very tough, any goat hunt is a challenge, with the Marco Polo being extremely so, Coues can be very challenging, my granddaughter thought chukar hunting was an effort in futility
as to your other question, I will answer it two ways. One, you need to get off the highways most traveled and two, some of them will not include hunting-- but still involve animals.
i.e. CAR is not open right now but when ( if--civil war ) it reopens, hunting the Lord Derby and being guided by pygmies is an unusual experience, tiger on elephants is not common, the Gorilla treks are very cool, if you want to do the camel in the desert today, I recommend Australia, as Americans are not as safe in Egypt as they were when I went. The Amazon river is unusual, but make sure you book a boat with air conditioner cabins, and, definitely make sure if you go, that you stay in one of the tree house hotels for at least a couple of nights.
Honey Badger. They are vicious, but I dont think they attack humans. But I have seen Lions run from them.
on closing to Harley, geetar, wyodoug: you know why all blonde jokes are one liners ---so men will remember them
Most dangerous hunt might be dating a determined "Jewish American Princess" However there is probably no end to the list of people I just offended. Women, Jewish people, and especially Jewish American Princesses ----but if one man can be spared I have done my duty
Decades ago, my first of three trips to C.A.R was to the southern part after Western Bongo. The airport was smaller and less organized than on my third trip there. No one met me at the Bangui airport, turned out my PH was flat on his back with malaria. The army had not been paid in six months and to show their displeasure they were driving around the capital shooting up buildings. My taxi ride to a hotel was eventful to say the least. Between bursts of gunfire my driver admonished me to keep my elbow inside the car window so no one would try to rip off my wrist watch. The manager of hotel told me not to go outside. I assured him poorly in my high school French I had no plans doing so. With the aid of a young interpreter and a whole bunch of excellent pigmy I managed to get a bongo without a PH. a few years later I ventured back to Bangui to hunt the north for a Lord Dery Eland. A chap met me at the remodeled airport to inform me my PH was down with Malaria. Sound familiar? A rough long trip north resulted in a fine Eland plus a wide variety of other game. My sick PH showed up after a few days but by then I had taken almost every available type of critter on license. Turned out to be a heck of a hunt With a borrowed, battered 375. Did I forget to mention my firearms did not show up? Actually, I love the Central African Republic. Never a dull moment.Happy Myles: Thank you. Very kind
geetar and wyodoug : And the other side of the coin---women have mentioned to me that what men tell them while standing at the bar does not always match up to their abilities later in the evening----BUT--I am sure that does not apply to you gentlemen
Harley, bag limit: good one ---see if you can find the original video of Toby Keith--I am not as good as I once was--the two girls in the first verse might work for geetar and wyodoug---both ways
Since this is a hunting forum I will use this one. The only time a man thinks about a candlelight dinner is when the powder goes off.
Randi : Rhino: You can still hunt the Black in Namibia but you need very deep pockets. The white can be hunted in S. Africa. The Indian, Javan and Sumatran can not be hunted .
I will answer your pm here young lady. As to toughest, it varies tremendously. I thought the Snowcock in Nevada was very tough, any goat hunt is a challenge, with the Marco Polo being extremely so, Coues can be very challenging, my granddaughter thought chukar hunting was an effort in futility
as to your other question, I will answer it two ways. One, you need to get off the highways most traveled and two, some of them will not include hunting-- but still involve animals.
i.e. CAR is not open right now but when ( if--civil war ) it reopens, hunting the Lord Derby and being guided by pygmies is an unusual experience, tiger on elephants is not common, the Gorilla treks are very cool, if you want to do the camel in the desert today, I recommend Australia, as Americans are not as safe in Egypt as they were when I went. The Amazon river is unusual, but make sure you book a boat with air conditioner cabins, and, definitely make sure if you go, that you stay in one of the tree house hotels for at least a couple of nights.
Honey Badger. They are vicious, but I dont think they attack humans. But I have seen Lions run from them.
on closing to Harley, geetar, wyodoug: you know why all blonde jokes are one liners ---so men will remember them
Most dangerous hunt might be dating a determined "Jewish American Princess" However there is probably no end to the list of people I just offended. Women, Jewish people, and especially Jewish American Princesses ----but if one man can be spared I have done my duty
Rhino hunting is still happening in South Africa and Namibia. It is primarily for white rhinos although both countries will export a very limited number of black rhino kills through CITES. The prices are high but some hunts are priced lower for surplus bulls who have been dehorned at some point in their life. They can be dehorned about three times and regrow their horn. Landowners stockpile the horns hoping trade will open through CITES. The bull:cow ratio is supposed to be 1:3 or you end up with bulls hurting and killing one another so hunting is still important. Sport hunting white rhinos brought them back from the brink and it is probably one of the best examples of hunting directly responsible for saving a species. It is interesting that many treehugger save the rhino websites will recognize hunting as imperative to the survival of the species. As you mentioned, there are also the dart hunts where the hunter shoots a vitamin dart and then a vet shoots a tranquilizer dart.
What about manbearpig and scuzzlebutt?
Thanks for clearing that up for me. It’s amazing how hunting can save species but protecting it can do the opposite.
If you think cougar hunts in Bozeman are sketchy you haven’t been to a podunk town in eastern Montana and went on a chase
Bozeman is more like truck hunting - just go hang out at the bar at Ted’s and pick ‘em off.
Well aint you supposed to be picking them up rather than off??? Aint that why they call yer vehicle pickem up trucks?
To say most of the meat is left to waste its a stretch... Most of the meat is donated to nearby villages or used for bait for a different animal.@Big Fin once said in a video "imagine if all you had to hunt with was your teeth".
Even more crazy would be imagine if every animal you hunted could fight back. Got to watching random videos and came across this one. I seldom favor trophy safaris because so many of them are trophy hunts and the meat is left to waste. However, they are legal and I respect that.
6 Hazardous Hunts That Could Kill You - Petersen's Hunting
Let's start with a couple of basic assumptions. First, hunting is supposed to be fun. Gettingwww.petersenshunting.com
There's been people gored by deer too, but I definately wouldn't call them the most dangerous
My point is that often people consider the most dangerous animal the one that they have had the closest scuffle with.
