Society of Misguided Adventurers

Gatehouse said:
I guess I qualify for everything else and if there is North American Big Five. Never hunted Africa but I've sure killed moose and grizzly, and they shoukd count as our BIG FIVE. :)

And if anyone recalls our BC coastal bigass grizzly hunt of a few years ago, it's pretty clear that it was more dangerous than most African Big 5 Hunts! :)
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To be fair, if it was a Canadian Big 5 we should call it "Le Grand 5"...just to differentiate.
 
Le Grand Cinq?............you really are becoming immersed in the local society, BUM. Maybe in France, but I do believe here in Canada, English is still the first language.

So what would be the Canadian Big Five? Obviously Polar Bear and Grizzly, then Bison, these are our 3 most dangerous big game animals, debateable yes, but I think most would agree that in perception these are the most feared/dangerous. What other 2 could be considered..........the wolf, possibly, kinda along the same lines as a leopard, elusive, potentially dangerous, although not overtly.
I'm sorry but I just can't consider moose, they are just too dumb, to easy to kill and only dangerous once in a blue moon MAYBE. I would consider them more the eland of NA, and the elk is without a doubt the NA kudu. Our black bear, although responsible for more maulings and deaths than any other NA animal still doesn't rate a slot....he would be the croc. Loathed, distained and feared, certainly, but not worthy of Big Five status IMHO.
If size alone rates a slot then that would have to go to the Atlantic Walrus, with bulls over 2 ton it is the largest animal on the NA list of big game animals.
Cougar..........HHMMMMM, somehow they just don't seem to have the right charisma, and don't strike fear into the hearts of anyone I know. (except 20-25 year old males on Fri night)
Musk ox have been known to beat up the odd person who ventures too close and has the size to be considered, also the head gear and can get quite cantankerous if you put arrows in the wrong place, ask me how I know that.
Caribou are the blue wildebeest of NA, and our sheep are without African peers, and already have their own category of recognition, the gland slam.
Any suggestions, what do y'all have to say?
 
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Ardent said:
So, throw me some points concepts, the greater the adventure required the higher the score in my opinion. I do like the idea you can have a running number achievement wise.
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How about this for starters?

Since the minimum continents is 3, lets assign that a arbitrary number of 10. Next continent is 20 and so on. Times that by countries hunted and divide by 10 to keep the numbers manageable. You can then add returns to the same countries as one point per return. At the beginning a return to a country shows up fairly well; but as the experience level increases it does start to favor going to a new country on a new continent. That makes sense, since as adventure goes, a new country on a different continent trumps going the same place over and over. Even if you return to the same continent and a different country much of the trail has been already blazed.

Something similar can be done with the big rifles. You get 1 point for owning a dangerous game rifle(caliber), or ten for actually using it in that capacity. Adding a second caliber can be worth 2 points, since there is a certain amount of knowledge to be gained in shooting something different. Any rifle used on dangerous game should be worth 10 points no matter what the caliber is. Country/caliber restrictions are far from universal.

A double rifle should be double points, 2 for having it, 20 for clobbering something big or bitey with it.
 
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Forgive me- I'm on vacation! Keep er alive boys when I get off this silly phone I look forward to seeing how lost we can become in our misadventures. Don't forget Bigfoot for our Five.

I think for NA we have to give up the notion of an even Five and go to whatever number fits.

But if it had to be Five:

-Grizzly
-Black Bear
-Wood Bison
-Cougar
-Wolf
 
LOL... all good.... For me, the point of all of this is personal motivation to hunt things I haven't hunted before or things I have hunted before in a "more adventurous way"... I will even be changing up my regular whitetail routine this fall and camping in the middle of a 1400 acre plot in an attempt to get "the big one"... While Polar bear may not be in my future, the other 3 I am missing are certainly attainable...
 
Well guys, we haven't even got this society thing off the ground yet and already we're coming under fire for being elitists. It seems we have hurt 1899's feelings and he's feeling left out, so he has gone on the offensive..............:runaway:
 
c-fbmi said:
Well guys, we haven't even got this society thing off the ground yet and already we're coming under fire for being elitists. It seems we have hurt 1899's feelings and he's feeling left out, so he has gone on the offensive..............:runaway:
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I am not one to sit on my laurels! I suspect that I will have to contact Kai-Uwe Denker in the very near future and rectify my inadequacies! :)
 
Well I stand with 1899 on this one, the success of a trophy hunter nowadays is more relative to the thickness of his wallet than anything else. I know some hunters with trophy heads on every wall in the house but they couldn't find and shoot a whitetail buck while hunting on their own even if they tried all year long (not pointing fingers here, just that I know a few).

Things are a lot easier if one has no scouting to do and has the help of an outfitter, trackers, skinners, porters, gun bearer, etc... ;)
 
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