Best hunt

Well I don't have pics, but the best hunt I've been on was when my Dad, brother and I along with Dad's hunting partner did a week-long fly in to a lake on the Barrens and hunted for caribou in September of 1995. The weather was great and we hunted in country that had no sign of humans ever visiting (though I'm sure there had been both white and native hunters through that area due to it's location on the migration route). I ended up getting two bulls and my brother got one. But more important than that it was the last real "hunting trip" that I got to go on with my father. We had a great trip and, somewhere, there are some old home videos that we made on the hunt. I'll have to get my mom to dig them out and have them turned into DVDs before VHS technology completely disappears from the world.
 
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Well I don't have pics, but the best hunt I've been on was when my Dad, brother and I along with Dad's hunting partner did a week-long fly in to a lake on the Barrens and hunted for caribou in September of 1995. The weather was great and we hunted in country that had no sign of humans ever visiting (though I'm sure there had been both white and native hunters through that area due to it's location on the migration route). I ended up getting two bulls and my brother got one. But more important than that it was the last real "hunting trip" that I got to go on with my father. We had a great trip and, somewhere, there are some old home videos that we made on the hunt. I'll have to get my mom to dig them out and have them turned into DVDs before VHS technology completely disappears from the world.
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Congratulations, that one should stick with you! Don't put off transferring the videos to DVD, that's the sort of thing that is so often put off until the opportunity is lost.

My most memorable hunt was with my wife in Tanzania (2006); pretty tough to top that experience.

View from our tent . . .


Morning coffee . . .


Elephants on a sand river . . .


Results of my best shot of the trip . . .


Leopard feeding on impala . . .


My wife, the teacher, in her element, in a Maasai classroom . . .
 
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Have had quite a few great hunts and experiences, and while nowhere near as exotic or adventurous as the above, the one that sticks out the most is still my first bird shot when dad was teaching me at 14......

He and I were hunting upland at our old family cabin in the laurentian mountains in Quebec.... we were walking along a ridge with a small stream at the bottom, dad taking the low side nearest the stream and myself on the high side....as dad approached a clump of cedars a woodcock blew its cover and helicoptered straight out of the clump headed up the ridge.... dad pulled up his side by side and fired a shot which missed, the bird flew behind some poplars and as it came out the other side I shouldered my cooey 84 and squeezed off a shot as I swung through the bird folding it instantly.....

That was 28 years ago but I can remember the sight, smell and sounds just like it was yesterday..... have shot hundreds of birds, turkeys, deer, moose, elk, bear, boar and even a couple of alligators but nothing sticks out in my memory as much as folding that little woodcock does....
 
Can't say it was best hunt ever but it was the best of this year.

3 hounds and 3 guys and we got 3 coyotes and a Fox. Started at daylight with a call from a neighbour about 2 coyotes behind the barn. I snuck in and ended up shooting the closest coyote at about 400 yards with my .22-250. Watched the other run to the bush. Go back to house and grab the best hound and walk him on the track. Within 2 minutes he's right on the coyote heading for the drainage ditch my buddy was on. He shoots this coyote at 75 yards with his .222rem. Dog goes right back into the bush and within 10 minutes hes tongueing again and lifted another coyote. This one ran back my way after circling in the bush for an hour. I got him at about 120 yards when he was heading down the fenceline to the next bush.

Caught the hounds and walked 3 coyotes out to the truck. Farmer watched from the barn for a lot of it, he was so happy we got 3.

Went down the road to my buddies place that is hunting with us. Put 2 young hounds on a good track and within 30minutes they light up all together in the thick cedars.

I seen 2 foxes coming through the hardwoods about 100 yards apart. Both pups right on the one fox. I could have shot them both as they aren't the brightest animal. They would always stop and let the dogs catch up or stop in the middle of the field. My buddy ended up getting the male with his 20guage at about 20 yards.



 
I am about to head over to Africa this summer for my 6th trip and have been fortunate enough to hunt plains game right up to Cape Buffalo since we got into the hunting business. Best hunt however would be watching the raw emotion on my wife's face when she took her first African animal. Smiles that turned to tears of happiness really brought me back to how emotional and thrilling a hunt can be for someone.

 
Best in recent memory was my solo bear hunt by canoe last fall:

https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1513703-Solo-Bear-Hunt-by-Canoe

I have taken bigger bears but that one was probably the best. A few other good recent hunts was a limit of the elusive southern Ontario ruffed grouse. This is a deed I have pulled off numerous times in the north but only twice in the last 30 years down south:



These suckers are much more spooky than their northern cousins.

Upland in the snow - always good for a workout:

 
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