Historic Hunts
- Thread starter conor_90
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- The Conservative part of Ontario
A lone Polar bear hunt. Me on skis with a pack and snowshoes, my 338WM, and a nice bear track to follow.
No help until I radio out to come get me and the bear.
As I'd want the entire bear, this would have to be a long time ago.
No help until I radio out to come get me and the bear.
As I'd want the entire bear, this would have to be a long time ago.
Nothing fancy. I would love to be a kid again and go out in the farmland with my Dad in our 49 Chev, or the 56 Chev, and watch him load two Imperial Long Range in his old Tobin double, then walk up and flush a flock of Prairie Chicken. I was the retriever.
Brassman66
CGN frequent flyer
The problem with most Guys is they find all kind of Reasons for not to go. Hell if you are a BC Citizen you have the best Cards ever to make your Dream a Reality. Hire a Floatplane or Jet Boat or Horse String Operator to get you where there is non or almost no hunting pressure and have at it. Shure it will cost some Money and a pile of organization but it is doable. Alternatively you may be able to hire on with an Outfitter (they are always short of good People), sure you wont do the shooting but Man the Country you will see and things you will learn is the best Adventure you will ever experience.
Cheers
Cheers
My dad is 86.5 years old and cannot hunt because of age and health. My grandfather has passed away since I was 3 months (1957) old. My dream hunt is to hunt with my dad, grandfather and son for big whitetail bucks, here in Alberta.
it was more a 9.3x62 thing ...
that is so true, but luckily you did not mention the yukon ...
many are using here the 270 winnie because of the old jack and they do not feel undergunned but i doubt they read cgn lol ... and they eve succeed with the grizz ...
even without joc you can still come over for dall sheep.
Ardent
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I honestly don’t need to kill anything that isn’t for the freezer anymore, and in fact have tired of the killing though I know the role it plays in conservation in Africa. I’ve just had enough personally, the kill was always my least favourite part of those trips, for it was an end, and generally felt like it.
As such, my interest would be walking in Zimbabwe again, for weeks with no discernible objective but to see, photograph, and live. Probably find the meaning of it all while watching a sunrise with a ####ty coffee that never tasted so good. Anything I hunted would be small antelope or sand grouse for the pot. Rifle one I made myself, chambering boring.
As such, my interest would be walking in Zimbabwe again, for weeks with no discernible objective but to see, photograph, and live. Probably find the meaning of it all while watching a sunrise with a ####ty coffee that never tasted so good. Anything I hunted would be small antelope or sand grouse for the pot. Rifle one I made myself, chambering boring.
Brassman66
CGN frequent flyer
Not only the BC but also the Yukon and NWT Outfitters always looking for quality Guides. But Guiding is hard work and long Days, nowadays not to many Guys are interested in that !
Cheers
Choices, choices!
A horseback hunt throughout NEBC, Yukon and NWT for grizzly, sheep, goat, caribou and muskox, with plenty of fishing for trout and grayling.
A safari throughout Africa for plains game (spiral horns, springbok, gazelles, lechwe, etc.), forest/jungle game (bongo, sitatunga, etc.), mountain game (mountain nyala, aoudad, etc.) and leopard.
Europe for mouflon, red stag, ibex, etc.
Asia for urials, argali, ibex, etc.
A horseback hunt throughout NEBC, Yukon and NWT for grizzly, sheep, goat, caribou and muskox, with plenty of fishing for trout and grayling.
A safari throughout Africa for plains game (spiral horns, springbok, gazelles, lechwe, etc.), forest/jungle game (bongo, sitatunga, etc.), mountain game (mountain nyala, aoudad, etc.) and leopard.
Europe for mouflon, red stag, ibex, etc.
Asia for urials, argali, ibex, etc.
yeah way back in the 30s, i would craft some sort of floatant vehicle presumably a Raft, with plastic 44 gallon drums-
i would drag it 300km east to the east coast of aus, where i would gather few supplies by trading some antler for cigerettes before launching the raft vehicle with the westerly -
id leave very early in the morning, as it would be a day or three until i reached the West Coast of New Zealand, just above Fiordland-
i would land whereever i could and climb up out of the coast onto the top ridges and set up a spike camp under some beech tree just before the open tussock tops.....
it would be here i would lay with my favourite ruger 1 303 in anticipation for first light as the Waps unique bugling roar echoes across the vast Fiord valleys of Fiordland.........
60 inches of antler , on the one side, awaits below.
i would drag it 300km east to the east coast of aus, where i would gather few supplies by trading some antler for cigerettes before launching the raft vehicle with the westerly -
id leave very early in the morning, as it would be a day or three until i reached the West Coast of New Zealand, just above Fiordland-
i would land whereever i could and climb up out of the coast onto the top ridges and set up a spike camp under some beech tree just before the open tussock tops.....
it would be here i would lay with my favourite ruger 1 303 in anticipation for first light as the Waps unique bugling roar echoes across the vast Fiord valleys of Fiordland.........
60 inches of antler , on the one side, awaits below.
That was a very pleasant 9 minutes
