Historic Hunts

[conor_90]

Yes it’s another cabin fever thread…

Let’s flex our creative writing muscles, shouldn’t be too difficult for some of our members who write like they just got out of an undergrad workshop

If you could choose any hunt, in any time period what would it be? Bonus points for selecting your gun/rifle/ atl-atl of choice.

For me? It’s a toss up between a 1920/30’s stalk for Gaur in British India with a 10 bore paradox and a no holds barred Safari in what is now Northern BC / Yukon for mammoths, giant beavers and short faced bears in the late Pleistocene. Post contact with humans to make it more sporting. Either a 470 nitro boxlock or a 458 win mag model 70

How about yourself? Don’t forget the point is to have fun

 

[Gillshot]

Tiger hunt in northern India, timeline would be just prior to the Great War. My guide is Col. Jim Corbett and I’m bringing my 30-06 with 180 grain Accubonds. Jim has his big double for back up don’t forget.

 

[156821]

It would have to be one of those major horse back expeditions in Northern BC back in the 30’s or 40’s. Hunt game in untouched wilderness that hasn’t seen man before. I would use an old 1895 with a fine bead in 303 Brit. In the end we would come out with trophy’s of sheep, moose, caribou, grizzly and goat. Of course we would need camp meat so there would be lots of shooting. I can imagine drifting off to sleep in a wall tent next to the wood stove. With the first rays of light I would poke my head out and see a band of big rams on a nearby ridge. Oh one can dream.

 

[conor_90]

^ now this guy understands the assignment. I want to change my answer

 

[dan belisle]

Tiger hunt in northern India, timeline would be just prior to the Great War. My guide is Col. Jim Corbett and I’m bringing my 30-06 with 180 grain Accubonds. Jim has his big double for back up don’t forget.

Thought he favoured the 300 savage. Maybe I'm thinking of another PH. - dan

 

[Longwalker]

I'd choose a two ( or three!) month expedition in Kenya and Tanzania. I think the late 1930's would be about right for a balance between modern civilization vs. wilderness. Fully outfitted with the best equipment, in the grand British East Africa style. Philip Pecival would be the head PH, perhaps with Syd Downey as apprentice. I'd pack a period correct Mauser Oberndorf 9.3x62 for general plains game and lion, and a Jeffery 450-400 3" Nitro Express for the big stuff. And a Sauer drilling, 12x12/8x57JRS, for shooting birds and procuring camp meat and such. Of course it would also be equipped with a .22 hornet insert barrel for guinea fowl and dik-dik.
We'd hunt a wide swath of country, starting in the Masai Mara where we'd concentrate on the great variety of plains game, plus Lion, and Buffalo. Relax each evening around a campfire of mopane wood, while sipping a scotch and soda, listening to the lions roar and hyenas whoop as the moon rises over the Ngong hills. Dine on Thompson's gazelle and Eland steaks. And spur fowl slow roasted over the coals in a dutch oven. Learn enough Swahili to converse with the trackers and porters and even make a joke or two. Hunt one of those huge crocodiles in the Mara river. Move over to Ngorogoro crater, for a change of scenery and some new species. Perhaps collect a couple eland and rhino along with some Kudu and use the less edible bits to hunt Leopard over baits. Then on to the slopes of Kilimanjaro, for some more buffalo hunting but changing tactics in this area by stalking close in the thickets and forest glades, and hunting elephant with a real good chance at following the tracks to a 100 lb. bull.
When that's done, move up to the Aberdares around Mount Kenya. Right on the equator in the high alpine. Hunt giant forest hog and bongo, and enjoy the fly fishing for trout in the clear, high mountain streams. Collect a few bushbuck and Nyala along the way.
I think that would do nicely.

 

[MiG25]

I go back and see the buffalo, I have an account by a family member where he got 6 or 7 buffalo at one time circa 1875.

 

[madtrapper143]

I dream a little smaller. My hunt would be with Jimmy Robinson in the Delta Marsh of Lake Manitoba. It would about 1940 and it would be a late October Blue Bill diver hunt. My gun would be my Winchester Model 12 heavy Duck with 1 5/8 oz. LEAD #5 shot. Since we are dreaming I would like the hunting labs of my past ( and now gone) to be at my side. Not too much to dream for eh?

Darryl

 

[DANCESWITHEMPTIES]

 

[jjohnwm]

I'm with Longwalker on this one; Africa all the way, except I would choose to go a bit earlier. Hunting along with Teddy Roosevelt in 1909 would be perfect. Almost two years on safari...sigh...

Second place would be an Indian tiger hunt, complete with beaters and elephants. Honourable mention to a dogsled Polar Bear hunt.

 

[medvedqc]

on all those ones polar bear is still doable ...

 

[medvedqc]

i d like to go back to central africa at the beginning of the 20th century where the heavy ivory carriers were on par with tanzania and kenya then hunt in the forest for okapi and smaller forest elephant with a 450/400 double and a 9.3x62.

 

[Duncan Idaho]

Irish Elk and either my 35 Whelen build or Sako Bavarian Carbine in 30-06.

 

[jjohnwm]

^ now this guy understands the assignment. I want to change my answer

Are you saying that you don't understand the assignment? It's your thread!!!

Irish Elk and either my 35 Whelen build or Sako Bavarian Carbine in 30-06.

Hey! Can you do that? It was supposed to be historic hunts, not prehistoric hunts...

Now I wanna change my answer!

 

[conor_90]

To be fair my second hunt predates the historical record as well. I think I’d like to bring along my 338 wm for the giant beavers, woodland muskox, and giant pika

As for not understanding the assignment; spent too long in BC maaaaaaan

 

[Brassman66]

It would have to be one of those major horse back expeditions in Northern BC back in the 30’s or 40’s. Hunt game in untouched wilderness that hasn’t seen man before. I would use an old 1895 with a fine bead in 303 Brit. In the end we would come out with trophy’s of sheep, moose, caribou, grizzly and goat. Of course we would need camp meat so there would be lots of shooting. I can imagine drifting off to sleep in a wall tent next to the wood stove. With the first rays of light I would poke my head out and see a band of big rams on a nearby ridge. Oh one can dream.

Still possible today and you are already close to fine hunting Grounds, why don't you make your Dreams reality.

Good Luck & Cheers

 

[brapjack]

I'm not overly original here, but I'd love to take my model 70 in 270win somewhere in the Yukon with Jack O'Connor. We would be hunting Dall Sheep when we found ourselves being stalked by a Grizz... feeling under-gunned, Jack smirks and says, "fear not you have one of the most capable cartridges". We come home with record book sheep and bear. At the end of the hunt Jack tells me he actually prefers the 30 06 but Winchester was paying him to hype up the old 270 and he was actually sweating bullets when the Grizz appeared....

 

[conor_90]

Still possible today and you are already close to fine hunting Grounds, why don't you make your Dreams reality.

Good Luck & Cheers

Judging by his avatar picture I would say he does a pretty good job.

I think it’s more about “ going where no jet boat has gone before” .

Brapjack, beautiful story

 

[Rob 22]

All great hunting adventures and I would love to be involved in any of them but mine would be ….Just 1 season in moose camp with my dad and uncle …… miss them both terribly every year

 

[Northern Shooter]

Either on the Western frontier in the late 1880's on a Buffalo hunt with one of the early lever action models or 1920s Africa on a dangerous game hunt using a Mauser style 375H&H for plains game and cape buffalo.