The Ultimate North American Hunting Round?
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Well I got a good start, but don't really know what they all are..........people start splitting caribou into 5 or 6 or 7 different groups, whitetail into 2 or 3 or 4, same with bears and mule deer and elk and moose...............
I can tell you what I don't have.......Coues deer, either bighorn, coastal grizzly, peccary, blacktail deer, cougar, jaguar (mine is from England), Canada moose, who knows about caribou, I have shot 2 or 3 species of them. Shiras moose, narwhal, beluga..........
Maybe we better determine what EVERY NA big game species is first................
I can tell you what I don't have.......Coues deer, either bighorn, coastal grizzly, peccary, blacktail deer, cougar, jaguar (mine is from England), Canada moose, who knows about caribou, I have shot 2 or 3 species of them. Shiras moose, narwhal, beluga..........
Maybe we better determine what EVERY NA big game species is first................
Ardent
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I mean the full twenty nine, and at minimum a ten slam, which includes big stuff. I mean what the statement thrown around casually all the time "good for anything in North America", should mean. I tracked and killed a large Wood Bison bull for the CO's last year that absorbed a full magazine of 7mm Mag cup and cores, it was an influencing factor, as are all the Pink Mountain Bulls with "pot legs", .30-30 and many other assorted healed bullet wounds found when skinning.
You are fortunate, starting in BC as a resident will cut several hundred grand off the total. I'm contemplating a go at as many North American species as I can, I was just ripped off heavily on what was to be my third (and a piggybacked fourth that was incidentally cancelled) Big Five / dangerous game hunt in Africa. It soured the taste of Africa for me a bit and I'm looking to do what I can here that I haven't done yet. I was hunting the Sierra Madres for birds in Mexico a few weeks ago and that too turned up the interest in all the interesting big game corners we have in North America.
So again, I refer not to the rifle good in one's backyard, but the one you can take anywhere in the continent with zero limitations. The ultimate one stop tool, continent wide, that can carry the title with merit. To me that's a .300 Win Mag, my mind is made just interested in everyone else's take.
From the Super Slam site they list as follow;
Bears
Alaska Brown Bear
Black Bear
Grizzly Bear
Polar Bear
Cats
Cougar
Deer
Columbia Blacktail Deer
Coues Deer
Mule Deer
Sitka Blacktail Deer
Whitetail Deer
Elk
Rocky Mountain Elk
Roosevelt Elk
Tule Elk
Caribou
Barren Ground Caribou
Central Canadian Barren Ground Caribou
Mountain Caribou
Quebec Labrador Caribou
Woodland Caribou
Moose
Alaska Yukon Moose
Canada Moose
Shiras Moose
Bison/Muskox
Bison
Muskox
Goat
American Mountain Goat
Antelope
Pronghorn Antelope
Sheep
California Bighorn Sheep
Dall Sheep
Desert Bighorn Sheep
Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep
Stone Sheep
Auxiliary
Atlantic Walrus
Jaguar
Pacific Walrus
I've heard the number $400 - 500k tossed around. A buddy of mine did the North American 29 for around $280k as an Alberta resident.
That list seems odd. No mention of Wolf or Javelina, although I would have thought they would be considered big game...Wolf at least. Also, they distinguish between two species of Walrus, and yet make no distinction between Plains and Wood Bison. I also thought that the Moose in the Maritime region were referred to as Eastern Moose...or no?
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As the yellow stripe on the poll chart is indicating,...the 30.06 is the most versatile cartridge in the world,..Gofers to Grizzlies and everything in between.
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If you can get lucky and draw a desert sheep permit you could do it DYI so I'd say the most expensive would be polar bear or stone sheep but desert hunts run 40-80k if you want to buy one.
Last I checked the Tiburon Island bighorn hunts were 100K.............not the only place in NA to hunt them but certainly the best.
Pacific Walrus are now CITIES 1 and totally unobtainable............
Wolf and lynx are not included because they are regulated under fur licensing not big game regs in most areas where they can be taken.
The bison of course should be split as two very distinct and separate species.
I wasn't aware that California bighorn had gained their own sub-species status.......what book recognizes them? Everyone knows the NA gland slam is 4 sheep, RM bighorn, desert bighorn, Dall and Stone.
What the hell is a Tule elk and where are they found?
Pacific Walrus are now CITIES 1 and totally unobtainable............
Wolf and lynx are not included because they are regulated under fur licensing not big game regs in most areas where they can be taken.
The bison of course should be split as two very distinct and separate species.
I wasn't aware that California bighorn had gained their own sub-species status.......what book recognizes them? Everyone knows the NA gland slam is 4 sheep, RM bighorn, desert bighorn, Dall and Stone.
What the hell is a Tule elk and where are they found?
nowarningshot
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
Tule Elk are a subspecies in of all places ...California. Considered a pest by many...but their horn mass is to other Elk like blacktail are to muley's.
300 WMag for me. Been packing a Browning stainless Abolt for almost 20 years now. Shoots any size bullet you want and this caliber can knock down anything you hit from moose with 180 or 200 grains to deer with 150-165 grains. Hurts like a bugger but usually one shot does the trick!
