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Old February 5, 2002, 02:54 PM   #1
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Money is no object whats your dream hunt?

I know this is going to sound wierd guy's but here goes.

I want to do a world wide hog slam.
Starting in Africa I'd like to take all four species of wild swine Warthog, Bush Pig, Giant forrest Hog and the Barbay Wild Boar.

Then I'd like to travel to the Siberian Tioga and collect a real life Russian Boar I hear some go over 600lbs. We'll then cross the conteninent and collect a Kieler Boar in Germany or Poland after which it's off to Indonesia to collect one of those wierd looking hogs with the tusks that stick up out of the top of it's nose. I forget what you call them.

Any that I missed in the wild boar catagory please let me know and I'll be sure to add them to my list.

Any financial support for this project can be sent to the H&H hog hunter fund.

Whats your hunting dream/goal?

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Old February 5, 2002, 03:01 PM   #2
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A Cryptozoology Hunt involving....

Yeti, Lochness, Champ, and come home to hunt Big Foot.
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Old February 5, 2002, 04:02 PM   #3
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About the only thing I'd want to hunt and shoot would be some of the African antelope. For some reason, those spiral horns of the kudu have always been a bit of a turn-on for my hunting instinct.

Otherwise, I'd love to go along for the ride. I get as much fun doing small chores around camp and BSing at a campfire as a lot of the actual kill.

Chousing around, looking at critters, maybe killing "camp meat"...

And camp cooking is some of the best food there ever was!

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Old February 5, 2002, 05:44 PM   #4
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H&H, your dream hunt sounds good to me. When do we leave?
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Old February 6, 2002, 12:37 PM   #5
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If money truly was no object, I'd go after tiger. (OK, it's banned now, but if I start a museum which needs a specimen, and I spread enough bribes - errrr, I mean campaign contributions around, it'll get done!)

Otherwise, I have a thing about Africa. I'm fortunate, in that I've taken lion, leopard, Cape buff, and some plains game on previous hunts. But if I had the budget, I'd like to go after a big elephant and a rhino, as well as some of the more exotic game like bongo and gerenuk. Since truly big elephant are very, very, hard to come by today, it would have to be a long-duration African safari, on which I would plan to take all the Big 5 and beyond . . .

Considering what's happening in RSA, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and much of the rest of Africa today, soon this won't be possible no matter how much money you have.
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Old February 8, 2002, 12:30 AM   #6
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Hank,
How long do you figure it'll be before Zimbabwe is gone? And how long before RSA breaks into the vicious cycle of Civil war that has been so often repeated in Africa. Whats the deal with Zambia? What happened I was looking at hunting there just a short while ago and then zappo it's gone. Hank what do know about the situation in Botswana?

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I like to leave tomorrow or the next day unfortunaley it'll be a while.

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I think that a bigfoot skin coat would look cool. I wonder what Yeti tastes like? Probably tastes like chicken.
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Old February 8, 2002, 12:33 AM   #7
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it's off to Indonesia to collect one of those wierd looking hogs with the tusks that stick up out of the top of it's nose. I forget what you call them.
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Old February 8, 2002, 01:03 AM   #8
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I'm tempted to say elitest gun grabbers, but you have a right to be wrong in this country.
I want my dad to come to life one more time so we can go chase the bunnies through the woods, just one last time....
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Old February 8, 2002, 01:59 AM   #9
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Big five in Africa.

I would bring along a couple of Winchester 95 rifles in .405 Winchester and .30-40 Krag, a big English double rifle .500 Nitro Express, and perhaps a classic English double 16ga shotgun for fowl and small game.
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Old February 8, 2002, 03:12 AM   #10
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For years and years my old college roommate and I would discuss going polar bear hunting in Greenland. We did a lot of reading about that ice-island. You know there's only about 62k people there, and almost all of them speak only Greenlandic, or maybe also some Norwegian? Look at their main exports: "Agricultural products." Hmmmm what would those be? "1.Reindeer... 5.Polar Bear"

How kewl is THAT?!? We talked about working at a reindeer ranch neer Nuuk (formerly Godsthab), then, after we'd picked up some of the local culture and some krona for spending money (we were, after all, poor college students), we'd head out into the icy tundra in search of the mighty polar bear!

We were considering 12ga shotguns loaded with 1oz slugs at the time, but I've more means at my disposal now, and I'm thinking either a .35Whelen or a .338 Winmag.

Damn, I still wanna go...

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Old February 8, 2002, 07:23 AM   #11
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I would like to hunt the Taliban
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Old February 8, 2002, 07:27 AM   #12
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They would pay to see this...

Cape buff with a spear. Strange thing is i'm crazy enough to try..

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Old February 8, 2002, 07:55 AM   #13
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Cape buff with a spear. Strange thing is i'm crazy enough to try
That's not crazy at all. The moment I read it I was able to smell the hunt and the blood and feel the rush of adrenaline. Oh, yeah. I may never do it, but now I will be thinking about it
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Old February 8, 2002, 08:39 AM   #14
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I guess my dreams are much simpler...in order of hunts:

1. Elk
2. Moose
3. Caribou
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Old February 8, 2002, 09:59 AM   #15
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Another vote for the african big 5 here.

But since theres no money limit let's put the duration to the rest of my life and add in every other game species I can appy for during that time, travel included! Just one hunt after another, forever....
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Old February 8, 2002, 10:39 AM   #16
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H&H hunter, it's funny, but you mentioned three of the countries I've hunted! South Africa is a problem - crime is so high, that the rulers have declared the crime rate to be a state secret. Our travel department at work has links to a website that rates cities on a danger scale of 1 to 7, and Johnnesburg rates a 6. (Kabul was the only 7!)
Zimbabwe is in sad shape, and seems to be headed toward famine. Mugabe's thugs are seizing white-owned farms, but are too lazy or ignorant to work the land. Much of the farmland of what used to be southern Africa's breadbasket has been taken out of production. And it's not just white-owned farms that are being seized - white-operated businesses in major cities are being attacked, almost like the Nazis attacked Jewish businesses on Kristallnacht. Problems are spreading, and I'm afraid they'll soon engulf the major hunting & tourist areas. I fear for Zimbabwe's future. I'd say the next 2 years will determine Zimbabwe's course for the next 10. With luck, 77-year old Robert Mugabe won't be around much longer.

Corruption in Zambia related to allocation of hunting areas is allegedly what caused that country to simply shut down hunting. A pity, as when I was there, the safari industry seemed to be healthy, and well on its way back to recovery.

Don't know anything about Botswana, other than it's expensive.
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Old February 8, 2002, 10:55 AM   #17
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I would love to go to eastern rockies to shoot prairie dog and then use the carcasses to bait coyote. Throw in some pheasant or other upland game bird shooting(I need a nice pump 12 ga shottie for this). Travel up into the rockies for mulie, elk, caribou(gotta get a Win mod70 Classic compact and rebarrel for 7mmWSM or 300WSM). This is followed by a trip to arizona to do some dove shooting(I need a nice SxS 20ga for this).

I would then look to the Plains and find a nice fat antelope, followed by a buffalo(bison) hunt with either a Sharp open hammer in 45-90 black powder or a Rem Rolling block in 45-90.
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Old February 8, 2002, 02:21 PM   #18
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JmBG29,
Thank you sir, It's off to Indonesia for some Babirusa shooting ole boy!

12-34hom,
I just happen to be familiar with just such an event. Last year the owner of Cold Steal Mr Lynn Thompson (I think I got the last name spelled correctly) took a very nice Cape Buffalo Bull with one of his spears. I've an aquaintance whose got the pictures I'll see if we can get them posted.

Hank,
Thank you for your info. I always find it hard to believe that we let Rohdesia fall to that Marxist scum and become what it is today. All in the name of African Racial independance. Never before and never again will there be a more free and well run country anywhere in the whole African contenient as was Rohdesia. Look what they have now!!! Murder ,poverty, political unrest, war, infighiting, tribalism. By golly it's just like it was 200 years ago isn't it? I hope they're enjoying their new found independance.
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Old February 8, 2002, 11:55 PM   #19
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Near as I can tell about Africa, the idea of Democracy is "One man, one vote, one time." Then, it's "President for life"--and if not, well, the guy with the most gangsters wins. And wins. And wins.

Shame.

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Old February 9, 2002, 12:08 AM   #20
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#1 Trophy Elk. A real hunt, not pen raised fenced in TV elk hunting. Hard hunt where you really have to work for it. Way back in deep where you don't see anybody else. Pack in on horses. Stay for a couple weeks. Maybe do a little fishing during the hunt.

#2 Coyote hunting with someone that is really good at it. Someone who has the experience to show me the finer points, the stuff I never thought of. I do it here, but never seem to find the time to do it much.

#3 Trophy Whitetails. Possibly in central Canada. Again, a real hunt, No TV stuff. The big huge ones.
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Old February 9, 2002, 01:27 AM   #21
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I dare say that Iicould help you out with #1 and #2.

#1 That's one of my specialties I love packing way back in for Elk. I do it nearly every year. I drew a Valle Vidal tag (Northern NM)last season you wouldn't believe me if I told you about the shear numbers of Elk, and the quality and quantity of big bulls was sureal. That was a pack in hunt unforunatley it ended on the second day when my brother had to be transported to a hospital after a rather nasty encounter witha Black Bear (but that's another story). In any case after getting him taken care of I went back in and shot a big fat cow about 10 miles from the road right at sundown and packed her out under the stars. Ahhh what a memory that hunt is gonna be for a long time to come.

#2 As far as that goes I am a pretty fair Predator caller if I say so myself. Been doing it a long time and learned from some of the best. I'd love to come out to Parump and give the ole sly dogs a whistle. Just say when. (Fall is the best time for hot action and stupid Coyotes)

On # 3 Go for it guy I'd like to try that one out myself.
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Old February 9, 2002, 02:50 AM   #22
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I'd have to say a good Moose hunt. They are so majestic and magnificent looking. I know a guy who killed one with a 270 last year. I believe that I would take the 375 off of the shelf for this. I have a relative who owns property in northern Maine, bordering paper company property. Maybe one of these days we will win the draw and get to go.
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Old February 9, 2002, 02:59 AM   #23
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Art,

Remember, "You're only President for Life."

Has a 'nother whole meaning when emphasized ....

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Me? I'd just as soon get to do just a few more CO elk-trips as we do every year.

High country, beautiful air, clear killer-blue skies, great eats after a days' hunt (we do eat so good! out in the boonies!), good companionship, warm sleeps, 'n a good, decent/fair chance at our elk ...

I've done some others, & in many a differnt land, but CO really is.

It simply is.

(& alas! if we could only do away with our urbanized politicians! ... heavy sigh .... )

& never having been to Alaska, I fear to do so - I may never come back home ....
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Old February 9, 2002, 10:23 AM   #24
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David, I like your hunt better. Hunting with Dad again would beat all the big game hunts in the world.
12-34hom Cape with a spear? Don't know if I'd join in but I'd like to watch!
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Old February 9, 2002, 07:50 PM   #25
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I always find it hard to believe that we let Rohdesia fall to thatMarxist scum and become what it is today.'.
RANT MODE ON: Right, thanks to Jimmy Carter. When it was Rhodesia, that great bastion of human rights, the United Nations, had put an embargo on trade with them. (Of course, human rights in the eyes of rational people differ from human rights in the eyes of the socialists, communists, and kleptocrats than run so many of the U.N.'s member nations.) Under Nixon, we continued to buy chromium from Rhodesia. But under Jimmy Carter, we decided to kowtow to the U.N. and buy chromium from that great defender of human rights, the Soviet Union. At four times the price. Which used the proceeds to finance the invasion of Afghanistan, which in hindsight paved the way for the Taliban and Osama, and ultimately the events of Sept.11. (Gee, Thanks, Jimmy!) HOWEVER, at the same time we were NOT buying Rhodesian chrome, Jimmy was content to let American coffee companies trade with Uganda, which was then ruled by Idi Amin, an admitted cannibal.

I'm sorry, but it seems to me that DEVOURING someone has got to be pretty much the ultimate human rights violation!

When Idi was deposed, he went to our sterling friends, the Saudis, who gave him refuge.

All this stuff can be tied together, and, IMHO, political correctness has already cost us - and Africans of all colors - dearly. RANT MODE OFF.

Hmmm . . . I wonder if I could have made this rant any more un-PC?
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