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I'm with MCgunner on the bird hunting. But I'd rather be on the Chesapeake Bay, around the turn of the century, with a 2 gauge punt gun mounted on my scull boat.

There would be nothing like taking home a boat full of Canvasback and only firing a couple of shells.

Wyman
 
So MCgunner, why don't you go? It is not at all expensive, and what you hear is pretty much true. I learned long ago that if you just talk about it, you'll never go. You have to take the step. All in and all done, plane fare, shells, the whole schmeer will cost you less than $4500. Think about places that you spend $4500 in a year that you don't really need. You'll likely be surprised to see that with just a bit of priority adjustment, you can easily take that hunt and make the dream real. Go for it, Lad!!!!
 
I'd like to hunt some feral hogs armed only with my skill at Muay Thai Kickboxing.





In all seriousness, when I was young I used to read about hunting pronghorn's outwest with .243/6mm rifles, sounds good but not sure if a pronghorn tastes good. If not, I'll go to the UP and find an elk, .308 should do the trick. I like the idea of hunting Africa, but I really don't know how edible the game is there, and I don't have much interest (at this point at least) of shooting something just to shoot it.
 
For the record, MikePGS, Pronghorn is excellent fare, and all the African game is excellent (even the scorned Waterbuck), generally better than deer, elk, even Pronhorn. Even the nasty looking Cape Buf is basically excellent beef, granted, tough, but if cooked slow, as in pot roast, superb! No meat goes to waste there!!!
 
Giant Forrest hog in the Southern portion of Ethiopia.
 
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So MCgunner, why don't you go? It is not at all expensive, and what you hear is pretty much true. I learned long ago that if you just talk about it, you'll never go. You have to take the step. All in and all done, plane fare, shells, the whole schmeer will cost you less than $4500. Think about places that you spend $4500 in a year that you don't really need. You'll likely be surprised to see that with just a bit of priority adjustment, you can easily take that hunt and make the dream real. Go for it, Lad!!!!
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Yeah, if I had the income, I'd budget the money and go. At the moment, 4,500 might as well be 4,500,000. <sigh>
 
Looking forward to tommorow afternoon... taking my daughter out hunting. She is ready to shoot that 6 point we have seen the last few times out. She shot her first deer last year, a doe. She is ready for her buck! Listen close just about dark Friday afternoon.... :) MG
 
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I would have to pick a deer hunt with my teenaged son, who is of high school age.
As someone once told me, who had been through the same phenomenom, he has "passed behind the moon" and Houston (me) has lost contact with him. Girls tend to be a favorite pursuit at this time, not that I would stop that ;).
I did just purchase a Savage Model 11 in .243 Winchester, Youth Model, he was very interested in it; we will go shootin' over the holidays.
Family time should always be treasured.
Steppin' off the soap box now.
 
Since we are talking about "going back in time, I'd be glad to go back to 1980 and sit in a thicket with my grandpa and that big ole 1903. Heck wouldn't even need that, maybe just walk the fence rows with him and that single shot twelve, picking off a rabbit or two.

But since time travel is still not quite so affordable :rolleyes:. I guess that I would "settle" for taking my two boys out west somewhere, and getting them both a good shot at a couple of decent mulies, or elk. Wouldn't have to be WC stuff, just something ok to make a few good memories with. I wouldn't even have to take on myself. Just like for them to have the opportunity.
 
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Handgun hunt the African Big 5......in the 1950's with Elmer Kieth.
Yikes, did he actually do that? :Shudders at the thought of shooting a charging lion with a handgun:
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No, Elmer Kieth Never hunted Africa with a handgun. He was big on using the right caliber for the game in question. He was a big bore bolt and user and a huge fan of the big bore doubles.
 
But the Big Five has been taken with a handgun. Incidently, if you're shooting at a charging Lion (with anything), you have most certainly muffed the hunt! Indeed, with rare exceptions, even regarding the Big Five, if it is charging, something has gone afoul. Personnaly, I'm not looking at the Big Five, but if I ever shoot another Cape Buff, it will be with a pistol--probably my .45 LC (Ruger Bisely).
 
Pronghorn goats, .257 Roberts, Sweetwater desert around Lander, Wyoming, ride in on motorcycle with side car. If lucky enough to take one, have a picture made, and put that one with the one of my grandfather from 1937.
 
H&H--Are there Giant Forest Hogs in Southern Ethiopia? I never even had it offered. Always an opertunity to learn! Incidently, my biggest thrill in Ethiopia, even with Lesser Kudu and Gerenuk, was a giant sized Hyena! Course, I didn't hunt Mountain Nyala, or a real dream, Abyssinian Ibex!
 
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