Money is no object whats your dream hunt?

444,
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.
 
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.
 
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 ....
 
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!
 
I always find it hard to believe that we let Rohdesia fall to thatMarxist scum and become what it is today.'.
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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?
 
One of these years....

I'm going to draw that Desert Bighorn Sheep permit!

Then after I get him (yeah right), I'll go up to Canada and Alaska to get the other 3 (Rocky Mountain, Stone and Dall).

Till then, like Labgrade, I'll head up to the high country and chase the elusive elk beast for my (yearly) dream hunt.

JohnDog
 
I want to go with you when you get that desert Bighorn permit. I put in for it every year as well. If I get it I'll give you a jingle. Of course on this post money is no object so you can just buy one!!!! I've even got a place to go down in the Animas.
 
This has nothing to do with the thread but.........
A couple weeks ago my buddy and I went coyote calling in the moring. After we were done we starting exploring some back roads. We rounded a corner and about 10 feet off the road were four Desert Bighorns. We were within about 25 yards of them, and they couldn't care less. We looked at them, then we got out the binos and glassed them, then I gave my buddy hell for forgetting the digital camera, we got out they never ran. We eventually got tired of it and drove right past them on up the hill. The road turned out not to go where we wanted, so we came back. The rams were now on the other side of the road over looking a water hole. My buddy got out his gold pan and starting sifting dirt from the water. One of the rams came down to within bayonet range of us and basically told us to get the hell out of there. And again, I had to remind this idiot that he forgot the camera. And he had to remind me that I didn't even own one, so shut up.
 
H&H,

You're right! I'll just go to one of those Wild Sheep foundation auctions - $100K or so and I should be able to snag one of them permits. Hell - If money is no object I'll just buy half of New Mexico, like Ted Turner, and go hunting whenever and whatever I want. That's the ticket!

444,

I've got a 4-day Frontsight certificate I'm going to use sometime in the future. Maybe we could get together and take a few pictures of them there Bighorns. (If you have a camera by then:) )

JohnDog
 
JohnDog
If you make it out here, I will be more than happy to take you. I can't guarantee we will see any sheep, but we can look. Of course our chances of success depend on how much time we spend looking for them. It is relatively easy to see them at Lake Mead, but I don't have a boat either. Shoot me off an E-Mail before you come and I will get you my phone number.

If you apply for a tag, you will get drawn in about 10 years. Four of my friends have been drawn. Three of them scored. I think I have three or four points right now. So, another 7 years ? Someone told me that they relaxed the regulations on desert bighorns. It used to be that you had to attend a class if you were drawn which instructed you on how to field score a sheep and you were only permitted to take a fully mature ram with a certain size rack. I was told that they did away with that but I am not sure.
 
I read somewhere that the money they'd been raising off the permits, they've put into building guzzlers for water-supply augmentation. This has finally paid off in allowing a larger population.

Same problem around desert bighorn country that we have here: Plenty of food; not enough water points.

Art
 
Art, sorry, I can't resist.
That is why they call them DESERT bighorns. They live in the desert (usually a very dry place). :D
 
Upland birds (pheasants, grouse, quail, etc) everywhere they are. But to make it perfect, it would have to include my son (13 months) and my Dad (60yo).

Even better, use Sarah Brady for a flushing dog (one or two pushed ought to finish her off) and a gagged Rosie to hump ammo and guns.
 
Art,
You are correct. Hunting organizations are pretty much the only reason there are any sustainable heards of Desert Bighorns left in the world. And in NM that goes for the Rocky Mountain Bighorn as well. I guess when you really look at we thank hunters for many of the miracles in heard health and sutainability.

ChrisR246,
Dude I am definatley coming with you on that hunt!!!Sara Brady And Roosie:D LMAO!!!!!
 
444: :); true. However, the southwestern deserts of the U.S. are apparently still in the "drying out" process.

We had a fella move down here in 1928. He commented in the middle 1980s that the tree line in Big Bend National Park was moving upward. This is indicative of a slight reduction in average annual rainfall over time. I've been running this country for some 30 years, now, and concur. It does indeed take a while for such stuff to become noticeable.

Some of the really sure-nuff Old Timers point out where springs used to be--but they're dry, now. There once was a trickle-spring on my back-country place. It later turned itself into a seep, and is now hardly a damp spot. Darned shame. Here and there in the back country I'm not even seeing tracks where once I saw mule deer.

So, guzzlers. I wouldn't be surprised if the same process were ongoing around the Pahrump area.

Art
 
There certainly are guzzlers around here. In fact you can get a guzzler map from the fish & game dept. For those of you back east; out here you don't just go out in the woods and start hunting. You drive from one watering hole to another, get out and hunt around the water (this is mainly bird hunting altough you can certainly hunt big game over water) If you don' t know where the water is, you end up hunting for water instead of game.
On the mountain that seperates the Pahrump Valley from the Las Vegas Valley we have a small elk herd. There used to be a very nice water system for them consisting of old bathtubs with pipe running from one to the other but the last time I checked on it it was in disrepair.
 
If funds were no object, and there were no political obstacles, I would simply like to repeat the hunts of C. J. McElroy, the founder of Safari Club International. You can check out his trophy room at:The Wildlife Museum . Although its much more impressive to actually visit the museum.
 
Me, my Guide Gun, and a coin flip: either Kodiak brown bear or cape buffalo. But, one can never get enough elk hunting. Just the sight of a large bull in a wild setting is as exciting as anything I can think of.
 
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