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08-09-2010, 06:18 AM | #1 | Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Coffs Harbour, New South Wales Posts: 1,556 | Dream Hunt
If money was no object, where are the top three places on Earth that you would like to hunt, what game would you be after, what rifle/handgun/calibre would you use and why. Mine would be:
1. To go back to Africa and shoot a Zebra. The last time I was there I didn't have enough money, but if I were to go again I'd use a CZ Safari Lux in .300 H&H to stalk in close on foot and take one of these magificent animals. I'd either shoulder mount it or cape it and turn it into a rug and I'd use the CZ and calibre combination becuse of the heritage it has in the Dark Continent and because of the rifle's renowned reliability.
2. Travel to the Top End of Australia to hunt water buffalo and boars. I'd carry the Ruger M77 Hawkeye in .338 Federal. This calibre has proven adequate on both pigs an buff and the Ruger is a classic design with a reliable mechanism; there's no room for stuff-ups with either of these animals! I think every Australian hunter wants to have a go at a buff in their lifetime, and as for the pigs, as a country boy I know how much damage they can do and every one shot is one that won't be ruining the land.
3. I'd spend every afternoon patrolling my favourite bunny patch with Grandpa's old side-by-side Remington 12 gauge. There's only a small amount of things more enjoyable to me than spending a quiet afternoon in the sun strolling around the hill thinning out the local rabbit population. Last edited by AusLach; 08-09-2010 at 07:28 AM.Reason: Spelling |
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08-09-2010, 07:07 AM | #2 | Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Newport, Vermont Posts: 1,110 |
As simple as it sounds, I would absolutely LOVE to go on a prairie dog shoot. A heavy barrel bolt action .220 Swift, as many rounds as I could get and I would stay there forever.
I looked into a "guide" service last year and they wanted three thousand dollars for four days. I had no idea it would be that much. I was hoping I could find someone to let me sleep in their barn for a week show me where the critters were and I'd help with chores and what not in return.
If any of you p-dog state guys are reading this PM me...  __________________ "People live too long, dogs don't live long enough" - FTF Member- |
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08-09-2010, 08:33 AM | #3 | Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Kalamazoo, MI Posts: 132 |
I'd like to be somewhere in the mountains/forest, during like the fall, not any snow yet but its chilly out, with a 30-06 remington 700 XCR II, and shoot from at least 500 yards out, i would love to able to have a challenging long shot |
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08-13-2010, 01:27 AM | #4 | Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 172 |
1. Alaska, multi-hunt, .338 WM/ .45-70
2. Some central U.S. state with wide open Prairie Dog, rabbit, what not, with an Remington R-15 in .204 Ruger.
3. Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, AR-15 in 6.5 Grendel, Mule deer |
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08-15-2010, 06:54 PM | #5 | Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: , Alaska Posts: 2,315 |
If I had the money I would go to Tanzania and hunt Cape Buffalo with a double .450 Nitro. More realistically I'd like to come up with $3 grand to fly out with my daughter and hunt caribou. |
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08-24-2010, 02:49 AM | #6 | Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 19 |
really just walking down at the ranch with my dad shooting armadillos like we did when we were little kids, hunts are about the company and memories if you ask me, but a zebra or buffalo doesnt ever hurt  |
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08-24-2010, 03:31 AM | #7 | Senior Member Join Date: May 2010 Posts: 266 |
while were dreaming have my dad back for one moor hunt any thing he wanted to hunt. __________________ let no talents go unused |
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08-24-2010, 03:34 AM | #8 | Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: , Minnesota Posts: 264 | //
I live my dream hunt every fall. Out alone with a brace of good dogs hunting pheasants. Watching the dogs work is 90% of the pleasure in a hunt like that especially if you trained the dogs yourself. Nothing is more exciting than seeing a dog on point and anticipating the shot they provided you. Nothing else even comes close. |
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08-24-2010, 11:25 PM | #9 | Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Denver, Colorado Posts: 3 | Kansas
Easy. Kansas, Kansas, Kansas. Quail & Pheasant. 20 Gauge Pump Action Browning.
+ 2 good English setters |
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08-24-2010, 11:43 PM | #10 | Deader Bears=Better Bears Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: BFE, Mississippi Posts: 8,805 |
#1 baby seal hunt on northern Canada coast, aluminum baseball bat & eye protection.
#2 Grizzlies at Yellowstone, jeep-mounted ma deuce/.50 caliber full auto.
#3 Illegals, anywhere on the Southern U.S. border, any bolt-action in .17 HMR.
 __________________ Dead Bears, the only good kind.
DEATH TO FREE-RANGING BEARS!!! (except FTF members ;) ) |
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