Ho-Hum Hunt

[musketman]

What do you think would be the most boring animal to hunt?

I would thing it would be the musk ox, they just stand there in a little circle!!! <<<sigh>>>

Maybe they could stampede you... :hmm:

Stampede is good... :thumbsup:

 

[Rebel]

Buffalo, (Bison), on a game ranch. Be like shooting a penned cow.

 

[musketman]

Buffalo, (Bison), on a game ranch. Be like shooting a penned cow.

:snore: :snore: :snore: :snore: :snore: I see your point...

 

[Stumpkiller]

We have these big things - It doesn't have a white tail but I think it's a deer - and we drive up from the city and they'll just stand there and let you hunt all over them. It's good sport. Sometimes we have to twist around in the seat of or ATV's to get off a good shot. The hard part is picking a spot to shoot, cause, like, the whole scope is brown.

They come in piebald, too.

 

[musketman]

One thing I should point out would be, why hunt a boring animal in the first place?

It may not seem boring until you actually get on the hunt and the end results are less than expected...

Of course, if you are not intrested in the first place, don't go, but some game hunting packages are hyped up more than should be...

 

[Huntinfool]

If ya want to hunt Muskox without being bored try them with a spear or an atlatl! :what:

As prehistoric man did! :huh:

That should put the challenge back in it for ya! :thumbsup:

YMH&OS,
Chuck Goodall
The Original Huntin' Fool
&
Kanawha Ranger Scribe

 

[peter]

OK, who the heck came up with the name Atlatl ? I mean , is that realy a word, or did somebody come up with that name to see if we are still listening , or just nodding our heads.

 

[Huntinfool]

Here ya go Peter I wouldn't want ya to be ignorant of any hunting weapon! :thumbsup:

http://www.atlatl.net/

Yer Huntin' Fool Buddy,
Chuck

 

[cayugad]

I looked into a bison hunt in South Dakota one year. I was all excited. I had visions of stalking close to a herd of them with a muzzleloader and waiting until the right one wandered close enough to get a good shot. That was until I was told that they drove you out to the herd, sitting in the back of a pickup truck. When they pulled up on the herd you were allowed to shoot any of the animals that had a red mark on the side of them. (My understanding is they went out and paintballed them to mark them). After everyone knocked their animal down, then they chased the bison off and the animals were processed.

On the farm in Wisconsin we called that culling a herd. I really did not want to go out and shoot an animal that was waiting for me to shoot it.....

My understanding is there are now elk ranches like this also. Where they raise large mature bulls and you shoot the one of your choice and they bill you according to the rack and the weight. I have not confirmed this, only read it in a forum. How do you look others in the eye and tell them of how you stalked and hunted down a monster bull elk when it was shot in a enclosure??? ::

My hat is off to those that walk wild country and stalk close to a small herd of elk and manage to get one.. but shoot something in a fenced in area....well if you tell the story I suppose you could forget to mention the fence and the fact they drove you out to it...

 

[Keith]

Before the great slaughter on the plains buffalo was not considered great sport. Unless, one ran them on horseback. I saw bison in Yellowstone, about as free ranging as they get anymore, I can't imagine they would be very challenging to hunt. Unless they joined the muskox in a stampede.

 

[Slowpoke]

Some trophy deers hunts are getting to be the same way. My wife and I drove up to get some furniture in Pennsylvania and almost wrecked the car when I saw a field of huge deer. I'm talking 12pt and above just eating clover and prancing around. There was a general store there so I stopped off to get a drink and ask the guy in there about the deer. He told me an Amish farmer raises them and either sells them out to stud or to hunting preserves where he get $2,500+ for them.
He went on to say the perserves get some guy that wants a big deer. They drive him out to the stand early in the morning, and tell him they've been seeing this big deer about 8:30 come out into the field. About 8 they drive up in their truck and push this deer out of the back and it walks down a fenced path into the food plot field. The guy shoots the deer and thinks he's a hero.
Doesn't appear to be much sport to me, but to each his own.

S'Poke