Originally Posted by
SJAdventures
To me it depends on what is being refered to as hard. Hard because of where they live i.e mountains, or hard because of the animal itself. Whitetail in general are not hard to hunt at all but a *BIG* whitetail buck is a species all to itself, and takes a back seat to no animal in how hard they are to be sucessfully hunted consistently.
This can be said about any mature animal for any species though. Consistently finding trophy mule deer or elk is no easy task. The sheep hunts Ive been on in nevada can definately wear on you in every aspect. Yet I still cant imagine how tough a mountain goat hunt could be. Based on habitat only I would think this would be the toughest hunt in north america.