[QUOTE=Muley Hunter;4199413]Well, maybe you didn't mean it as an insult, but two of us took it that way, but i'll overlook it.

No, there was never any insult intended, but thanks for overlooking it anyway.

The truth is when I went on my first elk hunt at 12 I know what I was going to do the rest of my life. I loved it, and have never gotten tired of it.

You were lucky to have been able to hunt elk when you were 12. My Dad didn't hunt, and I didn't hunt elk until I was 20 and hunted with one of my college roommates. I also loved it, and have never gotten tired of it. I just learned that hunting didn't end with elk.

I also love the Colorado Rockies, and have never gotten tired of them either.

I too grew up and loved the Colorado Rockies. They just got too crowded, and in 1975, as a part year ski instructor and part year Forest Service engineering technician, I was having trouble supporting a family of four -- especially in a resort town like Steamboat Springs, so I took a full time technician job in Montana. I no longer live in Colorado, but I'm still in the Rockies.


It would have been a struggle for me to hunt all over the world like you anyway. I'm a retired truck driver. I made an average living, but not enough to travel the world. I chose a way to hunt that I could do every year.

As a retired Forest Service engineering technician, I too made an average living. When my Grandparents passed, I received a small inheritance which basically covered the cost of a real nasty divorce, but left me enough to go on my first plains game hunt in South Africa where I shot 9 animals for less than it would cost for a guided moose hunt in Alaska. Since I no longer have to support a gold-digger wife and her two brats, by watching what else I spend, and by looking for hunt "deals", I have been able to afford some other hunts in Africa and other places.

The topic is would I like to hut Africa, or Alaska? It's a simple decision for me. Nothing in Africa appeals to me. Alaska does. It's as simple as that.

BOTH Africa and Alaska appeal to me. My DIY caribou hunt in Alaska cost me just over $1,ooo. A guided brown bear or moose hunt in Alaska would now cost well over 10 times that amount, as would a number of African multi-animal hunts.

You need to realize we're all different. What you like I might hate. It's what makes us all different. If a hunter from the south loves his whitetail hunting, and has no interest in hunting the west for elk. I don't give it a second thought. That's his choice. Why you don't understand why I have no interest in hunting some of the places you've hunted is beyond me.

I fully realize that we are all different, and I'm fine with that. I also could care less if you are interested in hunting some of the places that I've hunted. We all have our own little worlds. Both Alaska and Africa are outside of most of our worlds. Flags, myself, and a few others have expanded our worlds to include those places, and we've simply posted our positive experiences in them. What I don't understand is why you keep making negative posts about a place than you've never been to, that you have no interest in, and that you apparently don't want to learn anything about.

How about this. If you said you'd pay for the whole hunt in Africa, and it would be the best spots to hunt there with the best guides. I'd say.........Thanks, but i'm not interested.

Sorry Muley, but I couldn't afford a hunt for myself in Africa in the best spots and with the best guides. Your on your own there.


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