What's the toughest game to hunt?
12-20-2003, 04:28 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location:
Posts: 266
What's the toughest game to hunt?
Which big game species is the most difficult to hunt, is it the elk, whitetail, moose, sheep, bear, and what's your reason's? I hunted various animals and for me its a toss up between the elk and whitetail deer, what say you?
Dr. Mike
Dr. Mike
12-20-2003, 04:40 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: fort mcmurray alberta canada
Posts: 5,667
RE: What's the toughest game to hunt?
Bighorn sheep as legal rams are scarce and the terrain is demanding.Many people would not be capable of enduring a backpack hunt for bighorns let alone kill a ram.
12-21-2003, 07:35 PM
#5
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Mormonville, Utah!
Posts: 2,753
RE: What's the toughest game to hunt?
From what I understand hunting for a trophy elk would be the max. You first have to find 1 which involves hiking in steep terrain for 10-12 miles a day. then you have to sneak up on it and considering the fact that their built in radar outstrips the finest technology that the U.S. possesses. Finally you have to pack the darn thing out!
12-29-2003, 03:55 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Colorado
Posts: 411
RE: What's the toughest game to hunt?
I'm not sure if you mean physically, financially or something else. It takes a decade of waiting or $100,000 in the auction to get a bighorn tag in CO.
Although I have heard those sheep hunts are pretty tough, I have at least four years to wait and get in shape.
I am equally sure those DG hunts are difficult. I don't think my drawers would fare too well. Right now, it seems AK grizzly/moose hunts are around 20k, which is more than I would spend.
I would say for the vast majority of NA hunters, the wapiti is as tough as it gets.
CE
Although I have heard those sheep hunts are pretty tough, I have at least four years to wait and get in shape.
I am equally sure those DG hunts are difficult. I don't think my drawers would fare too well. Right now, it seems AK grizzly/moose hunts are around 20k, which is more than I would spend.
I would say for the vast majority of NA hunters, the wapiti is as tough as it gets.
CE
12-29-2003, 05:41 PM
#10
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Mormonville, Utah!
Posts: 2,753
RE: What's the toughest game to hunt?
As Teddy Roosvelt once said, "Hunting the mule-deer is the most noble sport of all the deer, yet the true challenge is the big-horn."
As for me I (having never hunted bighorns) would say that an elk is pretty tough to beat.
As for me I (having never hunted bighorns) would say that an elk is pretty tough to beat.