Whitetail Slam
 

Was wondering if anyone here has done or doing the whitetail slam. Thinking about trying it. www.whitetailslam.com

A lot of thoughts in my head on this one. Seems like a cool idea, but I really don't get it.

• Sure, it's be really cool to be able to say you've hunted whitetails 'all across the US'. (based on their maps, I have my 4 done, just didn't know it was a "slam" while I was doing it).
  
• To me, the term "Slam" is getting thrown around too much these days. It used to mean you've hunted a lot of species, which inevitably meant you'd be hunting all over the country. Now it gets abused into meaning you've just hunted a lot of places. We started seeing "turkey slams", then I read about guys trying to finish a "Kansas Slam" by taking every big game species in the state, he11 last summer I heard about a "Bass Slam" where a guy wanted to fish like 5 or 6different types of Bass. I can get behind a "slam" if it's used in its original definition of 'a diverse list of species', like the "Kansas Slam", but is it really a "slam" to hunt one thing in a lot of states? Having done both, I personally think it's a bigger challenge to hunt different species, even in one region, than it is to hunt the same species in different terrain.
  
• If I'm going to travel that far to hunt, i.e. spend that much, I'm more motivated to hunt other game species, rather than something I can hunt at home.
  
• The territories seem really arbitrary? I don't understand how they cut the lines, for example: the region that contains TX through Nebraska, over to Colorado and New Mexico - if you have hunted in these areas, you've seen hugely different terrain and conditions. Whereas you're very likely in the same type of terrain if you cross several of the boundaries (I've had similar hunting conditions in NC vs MO).

Maybe this winter I'll start a company and do "Coyote Slams", challenge people to hunt coyotes in the East, the West, the North, and the Southwest. How much should I charge just to send out a hunk of wood that signifies the hunters accomplished the Slam? Since being knighted with the Slam title certainly would outweigh the intrinsic value of the hunts themselves.

I have killed "Dakota whitetails" only, as far as going other places goes. I would rather hunt black bear, elk, or moose if I was to travel. I can harvest whitetails in my back yard. why pay money and travel to do the same somewhere else. just my .02 cents.