finnbear I will respectfully have to disagree with you on your last post. With the current state of Mexico's drug Cartell and the immigration issue, Americans are a target. Being kidnapped is very possible nowdays. Two of my friends that have recently traveled down to Mexico said they were harrased and one decided to cut his visit short due to the anti American nonsense.
To me it's to bad as I would enjoy going down there and seeing more of the country and doing it while hunting would be great. However I don't see myself venturing south of our Border anytime soon.

top ten countries in the world U stand a chance of being kidnapped in.....

1. Colombia,
2. Brazil,
3. Pakistan,
4. Philippines,
5. Mexico,
6. Guatemala,
7. the United States,
8. Venezuela,
9. India,
10. Ecuador.

Hmmmm USA #7!!!!! again I say if U're out and about with your head up yer BUTT U might get in trouble!! I for one am not going to hide and cower refusing to live because something bad might happen to me...I will continue to be viligent and aware of my surroundings.... I think I'll be just fine

O'Connor spoke wonderfully of hunting in Mexico, saying it was beautiful country full of game. I say give it hell, you can be kidnapped anywhere and how often is someone going to attempt to mess with an armed big game hunter?

There Ya Go!!!!!!

But then again ya might get et by a wolf or a cat...so's ya better not go there!!!!!

It's funny I travel to the Philippines frequently since my wife is from there and I see that it's #4 on the list. I have never really felt threatened in my travels there but I also don't go to seedy areas where trouble could occur. I agree with you that you need to keep your wits about you while in foreign countries. I just have never had a good experience in Mexico and have heard of many people having the same or worse experiences there.
Sorry to hijack the thread.

Id have no issue sending a .277 inch guided missile a banditos way, especially if he interfered with my coues or sheep hunt.

I guess some people dont watch the news regularly, the southern border is a warzone. I wouldnt be caught dead in mexico. Any country where the citizens will risk their lives crossing hundreds of miles of desert to get out of, is probably not a great place to be, I dont care what kind of deer they got there. Seriously, with all the great places to hunt in America, why would someone what to go to a corrupt, 3rd world, lawless, hellhole to hunt?

They offer opportunities to take game that would take years and years to be drawn for in the U.S. Im just saying that I wouldnt not go just because of some desert rats with AKs.

Now see........ I would make the comment like who the heck would want to go to the PI!!! what friggin hole... it's all in how ya look at it.... we have very bad folks right here in the good ole USA that would do U harm almost as frequently as it could happen in Mexico!!

where ys get this at?


Originally Posted by maha56
At least three great civilizations—the Mayas, the Olmecs, and the Toltecs—preceded the wealthy Aztec empire, conquered in 1519–1521 by the Spanish under Hernando Cortés. Spain ruled Mexico as part of the viceroyalty of New Spain for the next 300 years until Sept. 16, 1810, when the Mexicans first revolted. They won independence in 1821.

From 1821 to 1877, there were two emperors, several dictators, and enough presidents and provisional executives to make a new government on the average of every nine months. Mexico lost Texas (1836), and after defeat in the war with the U.S. (1846–1848), it lost the area that is now California, Nevada, and Utah, most of Arizona and New Mexico, and parts of Wyoming and Colorado under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.