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Elk hunting in SW MT used to be some of the best in the USA. People came from all over the world to hunt the elk here. Those days are gone now.

I've been lucky to hunt 3 great ranches in South Texas.
The Jaral in Zapata county
The Cooke in LaSalle
The Cochina in LaSalle and Dimmitt
When it's happening you think it will never end but sadly it does. Hasbeen

From a small island Near Kodiak I have killed several B&C blacktails, scads of seaducks, foxes, river otters, and in sight of it I have been there for a half-dozen brown bears. Two of the bears were on my own tags.

But then we have killed seven bull moose in the last two years from the same camp with only one tag unfilled.

I have never paid for hunting rights on anything, except a Newfoundland guided moose hunt. That being said, the best hunting is wherever I am currently standing with a gun in my hand.

I have hunted in Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Wyoming, plus on land owned by my ranch friends here in Nebraska and I cannot pick one that was less fun, or productive than the others.

It is really hard to beat a Wyoming cow elk hunt, though, just for the toughness of the country.

Just for something different, a little goose hunting with friends is always a hit, too.

I've hunted all the western states, and colorado probably has the best diversity of species.

Nevada for Mule Deer and Elk and some Pronghorn. Nowadays it is very difficult to draw the good tags.


mike r

I had a place in Shenandoah County which was my favorite. I can't say I had the most success there, but I had the most fun.

Richland Parish, Louisiana....before the bulldozers came and ruined it all in 1964! Had hundreds of thousands of acres of hardwood timber I could go anywhere on to hunt....whitetails and mallards galore!

And I've killed quite a few bucks down in Dale County, Alabama hunting with folks named Sconyers!! Good times galore!!

Wayne/Hardin County TN - near a little knob called Olivehill,TN.

Have a cabin on Hardin Creek with a wood stove, electricity thru a generator, hot shower, dish TV for football games after hunting, deer a plenty +P, and always have my 5 best friends there.

Around 700-1000 acres. Some yrs 700, some 1000.

Aroostook County in Maine, I took my first and biggest buck there. That deer sported an enormous palmated 11pt. rack and field dressed 254#, harvested in 1974 it holds the camp record to this day. Something about hunting the big woods, spent some time hunting in the Adirondacks too.

My aunt is the judge in Claiborne (Homer), Bienville, and some other parish.

I love that area.

My best has been in AK.
I have flown into country a man never see unless he charters a Beaver on floats. It's wonderful country.

Namibia

The best hunting to me was in NW PENN hunting grey squirrels.

My friends ranch here in NW Wyoming. Lived on it for 10 years, now we are about 10 miles down the road. Still guide and cowboy for them and hunt.

The public land that dad and I hunted, never got much but good memories.

Komga South Africa

Back during my college days living in Cushing and Cleveland Oklahoma. Pawnee and Osage county Oklahoma. Turkey, Bobwhites, Whitetails, Fox, Bobcats, Dove, Ducks, you name it. Fish, fur and game was plentiful.

I know that area in general, and a few spots in particular. It's truly some of the most beautiful and productive land in Texas, which is saying something! I bet you miss the hell out of that place.

For me, there have been some wonderful hunting places, but I can't say that any of them were ever the best place. I know some farms along the Red Deer River in southern Alberta that were thick with pheasants and huns (and probably still are), and the duck-hunting in the sloughs along the river was sometimes spectacular. And the mule deer hunting in the foothills of the Alberta Rockies is visually spectacular and the deer are huge. But I've also hunted some spectacular country in eastern Wyoming for pronghorn and deer that, although beautiful by day, was a wonder for the brightness and sheer unimaginable numbers of stars at night. And my first sunset over the bushveldt in Zimbabwe sealed the deal on my love affair with that gorgeous, game-rich country.

There is simply no best place for me. Except perhaps the next place.

My wife's niece was doing missionary work there. She met one of the locals and brought him back, and married him.

It was some pretty good culture shock when he got over here.