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Japan - Bowhunting for huge Sika Deer - SPECIAL AREA

After years of persuasion, this outfitter has been able to get a put together a hunt for hunters hoping to come to Japan, to bow or spear hunt for the biggest free range sika in the world with brown bear also available. This will be the first opportunity for nonresidents to hunt in Japan in many decades. He has arranged with the local government a permit to cull the abundant sika and although the use firearms will not be allowed it will be possible to bow hunt or use spears. This is only for a small province on the island Hokkaido, by no means does it mean all of Japan is open to bowhunting. Permits are issued to landowners who then employ us to help with the problem. They call it pest control, although I'm sure you will have a different term for it as the stags are the biggest and most plentiful in the world. There is only one SCI listing for Hokkaido sika, the deer we shoot will be gold listings.

The outfitter has been working hard to get opportunities for non-residents and hoped for firearms to be allowed but stuck out, but he is more than happy about the bow-hunting, on private property only. This is a great chance for folks who are looking to experience hunting in Japan and get the biggest Sika of their lives. The rut is mid October to early November and there are a couple slots open at the moment.

Hunting in the winter is very good and there are many blinds set up. There is no doubt that there will be good opportunities to get stags down as the animals are numerous. The outfitter has been hunting here for years and taken many trophy class stags, many in the 200SCI class, all taken with shotgun. He has guided many Japanese hunters and his success rate is 100%. You will not regret an experience like bowhunting Sika deer in Japan!

Cost:
Seven day hunt - $8500US - Includes two trophy stags
Five day hunt - $6500US - Includes two trophy stags
Observers - $200 a day
Any bear will have a trophy fee of $5000US.
Additional stags - $1,500
Does - free of charge
Permit for hunt - 20,000 Yen (approximately $250 US)

*Included are all accommodations, trophy preparation, meals and transportation after arriving at Kushiro airport or train station. The Japan air pass is the cheapest way to fly up from Tokyo.

*Bows should be sent to outfitter prior to hunt, not brought with you, then taken with you when you leave. Or gear can be borrowed from outfitter, no charge.

*The hunting will take place around the city of Kushiro on the island of Hokkaido. Hunting will be 30-40min from town and hunters can stay at a nice hotel in town or stay in a spike camp.

Please contact me for more details =

www.huntingforadventure.com
Tom Addleman (816) 213-6646 or tomaddlemanyahoo.com

Wow!

What an opportunity for the well heeled hunter.

That would be o so cool. Bur so little money.

It is a truly unique opportunity. Still have some prime rut dates available.

post this on archery talk and it should fill up fast

Under what section?

they have a classifieds section where you can advertise hunts I would love to go but this broke college guy will just have to oogle over the pics

Try Texas Bow Hunter also.

Neat hunt, wish I could do it.

This is a really cool opportunity for someone. We lived in Japan for three years and I was able to get a shotgun permit and hunting license and hunt the Sika on my own and with some other .mil folks. Getting the permits took over a year and wasn't cheap, so it is really interesting to see that they are allowing this, but I completely understand why it is an archery thing, as getting permission to even touch a shotgun is a big deal over there. You have to be licensed with a shogun for 10 years before they even consider letting you get a rifle.

The Sika deer I was hunting were quite the challenge. I was hunting with a 12ga and buckshot and was dreaming about a rifle and scope, but where we were hunting the trees were so thick that a shotgun might have been the best weapon. I was basically still hunting and got busted most times but did end up getting a doe. I passed up a few more does after that hoping for a buck, but never saw one. On our first hunt we were hunting with some Japanese with their dogs and one of the Marines I was hunting with got a buck. Picture a half-pint elk and you have the Sika deer.

This hunt has been approved by special council for the area. It is not a national hunt or by any means is Japan "open for gun hunting" by foreign tourists. It is a special arrangement that the outfitter has negotiated with the local authorities to use to control the Sika numbers in the area. Translation = We are looking for "pest control specialists". It is all fully legal and on the up and up. Just a very unique opportunity!!

WOW This is a true opportunity of a lifetime. Wish I had the means. I have never seen any trophies like these in Texas.

Are those more like the Dybowski sika? I believe they are larger than the ones you normally see.

They are beasts. Truly the largest in the world.

Can crossbows be used ?

Let me check with the outfitter on that.

For a Second I thought this was a hunt for Art ( Sitka Deer)

Wow I would truely LOVE to do that .
If my lottery ticket comes in any time soon I'll be there !
Well that is if they'll let me use a crossbow , shoulder needs a rebuild before I can use a vertical bow anylonger !

Man these guys even look better then the ones I've seen from New Zealand !

I was in Tokyo a couple weeks before the earthquake in 2011 . Would have loved to just gone and seen these guys then .

I have and old book on deer hunting worldwide by a brit named Gordon Whitehead I believe and he had a chapter in their about hunting Japan . Think the book was written about 1975 or so . Anyway what he had in their sounded pretty difficult then to hunt over there !

Nothing against Texas or New Zealand for that matter , but this is the real deal hunting them in a place they are indigenouse to !
Texas or New Zealand can not make that claim !

Sounds like a great and unique opportunity.