Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Once in a lifetime hunt: Grizzly or Cape Buffalo?

Phil,

What you do is cool, and I'm sure you're an interesting guy and all that, but I just do not have any desire to kill one of those big, mean bastards. Carry on though. I'm sure you love what you do, and I'm glad for you, but that big, toothy, bloody, dirty, hairy, fugly skull does nothing but repulse me. Sorry. However, that country behind you is really pretty and I would love to see it in person someday, maybe while moose or caribou hunting.

Phil,

Yeah, I even like my smaller (but whiter!) grizzly skull, which is sitting on the table next to me. And I didn't do a rug, just had the hide tanned.

Big Redhead,

In my experience the 7x57 works on moose!

Great, more for the rest of us.

Oh boy I sure do!

It's an unforgettable,lifetime experience;the animal itself simply blows the doors off any North American ungulate,and you will likely be simultaneously overwhelmed and humbled by the entire affair,especially if you have the chance to observe these fabulous animals in the wild......

I have zero desire to ever step foot on the continent of Africa. Griz for me.

Yep!

Bears, those big bastards in particular, are simply fascinating to watch, not to mention hunt. It's a premier North American experience. Those guys that get "lucky," kill a bear the first day and fly out the next, don't have a clue what they are missing.

Mistah Skane knows!

Grizzly in Alaska

Snake

Here is another hunter with the skull from his spring hunt



As John says, cleaned and whitened they do make an impressive trophy that need no embellishment as to how many feet they supposedly squared.

Me too. I'd be thrilled to death just with the experience or opportunity to hunt Grizzly's in Alaska, let alone to actually kill one.

WOW! If that doesn't get your blood flowing, I don't know what will.

toltec: Agreed.

Cape buffalo, brown bear...it's ALL good.

Of the two, it would have to be grizzly/brown.

That's based on the assumption that they are as intelligent as black bears, which they should be.

I've hunted Africa one day in Senegal and shot a warthog. I was not there for a hunt but my two sons who were residents sponsored a one-day hunt. I had them along with a native tracker. While on the west side of the continent, in two countries, I saw other game and experienced the blistering heat, dryness and near dehydration. We also came across a nest of killer bees! There was also the possibility of encountering forest buffalo or lion. Yet I have no need to return.

On the other hand, bears fascinate me. I have hunted blacks every year for the past 3 decades, sometimes both spring and fall seasons. I've also informally guided friends and family on bear hunts. But I don't personally shoot one every year, on purpose. But I learn more about them every season, or from them, they are extremely intelligent, crafty, cunning and treacherous... yes, in a word - dangerous!

So, it would have to be grizz for me, though I'm content with hunting the crafty black bear.

Bob

www.bigbores.ca

Yeah, I've read the story, hence my post. Like I've said before, humor is not my strong suit.

That's what I said about Africa the first 50 years of my life.......boy was I ever wrong. Now I wouldn't turn down a brown bear/griz hunt, but don't see myself spending $12k+ for one.