All of us who have hunted in Africa probably have experiecned the relentless thorns and miserable hooks that make some of the travel and even the driving so tough in the bush.

North America does not have that same level of difficult bush. However the bush in North America seems to have a way of expressing itself just as well.

I think that saguaro cactus has a woody!

There is something to be said for good bush no matter what country she's from

I just wish I had that tree and that cactus growing in my yard!

Can we get that tree transplanted to the US Capitol building lawn?


465H&H

I beg to differ, the South Texas bush is just as thick and certianly the worst thorn thickets in the world today...Thats why thoxe Texans only hunt the senderos down there...To follow a wounded deer in that stuff is miserable and near impossible, you take a step then untangle and unhook, then take another step and start all over, this goes on until you die from blood loss ..

One thing I have noticed is the world is pretty much the same in places, no matter where you go..

Great post JJ

There's no doubt that 'Merica has the thickest Bush in the world.
How did he get to be president?

We have a rare species of wood pecker here in WV too...

That looks like a Giant Wood PECKER to me

I agree with Ray on the south Texas brush. I was tracking a wounded Nilgai several years ago. The tracking only took a couple hundred yards with a pretty good blood trail. I had rips in my shirt, and both forearms and I had literally thousands of little stickers from cactus in my rear end. This year I had another experience of getting a large thorn in my thigh just above the knee that had to be extracted. There was about 2 inches of it below the skin.

In the east we have briars when they timber they crop up and we hunt black bears there..They sleep there and we drive it with the group bear hunting and many dont carry guns cause of the damn thorns on them you come out blooded, thorn and humbled every time..

Mike