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Originally posted by Cross L:
Somehow he left out chasing Redheads at college.

SSR

Boddington should know, he is on his fourth red head now.

Then add the fact that a couple of crazies are loading extra gas cans in the zodiac so they can run an extra 60 miles out. If the avalanche hadnt of buried the trail and the first cabin over the peak we might have stayed in.

Alaska spooks me. I have been a couple of times and the little planes in bad weather is scary.

I can't argue with the list but I will say any hunt in Alaska is dangerous. The weather is always your number one biggest hazard. Our rivers and waters kill lots of people every year, and how about the bush flying. I'm one of the lucky ones, only crashing twice. If none of those get you, you can move on to snowmachines.
I know none of these dangers are animals, but this is how you get to the animals up here.

Wasn't it Shockey who said he'd never do anther mountain goat hunt again?
For me mntn goat hunting in AK is a lot different than in Canada.

Thought Boddington's 'mountain hunts' was a little too broad. Hunting marco polo in Tajikistan is wholly different than Kyrgistan.

Perhaps a better topic choice would have been 'Six most adrenaline hunts'.

I've killed one Goat and I'll not hunt them again. Don't get me wrong, I hunt the mountains all the time, I have several mountain hunts coming up and I just shot a Brown Bear off the side of mountain on Kodiak, but goats are bad ju-ju for me. Three times I had to cancel goat hunts at the last minute. My wife said I was being sent a message, but I didn't listen and the last one killed me, I was just to supid to know I was dead and thats no guff (its a long survival story). I'll personally never hunt goats again.

Gators are only bad if you get stupid. 30 years ago I would get one tag for my 1500 acre lease, that had no gators. My bud had gators comeing out of his ears and only got 14 tags. It was not legal but we would use my tag on the biggest gator on his lease the opening morning.

We would go out before daybreak to check the lines find the biggest gator kill it and put my tag on it and get going before day break.

Killing it required pulling it to this little 14' 2 man mudboat ( about 4" of free board) grabbing it by the snout and sticking it with my trail master bowie in the soft spot just behind the skull. 7 and 8 footers were no problem . I got hold of a 91/2 footer that was on the heavy side. I got him up , got a good grip on his mouth, then he got his tail in the mud and tried to climb in my lap. I stuck him just as his soft spot was over the gunnel and stuck him so hard, the tip of the bowie went through and stuck in the boat. My parter was mad as hell because I put a hole in the best part of the hide, and his gunnel. You get real strong when you are scared,and I was.

Gators are tough strong animals but don't belong on the list ,unless you believe all that shit you see on swamp people.

JD

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Originally posted by ForrestB:
That's a quaint narrative Aaron but I take it you've never gone mano a mano with a Florida gator. The amount of beer involved alone could kill most men.

Any animal is dangerous if you do stupid crap in the process of hunting them! There are many reasons why gators are dangerous, but the main cause is stupidity on the part of the hunter! Getting hurt or killed by a North American gator is usually preceded by the old Texas phrase from someone in the boat saying "Hey! Hold my beer, and watch this shit!"......................

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Originally posted by Mike Smith:
Well as far as the gator hunt goes it all depends if you are the one being trolled as bait. No offense to my friend Craig but you can sure tell he was that part of the Navy real sailors dont talk about. LOL! Brown water by choice, blue water when all else fails. I dont get the most dangerous hunt part thing but we all have our own demons!

If time and money were not an issue I'd love to do any of the above mentioned hunts with their various and respective elements of danger...

All would be a rush...

BUT...

Water actually scares me...the thought of winding up in a situation where I was in the water for whatever reason with a croc, hippo, or whatever...

Out of your environment (land), can't see what is around you, too much for me...

I think we should realize that everyone has their phobias. No matter how irrational, one can get extremely scared of the things they fear due to their phobias.

A famous PH who is on TV a lot went hog hunting at night using dogs on a place that I hunt. I will not name the PH nor the country he hunts in. This guy is fearless when it come to the big 5 and a damn good PH. Well, at some point, Mr Big Time PH started squealing like a stuck pig. A woman ran to his assistance fearing the worst like snake bite for example. He had a good sized spider on him. He was terrified of them.

No one has mentioned Hippo on land when you are between
the beast and it's water. In the past I'd read that these situ-
ations can be exciting. Any comments?

And isn't this idea of dangerous hunts supposed to be about get-
ting close to a certain animal that can kill you, and not about
geography? I mean if you are on an extreme sight seeing trip in
the artic the weather can get you just as well. Cave Scuba Divers
have a bad track record too; you know? So if spear-gun hunting
for a non-poisonous creature while diving into a cave...

polar bears takes the cake in my book. I went twice took a cracy man to go the first time and a damn fool to go back. but maybe i will go again since its been a few years and my memory is kind of bad.

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Originally posted by tom ferry:
polar bears takes the cake in my book. I went twice took a cracy man to go the first time and a damn fool to go back. but maybe i will go again since its been a few years and my memory is kind of bad.

Good attitude and let us hope your memory worsens.

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Originally posted by BigFiveJack:
No one has mentioned Hippo on land when you are between
the beast and it's water. In the past I'd read that these situ-
ations can be exciting. Any comments?

And isn't this idea of dangerous hunts supposed to be about get-
ting close to a certain animal that can kill you, and not about
geography? I mean if you are on an extreme sight seeing trip in
the artic the weather can get you just as well. Cave Scuba Divers
have a bad track record too; you know? So if spear-gun hunting
for a non-poisonous creature while diving into a cave...

Jack,

I do think the environment has a lot to do with danger. I disagree with young Craig and there is no list when hunting DG and for me the most dangerous is the follow up on these animals especially when they are on the defense.

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Originally posted by fairgame:
Jack,

I do think the environment has a lot to do with danger. I disagree with young Craig and there is no list when hunting DG and for me the most dangerous is the follow up on these animals especially when they are on the defense.

Absolutely! .............

Fairgame

I am so glad somebody have added Hippo on land or suggested that it should be included.

The suspense after the shot is taken and that split moment of uncertainty for me is so special when going for D.G.

For D.G. I think a good repore with my PH is very important.

If the PH has trust in me and hold that backup shot until it is absolutely required then the hunt is a memorable experience.

If immediately after my shot the PH and his assistant starts to blast away then for me it is not truly a D.G. hunt.

More like knob creek in the bush

Londonhunter

I know this is the Africa Forum

but any one of you hunted in Magadan ?

ALONE

This topic could almost be broken down into two different topics,,, the most dangerous animals to hunt,, and the most dangerous hunts. Hunting environment has a tremendous impact on the hunt. One of my best friends has a huge full bodied polar bear mounted in his trophy room,, beautiful animal,,, he dang near froze to death,, he still has numbness in parts of his feet from frost bite that he will live with forever. One minor mistake by him or his guide was life or death. By his own words he states that is one hunt he will never attempt again. Same with some of the Alaskan hunts,, weather can close in and you can be left on your own to survive or die, no disneyland there.I had friends that weather closed in and left them stranded for over 3 weeks,, It was a do it yourself type hunt and they were only supposed to be there for 6 days, everything came in by plane. Plane did not return for them for 3 weeksdue to weather. They ran out of food and fuel to cook. They were shooting caribou and eating raw, partially dried meat strips to survive and melting snow for water,,, moving the meat around to keep the bears off them....Environment is the wild card that can turn any hunt into life or death situation.

I would never do any kind of Snake hunt,, my own personal phobia there, don't much like heights either. Mean, tough, dangerous game can be exciting and very scary but you add potential for severe weather or scarce water and food then they are all dangerous.

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Originally posted by drwes:
This topic could almost be broken down into two different topics,,, the most dangerous animals to hunt,, and the most dangerous hunts. Hunting environment has a tremendous impact on the hunt. One of my best friends has a huge full bodied polar bear mounted in his trophy room,, beautiful animal,,, he dang near froze to death,, he still has numbness in parts of his feet from frost bite that he will live with forever. One minor mistake by him or his guide was life or death. By his own words he states that is one hunt he will never attempt again. Same with some of the Alaskan hunts,, weather can close in and you can be left on your own to survive or die, no disneyland there.I had friends that weather closed in and left them stranded for over 3 weeks,, It was a do it yourself type hunt and they were only supposed to be there for 6 days, everything came in by plane. Plane did not return for them for 3 weeksdue to weather. They ran out of food and fuel to cook. They were shooting caribou and eating raw, partially dried meat strips to survive and melting snow for water,,, moving the meat around to keep the bears off them....Environment is the wild card that can turn any hunt into life or death situation.

I would never do any kind of Snake hunt,, my own personal phobia there, don't much like heights either. Mean, tough, dangerous game can be exciting and very scary but you add potential for severe weather or scarce water and food then they are all dangerous.

That's what I mean. If you go to these dangerous environments to hike,
explore, climb mountain sides or what ever, with hunting creatures having
no part in the plan, you can still be hurt or killed by the environmental
aspects.

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Originally posted by larryshores:
I think we should realize that everyone has their phobias. No matter how irrational, one can get extremely scared of the things they fear due to their phobias.

Well, at some point, Mr Big Time PH started squealing like a stuck pig. A woman ran to his assistance fearing the worst like snake bite for example. He had a good sized spider on him. He was terrified of them.

I f*****g hate spiders...

Don't know alot about dangerous insects in Africa but I recall hearing a story about sometype of insect bite that ruined a hunt...

I will say that hunting the big bears in the alders or on the ice should have been put on that list! Alaska hunting is not a piece of cake ever in my opinion, just going up in those bush planes is a thrill in it's self and never a given as to weather you will get to your destination or get back in one piece.

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Originally posted by trophyhunter5000:


I f*****g hate spiders...

Don't know alot about dangerous insects in Africa but I recall hearing a story about sometype of insect bite that ruined a hunt...

Last year when we were hunting hippo, I opened the gun case in the banana boat and a spider the size of my fist crawled out on my hand. I started yelling like stuck pig with visions of being bitten by the spider and dying within minutes. Buzz looked at me like I was a complete idiot and said something like, good grief you are acting just like a little girl (which was true). I don't think it is the fear of spiders per se that causes that reaction, it is the unknown about what spiders are okay and what spiders are not okay. I suspect if the same thing happened again today, I would yell like a stuck pig again and Buzz would again tell me that I needed a skirt.

I was hunted by a cougar at the mall the other day. I can't imagine a more dangerous situation that that.

Single, divorced or widowed women finding out you are single again...

Hunting elephants at night is pretty hairy, up close and not knowing what the hell they will do next, coming at you or going away from you ?umm thats enough excitement for me

Hell the plane ride in Alaska alone can cause you stress alone leading to a stroke or the pilot crashes, if you can survive the weather and your sweetheart collects your insurance money.

Now on the other hand, if your lucky enough to find your animal, get a good shot in and not be confronted with a bear or two, you should have a lifetime memory.