A friend is headed to the Pantanal in January and was asking me if there were hunting opportunities down in that neck of the woods. I wasn't sure but told him I'd ask around. Any of you worldly folks have info, contacts, etc.

BTW, I seriously doubt he's into spearing big cats a la Sasha Siemel !

Thanks for any insight
K

I don't know what is offered down there currently. There is jaguar and couger hunting, of course, and I have heard of others hunting marsh deer and capybara. There is an isolated pocket of water buffalo down there as well. Otherwise, ???.

Just wondering, has your friend read "Hunting Jaguar in the Mato Grasso of Brazil and Bolivia" by Tony D'Almeida? It is a real page turner about hunting "onca" with dogs in the Panatanal. I would highly recommed giving it a read before visiting. Lots of info on the local flora and fauna ('specially the nasty stuff!).

Canuck

Lots of good glassing to be done round the beaches.......
But wouldn't shoot any of it.

I have hunted in Argentina twice. They have boar, javelina, stag, axis, and fallow deer all living wild lives since they escaped a couple of hundred years ago. The marsh deer down there, the pampas deer or cerivo de las pampas,is an endangered species and can no longer be hunted.

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Dear Friends,

Argentina, is a primer hunting area!!

As Bill said, we have a lot of big game, good accomodations, and a plethora of opportunities. I know many americans as well as europeans are visiting us every year.

Also, every year, a lot of outfitters expose their services at the SCI annual convention. Check for details.

I hope more of you, in the near future want to share our land!

Guustavo

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Originally posted by Bill:
I have hunted in Argentina twice. They have boar, javelina, stag, axis, and fallow deer all living wild lives since they escaped a couple of hundred years ago. The marsh deer down there, the pampas deer or cerivo de las pampas,is an endangered species and can no longer be hunted.

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Hi Kernell
Under the heading "who hunts with a 7*57" there is a posting by "graff" which apparently hails from Brasil. Perhaps he can help you. Carl

I have bird shooting thats out of this world in Bolivia, Chili, Argentina, so I suspect the bird hunting is good...Argentina has some great Stag, Blackbuck and you can hunt Mountain Lion out of the car like rabbits..

I quit booking big game because the gun laws are too strigent and the seasons are short..I have some very good friends that have ranches in Argentina and are allways wanting me to come down and cull the Red Stags...I'm gonna do that some day soon...They are so populated that some ranchers in Argentina actually poison them as a means to save the population...

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Been out of this BB for some time, saw the post today. I regret to inform that hunting is forbidden in most part of Brasil (can't figure a bigger stupidity...)including pantanal. Our only hunting is waterbuffalo in north, and wildboar, upland, small game and waterfowl in south. Our argentinian brothers (Hey, Gustavo, no football here, ok?) are much wiser about conservationism and hunting, two faces of the same coin in every corner of this world, except in the minds of some of our congressapes (sorry, apes!)
But even these 'enlightened' authorities are considering opening hunt seasons in other regions, by pressure of the skyrocketing number of jacares (sort of
alligator)

Thanks for all the info. It looks like graff's info put the "ki-bosh" on any hunting for the fellow headed that way.

Hunter-DU -- I suggested the same hunting strategy you did for the Rio leg of his trip (i.e., lots and lots of glassing the beaches for the surly female of the species), but his wife is coming along for the ride and she's a might touchy on the looking aspect of things.

Keep yer powder dry.

K

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