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IF YOU could bring back an extinct specie for hunting...
22 August 2006, 06:58
LAWCOPIF YOU could bring back an extinct specie for hunting...
ANYTHING that walked the earth before could be brought back to roam for fair chase hunting... WHAT would you choose and what would you use to hunt it?
T-rex, Bison, Saber tooth, Mastedon... maybe a litle high grass excitement hunting VelocaRaptors...?? redefine DG hunting.

every now and then we need a flight of fantasy to keep the "what ifs" alive.
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22 August 2006, 07:46
IdahoVandalWithout a doubt-- Irish Elk.
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22 August 2006, 08:10
UglystickMAMOTH Think of the ivory you could get off one of them!!!!!!!

Also you could hunt them in the midwest USA all the way up to Alberta where they lived. No need for a 30 hour plane ride.
22 August 2006, 09:03
Michael RobinsonI agree, the Irish Elk and Woolly Mammoth.
And also the Giant Cave Bear.
And
Smilodon Fatalis, the Saber Toothed Cat.
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22 August 2006, 09:17
Kamo GariEasy: T-Rex.
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22 August 2006, 09:33
SwiftShotThe ones caused by crazy over hunting.
Merriam's elk and the Eastern elk.
California grizzly too.
22 August 2006, 11:10
N E 450 No2The Mastodon, and the T-Rex.
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22 August 2006, 15:51
brass thiefI"ll vote for T-rex as well! I know lots of ideal places to introduce them!(although they may force me to rethink my loyalty to the .243)
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22 August 2006, 17:32
30378Have to agree with the T-Rex. Eatimus Maximus!!
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22 August 2006, 19:43
Brain1T-Rex the the pteranadon for a new kind of wing shooting. As far a extinct fish go, the megaladon would get my vote. What a catch.
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22 August 2006, 20:20
meteThere is a wonderful old time radio program about a time machine where they took you back to dinosaur days to hunt !!! The funny part was the hunter wanted the biggest trophy like a T-Rex.But the PH asks if he has room in his house for a head mount .He then explains that he can find a smaller animal that will be as challenging to hunt but the mount will fit in the house !!

22 August 2006, 20:35
FjoldEither the saber tooth cat or the American Lion.
But it would also need more prey species so we would have to add the Stag Moose.
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22 August 2006, 20:36
Ryan CampbellThe meat on a mamoth would probably be better than a T-Rex...But i'm leaning toward the Irish Elk.
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22 August 2006, 20:52
308SakoThe very first animal which came ot mind was the Mastadon, then the Sabre Tooth kitty, and the T Rex showed promise. That said IdahoVandal cured me of that proving a picture is worth a thousand words. No doubt what so ever, the Irish Stag would be my number one...
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22 August 2006, 21:01
kweberpassenger pigeon. think Argentina in the Old South.
22 August 2006, 21:25
Paul Bquote:
Originally posted by mete:
There is a wonderful old time radio program about a time machine where they took you back to dinosaur days to hunt !!! The funny part was the hunter wanted the biggest trophy like a T-Rex.But the PH asks if he has room in his house for a head mount .He then explains that he can find a smaller animal that will be as challenging to hunt but the mount will fit in the house !!
There was a story similar to that in one of the really good old timey comic books where a guy gets to go back to hunt a T-rex. he is cautioned to not step off the prescribed trail for any reason. of course the T-rex charges and h in order to dodge the ebast, he goes off the trail stepping on and crushing a plant. When he and the PH return to the present time, intelligent ants rule the earth.
As to what I would hunt, when the question was first asked, the Irish Elk jumped into my head right off the bat. here in Tucson, there is the International Wildlife Museum, and they have a mock up of an Irish Elk and the damned thing is huge. I don't know if the rack is real or a mock up, but what a fantastic animal. They also have a mock up of a wooly mammoth. I guess he'd be number two on the list.
I'm not sure I'd bring back Velociraptors. They'd be about as welcome as the wolves are in Montana and Idaho right now and a hell of a lot more hazardous. T-rex? Who the hell has room for a full body mount?

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22 August 2006, 21:33
Jarrodso when supposdely did the irish elk and the stag moose become extinct ?
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22 August 2006, 22:32
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JudgeSharpeHello the campfire:
Eastern Elk and Wood Land Bison. I saw a story on History Detectives last night about a now extinct bison that was much larger with MUCH larger straight horns in the plains states. This was 5000 years ago and was hunted with a spear thrower or atalatal(sp?).
Black bears in Alabama would be nice.
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23 August 2006, 01:35
Fjoldquote:
Originally posted by Jarrod:
so when supposdely did the irish elk and the stag moose become extinct ?
Stag Moose about 11,500 years ago
http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/larson/cervalces.htmlIrish Elk about 13,000 years ago
http://www.smouse.force9.co.uk/history.htm
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23 August 2006, 02:42
analog_peninsulaPersonally, I'd like to see the Grizzly bear re-introduced to Griffith Park in Los Angeles. Maybe wolves there too ...

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23 August 2006, 03:03
NBHunterHell, I'd be happy with wild boar in New Brunswick

I'd like to see us get woodland caribau back as well.
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23 August 2006, 04:14
LAWCOPHMMM one of the problems of free ranging T-Rex, what if one accidently gets scared and runs into a city like deer sometimes do?
ALTHOUGH
it is a GREAT excuse for getting that new double rifle in 40mm. After all a fast second shot may be necesary.

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23 August 2006, 04:48
ravenrwhat about hitler?or stalin?make a hell of a shoulder mount
23 August 2006, 21:55
WstrnhuntrAnkylosaurus or triceratops. Or how about a Megaraptor..
http://www.dinosauria.com/gallery/joe/megaraptor.jpg Clone them and drop um off in the middle east..

24 August 2006, 00:05
conchoThat's the best idea yet Drop a few of the Raptors and lions and all the greatest predators RIGHT IN the middle of the insane Middle east Feeding grounds ! after we get our boys out first ! Bona a petite !
24 August 2006, 21:42
StonecreekI didn't realize that the Irish Elk and the Stag Moose were separate species, as they were of similar size and appearance. Perhaps, since they seem to have been contemporaries, they were related similar to today's Old World Red Deer and New World Wapiti? At any rate, I'd love to have either show up on my whitetail lease.

The American Lion was much larger, and despite the lack of outsized inscisors, a much more formidable cat than the Saber Tooth (smilodon). But again, either would make for interesting blind-sitting.
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25 August 2006, 01:07
analog_peninsulaI'd also like to add the Giant Short-Faced Bear.
In Griffith Park, of course.
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26 August 2006, 02:07
LAWCOPRAPTORS would be interesting to hunt...
and T-rex would be a blast..
BUT
could you imagine having to tear out the house walls and raise the rooff so you could bring in your Irish stag head home as a full shoulder mount?
Gotta go with the T-Rex.
NEVER fear the night. Fear what hunts IN the night.
Oh boy, I can tell it is not hunting season yet with these topics on the board.But in good taste I too am bored and will play along,Sabre tooth,or any of the large toothey dinos
26 August 2006, 16:44
RaySenderoMastodon......
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27 August 2006, 04:24
MacD37I'd bring back the Mastadon, the sabretoothed cat, the giant Cave Bear, and the Alligator is still here! Then I wouldn't have to fly 15 thousand miles in a cramped airplane to Africa, I could just hunt on my grand father's ranch!

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28 August 2006, 05:38
PumpkinheaverWithout a doubt T-REX.
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28 August 2006, 05:57
erictLots of good ideas. Here's another North American critter long gone: "The Big Bend Pterodactyl is estimated to have a wingspan of thirty-eight feet."
What the heck would you shoot one with?
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28 August 2006, 07:34
MacD37quote:
Originally posted by erict:
Lots of good ideas. Here's another North American critter long gone: "The Big Bend Pterodactyl is estimated to have a wingspan of thirty-eight feet."
What the heck would you shoot one with?
An M-42 mobile AAA tank with a pair of 40MM anti aircraft guns!

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28 August 2006, 08:21
Charles_Helm10-gauge goose gun? Just be sure to hit the head!
28 August 2006, 18:09
bulldog563Without a doubt the Imperial Wooly Mammoth. After that maybe a Sabre Tooth Cat.
28 August 2006, 19:11
Claret_DabblerDefinitely the Irish Elk, that would really feed the 243/270 arguments for deer.
I believe DNA studies show that the nearest surviving relative to the Irish Elk is the European Fallow Deer.
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28 August 2006, 20:28
OhiosamT-Rex would probably top my list. I'm a little suprised nobody has mentioned Neanderthal. Supposedly they are a different species then human.
28 August 2006, 20:33
wis30-06shooterAfter seeing the pictures of the Irish Elk it gets my vote.