I have not decided on what to hunt this year where would you go to hunt.I like Mule deer.
Being an easterner I am the odd man out I am not
a Whitetail hunter .I like hunting Coues Deer
I think it is like mule deer , no sitting you have to find them and stalk to harvist the animal.

How about mt. lion, antelope or spot and stalk bear hunting?

A Moose hunt would be my choice.

Where you going to go on a moose hunt for that kind of money and not have to draw a tag? OK, I guess you could go to Newfoundland but when I think of moose the Rock aint the first place that comes to mind.

For that money you could book a great audad hunt in the Davis Mtns or Palo Duro Canyon and combine it with a hunt for big hogs. Here in texas of course! Unless you are extremely lucky you will earn your audad. capt david

Hunt high country mule deer. A couple of outfitters to check out, in no particular order, are: http://www.starvalleywy.com/deadman.htm
http://www.barlowoutfitting.com/mule_deer.htm
http://www.tlazytoutfitters.com/index.htm
http://www.non-typical-outfitters.com/HMuleDeer.html

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Originally posted by mark65x55:
Where you going to go on a moose hunt for that kind of money and not have to draw a tag? OK, I guess you could go to Newfoundland but when I think of moose the Rock aint the first place that comes to mind.

Well thats were I was thinking. He did say $3500 to $4500.

How about black bear?

Africa!!! You could have a nice 7 days plains game hunt with 4-5 animals. All you need would be money for airfare.

I will be spending that much for a deer hunt in my home state. Commercial airline then fly out, a week off work ,taking the loving wife on her first hunt, a week for the babysitter. I would be lucky for it to only be 3500-4500.

Should be fun though. Thats what counts.

If I were you I'd go after that mulie.

If I couldn't go to New Zealand to hunt, or Scandanavia to hunt in Sweden, Norway or Finland....

My pick would be Labrador or Newfoundland! To hunt cariboo.....

Next would be Alberta or Saskatchewan for whitetail deer....

cheers
seafire

Give Kirk Kelso (PUSCH RIDGE OUTFITTERS) a call, and get a monster Coues deer.

I would hunt in Alberta and try and take both a mule deer and a whitetail. You could do this for about $4500 plus airfare.

2nd Choice would be a hunt with someone was an outfitter in two states and had private land whitetail and mule deer in Wyoming and Montana and South Dakota.

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Originally posted by Blank:
Give Kirk Kelso (PUSCH RIDGE OUTFITTERS) a call, and get a monster Coues deer.

Seconded

Lee

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Originally posted by graybird:
Africa!!! You could have a nice 7 days plains game hunt with 4-5 animals. All you need would be money for airfare.

Then you can forget bringing back your trophy's, shipping and dipping would cost you an arm and a leg to get back. There is a lot of costs an African trip does not show when they advertise there hunts.

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Originally posted by Redhawk1:

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Originally posted by graybird:
Africa!!! You could have a nice 7 days plains game hunt with 4-5 animals. All you need would be money for airfare.

Then you can forget bringing back your trophy's, shipping and dipping would cost you an arm and a leg to get back. There is a lot of costs an African trip does not show when they advertise there hunts.

Indeed, but those are extras on every hunt. Go, shoot stuff, take good pictures, and come home. If you really want to get trohies shipped home, plan it right so they show up about tax refund time...

If you would like to try a combo hunt for Mulie and WT in either archery or rifle, check out this outfitter in Alberta:

www.birchcreekhunts.com

Best way for the archery hunt for Mulies is spot and stalk. Hunters are having great opportunity at 180+ Boone & Crocket bucks, and opportunity at 190 to 200+ class mulies also.

DesertRam, he was talking about $3500 to $4500. I can go to Canada and bring back a moose hide and horns with me. You can't do that with animals from Africa. They have to come in via an importer, which will cost you on top of shipping and dipping. I have a buddy that came back from Africa and would not tell me at first how much his charges were, he just kept telling my he went for less than $10,000. Then the truth came out and he paid about $15,000 after all was said and done, then comes the taxidermist bill.

Argentina to hunt water buffalo,doves and throw in a puma or some hogs. That includes enough $ for the air to get there too.

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Originally posted by mark65x55:
Where you going to go on a moose hunt for that kind of money and not have to draw a tag? OK, I guess you could go to Newfoundland but when I think of moose the Rock aint the first place that comes to mind.

A friend of mine and 4 other guys went to Alaska on an unguided hunt and all 5 got a nice moose for a total of $2500 each. It can be done without a lot of money but I personally would rather have a very experienced guide which of course does cost 8 to 10 K.

I have only been on one guided hunt. That to Montana for a Mule Deer /Antelope combo with Flatwillow Creek Outfitters in 2001
http://www.huntinfo.com/fwc/

They are great folks. I really enjoyed it. Saw lots of game. Spot and Stalk. I highly recommend them.

For that price range you could go on a high percentage guided Elk hunt in Arizona or Colorado. Mulies wouldn't be hard to find in that price range either.

Good Luck

Reloader

British Columbia.

That price range would get you a moose, mule deer, and mountain caribou.

Garrett

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Originally posted by LeeC:

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Originally posted by Blank:
Give Kirk Kelso (PUSCH RIDGE OUTFITTERS) a call, and get a monster Coues deer.

Seconded

Lee

Yes!! Go for the "Gray Ghost" of the desert!!

(Coues, It's an addiction!)

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Originally posted by N. Garrett:
British Columbia.

That price range would get you a moose, mule deer, and mountain caribou.

Garrett

WHERE??? Not saying your wrong but I spent some thime looking at BC moose hunts, not including deer or caribou, and the cheapest one I found was a 2:1 hunt for about 5k. Most of the combo moose, mt caribou hunts I looked at started at 7.5k

I would go for coues deer as well just because I haven't done that yet. I may do that myself this year.

Dwight,
Who did your friends hunt with in AK to get a moose for $2500? I would be really interested in that hunt...

For $4500 I could have multiple hunts on public lands in the West to do it myself as I've always done.

Over the counter tag for blacktails in CA and OR, with black bear tags as well. With a sweep through Eastern OR into ID and down to NV for upland birds and over to Northeast CA for geese.

And still have enough left over for an antlerless elk herd reduction hunt tag and trespass fee in WY, CO or ID and more bird hunting.

With a gambling/lap dance stop in Reno.