Grizzly: Alaska, with a handgun. I'd take a S&W .460 with me.
Big Horn Sheep: Lots of guys hunt these, but I want to do it with a handgun.
Red Stag: I want to do this hunt in Scottland, even though it's more likely to get this hunt in New Zealand or Spain.... but I want do a traditional Scottish stalk on this magnifent animal. I don't care what I use to hunt it, I just want to take one and put that trophy up at Basin Sports.
Wild Boar: With a Bow. I may be going on a porker bow hunt back east in the 2009 season with some of the boys from Buckmasters... I'm jazzed like crazy about that one.
Africa: I'm not interested in doing any Big Five, but I would dearly love to hunt some African plains game in South Africa. Our friend Mark from South Africa has offered hunting on his family estate, and someday I hope to take him up on that.
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Alaska would be a great trip, but I'll pass on the "bear with a handgun" part, if you don't mind.
Would love to do a hunting trip to NZ.
I've taken a couple of boar with a bow (stickbow, wooden arrows, Magnus 2-blade heads; the whole "traditional" thing,) and one with a flintlock. Don't think I'm likely to repeat that anytime soon. We aren't making a dent in the feral swine population; hell, we aren't even staying even!
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Mrs. Ogre isn't big on the idea of me hunting a pig with a bow. They are dangerous when they go feral... but I'm not worried. A bow does a horrific amount of damage to tissue.
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The problem is not killing them, so much as making them understand that they've had a change of status. We take several every year, and unless you can break a major skeletal structure (neck, spine, shoulder, hip, etc) you may be in for a long afternoon. Usually they run away, except when they don't.
Don't believe the BS about ".30-06s bounce off". In our bunch, we use a .270 Win, 7mm-08, .308, and .30-06 and get clean kills, but shot placement is critical, and quartering shots are preferred, to get shoulder/hip as well as vitals. Headshots are do-able, but not recommended (and I don't think you want to try a headshot with light broadheads on aluminum arrows). Our biggest, to date, is 320 lbs (est) live weight, but we've had some taken in our area that topped 450 lbs, with 3 1/2 inch cutters.
If you do the bowhunt thing, take along a rabbit squeaker, or some other type of predator call, but make sure you have someone watching your back. Mostly it works, but they respond quickly, and QUIETLY, and can get really close before you know it.
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I've never really thought about hunting animals, much.
My stalks would be more photographic, though I'd keep a .22 for getting rabbits and birds for the pot in the evening. 'Course, small game isn't "hunting" to me. It's more "eating/vermin control."
I'd love to spend a weekend zapping groundhogs and feral coyotes at the Ogre Ranch.
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The Ranch doesn't have much, but it's the surrounding vastness of open public lands that make this area so fantastic.
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Sasqwatch...that would be sweet.
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