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The ultimate handgun hunt? #197213 01/19/2019 2:16 PM
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What, in your eyes, is the ultimate handgun hunt? You know, the one where you open the thread, see the picture, and then you clap your hands, stomp your foot, or say "Shut the front door!". What incredible animal, exotic location, or impossible adventure would it take?

For me, it would be one of the mountain sheep with an iron sighted revolver. To $pend the money, climb the mountains, suffer the elements, and yet cling to the limits of the revolver, would take skills, guts and resolve I don't know that I have.

I want to hear the ideas,dreams and aspirations of others


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To be able to bring "my handguns" into Australia and hunt..Water Buffalo, Bantang, Wild Boar, Feral Goat, Rusa and Sambar Deer......Outback Safari...plus, I'd love to catch all the snakes that I'd come across


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Re: The ultimate handgun hunt? [Re: cmnash] #197215 01/19/2019 3:15 PM
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My dream hunt is a dry ground lion hunt in the desert Southwest. Horseback with a pack of hounds. I'll be toting my .44 special with Barranti holster and El Paso ssddlery belt and cartridge slide.

I have done this hunt three times already. I got a bobcat one year, but never a lion.

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I believe that Africa is still the holy grail. Elephant is number one on my list - with a .500 of some sort, up close and personal.


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Monster Muley on a diy backpacking trip.


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At this stage of the game - a mountain nyala or markhor would be tops for me.

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 Originally Posted By: Mark Hampton
At this stage of the game - a mountain nyala or markhor would be tops for me.


I assumed your place would be somewhere that was high in the hills!


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Re: The ultimate handgun hunt? [Re: Ernie] #197220 01/19/2019 9:01 PM
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Siberian tiger.... polar bear.... jaguar.... in that order.....


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Re: The ultimate handgun hunt? [Re: Ernie] #197221 01/19/2019 9:09 PM
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There are many on my list, but I think the absolute "ultimate" handgun hunt would have to include horses & a pack string, pulling company into a remote mountain tent camp with multiple-species Bull moose, Caribou, sheep & Elk tags (all) in a guys pocket... and at that, to be there as a time unlimited, month long trial of an outing too; the way Elmer, Jack & the men of old used to do it

That be the Ultimate "style" handgun hunt for sure

Coming home at the end with 60" moose, full curl sheep, and a double bez palmated old Bou on the horses hitched in a row behind you ... well, boys .. that be heaven. THAT be the one to pop your eyes out upon opening its thread for reading, with drop your jaw photos and a story with it to last two lifetimes. Guaranteed.

That's what I'm shootin' for 😉 ... SA buckled on in good leather all the way. Nothin in the world better..

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Like Mark, a mtn. nyala would be great, but at my age and $70,000+ I'll settle for this

12 yds., full charge, .416 Taylor Encore. Biggest buzz of my life!!

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Mine would be what Major D. B. Wesson did the year the 357Magnum

was introduced. That Summer he killed EVERY species of Big Game

in North America except a Polar Bear using Smith&Wesson's new

357Magnum revolver and cartridge. I remember the story saying he

took 250rds of 158gr swc/gc Remington ammo for the trip. Story

was originally in Argosy magazine 1935/1936.. l read a reprint

of it in the early 70s. lnspired me to buy a S&W 44magnum 8''

revolver for hunting deer..

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Re: The ultimate handgun hunt? [Re: Zee] #197227 01/20/2019 12:19 AM
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Old Colt, I like your dream hunt!!!! Makes me rethink mine.


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Re: The ultimate handgun hunt? [Re: Spencer] #197228 01/20/2019 12:35 AM
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Old Colt, you and Rob could be brothers, my dream hunt would be a monster deer hunt in PA or Ohio, big big Bucks haunt me, i have been pretty fortunate in my tenure as a handgun hunter!

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Re: The ultimate handgun hunt? [Re: cmnash] #197237 01/20/2019 3:32 AM
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Excellent! These are all good answers.

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A traditional Big 5 African Safari like they did it 80-100 years ago. Off in the Bush in East Africa for 3 to 6 months with a White hunter and full staff. That would be amazing.


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A one on one Elephant or Hippo with the revolver. On land, not in the Water! The 480 with a 420 gr cast would be my gun of choice.

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Wow! some of you guys have some great ones. I am more simple, Probably my would be- Moose, Elk, Caribou and Black Bear.

Re: The ultimate handgun hunt? [Re: rougerocco] #197290 01/21/2019 2:59 AM
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A black bear is at the top of my list right now.


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 Originally Posted By: billa
A traditional Big 5 African Safari like they did it 80-100 years ago. Off in the Bush in East Africa for 3 to 6 months with a White hunter and full staff. That would be amazing.




This!!

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I changed my mind, Tradmark's hunt sounds more fun....and longer!

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Saw a percussion ''Howdah'' pistol in a gun shop the other day.

This one was a 20 gauge, or about 60 caliber. l remember reading

about those early black powder, pre cartridge days in Africa. lt

seems the most popular calibers were 2, 4, and 8 bore or gauge.

Remember the ''bore or gauge'' were the diameter of a round ball

in a pound of lead. Now it seems ''four bore'' was considered the

most common General Purpose caliber capable of taking all 'Big 5.'

The ''8 Bore'' was considered capable of only taking the big CATS.

Now an ''8 bore'' doesn't seem too punishing to me. Two ounces

isn't that much more than an ounce & 7/8 high brass 12 Gauge

duck or turkey load these days. But l cant lmagine pulling the

trigger on a FOUR BORE. That's 4 ounces or 1750 GRAINS. Even tho

some of these guns weighed 15-20 pounds, the recoil was simply

BRUTAL. Throw in the smoke from 2 hundred grains of black powder.

l can see why its called DANGEROUS GAME!!




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I can imagine shooting a marauding tiger off an elephant's back with that howdah would be pretty epic.

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 Originally Posted By: cmnash
I can imagine shooting a marauding tiger off an elephant's back with that howdah would be pretty epic.


No doubt and with a high pucker factor!


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My brother and I deer hunted for 21 years on a lease on the Chattahoochee River in SW Georgia. The property sold in 2000 and we can no longer hunt there. My ultimate handgun hunt would be one weekend there during the December whitetail rut.

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Re: The ultimate handgun hunt? [Re: Seminole Wind] #197299 01/21/2019 2:34 PM
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My ultimate hunt would be either elk or red stag. Have no desire to hunt Africa.


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My ultimate hunt would be any big game revolver hunt with my friend James who shares a love for handguns and pig eradication.

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I'd be content to take a nice bull moose with an iron sighted revolver.

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Mine would be similar to Old Colt's, only I don't need as many animals. Taking a pack string back into the Alaskan bush for an open sighted handgun hunt on a bull Moose.

Spending a couple weeks in a wall tent, getting up early to feed and saddle the horses in the dark, and riding out in search of Moose. Calling one in to handgun range... that would be the ultimate. I would use a FA, either the 454 or 475.

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 Originally Posted By: magman
My ultimate hunt would be either elk or red stag. Have no desire to hunt Africa.


If you don't mind me asking, why would that be? There is a plethora of game one can hunt there that makes it very much worthwhile from a variety standpoint, not to mention the dangerous game options as well. Just curious.

Red stag is also on my list of desirables. I think Argentina would be a great place to get one.


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I guess it never even interested me. Call me crazy.


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I?ve never had any desire to hunt Africa either. Too many cool and tasty animals here in the U.S. to hunt.


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Also, and I really don?t want to get into a philosophical debate over this but it seems Africa is primarily about the kill for an American. I know all the meat gets used, but unless I?m wrong...we can?t bring the meat back ourselves. For me, it just doesn?t suit me to kill for the sake of only a trophy on the wall.


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Cape buffalo with a revolver, or Nile Croc with a single shot JDJ. Going to Africa with a bow this year for plains game, will "check it out". The expense there starts when you pull the trigger. Years ago, Dall with a 257jdj in Alaska would have been great, but after 3 successful rifle sheep hunts, kidding myself if I thought I could do it again. Knees need help.... Tried Gemsbuck in NM with a 358jdj when I drew a tag in White Sands, and almost did it...but they were too skittish, so went to the '06 and got the job done. Best meat you will EVER eat, (and you can't bring any back from Africa)!

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I would love to take a Cape Buffalo with a revolver. In Africa, or on a game farm here in America as part of the management of a herd. I saw where a Cape Buffalo herd was being established here in America and the time for a guided management hunt could be in the near future.
I do not like the bugs and such of Africa so an American soil hunt for Cape Buffalo would be great for me.

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The hunt that I believe would be most impressive to do with a handgun is definitely a mountain sheep/goat/ibex/etc. with a revolver. Climbing plus stalking plus weather plus altitude means you need to be a hard man (or woman) to do it.

For me, the dream has always been Africa. Of course, if I could take my modern handguns but hunt in the traditional early 20th century style (long hunts, big camps), that would be the dream.

Coming in at a close second would be a free-range bison hunt.

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 Originally Posted By: Jeff460
I would love to take a Cape Buffalo with a revolver. In Africa, or on a game farm here in America as part of the management of a herd. I saw where a Cape Buffalo herd was being established here in America and the time for a guided management hunt could be in the near future.
I do not like the bugs and such of Africa so an American soil hunt for Cape Buffalo would be great for me.


There's a big ranch called the 777 (or Triple 7) near Action Outdoor Adventures of Hondo, Texas (where we conduct the Bovine Bash) that has Cape buffalo to hunt. They are $50,000.00 a head. You can fly to Africa and kill four for that money and have money left over for flights, taxidermy, etc. I hunted South Africa in May and didn't get harassed or bitten by any insects. I cannot say the same thing for Hondo, Texas this last year where mosquitoes and chiggers went to town on many of us. Go to Africa, you will not regret it!

Here's the 777 price list:

https://www.777ranch.com/hunting/pricing/


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