Once in a lifetime "adventure hunt"

[flathead#2]

Definitely Alaska.

 

[elkliver]

Going to Africa can be done for a very reasonable amount.... Shooting more than a couple of animals and getting them home is where it gets interesting

 

[Mojave]

I am not anywhere near the most far hunted person on this website.

I have hunted in all over the Western USA, Africa, Europe and Australia. Mostly because I was in the military or continued to work for the military after I retired and it was close by.

You need a Tarzan hunt, or a cowboy hunt.
Taxidermy is BS, don't focus on the end result and the cost of taxidermy will prevent you from doing other things.

Somewhere in Africa there is what you are looking for.

Find an outfitter on a big ranch in Botswana or Namibia that is far from town. A cattle ranch that only takes a few guys year. You'll see stuff on.a place like that.

Do some culling, shoot a ton of stuff. put some trail cameras on water holes and enjoy collecting the photos daily.

The longer you can stay there and the more that you can afford to do, the better it will be. Think about a combo of two areas.

Book two combo hunts in two separate areas and enjoy the differences.

Stay away from a Texas style South Africa or Namibia place where they run people through there like it's a Hooters outside a military base at lunch time.

A once off Thorofare hunt for elk will be amazing too. Grew up hunting in Wyoming on elk horse back.

 

[Sandhills]

I'd look at a muley or elk hunt in Nevada or Utah. You can draw some mule deer tags fairly easy, elk tags are harder. There are landowner tags in Nevada that allow you to hunt the whole unit. Utah has CWMU Tags too.

But yould have to figure out the communication issues as a lot of Nevada and Utah are deadzones.

Or you can come out and hunt Kansas and Nebraska. Not what I'd consider once in a lifetime hunts but we do have some big deer.

 

[Speaks]

Personally I really want to hunt elk, but see Africa.

 

[diamond10x]

If its once in a lifetime, from you said and your OP and other posts in the thread, my vote says go to Africa.

Go there and kill everything that your grandpa had ever talked about wanting to hunt, and if you have any of his guns take one to use while there.

 

[BackcountryIdaho]

The adventure is the key. I'd hunt for weeks on end to haul home a calf elk or a fawn muley. The adventure is more important than the animals.

If you're serious by this, then I'd suggest looking at some of the Idaho Outfitters who hunt in the Frank Church Wilderness. Animal densities are lower than they used to be, but the country and adventure getting there is right there with anything in the lower 48.

The classic horse pack-train wall tent hunts still exist there, and there are still mature animals (and the outfitters know better than most where those animals live).