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The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel Red Stag Patagonia Offers Three New Properties For Trophy Red Editor Note: At the D A T E LIN E : more about the opera- opportunity promises to produce stags Safari Club International tion and their offerings. every bit as good. c o n v e n t i o n b a c k i n Argentina Casado worked The hunt takes place on private February, Editor Barbara as a fly fishing guide property in southern Chile’s IX Region, Crown learned about three & Chile in Patagonia for seven about 700 kilometers south of Santiago. new opportunities for trophy TRIP-PLANNING FILE years for both Nervous This free-range property is owned by red stag that will Waters and David a traditional Chilean family of German appeal to those who want Denies. Eventually, he descent. They introduced red stags to a truly spectacular stag, started arranging his the area 80 years ago, and the family those who want an excellent own custom fishing has closely managed the herd and trophy but who may not be a n d w i n g s h o o t i n g the habitat since then. Their efforts, so nimble in the field and trips. When more of his according to Casado, have produced those who would like both clients voiced an interest some of the largest free-range stags in a great stag and a getaway in trophy red stag South America. that a non-hunting spouse hunting, he approached The family only harvests six stags will love. All are on offer Nervous Waters and per season, and they only allow hunters through a new company David Denies to create to take mature stags 10 years or older called Red Stag Patagonia. Barbara Crown Red Stag Patagonia. Editor and past their breeding age. Casado Here’s the scoop. He is now managing ig hunters who also wing- partner in Red Stag Patagonia and (continued on page 3) shoot are likely familiar with does some guiding himself, especially Bthe well-respected company Da- for bowhunters. He is a bowhunter vid Denies Wingshooting, which has himself, having learned effective been offering dove and duck shoots in techniques in Idaho and Montana on Argentina for more than 25 years. And elk and applying them to red stag. those who are also flyfishermen will According to Casado, Red Stag know the high quality lodges operated Patagonia has secured three areas by Nervous Waters, in business since offering different experiences for 1984. What you may not know is that different hunters. Their star area is these are both under the same umbrella a new and very limited opportunity company and have now started a big in Chile for huge stags. Continuing game hunting operation called Red subscribers will remember our 2002 Stag Patagonia. I caught up recently report on another such opportunity for with Sebastian F. Casado, the motive stags scoring in the 370 to 380-plus SCI force behind the new company, to learn range. (See article ID 1001.) This new

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Argentina & Chile (continued from page 1) down to the foothills during the roar of the vineyards and berry patches. warns that clients will see some very in March and April. Casado estimates This traditional, local family operation big trophies that they will not be there are 5,000 red deer on the property has been breeding red stags for 20 allowed to shoot simply because they during the rut. years, importing breeding stock from are not old enough. Hunters can expect This property takes only four hunt- New Zealand and to improve opportunities at trophies scoring 350 ers at a time, and they can accommo- the trophy quality. to 400 points SCI with dark and date rifle, archery, muzzleloader and Hunters take trucks as high as thick main beams. handgun hunting. Hunters travel to they can go each day, then hunt on the hunting area by truck. From there The 20,000-acre property is located horseback with lots of glassing. The it’s horseback and on foot. Terrain can in the central valley of Chile. While terrain here is steeper than the other range from gentle hills to steep ridges, the owners grow wheat in open fields, properties Casado offers. He warns this and the hunt can be tailored to the the property also offers thick forests hunt is best for the hunter who is in client’s physical ability, including hunt- and dark timber over easy rolling good shape, knows how to ride horses ing from pre-set tree stands for archery hills. There are no game fences; habitat and is able to hike in the mountains, and tent or natural ground blinds. management keeps red deer in the though it would be possible to hunt area. Stags are found and hunted on Lodging is in a traditional Argentine from a blind in the valleys. Lunch neighboring farms as well. The hunting ranch house that’s been converted is in the field at a designated lunch is not difficult physically; hunters can into a lodge; Casado describes it as camp, followed by a nap on a cot and walk or ride horseback while glassing. “not fancy but comfortable and clean, continued hunting in the afternoon. with good food and wines, typical of Some of the best areas are within Casado tells me this property is Argentina.” Rather than relying on walking distance of the lodge, says easily reached from either Buenos local gauchos for guiding, they use Casado. In fact, the lodge sits on a hill Aires or Santiago. Wine tours and professional hunting guides who are overlooking one of the prime hunting local resorts make this hunt attractive hunters themselves and speak English. areas. “You can sit on the deck and see for nonhunting spouses. The $6,500 They know how to judge trophy stags in the valley below,” he says. price tag includes five nights and quality. Hunts on horseback will have a four days and one stag up to 320 Family members serve as guides gaucho along to handle the horses. and speak English. They manage the points SCI. Stags here average 320 to Casado promises that hunters will herd and watch them all year, so they 350; some stags reach up to 400-plus glass herd after herd every day on this know where to take hunters and are points, thanks to the careful breeding property. He says you may well see familiar with the habits of the old program, but not many. The guides bulls fighting and chasing hinds and are professional and speak English. trophy stags in the area. Hunts take can expect plenty of opportunities The on-site owner supervises and place during the roar; March 15 to April to take the one you like. Trophies also personally conducts some hunts. 5 is prime time. Only two hunters are range from 280 to 320 points SCI. Lodging is on a neighboring ranch at a hosted at any one time. Hunts during Occasionally, a huge stag is taken, country-style hotel, serving great food the peak of the roar are five nights and but the average is 300. This ranch also and conveniently located below the four days. Hunts during the early and offers , which may be taken hunting grounds. For 2013 they will late weeks are six nights and five days. as targets of opportunity during the Lodging is in cabins with separate day or specifically targeted in the have a small lodge converted from an bedrooms, baths, living areas and a evening. The roar takes place in March old house they are renovating. Again, fireplace, plus a dining room and a and through the third week in April. not fancy, but it will be in the middle of veranda and deck. Meals feature typical Casado gives the cost of this hunt as the hunting grounds. Chilean/Argentine-type cuisine and $5,800. Hunters fly into Bariloche or As a final note, Casado tells us Chilean wines. This hunt is not cheap San Martin de los Andes and are picked he can also arrange an add-on hunt at $20,000, but that flat fee covers any up at the airport. for exotics 100 miles south of Buenos trophy. Hunters fly into Santiago then The second Argentine property is in Aires. This area has one of the largest take one of the daily domestic flights the Tupungato wine region of Mendoza black buck herds in the world and to the city of Temuco. From there it is a Province in west-central Argentina, great axis deer hunting, all free-range 45-minute ride to the ranch by car. right in the center of the Andes. This on big, flat cattle ranches. A $550 daily Red Stag Patagonia has also is straight west from Buenos Aires, fee covers guiding and lodging; trophy secured two areas in Argentina. One is near the border with Chile. Some of fees are $1,100 for a black buck, $2,000 a private ranch in Junin de los Andes the highest peaks in South America for axis. For more information on in the center of Patagonia, where they are in the neighborhood, including the all these hunts, visit their website at have access to 100,000 acres and offer 20 21,681-foot Tupungato Volcano. The www.redstagpatagonia.com, or contact trophy stags a year for up to 16 hunters. hunting area, 40,000 acres in total, is Sebastian Casado at 877-260-4332 or This is high desert in the foothills of the in lower foothills above the vineyards. [email protected]. As always, Andes. Red deer hinds live in the area’s While there are open patches of trees, if you go, please file a hunting report green valleys throughout the year. The the hunting area is mostly grass with to help fellow subscribers decide if this stags winter in the timber and come high fences only to keep the game out opportunity is right for them.

May 2012  THE HUNTING REPORT The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel The New Mule Deer Reality: Where To Tag A Trophy This Season (Editor Note: Mule deer D A T E LIN E : come from controlled and 57 are good units with quality bucks hunting has changed hunt units. Idaho is one and public access. Resident drawing in recent years. Taking a Colorado of the few states without odds run from one-in-five to one-in-10. trophy mulie was once a & Idaho a points system. So, Nonresidents face higher odds. matter of hunting public everyone has the same Idaho gives outfitters limited lands with readily-available TRIP-PLANNING FILE chance of drawing numbers of allocated controlled tags, tags. But massive deer a controlled hunt tag. so their clients are not exposed to the die offs in the 1990s and However, only 10 percent main controlled-hunt drawing. This is early 2000s changed that. of the controlled hunt a great option for a guided hunt in a Later, eastern Montana permits are available prime unit. Hunters need to work out came into the spotlight for to nonresidents, and arrangements with outfitters well prior quietly producing excellent you have to buy a to the drawing date to be assured of a bucks, but the winter of nonrefundable hunting tag. Submitting applications with the 2010-11 ended that run with license ($154.75 for a correct hunt numbers to go into the extensive deer die offs there. nonresident), to put in outfitter draw pool is critical. Now, trophy-class mule deer for the draw. If drawn, Two outfitters to consider in Idaho are one of the hardest the tag is $301.75. Fees if you are looking for a hunt this fall to come by in the West. The and instructions on how are War Eagle Outfitters (208-645-2455; days of easy hunting are to apply are available Harry Morse www.wareagleoutfittersandguides. long gone, and finding a 30- Correspondent at http://fishandgame. com) in Units 55 and 57 and Bearpaw inch buck, the bench mark idaho.gov/ifwis/ Outfitters (509-684-6294; www. for an excellent mule deer, is exceedingly huntplanner/huntplanner.aspx. bearpawoutfitters.com) in Unit 78. difficult. In some states, bucks with Three controlled hunt units in Each will have tags available for 2012. spreads of 24-28 inches are the new trophy southern Idaho stand out for mulies War Eagle Outfitters is located in class. Still, correspondent Harry Morse in the 22- to 24-inch range, with much southern Idaho out of the small town tells us that you may yet have a chance at a bigger bucks being taken each year. of Malta. It is a family-owned and quality mulie this season in both Idaho and Units 44, 45 and 52 offer some of the operated guiding outfit that gets five Colorado. Read on for details.) best hunting in the West for big mature allocated controlled hunt tags split bucks, with a mixture of public and between Units 55 and 57. One of the etween 2001 and 2011 the top private lands. Good bucks are taken on tags is a youth tag. Outfitter Ken Jafek 10 Boone & Crockett entries for public land, but the best opportunities is an avid mountain and deer B typical and non-typical mulie are private lands. The buck-to-doe hunter, as are his two sons and son-in- bucks were scattered between five ratio is over 35 bucks per 100 does, law, who guide for him. They know states and two Canadian provinces. and, each year, 26- to 32-inch bucks are the country intimately and have access Colorado and Saskatchewan produced killed in these units scoring 180 to 200 to some excellent private ranches. three bucks each, Utah placed two points SCI. The odds of a nonresident The country is high desert at 3,000- to typicals in the book, and Arizona put drawing are over 200-1 most years. 9,000-foot elevations. They take rutted two massive non-typical trophies in That said, three friends of mine from roads into the high country, where the decade’s top 10. There were also Washington drew this hunt on their they spot-and-stalk and occasionally some big bucks from states like Kansas, first try and hunted DIY. The smallest set up blinds to catch deer coming out once considered on the fringe of mule buck they killed was a 24-incher. They of timber at sunset. deer range. Bottom line, over the last found access to private land was tough 10 years, no one state consistently put to get without paying a landowner mule deer in the book. During the access fee ($500 to $5,000 on the same period, hundreds of whitetails best ranches). They got made the book. Taking a trophy class a list of landowners mule deer has become one of the from the regional biggest challenges in North America. Fish and Game office For this fall, your two best options in Jerome. Public are hunts in Idaho and Colorado. Idaho Information Officer still holds quality bucks. As a B&C Kelton Hatch is Official Measurer, I recently scored a an avid mule deer 204 typical buck and a 235 non-typical, hunter and a good both from southern Idaho. May is contact there (208- the application month for Controlled 324-4359). Deer and Elk hunts in Idaho, and the Also in southern best and biggest bucks consistently Idaho, Units 54, 55

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A check with regional biologist According to outfitter Dale Denney, Bondurant believes he will have access Randy Smith confirms good over- in 2010 all the hunters guided on this to several permits for the Chico Basin winter deer survival in this area in hunt got shooting opportunities, and Ranch. One tag will be for the late 2011-12, with the buck-to-doe ratio most took a mature buck. archery hunt in late November during running 27 bucks per 100 does in these This is a high-country hunt from the rut, and the other will be for the three units. Last year, War Eagle killed October 10-14, and while the weather muzzleloader hunt. Last year, clients a buck in velvet on an early hunt that and scenery can be beautiful this time on both these hunts had opportunities exceeded the 180 B&C mark. Jafek of year, mountains and altitude can be at record class bucks estimated to score tells me they see typically three to hard on hunters who are out of shape. in the 200-point range. five bucks a day, but hunters have to High-country hunts mean using a Last season, subscriber Noah work hard and have a little luck to get combination of vehicles, horses and Hiscox (see Report 8470), hunted a shot at a really big buck. The units foot power, spending 10-12 hours in the late bow hunt with Bondurant, they hunt continue to produce mature the field walking or riding valleys and giving the outfitter and trophy quality deer in the 24-inch range with a good ridge lines while doing lots of glassing. excellent marks. Hiscox took what he chance of seeing much larger bucks. This area once produced amazing describes as an excellent mule deer Hunters must have enough will power bucks. Bad winters, hunting pressure off the Chico Basin Ranch. Bondurant to wait and pass up smaller bucks if and predation knocked the herds back believes a B&C buck will come off the they want a chance at a bigger one. substantially from 1993 until recently, muzzleloader hunt in the next few Hunters can choose to hunt out of but this area is ready to produce some years. Muzzleloader hunts are five the home ranch or tent camps. Pick- great deer. The hunt costs $3,950, 1x1 days 1x1 for $4,500, and archery hunts ups, ATVs and horses may be used on with room and board included. are for seven days, 1x1, for $3,700. hunts, depending on the hunters and Turning now to Colorado, where Craig Krumwiede of Ridgetrack the weather. The better shape a hunter the general deer tag application period Outfitters (970-420-1141; www. is in, the more area he can cover. Jafek is over. According to Colorado’s ridgetrackoutfitters.com) guides on uses horses when needed to get into Division of Wildlife, however, a second a number of big ranches in eastern more remote areas of the unit. War drawing will be held in late summer Colorado where landowner vouchers Eagle had five allocated tags available and a few good tags always go should come available. His hunters at this writing. All hunts are five days, unclaimed. The nonresident deer tag will have access to some of these tags. 1x1, $3,200 with meals and accommo- cost is $349. But your best bet for this Hunting Report subscriber Lee Frudden dations. season is to secure a good Colorado filed a report (8469) on his 2011 hunt, On the Idaho/Wyoming border, mule deer hunt through an outfitter noting that he took a 200-inch mule Bearpaw Outfitters has six outfitter’s or landowner who has landowner deer and rating the hunt excellent with tags in Idaho unit 78, which had vouchers. The results of the landowner good game availability. Krumwiede hunting pressure greatly reduced when voucher drawing come out in May. tells us success on his mule deer hunts it became a controlled hunt. This unit Here are two outfitters who believe is nearly 100 percent with B&C bucks historically produced some monster they will get voucher hunts. seen on the late hunt each of the last bucks. Currently the deer herd in this Mike Bondurant of La Garita two seasons. Krumwiede says he area is slowly recovering, and trophy Outfitters (303-704-7765; www. expects to have vouchers again for quality bucks are seen and taken in lagaritaoutfitters.com), out of central the late hunt at the end of November. this unit. The average buck is 22-26 Colorado, was featured in our Hunts are 1x1, five days and cost inches with bigger ones being seen. February, 2012 issue (see page 7). $4,500. Good luck! A Subscriber Recommendation for Montana Mulies Still on the subject of mule deer, In a follow-up phone call at press We also talked to Zack Taylor at subscriber David Bryer, who describes time, Bryer told us his mule deer scored Twin Creek Ranch. They only take eight himself as an “intermediate-level deer in the 180-class, and that he missed a deer hunters per year (four for each hunter,” tells us he found a place to much bigger trophy. Bryer tells us that species), though they also offer sharpen his skills on mulies about two hunters travel by ATV, glassing fields (12 hunters per year, 6 bow, 6 firearm), hours north of Billings, Montana. The and then stalking on foot, and that most wild upland birds and waterfowl, and of the hunting is accessible to any phys- outfit he hunted with is Twin Creek high-volume prairie dog shoots. The ical ability. He concludes, “You need to Ranch (406-429-5615; www.tchunting. average whitetail they shoot scores 155; take a look at Twin Creek Ranch if you com), and Bryer tells us that whitetails the average mulie, 175. Unfortunately, are looking for a quality mule deer or up to 180-class and mulies up to 200- whitetail hunt. This ranch is 30 square they do not have any deer openings class(!) were abundant on the property miles of upland bird and deer habitat for 2012. Their resident antelope herd thanks to an long-term wildlife/habitat with river bottoms and alfalfa fields. has also declined drastically from over management program. Bryer also says Deer are everywhere—you see shoot- 500 animals to 80 due to an outbreak of that the food, accommodations and able mule deer bucks from the lodge. disease, and they are only taking two guiding were all excellent. The quality of the hunt was excellent.” hunters this season . 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F O C u s O N N O R T H A M E RIC A The Final Days of Santa Rosa Island and The Future of MUM Editor Note: Back in our CL o s e - U P: was a brief time when Park is seeking to make Santa Rosa January issue (page 3), California Republicans held the a “wilderness” or, at the very least, we printed a brief note by majority in Congress and severely restrict vehicle access. Wayne correspondent Harry Morse & Oregon Representative Duncan Long once told me that only one party on the sad end of hunting Hunter was successful of non-hunters had ever been seen and wildlife management in saving hunting on inland on the island. Anyone who has on Santa Rosa Island, the island. But then the hunted there knows that restricting California. Now, Senior Wicked Witches of the vehicle access will ensure that not Western Correspondent West (Senators Boxer one in 100,000 citizens will ever enjoy Lance Stapleton digs deeper and Feinstein) stepped Santa Rosa’s vistas and deep canyons. into the past, present and in when the Democrats Park employees will, in effect, have future of Multiple Use regained power and their own Club Med. Managers (MUM), the r e v e r s e d H u n t e r ’ s If you are as disturbed as I am pioneering company that amendment. about the wanton waste and the way developed and maintained In another slight of this whole program was conducted, the quality hunting on Lance Stapleton Senior Western Correspondent hand, the Park Service you can contact Yvonne Menard Santa Rosa. While parts of contracted the final (Public Relations, Channel Islands Stapleton’s exposé are sure to outrage any eradication to a non-profit company National Park) at 805-658-5725 and thoughtful hunter (warning: keep your (White Buffalo) without going to bid. voice your opinion. blood-pressure medicine handy as you White Buffalo promptly subcontracted Turning the page to the next read), the full story includes a more hopeful the project to a for-profit company, chapter on MUM’s operation, Gordon glimpse of some of MUM’s established Pro Hunt, which benefitted from free and Wayne Long are currently mainland operations and the bright future services provided by the Park Service. managing and offering hunting of some of their newer properties. And, best October 13, 2011 was the last day programs on six ranches in California of all, there are still hunt opportunities of legal hunting on the island. Park and Oregon. Perhaps their best known available for this fall. Read on! officials estimated that there were operation is on the 37,650-acre Dye he last shot on Santa Rosa approximately 60 elk and 400 deer left Creek Preserve where they offer Island marked the end of one on the island. With a newspaper crew unguided blacktail deer hunts for their Tof the most remarkable wildlife in attendance, the slaughter began. members, plus , turkey, waterfowl success stories in North America, and Over the next three-days, around 60 and quail hunts. Openings here are unfortunately, in my opinion one animals were killed from helicopters infrequent at best, so other properties of the most distasteful examples of and delivered back to the ranch where are of more interest. government arrogance and waste I can the meat was butchered by MUM. MUM has offered Tule elk hunts remember. This meat was donated to the Ventura on the Connolly Ranch, since 2003. The Santa Rosa story has been soup kitchens–which MUM had long They get one or two tags a year for well reported in these pages by me supported, donating tons of meat each branch-antlered bulls scoring from 230 and others. Introduced in the early 20th year. When the newspaper reporters to 270 points. These hunts are priced century, mule deer and Roosevelt elk left, the giving stopped! The Park at $10,500 for a four-day, guided thrived, making Santa Rosa the place Service said that they didn’t have the 1x1 hunt, a reasonable price for this to go if you wanted to tag a 200-inch budget to transport the meat back to uncommon trophy. Clients normally mulie buck or a trophy Roosevelt. the ranch. Makes you wonder how fly into Oakland and rent a car for MUM’s wildlife management efforts the eradication contract was written the 45-minute drive to the 7,000-acre produced remarkable results: year and if the Park’s plan all along was ranch, where they stay during the after year, the hunting just kept getting to waste the meat. So, as many as 400 hunt. Often, they are able to hunt an better, culminating in the 2010 hunts animals (by their estimate) were killed adjacent ranch, for a total of nearly where the average buck measured 30 and left to rot! Wanton waste is illegal 12,000 acres. inches wide and scored 200-1/2 SCI for sportsmen and carries heavy fines, Another ranch that MUM manages points. Roosevelt elk bulls averaged but somehow it’s OK for the federal is the Stover Ranch in northern 270 points! In 2011, MUM again government. California. The ranch is enrolled produced comparable statistics for The final chapter has not yet been in California’s PLM (Private Land their last 40 hunters. written on this disgraceful story since Management) program. They get four The fight to eradicate wildlife the Park Service has not yet produced Roosevelt elk tags a year. Six-day on Santa Rosa and turn the island their Management Plan for the island hunts guided 1x1 cost $14,000 with an over to the National Park Service – a document that should have been additional $4,000 trophy fee for any was long and fierce and, again, well- in place for “full disclosure” during bull scoring 290 points or better B&C. reported. You may not know that there the debate. Word has it that the There are still two openings left for  Vol. 32 No. 5 The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel United States: Important Deadlines deer permits are available. Nonresident Combo Oregon Compiled by Kate Goodin Archery online applications are due June 30. 503-947-6100 - www.dfw.state.or.us Editorial Assistant Maine The application deadline for controlled hunts (Editor Note: Here are the important permit/tag 207-287-8000 - www.maine.gov/ifw is May 15. Hunting regulations for 2012 are developments to watch for this month in the US.) Online applications for the lottery are due available. Big game raffle tickets are available. Arizona May 14. The drawing will be held June 23. Tennessee 602-942-3000 - www.azgfd.gov Montana 615-781-6585 - www.tn.gov/twra Draw results for elk and are available. 406-444-2950 - http://fwp.mt.gov Applications for elk are due May 31. The application deadline for deer, bighorn sheep, The deadline for antelope applications is June 1. Utah turkey, javelina and buffalo is June 12. General Deadline to purchase SuperTags is July 5. Black 801-538-4700 - http://wildlife.utah.gov season lion and bear tags are available OTC*. bear and mountain lion licenses purchased after Results of the 2012 big game draw are available August 31 may not be used until five days after California May 31. General big game regulations are available the license is issued AND may be purchased online May 25 and in print a week later. 916-928-5805 - www.dfg.ca.gov only at an FWP office or online. The application period for the big game drawing Vermont (premium deer, elk, antelope and bighorn sheep) Nevada 802-241-3700 - www.vtfishandwildlife.com is April 15-June 2. 775-688-1500 - www.ndow.org Applications for the moose lottery will be Results of the main draw for mule deer, elk, Colorado available online the first week of May, at agents pronghorn, bighorn sheep and the first week of June and will be due July 5. 303-297-1192 - http://wildlife.state.co.us will be provided on or before June 11. Second OTC* big game licenses are on sale, including draw deadline is June 26. 2012 regulations will Washington mountain lion. Call 888-940-5466 to see which be available in June. 360-902-2464 https://fishhunt.dfw.wa.gov lion units have met quota. Big game regulations are available as well as New Hampshire applications for deer, elk, mountain goat, moose Idaho 603-271-2461 - www.wildlife.state.nh.us and bighorn sheep. The deadline is May 18th. 208-334-3717 http://fishandgame.idaho.gov Applications for the 2012 moose lottery are due Nonresident 2012 licenses and general season May 25 and the drawing will be held on June 15. General season tags are available OTC* for deer, elk, bear and cougar. tags are available. Applications for deer, elk, New Mexico pronghorn and fall bear controlled hunts are due 505-476-8000 - www.wildlife.state.nm.us Wyoming June 5. General season permits for all big game Regulations for the 2012 big game hunting 307-777-4600 - http://gf.state.wy.us are available OTC*. season are available. Results for deer, elk, Elk draw results are available online. Deer and Illinois pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, Barbary antelope draw results will be available June 30. Full 217-782-6302 - www.dnr.illinois.gov sheep, , ibex and javelina draw hunts will be priced leftover licenses go on sale July 10. Online applications for nonresident firearm available online May 9, and by phone May 23. *Over-the-counter next season. (Editor note: for more details program and has six blacktail deer bull elk in the past. This ranch may on this elk opportunity, see Harry Morse’s tags. A four-day hunt on a 2x1 basis well prove to be MUM’s next wildlife cover story in our January issue.) costs $2,500, and the hunt is scheduled success story. It sure has the genetics Long also told me that they often during the rut (end of October until potential! Long tells me that he expects see from two to five bears a day during mid-November. Long expects bucks branch-antlered bulls scoring around the elk hunt. This season will be their scoring from 110-135 points – fine 280-290 points and bucks scoring 150- first year offering deer or bear hunts. blacktail by any standard. They also 180 points, but bigger trophies have Their three-day bear hunts cost $1,000, offer pig, dove and quail hunts. been killed there in the past. This plus a $400 kill fee. Hunts are scheduled Another new California ranch year, they are offering a four-day rifle from mid-October. California has a for MUM is the 3,000-acre Hutton mule deer hunt for $4,000 and a five- quota system in place to control the Peak ranch just minutes from the LA day rifle elk hunt for $4,500. They are bear harvest, but since bear hunting County line. Although this is the first also offering an archery elk/deer hunt with dogs is only allowed in certain year for hunts here, MUM has already for six days for $4,000. These hunts areas and is strictly regulated, the quota made improvements. This ranch offers are conducted 2x1. The archery tags often is not met until mid-December. California mule deer, and the three- are available over-the-counter, while You can also book a five-day, 2x1, day, 2x1 hunt costs $2,500. Long tells the rifle deer tag is virtually a 100 blacktail deer/bear combo hunt for me that you can expect to see 3x3 and percent draw, and the elk rifle tag is a $3,500. This hunt can be scheduled 3x4 bucks scoring from 90-130 points. 50 percent draw potential. There are from the last week in September until This year a D-13 deer tag (season also landowner tags available. Clients October 21. Hunters fly into Arcata/ October 20 - November 11) is required Eureka airport, where they are picked and, if you are interested, you must fly into Boise, Idaho where they are up and taken to the ranch. apply soon. Next year, they hope to picked up and shuttled to the ranch. This is the first year that MUM offer a late rut deer hunt. The drawing deadline in California has offered hunts on the 3,500-acre The last property that MUM is June 2, and in Oregon it is May 15, so Burrows ranch in northern California manages is a 38,000-acre ranch in you have to act quickly. In a few cases, just east of Red Bluffs. Long is excited northeastern Oregon that was once a drawing is required to take the best about this opportunity because the owned by a “hunting nut” friend advantage of the hunts I’ve mentioned. long-time owner, a retired resource of mine. This is another first-year Contact Gordon Long at muminc@ professor, has already completed many operation for MUM, and I can assure yahoo.com or 800-557-7087 or visit habitat management projects himself. you that this ranch has produced some their website at www.mumwildlife. The ranch is enrolled in the PLM big mule deer and Rocky Mountain com. Life is too short – go hunting! May 2012  THE HUNTING REPORT The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel Changes Coming in Botswana; A Place For Trophy Korrigum, More s we were laying “ O ve r t h e l a s t of local communities and for elephant down this issue D A T E LIN E : five years, Botswana’s conservation and management as A of The Hunting Africa industry a whole. Private research on tusk Report, we received has been subjected to weights/population distribution and word that Botswana some extensive changes densities, supported by outfitters, is had officially “banned” NEWS...NEWS...NEWS to areas available for ongoing and will continue to inform hunting. Email Extra hunting, and changes in Botswana’s Wildlife Management subscribers already know land use in other areas Authority. that is not exactly the where photographic “Assurances have been made to case. The email from and hunting operations the industry by senior members of operator Kgori Safaris have been combined Government during the course of the arrived the morning of – these changes have last five years that elephant hunting April 20, stating that given rise to much will continue in Botswana; in the hunting is officially speculation amongst the meantime, outfitters remain committed banned in Botswana from international hunting to ongoing discussion and consultation 2013, except for plains fraternity: the Botswana with Government to determine the way game on game ranches Barbara Crown Wildlife Management forward. Hunting on game ranches is and a few elephants that Editor Association wishes to unchanged. Please contact your safari will be auctioned outside confirm that from the outfitter for any further information or the wilderness areas in the cattle areas, end of this year big game hunting will confirmation you may require.” and two areas with limited quota for continue in the following concessions: Peake went on to tell me over the 2013 namely, CH 1 and NG 41. As • Butler & Holbrow Safaris / telephone that the Botswana Wildlife this isn’t the first time we’ve received Chobe Enclave CH1/2 – end of 2013 Management Association is still in such news over the past four years, I • Calitz Hunting Safaris / negotiations to open elephant hunting immediately called Debbie Peake with Mababe NG 41 – end of 2017 in other areas. They are hopeful and the Botswana Wildlife Management “In spite of draconian cuts in quota determined to work something out, Association to find out what is going on. for other species, elephant remain she said. “Dialog is ongoing, just Peake confirmed that the Botswana the flagship species in Botswana and painfully slow.” government is restricting hunting sustainable offtake of this species If you have a hunt in Botswana further in 2013, as we previously will continue under the guidance booked for 2012, you need not worry, reported they would. Next year, and direction of the Botswana as the new restrictions do not take place numerous concession periods come to Government. Recent aerial surveys until 2013. If you have booked a hunt an end, and, as we told you in January conducted by independent researchers, for next year, contact your operator to 2010 (see Article ID 2376), they will in collaboration with Government and confirm the status. Besides CH 1/2 and become photographic/eco-tourism the Association, have determined that NG 41 there will be other opportunities concessions. You’ll recall that in 2010 the Botswana elephant population is available through auction. I’ve reported six concessions in the Chobe and stable and in some parts of the country on these auction hunts in the past, too. Okavango regions had been tendered are considered locally over-abundant. They have included quotas in CT4, CT7, for non-consumptive use, and a number The Special Elephant Quota, which NG8, NG9 and NG35. Some auctions of operators were left with hunting is auctioned annually to industry for this year have already taken place. leases that would expire over the members and stakeholders, will Jeff Rann of Rann Safaris (830-426-3476; following three years. I also told you continue in select areas for the benefit [email protected]) secured in February 2011 that the way elephant quota in CT7. This is the same area where hunting would continue in he produced a 96 x 93 pound jumbo last Botswana would be changing year for Kip Yearwood, booking agent significantly. The government Beverly Wunderlich of J/B Adventures intended to allow hunting & Safaris (303-794-4485; jbsafari@com- to continue under special cast.net). That trophy won the APHA dispensations as a means of Dangerous Game Award for 2011. management. (See article ID Other operators who picked up 2593.) I also told you that hunting auction quotas this year include: Johan for plains game, buffalo and Calitz Safaris in NG35; Clive Eaton of would continue on private ranches Tholo Safaris in NG8; and an unnamed but was severely curtailed elsewhere. private bidder who purchased the quota The Botswana Wildlife Association has for NG9. As for other opportunities still confirmed all of this again in an official open in 2012, I heard from John Barth statement Peake sent me. It reads: of Adventure Unlimited (361-852-0537;

 Vol. 32 No. 5 The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel [email protected]), who says he has access feeding, not paying much attention to that are supposed to live in northern to two elephant hunts in Botswana this our car. In a few minutes a big old bull Cameroon, all in the open and within year. I will let you know of any other separated from the herd and started shooting distance. No was shot opportunities I learn of for 2012 or 2013. moving along the road in the open 50 from the car. Maybe that is one of the meters away from us. I already had reasons that the animals were not really three giant eland trophies and could afraid of us. This past February at the SCI see that it was a nice trophy animal “The trophies I took include a kor- convention in Las Vegas, Jean Pierre in a range of 48 inches. He also paid rigum of 58 centimeters, a Sing Sing Bernon of Club Faune told me about a zero attention to us. That was the first waterbuck of 76 centimeters, a nice concession he secured that supposedly surprise. western buffalo and a nice trophy reed- holds good numbers of korrigum. The buck. The rest were fine representative area is in northern Cameroon and has a trophies. Coming back to the korrigum, quota of eight korrigum. Bernon says I saw them in groups and as solitary he has two other areas in Cameroon bulls and females every day. I think it and only one of them gets a quota for is possible to complete a hunt for kor- this species, with only two korrigum rigum within three to four days there. available. This new northern area also The area is a hunting paradise, espe- offers Lord Derby eland, roan, western cially for the bow hunter.” savannah buffalo, etc. But Bernon Bernon says he also has several pushed the area as the place to get a other new or expanded opportunities. trophy korrigum. First in he says Before I could mention the area he has taken over Daniel Koudoume’s in The Hunting Report, I received an old area. Actually, he has leased it enthusiastic report on it from subscriber from Koudoume’s family. You’ll recall Pavel Sidorov (Pavel.Sidorov@ operator Rudy Lubin formerly worked advgroup.ru) who had just returned here with Koudoume but moved to from this hunt. I will let him tell you another area when Koudoume died about it:, “My main objective was “Next day I had another. From of a heart attack in 2011. Lubin had one animal–korrigum. I already tried early morning and till late evening of told me that he simply was not in the to hunt it once several years ago in the next day we saw big groups of very position to take on the opening of the northern CAR, but due to the political relaxed roan about five or six times. hunting area, rebuilding of camps instability in that region the hunt was Each group had one or two trophy and the administrative responsibilities cancelled at the last moment. So, last males, and every time they were at a of Koudoume’s end of the business. year I realized that the only place distance of about 100 meters from the The area is located in the center of the where I could now hunt this antelope car and almost wide open. One time, country and includes four hunting was northern Cameroon. I did some we photographed a group with a huge blocks and six camps. This gives research and was about to book a male that my PH said was well over Bernon additional quota for bongo, hunt with Mayo Oldiri, as everybody 30 inches. During my hunt we found sitatunga, and Lord was sure it is the only place/company such big animals close to the road three Derby eland. to hunt korrigum, but then I got a or four times. The problem was, those Bernon also claims to have found proposal from Club Faune to hunt in animals were not on my trophy list. two new spots for forest sitatunga in an area where the number of korrigum My trophy list was korrigum, Western one of the concessions he has been was supposedly very healthy, whatever , Western buffalo, Western hunting, and says he made a bid for that meant. I was impressed by their , Nigerian bohor and a concession on the border that will confidence and decided to try. Sing-Sing waterbuck. I got all those allow for combo hunts for Lord Derby “Just before the hunt, a Spanish trophies within seven days. eland and sitatunga at the same time. outfitter friend told me that I was “The operation is managed by a In , Bernon says he opened making a big mistake. He believed that Swiss lady named Martina. Her staff a new camp last year. Anyone who no such place exists. And this man has is polite and efficient, although not as has ever hunted in Benin knows how been in northern Cameroon plenty of large as in other places. She has just the oppressively hot it can get there. Bernon times. exact number necessary to maintain says his new camp sits atop a hill where “My hunt started the day after this area. Martina said that it was not it catches good breezes and overlooks I arrived in the town of Garua. Late always like that. When she arrived 30 kilometers worth of scenery. The that evening we went for a short drive. in the mid 90s, the area was without camp features six tents with ensuite Immediately, just a few kilometers animals, even though it is located close baths on elevated platforms and uses from the camp, we bumped into a big to a national park. It took her about solar power – no noisy generators. herd of about 50 Lord Derby eland. seven to eight years of effort before the Anyone trying any of these new Interestingly, the animals ran about animal populations returned. hunting opportunities this season is 100 meters then stopped and started “Every day I saw all the animals encouraged to file a hunt report.

May 2012  THE HUNTING REPORT Briefly Noted: Things To Do, Places To Go, New Developments Outfitter News . . . News . . . News Coahuila, and a very active border quarantine zone exists along the New Rules Affect Rio Grande in Texas to prevent the Critiques: Importation of Green reemergence of the in Texas cattle Good news about good hunts is herds. The tick that causes heartwater always better than bad news and, Capes and Hides is not known to occur in Mexico, but given the recent reports of scam hunts from Mexico is present in some Caribbean islands in central Europe, we welcomed two and could be spread by cattle egrets very positive subscriber reports from Correspondent Michael Bodenchuk into Mexico or the US. that area. Jens Valdemar Krenchel looked into some new requirements and Brian Gooding both hunted in The new regulations affect all hunters for hunters bringing hides from but with different outfitters, who intend to return home with the Romania Mexico into the US. Here’s what he and both recommend the hunts without green (un-tanned) hides of found out: reservation. (mule deer, whitetail deer, bighorn Some hunters and outfitters were sheep and exotics such as , axis Hunters looking for a European surprised this year when the US deer and aoudad). The regulations take note: Krenchel, who hails Department of Agriculture (USDA) require that all hides be “free of live from Denmark, tells us he found an or Customs and Border Protection and dead ” AND be treated in outstanding operation in the Covasna (CBP) would not allow them to enter one of several ways. area of Romania, roughly 100 miles the US from Mexico with green deer north of , where he hunted For the traveling hunter, the only capes. The reason has to do with this past January with outfitter Kiss practical requirement is that the hide some “new” requirements that are Attila of Transylvaniahunt. He booked be “accompanied by a certificate/ part of USDA rules to prevent the his hunt through the Austrian agency documentation issued by the importer importation of ticks. These rules were Mistral Jagreisen. or shipper attesting to the fact that the published in the Federal register ruminant hides and skins were frozen Krenchel reports: “This is my fifth wolf and appear to have been in effect solid for 24 hours.” The rules go on to hunt; taking a wolf has been a life-long since January 2011, although the advise that the “hides and skins need dream. After my previous experiences, USDA website (www.aphis.usda. to be in a condition (thawed) to allow stating that are abundant gov/import_export/animals/animal_ for inspection for ticks.” sounds odd in my ears. But the number import/animal_imports.shtml) lists of wolves here was greater than any The “documentation” necessary only an undated document under other area that I’ve hunted in Europe. appears to be an unresolved issue. “New Requirements for Importing Lots of tracks, lots of scat, lots of wolf The hunter is the “importer” under Ruminant Hides from Mexico.” The kills, lots of wolves.” these regulations, and his statement document you open at that link is Wild boars were also here in high titled, “Clarification of NCIE Policy that the hide was frozen for 24 hours should suffice. I asked the USDA numbers according to Krenchel. “Only for the importation of hides and the best areas of Bulgaria and Turkey skins from Mexico.” It appears that this question and was told that they would be able to tell, since there match this area for trophy quality wild CBP began enforcing these new boar – and keep in mind that this is provisions late in the 2011-12 hunting “would not be any ticks on it.” The hunter/importer should have a truly free-range mountain hunting with season. The government website to no tricks played on the hunters!” ask questions about these new rules written statement attesting to the fact Krenchel’s success came on his second returns email as undeliverable and that the hide in question was frozen hunt in the same area with Attila. “This phone calls garner only the same solid for 24 hours on whatever two was a hunting experience of a lifetime information available on the web. calendar dates apply (date frozen and date thawed). If questioned, this because I got my wolf. Last winter I The purpose of the regulations is statement should be provided to CBP, hunted without succeeding, but it was to prevent the importation of two along with the clarification memo my fault. I saw a wolf at 80 meters in a diseases of concern: heartwater and available on the USDA website above. night vision scope. But in my US-made cattle fever, which are carried by ticks. Be sure to download a copy before riflescope (won’t mention brand, but its Wild ruminants are hosts for both exporting your hide. generally considered to be quality), it species of ticks that transmit these was just black. If you are going on this diseases. The fever tick, responsible Hides that do not pass inspection are not automatically confiscated, but hunt, take first class European (Zeiss or for cattle fever, was eradicated Swarowski) optics for dedicated night from the US, but still exists across they will be refused entry by Customs and Border Protection. If your outfitter hunting. That was a far more intense the border in the Mexican states hunt, waiting on a mountain top, of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon and (continued on page 12) sitting on the ground in a self-made

10 Vol. 32 No. 5 The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel The Good, The Bad and The Ugly This section of The Hunting Report features first-hand reports from our subscribers. It is intended to provide accurate, reliable, current information on what’s actually happening in the field. The Hunting Report is not endorsing any outfitter, agent or guide by printing a positive report. And it goes without saying that the existence of a negative report or conflict is not necessarily reason to avoid an agent, outfitter or guide. We believe that informed hunters are capable of making wise choices, and we make every attempt to provide accurate, timely information to help our subscribers decide where to hunt and with whom to hunt. Our detailed editorial policy regarding controversies is posted on our website: www.huntingreport.com. For a hard copy, please contact us (see page 2 for contact details). blind of chopped-off branches, with time subscriber Brian Gooding who (I didn’t see anything) and also took wolves howling and fighting within hunted Carpathian in the me to one of the permanent stands at 300 meters. This year it was just plenty Fagaras Range of the Carpathians last dusk where, in just two hours, we saw of waiting. But the wolf came. October with outfitter George Dina of 10 bears come in to eat chocolate bars. “My very close friend who joined me for Best European Hunts (mobile 011-40- There was even a brief tussle between the hunt was seeking wild boar and also 732-528636; www.besteuropeanhunts. two bears over who had first dibs. wolf, but left empty handed. A German eu), personal guide Andrei Vetrila. “I had also arranged to have George act hunter in camp at the same time for that Gooding combined his hunt with as tour guide after the hunt; we visited combo got a giant (CIC gold medal) sightseeing and booked the entire and stayed in some ancient towns that wild boar. He spent a lot of time sitting package through Gabrielle Conea of could have been anywhere in Western in tough, cold conditions over a wolf- Corporate Leisure Specialists (305- Europe. Castles, fortified towns, even killed red deer waiting for that wolf, but 466-9677; www.huntingcls.com). Note the house where Vlad the Impaler it outsmarted the human hunter. that we have two additional positive (look HIM up!) was supposed to have “Kiss Attila and Transylvaniahunt is reports (4034 and 7380) in our database been born. We also drove through without comparison in their dedication, on other hunts in Romania booked some towns that were way, WAY off camp, equipment and quality of staff. through this agent. the beaten track - it could have just as They may be vastly more expensive Gooding reports taking a chamois easily been 1911, except for a handful in their daily rate, but nowhere else in green-scored at 25 2/8 SCI on a hunt of cars and tractors. Great trip. George Europe have I ever had such an effort. he rates as excellent throughout. “I is a well-organized outfitter, a good Two hunts, two chances for wolf; try to had arranged to take the day after tour guide and great company. I hope find that anywhere else. But if you ask my arrival off to get over jet lag, but to hunt with him again.” Attila about his success rate, he won’t because rain was forecast for the next Gooding gives the cost of his hunt as promise you anything. day, George, Andrei and I started into €4500, including trophy fees up to 105 “I have also hunted in and the mountains late in the morning. CIC points. three times in Bulgaria with Konstantin Good thing, because about a foot and We are gradually assembling a clearer Kotsev of Bulgarian Hunt Service (011- a half of snow fell in the mountains picture of the hunting in this part of 359-2808-7059; www.huntservice.com), the next day! Made the TV news the world. If you’ve hunted this area who is also trustworthy (see report ID because it was so unusually early. recently, particularly if you’ve found a 7756). I should, of course, have shared Andrei found two chamois, and I was reliable and recommendable outfitter, all these experiences, but I didn’t able to take the bigger one. The return please share that information with get it done until I saw your request hike was down through field-grassed your fellow subscribers. for reports from Central Europe. I slopes which looked easy but were (continued) have some additional experience with relentlessly steep–I really wished I Romania and Bulgaria, so feel free to had brought my hiking staff. Andrei is email me [email protected] mail for a full-time ranger on the vast private any insights I can provide.” property I hunted, and he knew the Transylvaniahunt’s website is www. very well. transylvaniahunt.ro, or the company “George made every effort to make can be reached by phone from the US this both a successful hunt and an at 011-40-267-311259, or by email at enjoyable visit to his country. My [email protected]. We emailed stay was in a brand new lodge in a Transylvaniahunt and promptly small village just off the hunting area. received a reply in English indicating Andrei’s mother was the cook and that their guides speak enough English her food was excellent and plentiful. to facilitate a hunt; they also provide My room had a king-size bed, and the translator service whenever needed bath had a jacuzzi! While I was there, and can accommodate hunters in various parties of Romanian hunters English, Spanish, French, German and came and went, either hunting brown other languages. bear from permanent stands or driven Our second entirely positive report hunts for boar and bear. George on hunting in Romania is from long- arranged for me to join a driven hunt

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Briefly Noted (continued from page 10) Outfitter Critiques (continued) Deltana, from the aircraft to the back drives you to the border, you could packs and camp gear, was in excellent condition and of high quality. The return the cape with him, but if you packing list from Deltana was perfect fly, it is impractical to send the hide Caribou opportunities have been with no excessive or unneeded items. back unaccompanied. shrinking in recent years especially in Newfoundland, Labrador and Quebec The spike camp was in a great location, I’ve been to many Mexican ranches (see the cover story in our December surrounded by beautiful terrain, and it and few had freezers. As outfitters 2011 issue for more details). Farther was very comfortable. become aware of this issue, I am west, Northwest Territories has had “Deltana has exclusive rights to a confident that they will provide its share of difficulties (see article 2449 portion of the Arctic National Wildlife the ability to freeze hides to meet in our Email Extra database). But still, Refuge (ANWR). Because of this, we these requirements. As you consider we continue to receive enough reports had no hunting pressure from other Mexican hunts in 2013 and beyond, (17 from hunts in 2011) to indicate that hunters for the entire time of our be sure to ask your outfitter about caribou are of interest to many hunters, hunt. Our guide, Logan Canton, who was very aggressive and experienced, his plans to meet these requirements either as primary quarry or as an add- wanted to go to the caribou and not and how you should schedule on to a hunt for another trophy. Parker Shipley recently sent us a just wait for them to come to us. This your return to be certain you allow proved to be a big factor in our taking enough time for the hide to be report on a hunt in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge north of the Brooks two caribou each. After I had my two frozen and thawed. Range, where barren-ground caribou caribou and my friend only had one, These new regulations do not were the primary target. Shipley we decided to move our spike camp prohibit the importation of hides, hunted from August 21 to 30 with location to find more game. Ralph and but they do add a level of burden Deltana Outfitters (907-895-5006;www. Jim moved us with no problems, hassles or extra cost. They put us in another to the traveling hunter. While deltana.com) and reports taking two great location, where the next day my the requirements probably aren’t trophy-quality bulls. friend promptly filled his second tag. necessary for deer taken in Sonora, “This was a hunt I will never forget. A “The care for the meat and trophies the lack of internal control in Mexico friend and I chose Deltana Outfitters for a fully-guided caribou hunt. After was also excellent, with fly-out service makes the USDA treat the entire from the field to base camp, where country with the same standard. bad experiences with guides in both the Lower 48 and Alaska, we made the staff was waiting to salt and dry One of the reasons US hunters sure we did our homework. We took the hides and butcher and freeze choose Mexico (or Canada for the time to check out the outfitter the meat. The meat was ready to be that matter) is the convenience of and references. All the references shipped on the morning we had to bringing hides back into the US. were excellent (Editor note: this is the fly out of Prudhoe Bay. They handled all the other logistics for the meat It’s not always as easy, especially sixth positive report on Deltana we have and trophies, which made the trip from those countries with endemic received, going back to a sheep hunt in home easy. My meat and trophies diseases that could affect US 2005.) Ralph Miller and Jim Weidner were very easy to deal with, straight arrived to me and my taxidermist in agriculture. For African countries, perfect condition. Overall, the hunt an entire industry exists supporting forward in answering questions and most of all, very honest. They provided was outstanding, with no surprises the documentation and treatment of prompt and personal service to and and incredible memories.” hides to facilitate importation into from the airport, with a great meal This was the second report we received the US and EU. This infrastructure is waiting for us when we arrived at on Deltana from 2011. In report 8396, lacking in Mexico and will no doubt base camp. Ralph and Jim were true subscriber Michael Cantrell, who add additional costs to Mexican professionals who knew all about the hunted in August for Dall sheep hunts if required. caribou herds in the ANWR hunting (taking a full-curl 9-year-old ram) and a bonus 409 3/8 (SCI) caribou, gives (Editor Note: In our Email Extra area, and they put us right where we the outfitter across-the-board excellent edition, we’ve added Bodenchuk’s tips needed to be! “Deltana’s base camp was excellent, ratings, saying, “This is the best guided for avoiding problems when bringing hunt I have ever experienced. Fantastic capes back from Mexico. We’ve also with great food and permanent cabins for the hunters before and after hunting all around. I saw four good legal rams posted the information along with links out of the spike camps. One thing that in the first 2 1/2 days of the hunt, and to the USDA website and the document impressed us was that both Ralph and took my caribou bull on the very last mentioned in this story on the homepage Jim were at the base camp for the entire morning while waiting for the aircraft. of our website under “Reference” at the caribou and sheep hunting season to Overall a great team effort – 20-plus bottom of the page. Look for “How to ensure things ran smooth. Their pilots hours of hiking, stalking and hard Cope with New USDA Requirements to were highly experienced, safe and very work for the sheep. Amazing country and amazing hunting. Import Ruminant Hides from Mexico.” knowledgeable of the area we were (continued on page 14) hunting. All the equipment supplied by “Ralph has a very good packing list for

12 Vol. 32 No. 5 The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel More Hunt Reports (Editor Note: Over the past month we have received reports on hunts in the following parts of the world. All of these reports have been added to our files and copies of them can be obtained through our Trip-Planning Service. See page 2 for details on how to place an order. E-Mail Extra subscribers can, of course, view the full text of these reports in the password-protected section of our web site at www.HuntingReport.com. You, too, can have complete access to our entire database of reports and past articles by upgrading your subscription to E-mail Extra. Visit our website or call us at 305-253-5301.) United States with Central African Wildlife New Zealand Alaska Adventures (8607) • Bob Dobrinski (red deer, fallow deer) • Jason Campbell (mountain goat) • Howard Ozer (bongo, Lord Derby with Telford Fishing and Hunting with Pacific Mountain Guides (8615) eland, yellow-backed , bush Services (8613) • Pete Mowbray () with duiker) with Club Faune (8602) • Roger L. Gregg (red deer, feral Glacier Guides (8591) South Africa sheep, , feral goat) with Peel Arizona • Dean Castillo (nyala, , Forest Safaris (8599) • David E. Combs (elk) with Colburn blesbok) with Lalapa Safaris (8606) Pakistan • Jose Maria Sodiro (suni, Sharpes and Scott Outfitters (8592) • Donald Jacklin (Punjab urial, Sindh grysbok, ostrich, serval) with Stone Texas ibex, Blanford urial) with Karakurum Safaris (8601) • James Rorison (whitetail deer) with Treks and Tours (8600) 74 Ranch Resort (8610) Slovenia Wyoming • Jerry Hale (, zebra, dik-dik, Cape buffalo, lion) with Rungwa • Michael Cleere (alpine chamois) with • Paul Bianchi Jr. and Lu Bianchi Game Safaris (8605) Artemis Hunting Ltd. (8611) (pronghorn) with Oxbow Outfitters Spain (8618) Zimbabwe • Jarell W. Martin (leopard, sable, • Trygve Aasvestad (, Canada Limpopo bushbuck, , southeastern ibex) with Ibex Hunt British Columbia grysbok, hyena) with Impala African Spain (8595) • Don Detwiler (wolf, bobcat, Safaris (8617) • David F. Bishop (mouflon) with Ibex mountain lion, lynx) with Ram Creek • Kevin McAdams (Cape buffalo, Hunt Spain (8593) Outfitters (8616) zebra, impala) with Threeways • David F. Bishop (Beceite ibex) with Quebec: Safaris (8604) Ibex Hunt Spain (8594) • Ed Yates (whitetail deer) with Safari Elsewhere • Atle Brenden (southeastern ibex, Anticosti (8596) Australia mouflon) with Ibex Hunt Spain Africa • Trevor Dennis (water buffalo, feral (8598) Central African Republic donkey) with John Clark’s Coralsea • Darryl Hastings (southeastern ibex, • Bob Merkley (red-flanked duiker, Safaris (8597) Ronda ibex, mouflon, Cantabrian harnessed bushbuck, western Mexico chamois) with Fernando Saiz (8608) roan, Lord Derby eland, , • RP Musselman (mule deer, Coues • WJ (Bill) McClelland (Ronda ibex, bush duiker, blue duiker, Central deer) with Solimar Hunting Safaris southeastern ibex, mouflon) with Savannah buffalo, Lelwel hartebeest) (8619) Eurohunts (8603) this hunt. Pay attention to it, and you’ll positive reports on caribou hunts 376-4868; www.canadanorthoutfitting. be fine. Deltana is an absolutely first- taken in 2011 in Nunavut, with Ryan St. com) and reports taking an “average class operation - I cannot recommend John of Henik Lake Adventures (867- trophy with nice tops.” them more highly. A great hunt in 857-2587: www.heniklakeadventures. Schubert also hunted caribou in wild country.” com). Taken together, reports 8346 Manitoba (report 8351) with Webbers by Jery Goss, 8347 by Douglas J. Lodges. (888-932-2377; www.

Beaudoin, 8378 by Robert Di Pietro, webberslodges.com), taking a central Still on the subject of Alaska caribou, 8379 by James Carstens, and 8380 by barren-ground caribou: “Nice hunt, subscriber Larry Seidler reports taking Jonathan Warke paint a picture of great guides, and a beautiful area. Hit a trophy caribou while on a combo three very successful hunting weeks. the caribou late enough that everything bear and ‘bou hunt with Perrins Gross completed his caribou slam here was mature and out of velvet.” Rainy Pass Lodge (907-248-7599; www. with his largest trophy; Warke took In the Yukon, subscriber Jose Marti theperrinsrainypasslodge.com). He what he describes as a “giant” tundra took a 376 B&C mountain caribou notes that one of the highlights of the wolf. Still in Nunavut, subscriber Greg while on a mixed bag hunt with South hunt was “riding bareback to intercept Schubert (report 9487) hunted arctic Nahanni Outfitters (867-399-3194; caribou on the last day of the season.” islands caribou near Cambridge Bay, www.huntnahanni.com). In Canada we received five entirely with Canada North Outfitting (450- (continued) May 2012 13 THE HUNTING REPORT The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel

Briefly Noted (continued from page 12) Outfitter Critiques (continued) hunting partner stayed behind and had opportunities at bears, but failed to Controversies take one. Last month, we told you that a (Editor Note: Any paid subscriber may (We have three other reports on file, 2621, former employee of Miller Trophy request a free copy of any of the following 5110, and 5085 for Aleutian Islands Guide files this month at no additional charge Room had been indicted in the Service, all positive.) by email or fax. Email Extra subscribers Eastern District of North Carolina already have automatic access to all of these on federal charges relating to the reports, as well as our entire database of alleged relabeling, misuse and reports and articles, through the password Subscriber Reggie Pratt is unhappy misapplication of a registered protected section of our website. As always, with a combo whitetail, mule deer and pesticide. According to the we recommend that you do not make a elk hunt in Montana handled for him by indictment, Miller Trophy Room’s decision on any hunting opportunity based Brent Fitchett of Elk Creek Outfitting, “proprietary formula” trophy on only one report, good or bad. Look at the in Heron, Montana. Pratt says his preservative was nothing more than total picture, then decide for yourself.) group took three whitetails in the 130- the registered pesticide Termidor class, but he says he never saw an elk Subscriber Robert Whyard is unhappy SC (a trade name for Fipronil), or mule deer. Others in his group of with the way his Kodiak brown bear produced by BASF, which Miller’s five reportedly saw a few elk cows. hunt in Alaska was handled by Tim diluted and applied to game mounts “There was no game, as the area was Booch of Aleutian Islands Guide Ser- as a preservative to prevent insect so heavily hunted. We had at least 16 vice, booked through Safari Outfitters. damage. hunters in camp with one elk and one “Guide was a no-show,” he writes. Not surprisingly, that report mule deer taken during the six days we “Sent apprentice guide for two hunt- unleashed a flurry of phone calls ers.” Whyard goes on to say that they were there,” writes Pratt. He goes on to and emails from subscribers wanting had no boats, no four-wheelers and no say, “They wanted the five in our party clear answers about how dangerous support. He says Booch’s reasons for to line up 1/8 mile apart and drive the this chemical is and what to do if not guiding them were that his feet hurt elk to each other as we went down the charges are true and Fipronil and his wife was sick. the mountain. We refused to hunt that was used on their trophies. way, so we just walked up and down In a very detailed response, Booch says Unfortunately, clear, concise steep mountains with no game in sight. that he was forced to leave Whyard answers are very difficult to come I had a guide who dropped me off and and his hunting companion with his by. Frankly, at this point we aren’t let me walk five miles to where he slept assistant guide (not an apprentice), sure that even a trained chemist or in his truck waiting for me. This was because of a medical problem. A severe chemical engineer could give clear my ninth elk hunt and the only bad skin rash on his feet caused by an experience I have had.” answers. But here’s what we know allergic reaction to the neoprene booties so far. in his chest waders rendered him In a rebuttal Fitchett emailed to us, he Termidor/Fipronil is a very widely unable to conduct the hunt himself. says, “I am sorry, but it is impossible to used pesticide typically applied by “It had become unbearable, and I was make all the hunters happy. Sometimes pest-control professionals around worried that it would become septic if the weather and the week they come is home foundations to eliminate and I didn’t get to town and deal with it,” not as good as they had hoped. I can’t prevent termite and ant infestations. he says. control the weather and the game; we The general public also applies Booch also says he had told the hunters do the best we can. It was not all that Fipronil, since it is also used in prior to arrival in Kodiak that his bad the week they were here. They lawn care pest-control products and assistant guide, Dan Ondersma, would got three deer, and there were other spot-treatment for fleas and ticks on be hunting with them. “Although hunters in the camp that week who had pets. It is apparently not approved Dan had not conducted a hunt from a great time. Some bulls were passed for use inside buildings except this particular camp, by the time of up the same week and other hunters in enclosed wall voids and in the this hunt, he had been conducting saw elk. enclosed “baits” that homeowners successful hunts for me as an assistant “We have been in business for over typically put out to control ants and guide for three years. He is a competent 20 years, and as in any business, it is cockroaches. and accomplished guide,” says Booch. impossible to please everyone, but we The issue with the treatment of The reason he gives for no four- do our best. We have a good, clean, trophies is not as much with the wheelers is that the hunt was on state respected business, and have over 50 chemical used as with the fact land where motorized vehicles are percent return clients.” that no risk assessment had been illegal. Booch admits he had promised Fitchett also included some thank you performed on this product in this a raft, but says he decided against it letters from previous clients to support application. Typically, these risk due to a physical challenge one of the his statements. assessments are lengthy, detailed hunters had. (We have two other reports on file for Elk and expensive processes, and the Booch says Whyard decided to leave Creek Outfitting, 2203 and 6420, both (continued) early after an unsuccessful stalk. His positive.) 14 Vol. 32 No. 5 The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel

the area before and had arrived only Briefly Noted (continued)

a couple of days before Cook had. He government takes very seriously Subscriber Roger L. Gregg is says his hunt was supposed to be 1x1, any attempt to circumvent these unsatisfied with a hunt in England but that a bowhunter was “tagging safety controls. conducted for him by Malcom Harman along,” and when they saw a bull they Several of the readers who called of UK Outfitters. Gregg says the Pere “pretty much had to draw straws to see expressed concern that the chemical David deer, and roe buck he who was going to go after it.” Finally, might be poisoning the air inside hunted were scarce and generally of he says that on the last day of the hunt, their homes. When we called the poor trophy quality. The Manchurian the outfitter left camp for home and left National Pesticide Information sika deer he took, he says, was less his two clients and one guide in camp Center (NPIC), (800-858-7378), we than average and that he shot the only to finish packing up camp before the were directed to a Fipronil Technical one he saw. He says he was sold a plane came to pick them up. Fact Sheet (www.npic.orst.edu/ silver medal or better Pere David deer, In a very detailed rebuttal letter, Roe factsheets/fiptech.html) which but that only one of this species was counters that Cook’s guide knew the indicated that the product has a low available and it didn’t even make the area he was hunting and had actually vapor pressure. It was explained SCI Record Book. Gregg says he cannot been hunting with him since the that this means the chemical is less recommend the hunt because of the beginning of the season. “On the hunt likely to vaporize and contaminate trophy quality he saw and a two-year before Tom’s, the guide had to leave the air inside a room or home at delay in getting his trophies. camp for a few days for a family matter normal room temperatures. Harman expresses surprise in a rebuttal but came back before Tom arrived,” Roe The “Toxicity Classification” for letter he sent us, saying he had no idea says. “The whole area is 2,200 square Fipronil ranged from “moderate Gregg was unhappy with any aspect miles; no guide is familiar with the toxicity” to “very low toxicity,” of his hunt and that this is the first whole area, but all guides were familiar depending on whether the chemical complaint he has received in over with the area they were hunting.” was ingested, inhaled, or placed 25 years of hunting. He says Gregg Roe says Cook had more than one on the skin. We were also told measured the Pere David deer himself opportunity for a moose but did not that toxicity would likely depend after shooting it and seemed to be connect for various reasons out of Roe’s on level of direct exposure to the satisfied at the time. The other animals control. As for the bowhunter, Roe chemical. When we asked about are representative quality, he says. says that both hunters were hunting direct exposure, we were told 1x1. Roe was guiding the bowhunter. Harman does admit a delay in that “a bear rug would obviously sending Gregg’s trophies. He says he Both hunters stayed in the same spike present a different level of direct experienced a difficult recovery period camp. Roe says they went out together exposure than a head mount hung after contracting Lyme disease along for four days because there were three on a wall.” It would also obviously with some personal setbacks that moose in one area, and he thought depend on the number of trophies affected his ability to complete certain there would be a good chance at treated and how they are displayed obligations. “I apologized to Mr. Gregg, harvesting two moose. “There were and handled. and am gradually getting my life and never any straws drawn,” he says. The NPIC did point out that Fipronil business back in line,” he says. Roe admits that the horses did leave degrades quickly in the presence of (We have four other reports on UK camp on their hobbles on two occasions UV light. This may have served to Outfitters in our database, 3238, 3156, and had to be retrieved. “This happens 3737, and 5169, all positive.) now and again,” he says, but maintains break down some of the chemical that the horses cannot be tied up all on the surface of a mount, though day and night and not allowed to would have less effect at the base of eat. Roe says Cook got full days of the hairs. Tom Cook does not recommend a hunting regardless, as he left and Ultimately, however, we were not moose hunt he experienced in British returned in the dark each day and that able to find any guidelines which Columbia with Dean Roe of MVP he made up two days when his hunt clearly indicated “safe” exposure Guides and Outfitters. While he saw was extended. That was because the levels, specifically because a risk four moose on his hunt, he says, “The plane was delayed due to weather, assessment had not been done for guides had no idea where the moose and Cook’s guide continued to take this use. If it turns out your trophies were.” He says they lost two entire him hunting until the plane was able were illegally treated with Fipronil, days of hunting, plus the first couple to fly into camp. He also addresses the you will ultimately have to make of hours on other days, because they other issues Cook had with the hunt. your own decision about the level had to round up the horses the outfitter Interested hunters should read the let out to feed every night. On another of exposure you are likely to receive entire file before making up their mind day he says the outfitter decided not and whether you consider that to be one way or another, and we urge any to hunt so he could clean up “someone “safe.” subscriber who has hunted with Roe to else’s camp.” Cook says his guide was We were also told that humans file a report. good, but that he had never hunted can be tested for exposure to this (continued) (continued)

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Briefly Noted (continued) the implications for hunters who may that in mind, we have attempted to chemical. If you are concerned, we have unwittingly had their trophies contact BASF, the manufacturer of suggest you contact your primary care treated with Fipronil. While it’s now Termidor to see if we could ascertain physician and have him or her contact clear that most of us have probably how trophies could be tested for the had contact with this chemical for presence of the chemical and what, if the NPIC for testing procedures. other uses inside and outside our any, steps could be taken to minimize Like many of our readers, we homes, we still don’t have any clear or remove any lingering danger–if continue to be troubled by the sense of how much exposure is such danger actually exists. Thus far, unanswered questions which still too much. As they say at the NPIC, we don’t have any answers. Stay revolve around this criminal case and “The dose makes the poison.” With tuned.

Outfitter Critiques (continued) name. But Craig says he has a good donation.’ The donation was valued idea who it was and that he is one of at $14,250. I told Dirk I would be his best guides, having guided many happy with a replacement hunt valued

successful mule deer hunts. He says anywhere between $8,000 and $14,000, Ron Mika does not recommend a this “kid” can out work, out hike and adding that most rhino hunts with combo hunt for mule deer, whitetail out hunt his clients. He concludes, “I other reputable outfitters were selling and black bear in Idaho handled for could get 50 positive reviews from this for around $10,000, and I would be him by Matt Craig of Boulder Creek hunt for every negative one. Not all satisfied with that. Dirk refused, saying Outfitters, based in Peck, Idaho. He hunts go as planned all the time, but that he was only willing to cover the hunted Boulder Creek’s Joseph Camp we run a successful and professional cost of the donation.” Klapmeier says in Unit 13 and says that although he outfit and have done so for 34 years he requested a refund at that point. “On took an “average” mule deer, he never now. You don’t do that by putting on November 11, 2010, Dirk said he would saw a whitetail deer or a black bear and bad hunts.” refund the chapter,” says Klapmeier. that the guides were of no help once he When asked about Mika’s comments “I have repeatedly tried to contact him and his partners took mule deer. “Our about the species available in the area, with no response.” guide was a lazy kid we barely could Craig responded: “In that area I would Faul is no longer with Ntshonalanga get out of his enclosed four-wheeler,” say an average buck ranges in the Safaris, which went bankrupt in 2010. he writes. “He would only look for upper 150s to mid-160s, and about 40 In a rebuttal statement Faul emailed deer above the logging roads and to 50 percent of the bucks taken each to us, he says the donated hunt was throw small boulders off cliffs to chase year score roughly 170 or better, with originally good only for 2009 but deer out of hiding. He also told us not usually four to five going 180 or better. that he agreed to extend it and later to ‘waste our time on whitetail and The whitetails and bears aren’t major bear’ because he ‘needed to switch over informed Klapmeier that the expire players on this hunt. The opportunity to guiding some elk hunters coming to date for the donation would be June 1, on the whitetails is about 50 percent, camp and there weren’t many around.’ 2010 due to the legal issues with dart and the bear are pretty low, around 20- hunts in South Africa. Five months “The head guides and owners were 25 percent. The main event on this hunt after that date, he says he offered preoccupied with getting ready for a is the mule deer, not whitetail or bear. Klapmeier a plains game hunt equal in film crew coming into camp later in We don’t even charge our hunters to value to the minimum he required from the week. It was also apparent that harvest a whitetail or bear, so they are the SCI chapter that auctioned it. Faul they were keeping certain hunting just added bonuses.” areas for their film crew hunters. Once says that, after consulting financial and (We have three positive reports on file, 3942, hunters in camp had harvested their legal aid, “it was decided to not refund 4185, and 4245 for Boulder Creek Outfitters, mule deer or elk, they were given no Mr. Klapmeier as the effort was great assistance with whitetail hunting. The and one negative, 2210, from 2000.) in allowing him the opportunity to camp was in very poor condition. The do the hunt or to substitute the hunt.” dining hall was always a mess. Worst Faul concludes that Klapmeier should hunt I’ve ever been on. I’d hunt the unit Mark Klapmeier is unhappy with the pursue Ntshonalanga Safaris for his again, but with someone else. It is a way Dirk Faul of Ntshonalanga Safaris losses. “I am more than willing to put quality mule deer area, but forget about handled a donated rhino dart hunt anyone in contact with the legal firm whitetail and bear.” in South Africa. Klapmeier purchased who did the audit and the bankruptcy,” In a rebuttal Matt Craig emailed to us, the hunt at the Lake Superior SCI he says. he says, “We’ve done TV shows for Chapter fundraiser in 2009. He We have eight previous reports on over 20 years now and very rarely get postponed the hunt. In July 2010 new Ntshonalanga Safaris, all positive. We complaints about it. We absolutely do regulations regarding green rhino would very much like to hear from not play favorites with the TV crews; hunting were enacted in South Africa any subscribers who have hunted with they hunt the same exact locations as and Klapmeier’s hunt was no longer or on hunts arranged by Faul since everyone else.” As for Mika’s guide, viable. “I asked Dirk what my options the demise of Ntshonalanga Safaris in Craig was unsure which guide it was, were,” says Klapmeier. “His response 2010. We feel that such reports would and Mika could not remember his was, ‘I have a $4,500 cost on that help clarify this situation. 16 Vol. 32 No. 5 The Independent News Service For Hunters Who Travel Lock, Stock & Barrel: Items in this section are paid advertisements. For more details on our ad rates & policies, contact: Edi Bell, The Hunting Report, 12182 SW 128 Street, Miami, FL 33186-5230, USA. Telephone: 305-253-5301, Fax: 305-253-5532, E-mail: [email protected]

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Contact Olivia Nalos - Phone: +1-512-689-3796 (mobile) Columbia whitetail. Email: [email protected] / Website: www.tanzaniaquest.com Rifle, archery, or muzzleloader. 541-290-2671 Safaris of a Lifetime! www.edenridgeoutfitters.com Brian Peterson, Master Guide Kodiak Island Bear, goat, deer, ducks. Tel. 907-830-2802 E-mail: [email protected] www.Ugakbay.com Wanted Entire collections of taxidermy mounts or individual taxidermy items. Contact: Gene Harris Tel. 305-573-3011. Fax 305-573-9343. AFRICAN SAFARIS Over 30 years of experience. We have over 60 species on our preserve. Most affordable packages and safaris. Contact Steve at African Safaris International Tel. 604-879-5321 or 778-300-1365 E-mail: [email protected] www.africansafarisint.com

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“Africa is Within Your Reach” Hunt New Caledonia Kikuyu Lodge Game Reserve Biggest free-range DEER American-owned. Now booking for 2012-2013 in the WORLD. Contact Larry at 269-358-2950 (cell) www.trophyrusadeer.nc E-mail: [email protected] www.rusadeerhunting.nc or [email protected] Wendell Reich Cross Hair Consulting Hunter’s Quest International Offering Worldwide Hunts Tel. 214-692-8769 Tel. 925-679-9232 LOMAS CHICAS OUTFITTERS Web: www.huntersquest.com www.crosshairconsulting.com Hunt free-ranging nilgai in low-fence, MEXICO TROPHY WHITETAILS Pope & Young Dall Sheep target-rich country that makes for a very 140 to over 200 B & C. Tel. 888-293-2299. exciting and challenging “spot-and-stalk” Six-day package hunt, $6,000. E-mail: [email protected] hunt. Guaranteed shot! Guaranteed great Season leases available. www.nwtoutfitters.com hunt! If you appreciate “The Hunt” then you will appreciate hunting nilgai, which 281-793-0526 or 713-505-1416 are the hardest to hunt and toughest to kill www.huntinmexico.com on the North American continent. Call Sam at 361-294-5334 For Guided North American or Fred at 956-232-0107 Big Game Hunts www.lomaschicasoutfitters.com Go to: www.huntfinder.com

Big Game Hunting Books Trophy Room Books. Tel. 818-889-2469. www.trophyroombooks.com 21 Day Rungwa Lion, Elephant, Kent Klineburger Taxidermy, insect control/cleaning Leopard, Buffalo & Plainsgame Safari and all repairs. Appraisals. Tel. 425-785-0032 $104,760 (A Savings of $8,300!) GAMEMASTERS of the WORLD Quota on license: Elephant, Lion (6 years or older), Leopard, Croc, (3) Buffalo and Chris Klineburger’s book that every large selection of Plains Game sportsman should own. Prices include per hunter: Full 21 Days Hunting & 3 travel days, daily rates, food & drink, all luxury camp and PH services, licenses, dip/pack, trophy prep, import permit $50 postage paid. for 2 rifles, air charters to/from hunting areas and $20,000 towards trophy fees. www.gamemastersoftheworld.com Not included: Hotel overnight (approx $350), personal travel costs and international Tel. 425-894-3119 airfare, CITES import permit for Leopard/Elephant, final amounts of trophy fees, tips & gratuities. Observers and or hunting companions can be added for additional fees. Hollek Co Int’l Ltd. Sorry that you missed the special pricing! Now the NEW prices. Marco Polo Kyrgyzstan for 2012 & 2013 - $22,500 Mid-Asian Ibex - $4,500 Vietnam Buffalo and Mixed Bag - $11,000 Destinations in the future for this year. Peru-Turacan Deer. South American big game and Contact Tanzania Adventures Inc. for detailed quotation and to add companion bird shooting at very good prices. hunters & non-hunting observers. Pakistan. Call for prices for all animals. Contact Olivia Nalos - Phone: +1-512-689-3796 (mobile) Tel: 941-266-5409 Email: [email protected] / Website: www.tanzaniaquest.com Maine Trophy Moose Guide Service Guy Randlett Tel: 207-633-4549 Safaris of a Lifetime! www.mainetrophymoose.com

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