Recent content by bakerb

I actually faced this exact question. I won the SCI dream hunts sweepstakes and had a $100,000 budget. I blew it all on a big bull/leopard hunt in Botswana :cool: I would make the same decision today if I did it all over again

I like the Heym in 404 or 416 idea myself. Might be a little over $15k

I should add. A local company will order the hats and embroider them. With the digitalization fee and the hats etc. it should cost about $250 for 10 hats

I have been wrestling over hats for a while. I own some nice Resistol hats. Have a ton of Kuiu. Etc. but wanted a ball cap for ease of travel However I couldn’t find a hat I liked. Kuiu hats are small and feel tight to me. Couldn’t find a trucker hat with a logo I liked. I didn’t want to rep...

11. I forgot about Tur.

1. Altai argali 2. Altai argali 3. Altai argali (I want one SO bad) 4. Marco Polo 5. Markhor 6. Spanish ibex 7. Free range red stag 8. Free range fallow. 9. Scottish highlands red stag 10. Scottish highlands red stag (I love the highlands)

I had to have a nerve conduction study on my legs. About 30 electric shocks per leg, from my knees to my toes. Equivalent to a hot fence! It sucked!!

1. Elk. Big herd bull over 360” with a bow. Unguided draw tag. I’ve killed a handful with a bow including one herd bull. And a 383 herd bull with a muzzleloader. But I simply LOVE hunting them. I need a big one with my bow. 2. A 170”+ whitetail. With a bow. At home, that I’ve worked for to...

Big elephant bull and wild lion

Mom caught me at like 8 or 9 years old dissecting a bird I shot with a dull kitchen knife and old socks as gloves. She never said a word. But next day (she is a nurse), she brought me scalpels and real surgical gloves.

Nobody hunted in my family. But I had supportive parents who were country raised, and we lived outside of town bordering thousands of acres of public land. I was fascinated by tracks. When I was 7 I got a BB gun and I was hell on songbirds. Spent hours and hours stalking and shooting birds...

That poor mahout may have never been able to hear again

I guess I may be the odd man out. It doesn’t bother me greatly. 1. They may actually be hunting. In 2023 I was in a fly camp in Botswana for 14 days. The WiFi was down. It became a running joke that it was gonna be “done tomorrow”. In the end, my PH said “this is Africa”. And it wasn’t fixed...

I’m a little surprised by the gun owner map too. I just used Grok AI and asked how may AR15s in America. It’s an estimate as there is no national registry, but the latest estimate is 30-32 million AR15s in civilian ownership in America. I’m a little proud of that number

Pretty typical rural America. Gotta filter out the meth users sometimes.