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If a lion ever reaches you, the odds of your survival are small. He may weightlifting’s 450 pounds, he may not even be wounded: yet when he comes, his charge will be low and fast, and he may bring friends with him.

Lion hunting in Botswana is conducted by tracking. Baiting is not legal and relying on a chance sighting is not productive. You hunt lions by finding tracks, determining the sex and the size, and then following the tracks of the big mate. 

Capstick Hunting The Cape Buffalo

The African safari is an unforgettable experience: unique, ever-changing, challenging, romantic, dangerous and rewarding. After years of thinking about a safari, you might book one a year in advance, pack a month in advance, travel for three days, hunt for three weeks, and remember it for a lifetime. 

With the assistance of Gordon Cundill and professional hunters Jeff Ranm and Ronnie Blackbeard of Hunters Africa, Capstick takes Wilson on a Safari in three distinct ecological areas of Botswana: the Chobe River, The Okavango Delta, and the Kalahari Desert.

Capstick Hunting The African Elephant

Capstick Hunting The White Rhino

I never dreamed that this would be Peter Capstick's last Safari, but now I realize Peter must have thought so, which explains the sudden urgency of his desire to embark on a leopard safari in order to complete the Big 5 on video.   As you will see, a leopard safari is much more than hunting leopard... especially with with Peter Capstick in camp!

Kampala, Equator Monument, Lake Mburo National Park, Queen Elizabeth National Park (Isha and the Kazinga Channel), Bwindi Impenetrable Forest with a hike to see Mountain Gorillas (featuring close-up footage of big Silverbacks), and Murchison Falls. 

Join PH Keith Charters and client Ken Wilson on a safari organized and outfitted by Christian Weth’s Uganda Wildlife Safaris in the Aswa-Lolim Concession, they successfully hunt Nile Buffalo and Uganda Kob. And in the Kafu River Basin, they connect on East African Situnga, Nile Bushbuck and East African Bush Duiker. 

Dave Harshbarger and Ken Wilson hunt the Selous of Tanzania with famed outfitter/PH Luke Samaras. Both shoot good Elephants with frontal brain shots. The footage of Harbarger’s shot endure as one of the most spectacular ever captured on video. Then Harshbarger shoots a Leopard that requires heart-pounding tracking and shooting from multiple guns. Wilson completes the safari by shooting the best of two male Lions on the 20th day.

The "Big 3" of glamour game in Masailand are the highly-prized "21-day animals" that are both unique and difficult to hunt. They are the Gerenuk, Lesser Kudu, and Fringe-Eard Oryx. Led by Professional Hunter Peter Dafner of P.D. Safaris, Ken Wilson successfully hunts the "Big 3" in the Mto Wa Mbu hunting block, plus he is able to add excellent specimens of Grant's Gazelle, Thompson's Gazelle, White-Bearded Wildebeest, East African Impala, Kirk's Dik-Dik and Chanler's Mountain Reedbuck.

Hunting the Swagga Swagga concession on the Masai Steppes of Tanzania, Arther Schmidt (with PH Alistair James) and Ryan Wilson (with PH Pepo Arribas) knock two male leopards out of the same tree from the same blind. Designated bait procurer, Ken Wilson, adds on-camera hunts for East African Greater kudu, Coke hartebeest, klipspringer and olive baboon. Plus bonus footage of the incredible wildlife of Ngorongoro Crater.

Join Ken Wilson as he successfully hunts three species that can only be hunted in Namibia: the diminutive Damara Dik-Dik, the beautiful Hartmann's Mountain Zebra and the dangerous Namibian Oryx. Ken is also able to get footage of a Cheetah and Black-Faced Impala, two species that can be hunted in Namibia, but cannot currently be imported to the United States. Ken also hunts Southern Greater Kudu, Red Hartebeest and Kalahari Springbok. 55 minute runtime.

Join Steve McManus, Blanton Wofford, and Ken Wilson as they travel from Douala to Garoua to the Djibao Safaris concession along the Chad border where they hunt with PHs Gilles Dancy and Jean-Louis LeDuc. With the help of native trackers and water-bearers, the hunters divide the licensed species and successfully hunt 16 animals comprising 10 species including the highly-prized Lord Derby Eland, Western Roan, and Northwestern Savannah Buffalo. All hunting arrangements were made by Chris Weth of CS-Jagdkontor Safari Outfitters and Guides. 

A big male leopard charges Roy Sparks in Zimbabwe. Professional Hunter Mark Butcher rushes in and shoots the leopard off of Sparks. Buck Rogers videotapes all the events before, during and after the charge. Hunter and eye-witness. Hal Ahlberg narraters the nightmare that African hunters dream about.

Zibabwes Glamour Game

Zambia Safari Buffalo and Roan

The Bangweulu Swamps are the only place in the world where the Black Lechwe exists. Only the male has horns, which are ringed and lyre-shaped, with 23 inches considered to be a good trophy. In order to increase the chances for an excellent specimen, Wayne and Ronnie and a skeleton staff move to fly camp. The reward is that Wayne is able to take a beautiful 26 incher on-camera.Then the hunting begins for one of Africa's greatest trophies: the ghost of the swamps, the legendary Zambezi Sitatunga, an aquatic antelope that lives in the swamps. As a defense mechanism, Sitatunga can actually submerge with only their nostrils above water.

Wayne Pocius starts with a record book Cookson's Wildebeest which has the largest horns and body of the Wildebeest family and is only found in the Luangwa Valley. Then Wayne takes on a big Nile Crocodile. First hunting 2 on 1 with Wayne and then 1 on 1 with Ronnie, Ken Wilson shoots a Spotted Hyena, Puku, Hippopotamus, Cookson's Wildebeest, Nile Crocodile, Warthog, Southern Impala, and Cape Buffalo. The Buff is finally killed after arising from the "dead." The hippo doubles as Lion bait with interesting results including a charge by a Lioness.Then Ken and Ronnie drive southwest of Lusaka to the Kafue Flats, the great floodplain of the Kafue River and home to large herds of Kafue Flats Lechwe. Only the males have horns and they are spectacular, sub-lyrate, and often exceed 30"; by far the largest of the Lechwe family. With no cover on the wetlands, Ken uses shooting sticks to make a long shot on a fine specimen of 32".

Near the Sangha River in southwestern C.A.R., Alain Lefol Safaris conducts hunts for western bongo, western sitatunga and the duikers of the rain forest. Hunter Ken Wilson is guided by professional hunter Alain Lefol and assistant PH Jean Christophe Lefol out of a camp managed by Elane Lefol. For many years, Alain Lefol has hired the hunters of the Pandjele Pygmy tribe as his trackers and, led by Mekama, Mekatijo, Lipoupa and Gombo, they are among the world's best.

Thanks to private landowners, enlightened by game departments, and responsible professional hunters, the indigenous wildlife of South Africa has proliferated in recent decades; and not just the more common species, but also the species that have made remarkable comebacks from near extinction including black wildebeest, bontebok, and with rhino. To encourage the hunting of all of the challenging indigenous game animals of South Africa, the Professional Hunters’ Association of South Africa (“PHASA”) now gives an award to those hunters who successfully pursue The South African 37. This video not only shows all 37 qualifying species, including 30 on-camera hunts, but it also shows much of the travel and scenery that has caused South Africa to be called “a world one country.”

To experience a safari in Argentina is to experience the land and people of Argentina as well as its wildlife. 

Buetos Aires is a huge cosmopolitan city with a population of 11,500,000 which is about 1/3 of Argentina’s entire population: the largest Spanish speaking country in the world.

Hugh and Stella Winky, doing an “Argentina Safari,” host four U.S. hunters (Ken Wilson of Sportsmen on Film, Lad Shutnesson, Dave Hashbarger, and Tom Grimes). The results are exciting from start to finish. 

46 Heartpounding On-camera Trophy Hunts

Greatest Hits Two

In the mid-19th century, while the "transportation" of prisoners of Mother England to Australia was coming to an end, the transportation of eight deer species was in full-swing. As a result, 21st century hunters can hunt all eight species in Australia: Hog Deer, Sambar, Javan Rusa, Moluccan Rusa, Wapiti, Red Stag, Chital and Fallow. Be a part of the adventure as Ken Wilson and Lad Shunneson team up with the McCormicks (Mick, Michael and Sheryl) of Australian South Pacific Safaris to hunt the provinces of Victoria, South Australia and Tasmania for all eight species of deer.

Ken Wilson is the first hunter into the eastern portion of Aboriginal Arnhem Land. Ken's professional hunter for the entire safari is Murray Thomas of Murray Thomas Safaris and the author of "South Pacific Trophy Hunter." The first trophy hunted is the Asian Water Buffalo which is the size and color of a Cape Buffalo but with a different horn configuration which, for many, make it a more impressive trophy than the African species.From Arnhem Land, Ken and Murray fly to the Cobourg Peninsula, northeast of Darwin, for the hunting of Banteng which is an elusive wild ox.The next stop is the island of New Caledonia, about 800 miles off the east coast of Australia and home to about 200,000 Rusa Deer.

Wilson hunts Sika Deer with famous Kiwi hunter Murray Cameron. South Island: Visit beautiful Christchurch, Queenstown, Lake Wanaka, the Southern Alps & the Southland. Hunt for Tahr, Chamois, Red Stag, Fallow Deer, & Arapawa Ram.

In the steep mountains overlooking the Adriatic Sea and the resort town of Makarska, Croatia, Ken Wilson and Tom Montgomery each shoot Balkan Chamois in early November followed by a brief tour of historic Dubrovnik. In Romania, Wilson and Montgomery each shoot Carpathian Chamois in the snowy mountains of Central Romania followed by brief tours of “Count Dracula’s Castle” and the museum that displays many of the hunting trophies of infamous dictator Nicolae Ceausecu. Burkhard Zietlow of Jagdkontor Hunting Adventures, Germany, arranged the hunts and was the tour guide for Croatia and Romania. He also shared video duties with Gary Goodgame. Then Wilson joins Ray Young as they hunt pure Kri-Kri Ibex on two islands in Greece: Atalanti Island northwest of Athens and Sapienza Island off the southwest coast of the Peloponnese Peninsula near historic Methoni Castle. The hunts takes place during the olive harvest month of November, and a brief visit to ancient Olympia is included.

In Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Yugoslavia) the commonly hunted animals are Red Stag, Fallow Stag, Roe Buck, Mouflon Ram, Wild Boar and Chamois. Carl Stelzer of Stelko Hunting outfits a magnificent expedition for the Eastern European Six in the beautiful Czech Republic. Hunters Ken Wilson and Lad Shunneson both take excellent trophies of each species on-camera in a series of exciting sequences laced with some of the travel and adventure that await hunters experiencing Eastern Europe and its intriguing history and long hunting tradition.

The cities and countryside of Scotland are replete with history and beauty that you will experience interspersed among the fantastic bunt-bug that is available. 

England has a long and illustrious history of protecting indigenous and introduced game animals in the wild and on estates. Sightseeing tours are important and interesting asides to the hunting adventure.In early winter, join Ken Wilson and family as they tour London and beautiful southeast England before Ken hunts Red Stag, Chinese Water Deer, Manchurian/Formosan Sika, and Fallow Deer with James Ellis and Derek Bond. Then, in late summer, join Lad Shunneson as he hunts the two most prolific deer species in England, the introduced Reeves Muntjac with James Ellis and the indigenous Roe Buck with Richard Bond.

To capture the excitement, Rick Morgan videotaped Ken and Lorraine Wilson hunting in the Summer (with Eduardo F. deAraoz of CAZATUR/MUNDICAZA) and Wayne Pocius hunting in the Fall (with CAZATUR/MUNDICAZA, CAZASPAIN, and HUNT TRIP) so you can experience the hunting of Ronda Ibex, Southeastern Ibex, Gredos Ibex, Red Stag, Mouflon Sheep and Pyrenean Chamois. You will also see a Monteria (driven hunt for Stag and Boar) and glimpses of San Sebastian, Barcelona, Madrid, Malaga, Marbella, Ronda, and Granada, plus the famous Running of the Bulls at Pamplona.

Baku, Azerbaijan

These extreme hunts each start with tours of fascinating Baku, the capital city of Azerbaijan with over 2,000,000 people. Baku is famous for its access to oil, its seaport on the Caspian Sea, and its Old City and unbridled new development. It has been known was the “Paris of Caucasus” and the “Gates to the Ancient East.”

Ken and Ryan Wilson travel and hunt Iran on a shikar organized by Esrafil Shafiezadeh’s JASMIN SAFARIS. In the mountains east of Tehran, Ken is guided to a gold medal Red Sheep by guides Hassan and Yaghoub. Northeast of Esfahan, Ken succeeds with an Esfahan Mouflon, guided by Ghasem and game scout, Reza. West of Kerman, Ghasem and head game scout, Muhammed, guide Ken to a gold medal Kerman Sheep. And near the Caspian Sea, Ali guides both Ken and Ryan to gold medal Eurasian Wild Boars As the Wilsons travel Iran with tour coordinator, Jahann, you will see footage of Tehran, Esfahan, Yazd and the Caspian Sea.

The hunt for the coveted Marco Polo sheep is not just a hunt; it is the greatest adventure in sheep hunting. Journey with outdoor filmmaker Ken Wilson, hunting consultant/outfitter Bob Kern, Dr. Roy Schultz. A Sportsmen on Film DVD production.

Kudu are the most sought after of Africa's big game. South Africa is home to the Eastern Cape Greater Kudu and the Southern Greater Kudu; the latter growing the largest horns of all the Kudu. In the Eastern Cape, professional hunter Bill Wille of Professionals of Africa guides both Ken and Ryan Wilson to record book Kudu on a safari hosted by Arthur Rudman. In the Transvaal, Bill guides the Wilsons to two more huge Kudu including a monster 60 incher. Numerous record book bulls are passed on-camera including eight different Kudu with horns of 54 to 58 inches! 

Caracal have never before been hunted on-camera. With the assistance of Rex Amm, Bill Wille guides his wife, Donna, and the Wilsons to three big, male Caracal...the infamous killers of both domestic and wild stock that are also known as the African Lynx.

When Richard Nixon was President and Nikita Krushchev was pounding on the negotiating table with his shoe, who would of conceived that American hunters, during the 20th century, would be able to fly from Anchorage, Alaska to Petropavlovsk, Russia and hunt Brown Bears on the Kamchatka Peninsula with Russian guides?Bob Kern of the Hunting Consortium arranged and outfitted successful hunts for Russia's big Brown Bears for William "Smitty" Smith, Ken Wilson, Lad Shunneson and Dennis Lord. Wilson also bags a Stone Capercaillie.Remote camps, snowmobiles, skis and experienced Russian guides are the keys to the incredible success of these hunts, along with proven outfitting strategies and adventurous hunters.

Travel with Bob Kern, Lad Shunneson and Ken Wilson from Almaty, Kazakhstan to Aktyubinsk and then fly across the Kazakh steppes in a Polish biplane. Hunt with Russian guides for Saiga Antelope, one of the world’s most unique animals with its large, swollen nose. 

This second part of the Asian safari epic covers hunting and adventure throughout Mongolia with Bob Kern, Lad Shunneson and Ken Wilson. From the capital of Ulaanbataar, travel to the Gobi Desert for White-Tailed and Black-Tailed Gazelle. Hunt herds of Siberian Ibex in the Western Altai Mountains. And then hunt Maral Stag by horseback and foot. Live in gers and share the traditions of the nomadic Mongols.

Hunting with crossbows and rifles, Ken and Ryan Wilson bag White- Lipped Peccary, Collared Peccary, Brown Brocket Deer, Puma, Water Buffalo, Feral Goat, Feral Sheep, Wild Boar, Fallow Deer, and Multi-Horned Sheep with Professional Hunters Paco Pizarro and Carlos Coto.Then Paco guides Dick Mann, accompanied by Lad Shunneson, on another mixed bag safari, including particularly exciting hunts for Water Buffalo and Puma.

Seven successful mule deer hunts for the new millennium take place on the front range of the Rocky Mountains near Boulder, Colorado with outfitter/guide/hunt-organizer Lad Shunneson of Lad Shunneson Adventures.

The six largest and most commonly hunted deer species in North America are Coues Deer and Whitetail, Columbia Blacktail and Sitka Blacktail, and Rocky Mountain Mule Deer and Desert Mule Deer.Deer Slam: Part One documents the hunting for Coues Deer, Columbia Blacktail Deer, and Rocky Mountain Mule Deer.Coues Deer are small whitetail indigenous to the hilly desert regions of Arizona, New Mexico, and northwestern Mexico. They are named for former U.S. Army doctor and naturalist Elliot Coues. Ken Wilson hunts Coues Deer in Sonora, Mexico with Carlos Gonzalez Hermosillo of Big Game Outfitters - Mexico.Columbia Blacktail Deer are distributed along the Pacific Coast region from Bella Bella, British Columbia to Monterey Country, California. Christopher Smith (who shoots a B&C buck on-camera) and Ken Wilson hunt Columbia Blacktail in northern California with Jim Schaafsma of Arrow Five Outfitters.Rocky Mountain Mule Deer have long and wide ears, like those on a mule, and are known for typical antlers with twin forks on each side. Dr. Bill Childress, Mitch and Roger Strew (using caplock and flintlock muzzleloaders, respectively), Drake Shunneson, and Ken Wilson hunt Rocky Mountain Mule Deer in Colorado with Lad Shunneson of Lad Shunneson Adventures.

The six largest and most commonly hunted deer species in North America are C- Deer and Whitetail, Colombia Blacktail and Sitka Blacktail, and Rocky Mountain Mule Deer and Desert Male Deer.

Deer Slam: Part Two documents the hunt for Whitetail Deer, Sitka Blacktail, and Desert Mule Deer. 

Blind Hunting for Big, Big Bucks - Features 9 successful on camera hunts plus the whitetail hunter's anthem "Thank You Dear". Special Features include hunting tips, a photo gallery, interactive menues, and jump to scene option. 

In some habitat and for some bucks, hunting from blinds is your only chance to bag a wary trophy while being sure of points, mass, and spread before pulling the trigger. There are few things on this earth more exciting then when a big, big buck materializes and your heart pound as you struggle to control the jumping crosshairs on your scope!

Thompson Temple of Texotic Wildlife leads to Ken Wilson of Sportsmen on Film, and five other hunters on an incredible hunt with each hunter taking a large trophy via a different hunting method.

Wayne Pocius has hunted Whitetails with his father for 28 consecutive years. First, in the Southern U.S., in a spectacular sequence, a big, heavy-horned, 9 point buck walks over the trail, digs at the scrape just before Wayne drops him with an arrow on-camera.Second, at a deer camp in Pennsylvania, Wayne and a group of hunters battle the dense cover, the weather, and the crowds to bag 3 deer including Wilson's on-camera rifle kill of a 10 pointer from a tree stand.Finally, in a wood lot in the Northern U.S., Wayne successfully still hunts a super high-tined and heavy bodied 10 pointer that is stalked and taken with a rifle on-camera.

As you will see, the island of Newfoundland is home to the world's largest concentration of Eastern Canada Moose and Woodland Caribou. Hunting western Newfoundland with Don and Rod Stowe of Mobile Outfitters and their staff, three hunters (Johnny Burke, Lad Shunneson, and Ken Wilson) each take excellent specimens of Woodland Caribou in the bogs near Deer Lake. Then Shunneson, Wilson, and Steve McManus helicopter into Mobile Outfitters' remote tent camp for the moose hunt of a lifetime with each looking over numerous bulls before taking high-scoring trophies.

Alligator, Bison, Caribou 

From the Alaska coast to the B.C. coast, join a cadre of hunters sucessfully pursuing trophy Black Bears by spot and stalk with renowned hunt organizer Lad Shunneson. 

For muskox, Ken Wilson and Lad Shunneson fly from Yellowknife to Gjoa Haven on King William Island, just north of the arctic coast. Gjoa Haven is an Inuit Inuit of about 1000 named for Roald Amundsen's boar, Gjoa, after he spent two winters in Gjoa Haven before becoming the first explorer to traverse the Northwest Passage with their Inuit guides, Nuliayuk "Jack" Ameralik and Kanayok "Sam" Takkiruq , the hunters travel south, over frozen ocean and land, by kamotiks and snowmobiles to hunt barren ground muskox. Each take Boone & Crockett animals while surviving temperatures of 40 below in April.For caribou, Wilson and Shunneson fly out of Yellowknife in August with a group of hunters in a Twin Otter and land on Little Martin Lake in front of their camp. This time wooden skiffs with outboard motors are the form of transportation to the assigned hunting areas which are changed, counterclockwise around the lake, each day. Camp Manager Greg Major wisely assigns jack Ameralik to guide Wilson and Shunneson because he knows that Shunneson talks to much for most Inuits who are not already used to his shenanigans. Experience pays off as Wilson And Shunneson each take two Boone & Crockett central Canada barren ground caribou.

Safari through British Columbia starting with a hunt for Canada Moose in Northern B.C. with Stone Mountain Safaris, Ken Wilson packs into moose country with his guide, Marty Kjos, and they share several campfires before bagging a big Bull. Then Ken reviews the film of Tom Carmody's successful Stone Sheep hunt with outfitter Gary Moore where Tom picks out the biggest Ram in a group of six and rolls it down a shale mountainside with one shot. Finally, Ken flies into Prince George and travels to the southern end of the Finley Mountains in Central B.C. where he packs in for a Stone Sheep and Mountain Goat hunt with outfitter-guide Charlie Stricker. They hunt Goat, first, and pass up a 10" Nanny before dropping a 9' Billy in a spectacular sequence. Then they backpack for Sheep and look over a lot of Rams before shooting one "on top of the world."

On a late season hunt in the Yukon, Ken Wilson and Joel Wilkinson each shoot record book mountain caribou north of Watson Lake with Ceaser Lake Outfitters. Then, on an early season hunt in the Northwest Territories with N.W.T. Outfitters, all of the spectacular footage from Sportsmen On Film's highly regarded Hunting Dall Sheep and Caribou in the NWT is shown.

The Records of Exotics record book that Thompson Temple pioneered lists 10 animals that constitute the SUPER SLAM OF EXOTICS. They are the Fallow Deer, Aoudad, Field Stag, Corsican Sheep, Mouflon Sheep, Sika Deer, Ibex, Axis Deer, Blackbuck Antelope and Catalina Goat. 

In “Hunting the Exotics: Part One”, Ken Wilson, of Sportsmen on Film, hunts the first half of the SUPER SLAN and, with the help of some to the best exotic guides in the business (Lad Shunneson, L.V. Hubbard and Thompson Temple), he takes all gold medal trophies on-camera. What do there animals look like, how do they act, what constitutes a good trophy, and how are they hunted? All of those questions are answered in detail in the context of live exciting hunts filmed over a period of three months. 

In Part Two, Ken completes the SUPER SLAM by taking Sika Deer with Lad Shunneson, Ibex with Finn Aagaard, Catalina Goat with Mark Cowden, Axis Deer with Thompson Temple, and Blackbuck Antelope with Bo Wafford. Then he successfully hunts a second Catalina Goat (which in the new number one for SCI) and the great Corsican shown below; both with Thompson Temple.

Thanks to hunters' trophy fees, hundreds of ranchers are providing the land, personnel, and capital that has resulted in greater numbers of some species in North America than now exist in their original native habitat. In addition to the on-camera hunting of Addax, Scimitar Horned Oryx, Eld's Deer, Barasingha Deer, Tibetan Yak, and Water Buffalo, you will see over 25 other species introduced to North America including Nilgai Antelope, Dama Gazelle, Nubian Ibex, Red Sheep, Reindeer, Hog Deer, Pere David Deer, Feral Hog (yes, they were imported centuries ago), Markhor and many more.

Since 1979, the Vail and Vickers Co., in conjunction with Multiple Use Managers (www.mumwildlife.com), has managed the hunting of Roosevelt Elk and Rocky Mountain mule deer on Santa Rosa Island. At over 82 square miles, Santa Rosa is the second largest of the 8 Channel Islands of the coast of southern California: slightly smaller than Santa Cruz and larger than Catalina.In 1929-30, about 30 elk and 30 mule deer were brought to Santa Rosa by the Vail family. the elk came from the Olympic Peninsula of Washington and the mule deer were brought in from the famed Kaibib Plateau of Arizona. With good feed and protection due to hundreds of large hills and valleys and no predators, the elk and deer have flourished for the benefit of hunters and hikers alike.Each year, the elk and deer populations must be kept in check, and those fortunate to book this hunt are able to return home with antlers, capes, meat, and memories. For this video, the on-camera hunters are Mike Pasaglia Sr. (trophy elk and trophy mule deer), Mike Pasaglia Jr. (trophy mule deer), Angeliquea Berg (management elk), William "Smitty" Smith (management elk and management mule deer), and Ken Wilson (management elk).

Hunting in Idaho, near the Wyoming border, with Warren Hicks of Pack n' Racks Outfitters, Ken Wilson shoots an excellent Shiras moose. Assistant guide Rob Wylie and Pack n' Racks horses and equipment are a big help for this high-country adventure.For his Idaho moose hunt with Warren Hicks, Lad Shunneson finds 18" of snow on the ground which was supposed to make his hunt easier. Wrangler Dale White assists, and Lad makes a long shot to succeed.Then Ken and Lad travel through Kuujjuaq in the arctic area of northern Quebec known as Nunavik, and hunt out of one of Safari Nordik's 35 camps. Thanks to a great staff and lots of caribou, each hunter shoots two caribou while struggling with quick decisions involving "tops,""" "bottoms,""" "shovels,""" "bezes,""" "palmation,""" "spread,""" and "Should I shoot this one or wait for a better one?"

In a 1948 article in TRUE magazine, Grancel Fitz first published the designation "Grand Slam" in reference to the successful hunting of the four indigenous North American wild sheep: the Dall, Stone, Desert, and Rocky Mountain. But there is another free-range North American sheep slam available to hunters consisting of Red Sheep, Armenian Mouflon, European Mouflon, and Aoudad. For Red Sheep and Armenian Mouflon, Jim Boulton hunts with Rowdy McBride on the famous Clayton Williams Ranch in West Texas. Then Ken Wilson travels to Hawaii to hunt pure European Mouflon on the big island with Gene Yap (whose young son, Matt, also shoots a good trophy in an exciting sequence). For Aoudad, Steve Jones of Blackcountry Hunts guides Ken Wilson on a successful mountain hunt south of Marfa, the highest incorporated city in Texas. For the challenge of free-range sheep hunting at a fraction of the cost of Grancel Fitz's Grand Slam, give The Other Sheep Slam a try!

Walrus Muskox and Wolves

Mixed Bag... 5 species in 4 states with rifle, bow, and handgun. Follow along as Ken Wilson takes a Pope & Young Mountain Lion in southwestern Utah with Val Robb & Sons of Red Creek Outfitters. Then Roger Haley and Ken Wilson connect on record book Pronghorn Antelope in southern New Mexico with Pow Carter. Next, handgunner Don Myers turns down several 150-170 B & C class Whitetail bucks and it pays off when he bags a 210 point monster with Larry Grimland of Grimland's Whitetail Ranch in central Texas. Then to Arizona where Ken Wilson shoots a record book Black Bear in the early fall with his San Carlos Apache guide, Whitman Cassadore. Finally, Ken and Whitman team-up in the late fall for huge Rocky Mountain Elk with 58" main beams.

Join famed pronghorn guide-outfitter-hunt organizer Lad Shunneson as he conducts hunts in Wyoming and New Mexica for America’s fastest mammal. 

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