Lion hunting over bait is included in the “dangerous game” category for a reason. When Aleksei Agafonov, the BookYourHunt.com founder and CEO, was offered a chance to hunt a lion in Mozambique, his first impulse was to refuse. He agreed, and discovered, as the lion was literally breathing down his neck, that the gut feeling that warned him against it was not completely groundless. But the real cause of his fear hid deep in his subconscious.
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When does the deer season start? The North American Conservation Model implies there may not be a simple and straightforward answer to this question. What deer – whitetail, mule or blacktail – are we talking about? What season – archery, gun, or maybe youth? This post tries to give the basic data on deer seasons for all 50 United States on one page.
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Most great hunting destinations have one thing in common – a wide variety of landscapes and habitat. There’s a world of difference, for instance, between brown bear hunting in Kamchatka and near St. Petersburg in Russia. The Caprivi or Etosha areas in Namibia are not the same thing as the hilly areas around Windhoek or arid semi-deserts in the south of the country. They all offer a different mix of species and hunt types, but the same outfitter may have concessions in different areas. The map view will help you navigate between them easier, without the need to click on each hunt to see where it is.
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Do you sometimes miss the grandeur of the Opening Day when it was much more than a hunt – a
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Few “sports” have less in common than soccer and hunting. Sitting on a coach or a stadium chair with a
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Elk bugle! The sound of the American wapiti, or elk, carries far over the forests and mountains of America. The
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Early season goose and duck hunts are no easy deal, and a hunter who doesn’t have enough previous experience in waterfowl hunting may have a hard road of trial and error before returning home with a limit of birds. That’s where we come in. The best and quickest way to get the knack of the thing is a hunt with a good guide.
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Jim Shockey, BookYourHunt.com co-founder, has been announced as the winner of perhaps the most coveted and difficult award in the hunting world – The Weatherby Hunting and Conservation Award. He is now in the good company of hunting legends from Jack O’Connor to H.I.H. Prince Abdorreza Pahlavi, Herb W. Klein to Renee Snider. In the perfect world all we’d have to do was announce the occasion and send for the champagne. Unfortunately, today even some of the hunters need explaining what the award is, and why it matters.
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Hunting is a long-time American tradition. BookYourHunt.com lists three reasons why the US is an awesome hunting destination, and muses if it could be different in this 4th of July special.
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What would you say if someone told you that it was possible to contain wild free-range grey wolves in a definite space in a forest, and make them move precisely where you want to, within a few feet? There is a way, invented by Russian hunters in the second part of the XIX century, and has been used with great success ever since. Here are a few wolf hunting tips from Russia that could help you not only tag a grey wolf, but might work magic for coyotes and red foxes.
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A brief history of the amazing journey of the pheasant and the people, from China to Europe and America.
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There may be hunters who say “I spent too much time hunting with Dad”. But there are surely many more who wished they went out with the old man more often. It doesn’t have to be a fancy and expensive journey. In fact we all know that a sunset near a dove field, or a morning at a local river where the fish never bites may bring a bonding memory that no other can match. But whether you need inspiration, or know precisely what you want, we at BookYourHunt.com will be happy to make your dream come true!
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