Are those BIG hunting tour\packs -the ones that involve usage of company boats, helicopters, etc- in "exotic"( from a westerner's pov) locations such as north pole, pakistan mountains for Ibex, etc a tourist trap for rich americans? like the sherpa-carried everest trips?
Are the most expensive hunts neccesarily the most challenging\rewarding ones?
>also HOW much of a richfag do you really need to be, to do stuff like hunt polar bear, warthog, rhinoceros ,etc? multi-millionarie? frugal-living barely upper class guy?
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>>2830440 (OP)>rewardingThere is nothing rewarding about senselessly killing animals, let alone exotic, endangered ones. Unless of course you are a spiritual nigger with no regard for life and the environment.
If you get your kicks killing lions, polar bears, rhinos, etc. because you think it makes you le big tough man, you deserve to be mauled but alive so you can exist in agony and the world can laugh at your KWAB ass.
There are levels to it. That's the nice thing if you're fucking loaded, there's always someone willing to cater to your needs and whims if you're willing to pay.
Research and talk to the outfitters about the hunting experience you want, and I'm sure you can agree on something.
I read a hunting trip report from someone who went up into some *stan country to hunt Marco Polo sheep, and that wasn't one bloody bit glamorous by the sounds of it. Hiking long treks in difficult mountain terrain after some tiny hardened brown men who subsisted on butter and thin tea and set a murderous pace every day, long shots under difficult conditions if a shot presented itself, sleeping in drafty shepherd huts with only a meagre dung fire for warmth.
Both expensive and challenging, then.
If you're hunting on a game reserve, they might be teeming with game, but some of them are fucking huge. Selous Game Reserve is twice the size of Denmark. Of course you'd be wanting a car to get around there if the kind of animal you're hunting has appeared, but you still have to follow those very skilled trackers up to the animal. Look at the ranges they shoot elephants at, it's positively mind-boggling.
You can hunt a big variety of game too, not only big game. Getting a nice trophy animal can be very costly, but things like warthog, plains game (like antilopes) or tuskless elephants are well within reach for a middle class man with a bit of prioritising. If you're in it for the sport, you could try bow hunting, where you have to get proper close up.
I know a guy, regular old electrician, who went on a driven boar hunt in Hungary. Not off-puttingly expensive, and he said it was a great experience, very different from the regular moose hunt, and certainly nothing for amateurs, since the boars came positively racing through the forest.
