| There are many animals that present great | | | | for the status of "hardest animals to hunt." Based |
| challenges to the skills of hunters. Among those | | | | on his years of hunting experience he put three |
| animals in the United States that are most often | | | | types of prey that have one thing in common - |
| described as extremely difficult to hunt are such | | | | they all inhabit the treacherously difficult |
| elusive prey as the bull elk and trophy deer. | | | | rainforests of Africa. Just traipsing around in any |
| Those who live in places where they can hunt | | | | rainforest can be a hardship, and to go into the |
| mountain lions will almost always explain how hard | | | | rainforest during a wet season and try to track |
| those are to shoot, because they are nearly | | | | down animals while managing to camp, keep |
| impossible to even find in the first place. But what | | | | reasonably dry, eat, and survive is next to |
| all of the various hard to hunt prey have in | | | | impossible for many people. |
| common, as you may have already figured out if | | | | Amp-up the challenge by putting hunters into one |
| you are an experienced hunter, is that they are | | | | of the most dense and wild rainforests in the |
| tough to track and locate. | | | | world and you will automatically have a very |
| You cannot shoot what you cannot see or find, | | | | strenuous hunting environment. The forest hog or |
| so generally speaking the hardest and most | | | | boar grows to a frightening size in those kinds of |
| challenging animals to hunt are the ones that are | | | | wilds, and the African forest buffalo - another |
| rarely seen by humans. To get a bead on these | | | | tricky animal to hunt - is both shy and clever. |
| animals it may be necessary to go out and spend | | | | Then again, even those animals that are relatively |
| many hours and days waiting and watching for | | | | easy to find and track down may be the most |
| them, which can strain the patience of all but the | | | | difficult to hunt if the person doing the hunting |
| most determined and tenacious of professional | | | | creates extra hurdles to add to the |
| hunters. | | | | sportsmanship and challenge. Take, for example, |
| Any prey that tends to stay away from humans, | | | | the hunting of a rabbit. Most hunters find them |
| has powerfully perceptive senses to detect | | | | very easy to kill with a small caliber rifle like a .22, |
| hunters from a long distance away, and is | | | | and they are usually even easier to drop with a |
| endowed with natural camouflage will be | | | | basic shotgun. But try to approach within striking |
| extremely challenging to hunt. In order to chase | | | | distance using only a bow and arrow, a slingshot, |
| them down it may be necessary to enter into | | | | a blow gun, or a spear and suddenly the hunt |
| dangerous situations or hike deep into the wild - | | | | gets much harder. It is easier to miss the target, |
| while hauling along sufficient camping gear and | | | | and once you scare the prey away it is harder to |
| hunting equipment. | | | | catch it and kill it. For that reason many hunters |
| In Africa, for example, where the vast wild | | | | will use a variety of weaponry - especially simpler |
| regions of the continent offer the most exotic | | | | and more old-fashioned types of weapons - to |
| and diversified wildlife and where the safari hunting | | | | make the hunt more difficult, more fun, and even |
| expeditions are world famous, one professional | | | | more exciting and satisfying. |
| hunter was asked to name the top contenders | | | | |