On a recent whitetail hunt in Illinois with Zack's Whitetail Expeditions, I shared a camp with a couple of hunters from New Jersey. While shooting the breeze one evening with one of them, he told me about a great Stone sheep hunt he'd recently been on in the Yukon with Yukon Big Game Outfitters.
Although there are still a few late season big game hunting opportunities remaining in certain areas of the U.S. and Canada, for the most part, another hunting season has come to end. But does that mean that there is nothing to do except daydream about next season? Nothing could be further from the truth. Now is the time to start planning for next year, particularly if you want to hunt out of state.
Many hunters dream of hunting in Alaska. Some dream about chasing bears, while others dream about chasing caribou or moose. In September 2007, my dream of hunting in Alaska finally came true when I spent two weeks on the Last Frontier chasing moose.
If you live east of the Mississippi and travel west for your first pronghorn hunt, you're in for a treat. Rare is the hunter who is not awed by the sight of vast herds of these tan and white animals roaming the prairies.
Now, declaring a best state for hunting is difficult from the get-go because it all depends on what we’re talking about hunting: hog, duck, turkey, wolf, bison? Also, we’ve left Alaska off of consideration because while there may be more game to hunt here in the lower 48, Alaska’s openness and public lands give it quite a hunting advantage.
