| Chasseur |
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| 29/01/06 03:42 PM |
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Hunting in Hawaii
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Having been born in Hawaii and having lots of family there I go back just about every year and do some hunting there. I know for many Hawaii is not the first place you think about as a prime hunting location, but its great fun there. There is supurb upland bird hunting on most islands, and pretty good big game hunting too. There is not a great variety of game animals: mostly feral pigs (boar), feral sheep, feral goats, and some mouflon. Some islands also have very good deer populations, both chital/axis and blacktail deer.
I though I'd put together a few photos from the past several years of casual family hunting and put them on the forum. I've more boar pictures but I'll have to dig them up and post them later:
Hunting boar in the forest is a different hunting experience. We use dogs and they track the boars. It is lots and lots of walking in very thick stuff in deep mud. The dogs will fight and grab the boars and then you finish it off with a gun or knife. There are big boars in the forest (up to 200lbs or so).
Here's a small sow from several years ago.
Hunting birds up on Mauna Kea volcano at about 9,000 ft. It is hard hunting on broken lava rocks for chukar, California quail, francolin (grey and Erckel’s), kalig pheasant and some turkey hunting too. I really love bird hunting there: lots of birds and generous limits. Also excellent dove hunting in Hawaii too but at a lower elevation in agricultural areas.
The mountain also offers pretty good spot and stalk hunting year around for boars, sheep and goats. Unfortunately there is now an eradication program so mouflon and sheep are getting harder to find now… But it has a unique rugged beauty though, I've heard some compare it to Namibia but I don't know for sure.
Also there are opportunities for cull hunts. My brother went a feral cattle hunt a few years ago. Here are some photos of us on a mouflon cull hunt that we were fortunate enough to get drawn for last year. Not big trophies but it was a great experience (not to mention a free guided hunt in Hawaii!!).
CptCurl
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| 30/01/06 01:13 AM |
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Chasseur,
Thanks for the great pics and description of hunting opportunities in Hawaii. Looks like great fun and opportunity.
Curl
| AspenHill |
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| 30/01/06 01:35 AM |
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Looks like a great destination someday to not only hit the beach but also do some hunting!
| Chasseur |
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| 30/01/06 03:31 AM |
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Thanks for the compliments!
Its a really fun place to hunt. Great for day hunts and a great deal of the big game is all year round.
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CptCurl
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| 30/01/06 12:32 PM |
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I'd like to hunt those hula girls who have leis around their necks but nothing else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Curl
| Chasseur |
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| 30/01/06 01:07 PM |
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Curley,
There is a special "resident only" season for them, but I might be able to find for you some draw tags for the right price
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NitroX
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| 30/01/06 01:14 PM |
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In reply to:
I'd like to hunt those hula girls who have leis around their necks but nothing else!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
OK I'm on. One boar, one mouflon and one hula girl.
I was going to ask how do you mount a hula as a trophy but that might not be polite.
Not a bad place to grow up, tropical paradise and a smattering of wild game too.
| mikeh416Rigby |
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| 31/01/06 06:17 AM |
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Chasseur, really nice photos you put up here. Thank you.
You're right about some similarities to Namibia. If you posted a couple of those photos on a Namibia website, I doubt anyone would know the difference, especially the 4th, 5th, and 6th ones down from the top.
| Charles_Helm |
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| 31/01/06 07:20 AM |
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Thanks for the pictures!
| Chasseur |
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| 31/01/06 01:28 PM |
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Thanks for the compliments guys!
| Chasseur |
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| 02/02/06 06:03 AM |
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Some fishing photos too.
I'm not a big fishing guy but there is some great fishing there too:
And some gratuitous Hawaiian scenery photos...
| AJOTNIK |
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| 06/02/06 10:52 PM |
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Some years ago, I was guiding a chamiox hunting for the hawaiian hunter Mr. Watsont T. Yoshimoto. We got a very good relattionship and Yoshi invited to me several times to visit him and his hunting musseum in Hawaii. Unfurtunatedlly I coudn´t go to see him and he was died twoo years ago.
Didi you visit sometime the W.T. Yoshimoto foundattion´s museum? It will be great if you have some musseum´s pictures.
| Chasseur |
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| 07/02/06 12:05 PM |
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While I do know of "Yoshi" I've not had the pleasure of meeting him. I've heard good things about his museum but I've not seen it either unfortunately...
| mikeh416Rigby |
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| 07/02/06 01:59 PM |
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My wife and I were guests of Yoshi and his wife, some years ago. His museum is fabulous! The world lost a good one when he passed away. I first met him while on a Caribou hunt in Northern Quebec back in the late 70s, and we really hit it off together.
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NitroX
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| 07/02/06 02:06 PM |
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Very nice pictures.
| Chasseur |
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| 08/02/06 01:29 AM |
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Thanks!
| AJOTNIK |
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| 08/02/06 10:26 AM |
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Yoshi and Kay have doneted his hunting musseum to gobernament of Japan when Yoshi was still alive. Now the musseum is in Yokohama, and unfurtunatelly for me it not go to be able tome see the trophies of my friend...it is for this I´d like see some pictures.
| Sasquatch |
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Free range purebred mouflon would be my choice. Never have gotten to Hawaii, but that would be a good reason to go and there are beaches to keep the wife happy.
She is always complaining that I won't go anywhere unless there is something to hunt...............I think she is exagerating.
| Chasseur |
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| 07/04/06 11:50 PM |
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Sasquatch you gotta go! Just make a good sell on the vacation part to you wife!
| Sasquatch |
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| 09/04/06 01:35 PM |
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I will try this again........this is the second time I have tried to post here and it just disappeared............
Chasseur have you got any connections over there for the mouflon hunting?
My wife is good with it.........those beaches and palm trees are definitely to her liking.
I have done some checking in the past and the only thing I could come up with was an outfitter named Eugene Yap. By the time the dust settled a couple day for mouflon with the trophy fee was going to be around $4000 US. That is a tad steamy I think.
| Redleg6 |
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| 29/05/06 09:38 AM |
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Great photos Chasseur! I recently took a position in Honolulu and will be out in July....maybe we could get together sometime. It is a return to the islands for us as we lived there previously in the 1980's and we are looking forward to the island life. I'm mainly a bird hunter and have been once out to the west side of Kauai where the Pheasant are monsters with wings. I'll PM you after we get settled in.
Aloha,
Bob Blair
| Chasseur |
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| 30/05/06 11:54 PM |
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Bob,
Thanks for the post, I to will be moving back in July so we'll have to get together!