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This hunting guide outfitter review is for NANIKA GUIDING Ltd. whose base of operation is located at Francois Lake in northwestern British Columbia, CANADA.

The guiding territory reaches from Francois Lake on the most eastern point to the continental divide between the interior of British Columbia and the coastal area of British Columbia. There is 40% of the territory that are accessible by vehicle and 60% of the territory that are accessible by float plane or hiking.

Nanika Guiding is a family owned and operated business with every member of the family assisting is one way or another. Nanika Guiding has been in business since 1948 and boasts a 70% client return rate.

Nanika Grizzly

1.  Cost or Value

When it comes to hunting, “tradition” is associated with a lever-action rifle; especially the old flat-sided Winchester and Marlin rifles chambered for 30-30 Win. However; these aren’t the only lever rifles that enjoy success with big game hunters. According to Sportsafield the Browning BLRtops the list. With the introduction of modern powders, at about the turn of the century, many gun calibers and gun types fell out of favor. Other calibers weathered the storm of change and survive even until now. One such caliber is the 30-30. The last few years saw the introduction of plastic tipped bullet technology making it possible to stack bullets safely without having the old blunt ended bullet we once thought needed for lever guns.

Killed with a 100 year old Winchester 30-30 lever gun

These new technology’s make the choice of a lever gun as “the best” a very, very difficult question to answer. Now, I guess we can’t rule out grandpa’s old 45-70, or 25-35. Even the 30-30 becomes quite the little spit fire. Read the rest of this entry »

One crisp October afternoon in 1966 I remember staring at a huge mule deer buck in the back of our horse trailer. Dad had just returned from Mike Harris Canyon, on the Idaho/Wyoming border, from a one day hunt. He caught the buck sunning on the east slope of a steep deep canyon we kind of claim as a family “secret spot”.

With his 8mm he hammered this big old deer. We still have the B&C score sheet showing the buck’s score at 189 6/8. A great trophy in most anyone’s book.

The 8mm brought home a lot of game. Deer mostly, but also antelope, elk (from the Selway river) and at least one bear. Dad got the 8mm just post WWll and I received it after his death. Now my son has that rifle.

I called Mitchell Mauser earlier this year and purchased a German military, stored since WWll, rifle that looks almost new. It came with a thick coat of grease, but with a quick clean it shoots like I can’t believe. It’s already harvested a porcupine and a few prairie dogs. This gun’s action is the famous Mauser German action we should all covet. Here’s a Mauser/8mm brief history. Read the rest of this entry »

Horn Hunting in Utah

Horns are a trophy and have been forever, I suspect.  The bigger the better and the more the better, right?  In Africa, no animal I know of sheds its horns.  Here in North America and in Read the rest of this entry »