PAID HUNTS
Pay a Price-Kill A White Buffalo
Ah, the perfect place for the Big Hunter. A ranch located in Nebraska, called the White Elk Ranch. For some reason this pay-to-hunt facility seems to be fixated on white animals.
For a fee, the White Elk Lodge will entertain you with the following:
food, lodging and trophy care
and you get to pick what animal you want to kill. They don’t provide pricing on their website. They prefer you call them for pricing. Comparing the pricing of another pay-to-hunt ranch, I can assure you it’s probably as high-priced, if not more.
White Elk Ranch boasts that it is the only ranch to offer “White Buffalo Hunts.” I was angry when I read this. I know there are people who are unaware of the significance of the white buffalo, especially for the Lakota Nation, Dakota, Oglala, Nakota and Cheyenne River Sioux.
Arvol Lookinghorse, 19th Generation Keeper of the Sacred White Buffalo Calf Pipe has traveled all over the world with a message of peace and to share with the world the meaning of the white buffalo. His book, entitled White Buffalo Teachings, has a photo of Miracle, the first white buffalo calf to be born since the 1930’s, that survived. After her birth, there were several more White Buffalo calfs. It is a symbol for many native people of peace and hope and healing.
This is a paid hunt - a trophy hunt, certainly not the hunt I know, where it’s done for food and where there is an unspoken agreement among hunters that they will never kill a white deer or buck or moose - any white animal. They are not all native either - it’s the respect they hold for the animals, with whom we share a home.
I will never understand what motivates someone to kill in such a manner and to purposely choose a symbol like the white buffalo. The ranch offers the opportunity to kill other animals as well - European Bison, Reindeer, Yak, Bighorn Sheep, Red Sheep, Armenian Mouflon, Transcaspian Urials, White Elk and Pere David Deer.
I thought of when I lived in Arizona and about the Big Horn Sheep that we could see every day as we passed by one of the mountains near our home. I loved watching them, so high up, moving along, on narrow, rocky paths. The Reindeer - to the Sami People, a much appreciated helpmate, to the children of the world, the animal that pull Santa’s sleigh - but here at the White Elk Ranch where a man can be a real man, you can pay to kill this animal and get a trophy too.
White Elk Ranch Screen Shot of website
The White Elk Ranch links to many other ranches of its kind, most of which are located in Texas. Ummm I’ll bet that’s where Cheney hunts! at one of the Texas kill-for-a-fee trophy hunt ranches.
TEXAS RANCHES
Web Site Maverick Creek Ranch
PATIO RANCH: Where Exotic Game Ranching Started
Cedar Springs Ranch - Year-round Axis/Whitetail in Season
Comanche Crossing Exotic Game Ranch
Rio Bonito Ranch
Smalley Ranch
Mayfield Ranch-Trophy Exotics and More!
Triple R Ranch--GOLD MEDAL COUNTRY
Double C Ranch--Ram, Boar and Trophy Catalina
Rancho Mil Robles-Private Exotic Game Hunts
West Texas Adventures - EXOTIC ANIMALS, LARGE, SMALL & TROPHY & BIRDS
Las Lajas Game Ranch - South Texas Whitetail & Exotics
Circle E Ranch - Exotic Hunts -Plenty of Room for Corporate Hunts!
Casa Grande Game Ranch - Corporate, Group, & Family Exotic Hunts
Diamondback Safaris
Cross Hair Consulting
YO Ranch - 2005 Summer Axis Special for $1950.00
Whitetail Junction Ranch - Home of Record Book Exotics
James Bozka Ranch - Axis, Sika, & Fallow in Lavaca County
Rocking Chair Ranch - Big Axis Bucks / Special $1450.00
T-enCino Ranch - Quality Hunts in Brownwood, Texas
Fort McKavett Ranch - Guided Hunts in Sonora, Texas
Half-Circle Six Ranches
Pope Brothers Guide Service & Outfitting
Whildenwood Resorts White Elk Ranch
Apache Ranch - Hunting & Fishing
Ryno Hunting Services - Professional Guide & Outfitter for Exotics, Native & African
TK14 Ranch - Specializing in Whitetail & Exotics
White Elk Ranch - Exotic Big Game Hunts
CW Outfitters -Hunting & Fishing
Texana Ranch - Trophy Quality Native and Exotic Animals
3rdeyeguides.htm>3rd Eye Guides - Custom Hunting Adventures
Wendy Lou Game Reserve - A True Tex African Adventure
Rock Creek Ranch - Exotic & Whitetail Hunting
North Mill Ranch - Trophy Exotics & More!
Deer Dancer Ranch - Trophy Exotics & More!
RRR Ranch - Blackbuck, Whitetail & Turkey
Rock-N-Oak Exotics - A Texas Hill Country Adventure
Longview Ranch - Best Hunting in Central Texas
Other States and Countries
Hill 'n' Dale Elk Farm - Kimbolton, OH
Sambar Deer Hunts--New Zealand & Australian Exotic Game
White Elk Ranch - Exotic Big Game Hunts Horseshoe Creek Outfitters -
Award Winning Harvest Opportunities in Canada
At a place called Comanche Crossing, if you don’t kill, you don’t pay. Comanche Crossing offers a package deal, depending upon what you want to kill.
Aoudad Sheep $1500.00 to $2500.00
Axis Antelope $1000.00 - $1,750.00
Blackbuck Antelope $1000.00 - $1,750.00
Fallow Deer 1000.00 - $1,750.00
Sika Deer 1000.00 - $1,750.00
Red Deer $2,500.00 - $5,000.00
Corsican Sheep $350.00 - $1,250.00
Hawaiian Black $350.00 - $1,250.00
Texas Dall Bighorn Sheep $400.00 - $1,250.00
Mouflon Sheep $750.00 - $1,500.00
Scimitar Horned Oryx $1,750.00 - $3,500.00
The Rancho Mil Robles offers a special - Father and Son Hunts. I guess this is for male bonding to take place between a father and his son, on the hunt together.
So, you ask, what is the big deal? I know some ranches that charge a fee and their plan ensures that the hunter will find his trophy but what is the point? Where is the respect for life? To hunt to eat, is one thing, but to hunt just so someone can have a trophy on his wall - what happens to the meat? Is all of it used at least, rather than wasted?
In whatever way one may find this to be offensive; the killing of a white buffalo is disturbing. Why white buffalo? What significance do they put on this animal? Is it just because it’s rare? I can’t believe that is the only reason. Could it be because of the respect for the white buffalo by native Americans and non-native Americans and people world-wide? Why?
I just feel it’s so sad, such disrespect for life and our connection to all living creatures.
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Special thanks to Tina Valentin for the lead.
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February 2006 Reports
Last updated on February 18, 2006