I’ve been so fortunate to have hunted a lot of local and some international game and loved it all. All were free range, wild animals with the exception of the South African game ranch hunts. Those SA properties were large, with mostly self sustaining populations as far as I could determine. But I don’t think I’d hunt on a SA game ranch again, even though the experience was a perfect intro to African hunting for me. I just prefer wilderness, free range, self sustaining game animals.
I won’t hunt goats in the Western Canadian mountains any more. I’m too old for the physical effort and mountaineering ability that such hunting requires. I’ve almost died on two goat hunts.
Same with elephant. Loved my one and only elephant hunt, and I met the challenge of hunting dangerous game on foot and close up, but coming that close to death is a sobering experience and made me grateful for surviving but not eager to tempt fate again.
I was totally in love with do-it-yourself wilderness moose hunting by canoe and backpack as a young man. Three decades later, Moose seem much heavier to my back and knees, and not as mysterious, and besides they are available to be hunted on some farmland I own. I prefer to pack moose out on an ATV now.
I tried archery hunting large game and it’s not for me. I’m a reasonably skilled archer, but feel there’s too much chance of wounding and losing an animal. I can’t enjoy an activity with such a chancy outcome.
