I agree with this and think every hunter in the mountains should have a pair. Even being young I use them to really steep climbs or just to keep balance when I am just looking at everything around me and not the trail.
It sure is. Had GMU boundaries turned off for some reason and saw some good looking areas close to where I was scouting within an OTC unit and found out after. Explains why there was more sign there.
Sticking to just game animals not domesticated stuff it would be Elephant, Rhino, Giraffe, and probably African Big Cats. I don't have the desire to hunt them or to face social backlash from people who don't fully understand it.
As for the Big 5 I would be Cape Buffalo. Although I have respect for hunting the other 4 its just not something I would do, but I have a ton of plains game I would like to hunt such as Kudu.
https://huntersdomain.com/listing-category/landowner-tags-for-sale-elk-deer-antelope/colorado-landowner-tags-for-sale/colorado-mule-deer-tags-for-sale/
This might help.
I was very ambitious. We had hunted deer in the south and went on a guided elk hunt but never anything on our own. I had only cleaned probably one animal by myself before it. We joke a 15 and 68-year-old completing a diy sheep hunt has to be some sort of record.