The Adventures of John F. Cedarberg IV.

Click BLOG above to read accounts of recent expeditions including the latest : Little Marais Remembered  about my first big game trophy and Eye of the Blackbuck  from Argentina May 2011 as well as The Birthday Ibex  recently published in Minnesota Adventuring and a version of Caucasus Ascent recently published in the national SCI magazine and many more.

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Aimee the Super Pup is doing great.  We have had 40 plus hunts this season and killed nearly 450 pheasants together. Heading back to SD with a big gang for SD round 3 for New Years 2012.

Just back from Northeast Turkey having taken chamois #5, an Anatolian,on Nov 22 after just four hours of a planned 7 day backpack hunt.  It was a long elevated shot at high altitude and low temperature, but with SAAM confidence, the ram fell with a single 180gr Scirrocco to the chest.  See picture in Asia field photos.

Mid November returned from a spec ops CQB survival course at DARC in Little Rock.  Learned a lot and decided I need to know more.

Early November I was with my good friends John Reichert and John Kooiman up by Red Lake hunting whitetails.  I got a buck and doe to fill the freezer and help feed through the winter.

Mid October had a great hunt in SD with 20 friends shooting a few hundred roosters in a year where the population is supposed to be way down.  Just not on Jerry's Game Farm. 

May 31, 2011 returned from another great wingshooting adventure in Argentina with my cousin Scott Erickson, Tim and Jeff Foster, Joel Elftman, Blake Carlson and Mike Strain.  We hunted ducks, perdiz, doves, blackbuck antelope, fox, screamers, parakeets, and prairie dogs.   It was an amazing adventure where we killed many thousands of birds, helping to even the score for grain farmers under seige by huge flocks of ducks and doves.  The successful hunt for Blackbuck antelope in Buenos Aires Province completed my goal to take big game on six continents.  See Field Photos South America.

My hunting career started with whitetail deer and pheasants nearly 30 years ago in Minnesota and South Dakota.  At six years old, a trap line started to provide me with spending cash from the pelts of muskrat, racoon, mink and the occasional fox.  In second grade I was given a copy of  Safari Club International magazine and was enthralled.  I read about the exploits of Theodore Roosevelt and other globe-trotting big game hunters, which further charged my dreams to explore the world and pursue big game in the far reaches of exotic jungles, deserts and mountains.   I experienced my first African Safari to Zimbabwe for three weeks with Dad at a young age and have returned many times.   In 2000 I began bowhunting and fell in love with it.  The thrill of getting up close and personal is indescribable.  Now with over 130 big game animals taken and 65 species by bow and arrow, I am well on my way to my dreams.

I accomplished my goal to take big game on all six continents this May with a nice blackbuck antelope in Argentina and continue to work toward the Capra Slam of Goats, having taken 9 of the required 12 mountain goats with more hunts in the planning stages.