Hunting Bucket List

My bucket list includes a bighorn sheep. I’ve got 22 points and with the hybrid draw in Colorado will most likely run out of birthdays before I draw that coveted tag. With that being said I’ve hunted Alaska and Africa multiple times. I’ve hunted all over the western USA extensively and I consider myself fortunate and my bucket is mostly full.

My list includes hunting with family and a few friends who share the passion as deeply as I do and watching my bird dogs work and learn.
 
I'd like to kill a bull elk. Doesn't have to be big just legal. But I'll be 65 next hunting season and I'm running out of time. I have had a couple of opportunities to hunt them and just being in the Colorado high country in November with a tag was a big deal for me.

I've already done most everything that I'm really interested in. At least that is practical.
 
An Alaskan Grizz-hunt, or African Lion hunt, since we are dreaming here. Either one with my .62" Jeager of course. I've knocked black bear and cougar both off my list, although next season I may start hunting for a big grey cougar I called in one day, a few years ago, but could not quite get a shot. Close but no cigar. The bear was not a big bear like I really wanted, but it was raiding camps and getting too bold. And it taught me never to shoot a bear in warmer weather, and then wait until I get home to skin it. !!!!

A moose hunt would be nice, and that would be closer to reality ($$$$) if I got serious about it. I may start applying for the special moose tags here in my home state. But, they only give out a very few every year. Getting "drawn" for a tag is a long long long shot.
 
I have been pretty fortunate with the hunting list so far I've knocked down several respectable midwestern whitetail. I have a pintail drake on my wall. A really nice elk I killed in Montana an antelope from Wyoming. And a pair of caribou from a winter hunt in Quebec. Those are all trophies in my book some harder earned than others. My personal Bucket list would be a raft float hunt down a river for moose/caribou. The other is I've dreamed of killing a brown bear since I was a lad. It seems it will cost me 30 to 40 grand to knock out those dreams, but someday I will be too old and I don't like the looking back with regrets feeling.
 
My bucket list would include a Bull Moose and a Bull Elk.
Making it a horseback pack in trip would make it amazing in my book, but I’ll take an opportunity to hunt one or both in any circumstance possible.
 
I just enjoy the hunting and land management. I would almost rather spend all the money for a big hunt out west or even more to go to Africa on equipment and supplies to work my own little plot of land in Tennessee where we hunt deer and turkey.

My crowning hunting achievement, as silly as it is, is the hat trick of squirrels. I shot 4 fox, a grey and a red squirrel all in the same day, with a 410!. My other is two does about 30 seconds apart with a revolver, free hand standing in a deer stand double action only. Great might hunter I am!

I do have the fancy that comes and goes to hunt cape-buffalo at close range with a 470 NE double rifle in Africa. If my daughter had not come along when she did I was pretty close to buying a used Krieghoff Classic Big Five in that caliber. Probably from reading too much Capstick...

This spring's goal is less lofty, armadillo with the 455 Webley...
 
mcb said:
I just enjoy the hunting and land management.
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Same here. I can be found often wandering my small acreage hinge cutting trees here and there, cutting paths, fertilizing the wild blackberries, and finding my next stand location. I really need to whack a walkable trail from the front to the back of my property along a border.

Another item on my bucket list is to shoot two deer out of the same group with my bow.

I did a hunting trip a few weeks ago and it turned out great. It’s neat to hunt something that does nit live in your home state. It confuses me why so many people want to travel to the Midwest to shoot….more deer. To each their own though.

I think I’m going to start smoothbore slug hunting again for added challenge.

I need a bigger freezer too.
 
I've have always wanted to hunt mule deer in the Henry Mountains in Utah and although the hunt is realistic it is too hard to draw a rifle tag. I've been there before but not to hunt. As for my dream hunt, if I were a young man with means and contacts I would hunt the mid Asia Ibex in Kazakhstan or Tajikistan. However, the hunt involves riding an airplane for 20 hours, riding in a Toyota for at least 10 hours on a rough dirt mountain road, breathing at 20 thousand feet, drinking horse milk for breakfast, and riding a small horse on a 40 degree snow covered slope. The mid Asia Ibex is the most prized trophy I can think of, and probably the closest that I will get to this trophy is to buy a mid Asia Ibex mount from a taxidermy store for about $5 thousand dollars. My wife will never go for this one unless I win the Mega Millions. Dream on!
 
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Axis II said:
Well I scratched 2 off my list. 1) kill a big buck and goose hunt. If you call 125” and 154” big I have both. 2) Bull Elk with my 45-70 lever action or a bolt action rifle. 3) South Dakota pheasant. Been thinking about pronghorn cause it seems cheap but I have heard they taste nasty and hard to get.
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Pronghorn tastes better than whitetail or elk to me
 
Highland Lofts said:
I wonder how hunting will be in Canada now. They just outlawed long guns there.
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I am certainly no expert on Canadian gun laws, but after a very quick search, it appears that semi autos with detachable box magazines are the ones being banned.
If that is the case (and it may not be, as I said I only did a quick search) then your standard bolt action rifle wouldn't be part of it.

Here is an article my Meat Eater on the topic. Obviously this isn't anything that is a legal document, but sheds some light on the ban and how it will affect hunters.

https://www.themeateater.com/hunt/f...ers-need-to-know-about-the-canadian-rifle-ban
 
It might be just semi autos.
We were talking about out of state hunting snd one of the guys was talking about the Canadian gun grab.
 
Realistic:
Bighorn Sheep, Mountain Goat Hunt (better get this done sooner than later, you know age and all)
Hog hunt in Texas with thermal/NV
Axis deer on Moloka'i
Maine Moose hunt
Canadian Caribou hunt

If we are dreaming:
New Zealand Wapati and Goat hunt
Alaskan Kodiak hunt on Kodiak Island
African Gemsbok, Cape Eland, Impala
Bulgarian driven Boar hunt
 
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1. I'd like to harvest a large boar with my 10mm pistol. Around here that means 200+ pounds.
2. Other than that I would like to do an Alaskan fishing/hunting trip with my father.
3. Harvest a large alligator with a certain friend.
 
Roan, sable, nyala and eland. Tom leopard. Musk ox. I'd say argali sheep too, but I'm probably nowhere near fit enough for the mountain hunt I'd like by the time I can afford it.

I'd absolutely love a grouse hunt in North America, though. I hunt capercaillie, black grouse, willow ptarmigan, rock ptarmigan and hazel grouse in northern Europe so a different grouse hunt would be a great experience.
 
I had a couple of my bucket list tossed out this year.....dont like bear or cougar meat.

I still want hunt moose, caribou, elk, and some African plains game. Ive shot eland and black buck, both were good, and id like to try some others.

Id like to shoot dove flights again too, and i really like upland hunting, so a trip to do either somewhere besides here would be in the bucket too.
 
burrhead said:
My wife and I have our property up for sale and we're moving into town. After the sale I'll be able to justify the cost of a scimitar oryx. I've wanted one for years but it's a pretty expensive hunt. Would also like to get a big fallow. They're both excellent table fare to boot.
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A friend got a scimitar horn oryx in Texas and brought the meat home . We had some grilled , and it was some of the best I've ever eaten . I got to eat a few kinds of antelope while in Africa , It was all excellent , But I believe that oryx was the best .

I want to go back to Africa for a kudu , eland , warthog . And just to be there again!! Still trying to draw a rocky mtn goat tag , and I'd like to get a nice color phase black bear .

That and a trip to Australia to hunt . Had an opportunity to go years ago and didn't go and have always regretted it .
 
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sage5907 said:
I've have always wanted to hunt mule deer in the Henry Mountains in Utah and although the hunt is realistic it is too hard to draw a rifle tag. I've been there before but not to hunt. As for my dream hunt, if I were a young man with means and contacts I would hunt the mid Asia Ibex in Kazakhstan or Tajikistan. However, the hunt involves riding an airplane for 20 hours, riding in a Toyota for at least 10 hours on a rough dirt mountain road, breathing at 20 thousand feet, drinking horse milk for breakfast, and riding a small horse on a 40 degree snow covered slope. The mid Asia Ibex is the most prized trophy I can think of, and probably the closest that I will get to this trophy is to buy a mid Asia Ibex mount from a taxidermy store for about $5 thousand dollars. My wife will never go for this one unless I win the Mega Millions. Dream on!
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If I'm really dreaming , a 6 month excursion to Mongolia , with a full pack string and a couple good mountain horses , would be the expedition of a lifetime !!
 
African Lion with a single shot derringer, it would be a once in a lifetime trip!
 
Mine is pretty humble. I've taken about every game east of the Mississippi except Moose and Cougar. Moose would be high on my list, but my first wish would be to have my grandson and/or grand daughters get a nice Whitetail buck or Elk with me.
I definitely want to get a bull elk and a mule buck. I visited my daughter in ND a few years ago and she had pheasants and mule deer in her yard.:confused:
I would also like to get a Nilgai and go hog hunting from a helicopter in TX.
If I happen to get a chance for a black bear, I'd take it , but it's lower on the list.
 
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