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What is on your bucket list for hunting

Posted By: Grandpa Trapper

What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 07:16 PM

Something you never hunted but would like to hunt?
Posted By: Sac Creek

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 07:24 PM

Moose
Posted By: corky

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 07:27 PM

Cape Buffalo and Nyala. Would love to go back to Africa.
Posted By: DakotaBoy

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 07:49 PM

Griz or black bear, elk, moose, mountain goat, bighorn sheep, wild boar, sika, stag
Posted By: Bob

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:02 PM

All three subspecies of bighorn we have here in NV. Moose, caribou, elk. I’ve hunted elk before but never killed one. More likely to win a hundred million bucks playing the lottery that draw all 3 bighorn tags before I die of old age though lol
Posted By: KsTrapper88

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:06 PM

Moose would be my top bucket list hunt and then bighorn
Posted By: G Hose

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:08 PM

In the most wanted order.
Big horn sheep, monster grizzly, moose, elk, rattlesnake round up
Posted By: Bowwhitetail

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:14 PM

Elk would be my first choice
Posted By: sportsman94

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:17 PM

Elk with a bow followed by moose with a bow
Posted By: Kevin Colpetzer

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:19 PM

Would like to go to Jurrias Park and hunt all that was available with a mounted 50 caliber
Posted By: nvwrangler

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:27 PM

Moose , sheep, a guided pack in type hunt
Posted By: Bogmaster

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:28 PM

All thats on my list--to be able to hunt deer another season and to get in ,one more duck hunt.
Tom
Posted By: Brian Mongeau

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:28 PM

Elk, caribou, mule deer to start.
Posted By: robert.d12

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:31 PM

Elk, moose, brown bear. All with a bow
Posted By: Providence Farm

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 08:55 PM

Tree squirrels are about as exotic as I will ever get. Just about given up on getting to hunt elk.
Posted By: GREENCOUNTYPETE

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 09:00 PM

I would like to bear hunt
Posted By: Hutchy

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 09:04 PM

Originally Posted by Bogmaster
All thats on my list--to be able to hunt deer another season and to get in ,one more duck hunt.
Tom


dang.
Posted By: beartooth trapr

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 09:06 PM

Grizzly bear
Posted By: garymc

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 09:07 PM

Alaskan Brown Bear, Yukon Moose, Mountain Lion, African Safari hunt
Posted By: mississippiposse

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 09:13 PM

Tundra swan was on my list for a long time. Never went and been removed from list and a few fish species have replace it.
Posted By: Hutchy

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 09:13 PM

I have a friend whose brother in law does animal culling in Kruger national park.

I have an open invitation to go there and assist.

Apparently at times its just a flurry of shooting...tons of animals need culling apparently


I would like to make it over there for that at some point.
Posted By: Catch22

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 09:16 PM

I got to hunt black bear way up in Ontario way back and missed. I would like to do that trip again, one more time. And not miss lol.
Posted By: Gene Dziza

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 09:39 PM

Bare ground lion hunt with hounds and mules. Second, a moose hunt in Canada, maybe mixed with a little fishing if the weather was decent.
Posted By: 20scout

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 10:34 PM

Wolf
Posted By: ILcooner

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 10:43 PM

Iowa deer, November rut
Posted By: Crowfoot

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by Grandpa Trapper
Something you never hunted but would like to hunt?

...... and actually get a shot at with good chance of harvest, (I assume).

Bigfoot (big male)........ or a Chupacabra. smile
Posted By: Wanna Be

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 11:13 PM

A Cinnamon, Bluewing, and Greenwing Teal all in the same hunt. And go to New Zealand and hunt turkeys for a week…no limits!
Posted By: willvalley

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 11:56 PM

Though I get a few it would be fantastic to get a limit of geese every day of the nine day early season.
Posted By: Yes sir

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/22/22 11:56 PM

Elk during the rut with a bow but I'm not sure I'm in good enough shape to chase them up and down mountains anymore. Always though a wolf would be really cool. I'd be happy with one stalk on a world class mule deer.
Posted By: iron rob

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 12:03 AM

Mountain lion
Posted By: SundanceMtnMan

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 12:04 AM

African plains game
Posted By: upstateNY

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 12:49 AM

Would like to make it another 15/20 years to hunt or fish anything with my grandkids.Already had a couple good years with them.Would like a few more.
Posted By: Ringneck1

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 04:59 AM

Leopard. Alaskan brown bear. Harlequin duck.
Posted By: AJE

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 05:08 AM

A bobcat, and a WI elk
Posted By: coyotesoldier229

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 10:25 AM

Alaskan black bear hunt.
Posted By: Norwestalta

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 06:41 PM

I've hunted and shot most big game animals native to North America. I would like to get a Dahl sheep, 200'' mule deer and go down to Wyoming or Idaho for a antelope hunt. Africa is something I'd like to do and a get in on a good gopher shoot.
Posted By: Grandpa Trapper

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by Norwestalta
I've hunted and shot most big game animals native to North America. I would like to get a Dahl sheep, 200'' mule deer and go down to Wyoming or Idaho for a antelope hunt. Africa is something I'd like to do and a get in on a good gopher shoot.


I would say eastern Wyoming is a better bet for Pronghorn than Idaho.
Posted By: Bear Tracker

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 08:23 PM

I have my retirement moose hunt booked for 2024 in northern Manitoba. That's too of my list.
I would then go antelope, and 150 plus mile deer, shot a smaller one.
Posted By: Norwestalta

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 08:28 PM

Originally Posted by Grandpa Trapper
Originally Posted by Norwestalta
I've hunted and shot most big game animals native to North America. I would like to get a Dahl sheep, 200'' mule deer and go down to Wyoming or Idaho for a antelope hunt. Africa is something I'd like to do and a get in on a good gopher shoot.


I would say eastern Wyoming is a better bet for Pronghorn than Idaho.


Good to know thankyou. I'll be looking into that. As the op I didn't notice what was on your bucket list?
Posted By: Strut10

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 09:22 PM

Ocellated turkey

Got money down. Checking it off my list in March 2024. After that.............just a bigger whitetail, at home, with my bow than I've gotten so far.
Posted By: jbyrd63

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 09:25 PM

The 82 million idiots that voted for biden !! Can't find many that will admit it other than the 27 percent that approves of his job...
Posted By: Wanna Be

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 09:52 PM

Originally Posted by Strut10
Ocellated turkey

Got money down. Checking it off my list in March 2024. After that.............just a bigger whitetail, at home, with my bow than I've gotten so far.

Might be disappointed, unless you already know how they hunt them.
Posted By: YamaCat

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 10:00 PM

A nice Whitetail
Posted By: rattrapper1234

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 10:03 PM

Moose, sea ducks in Alaska, Aberts squirrel , and a trip to africa
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by Hutchy
I have a friend whose brother in law does animal culling in Kruger national park.

I have an open invitation to go there and assist.

Apparently at times its just a flurry of shooting...tons of animals need culling apparently


I would like to make it over there for that at some point.

I'd go ASAP
Posted By: 330-Trapper

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/23/22 10:11 PM

I took mine Alasan Brown Bear with Waggler as my guide.


If I had the money again ...I'd do that hunt again before anything else
Posted By: rick olson

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 01:28 AM

Caribou Barren Ground or Mountain
Posted By: Grandpa Trapper

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 01:40 AM

Originally Posted by Norwestalta
Originally Posted by Grandpa Trapper
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Good to know thankyou. I'll be looking into that. As the op I didn't notice what was on your bucket list?


I no longer hunt, so I don’t have a bucket list. I still trap, would like to catch a Martin.
Posted By: bucksnbears

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 01:49 AM

Coastal brownie and Dall sheep with a bow.
Unless I hit the lottery it's all a pipe dream now.


JByrd63, as a GTSer, I'd quess you vote "D"?
Posted By: GUK

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 02:01 AM

You guys make me feel really blessed. I have done all of the Alaska game minus a goat. All I want is a King Eider and a dik-dik those little bitty antelope in Africa.
Posted By: Norwestalta

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 03:10 AM



I no longer hunt, so I don’t have a bucket list. I still trap, would like to catch a Martin.
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Well if you get a chance to come to alberta during the trapping season I'd like to help you fulfill your bucket list.
Posted By: Grandpa Trapper

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 03:15 AM

Originally Posted by Norwestalta


I no longer hunt, so I don’t have a bucket list. I still trap, would like to catch a Martin.


Well if you get a chance to come to alberta during the trapping season I'd like to help you fulfill your bucket list. [/quote]

Thanks. We have Martin here in Idaho, I just never trapped them. I only lived in this state for 4 years.
Posted By: Bigbrownie

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 03:16 AM

Number one on my list….Musk ox. Not because I really want to kill one….I’d just like to see the country there.

A Kamchatka brown bear hunt would be a wild time too. Those Ruskie guides look like a hoot to hang out with. Hunting in the spring in deep snow, snow machines, bears coming out to hibernation. They’re massive animals.

I’d like to kill a big Alaskan moose too. I’ve killed 11 bulls in NL, but never got anything over 48”. Those 60”+ bulls are a totally different critter. They make an Eastern Canadian Moose look like a calf.
Posted By: rpmartin

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 06:43 AM

Desert sheep for me. Stone sheep is on my fantasy bucket list. Lol
Posted By: Dana I

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 07:55 AM

Moose anywhere with a good population, but bonus if its in Alaska.
Axis deer in Hawaii. Recently got back from a 10 day vacation there now I kind of want to go back just to get one of those buggers. Didn't realize they had any deer there until I saw one.
Posted By: Strut10

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by Wanna Be
Originally Posted by Strut10
Ocellated turkey

Got money down. Checking it off my list in March 2024. After that.............just a bigger whitetail, at home, with my bow than I've gotten so far.

Might be disappointed, unless you already know how they hunt them.



Actually, I do.

But, this is going to be a calling hunt rather than a roost shooting one. Not calling like here. But they use a FoxPro or similar e-caller and dekes to call the toms. It's not a traditional turkey hunt. But Ocellated aren't traditional turkeys.

I've been trying...........with basically zero luck.........to find Ocellated hen videos or recordings. I thought maybe I could build some sort of call.......... But I just am not finding much of anything.
Posted By: Tomtrapper89

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 01:44 PM

the next two on my bucket list are Mule deer and Elk. But all time would be a Caribou and Moose combo float trip in Alaska.
Posted By: Scott__aR

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 02:26 PM


Leopard
Posted By: ceelmo.trap

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 03:26 PM

Any trip to hunt out west to hunt or a Mn.bear hunt. health issues dont see it happening.
Posted By: Aix sponsa

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 07:00 PM

Baikal teal, mandarin duck, mountain goat, elk, Eurasian beaver, trophy whitetail, coues deer, African safari
Posted By: TEpnw

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 07:27 PM

Mountain goat here in Washington. Doubt I’ll ever draw a tag in this state but one can hope.
Posted By: Wanna Be

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 10:32 PM

Actually, I do.

But, this is going to be a calling hunt rather than a roost shooting one. Not calling like here. But they use a FoxPro or similar e-caller and dekes to call the toms. It's not a traditional turkey hunt. But Ocellated aren't traditional turkeys.

I've been trying...........with basically zero luck.........to find Ocellated hen videos or recordings. I thought maybe I could build some sort of call.......... But I just am not finding much of anything.[/quote]

I know of several that went out with those intentions and ended up doing it the other way rather than go home empty handed.
I need the Ocellated to complete my world slam, but just can’t get motivated to kill a turkey that doesn’t gobble and looks like a peacock. The only thing they have that are impressive are their spurs! They have some daggers for sure.
Wish you success and can’t wait to read about the trip! And take plenty of pics!
Posted By: Hornady Reloader

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 10:41 PM

Pa Bull Elk
Posted By: Gulo

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/24/22 11:36 PM

I've been fortunate to take many of North America's big game, and a few species in Far Eastern Russia. Before I got too old and decrepit, my dream hunt was in Afganistan chasing Himalayan snowcock. I knew that was a no-go, so next on my list was the Ruby Mountains of Northern Nevada, where they have a season for Himalayan snowcock. I love Dall sheep hunting, and I love chukar hunting. Combine the two, and you got Himalayan Snowcock hunting. Nothing could be finer, in my warped opinion.

Jack
Posted By: danny clifton

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 12:04 AM

Grandad has been dead 40 years now. I wish i could go to elk camp with him one more time. Camp by the salt house above Cochetopa Creek
Posted By: Flint Hill fur

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 12:28 AM

Mtn lion. Prefer to call one in but I'd settle to trap one
Posted By: 3 Fingers

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 01:20 AM

A whale. Seriously would love to stick a harpoon into a big old sperm whale and then finish it off. Never gonna happen though
Posted By: WANNABE-TRAPPER

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 01:28 AM

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Posted By: rpmartin

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 07:35 AM

Originally Posted by Hornady Reloader
Pa Bull Elk

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If these pics don't get the elk hunter in us cranked up nothing ever will!
Posted By: ol' dad

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 09:59 AM

Archery moose in Alaska

Tarpon from a kayak

Ol dad
Posted By: hipp2412

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 05:54 PM

Turkey grand slam..
Posted By: Fisher Man

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 07:56 PM

I've killed a bull elk, 2 black bears, and numerous whitetails. Another elk or bear does not interest me, but a big whitetail turns =me on
Posted By: Strut10

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 08:11 PM

Originally Posted by Wanna Be

I know of several that went out with those intentions and ended up doing it the other way rather than go home empty handed.
I need the Ocellated to complete my world slam, but just can’t get motivated to kill a turkey that doesn’t gobble and looks like a peacock. The only thing they have that are impressive are their spurs! They have some daggers for sure.
Wish you success and can’t wait to read about the trip! And take plenty of pics!


I never really thought I'd be doing this, either. But my cousin.................who's actually only hunted turkeys 2 days in his life...........convinced me we need to do this. He was with me on the two days I completed my pair of Royal Slams. He's an adventure seeker to the max............. When he heard about Ocellateds, he said "LET'S DO IT !!!!" So, here I am. Going whith my cousin and hunting with my buddy who is the preeminent Gould's and Ocellated outfitter .
Posted By: Wanna Be

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 09:51 PM

Good luck Strut10!! Can’t wait to see pics and hear the stories. I’ll just keep hitting different Western States for a while. I love our Eastern’s, but something about those “yodeling” Merriam’s has a hold on me.
Posted By: Michigander

Re: What is on your bucket list for hunting - 06/25/22 11:57 PM

Western archery bull elk, Michigan elk cow or bull, mulie, blacktail on Kodiak, Caribou, mountain goat, Michigan Red Oak unit black bear, Alaskan moose and maybe a sheep.

Headed to Colorado with a mulie, elk and bear tag this fall so hopefully get at least one knocked off the list. Kodiak is booked for next year for blacktail and maybe a Caribou if we can luck into a few. Hopefully I can pull a Michigan elk tag before I die.
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