Bucket list hunt

[shaneharley]

#3454

I think we all have a dream hunt in mind. A bucket list hunt either full filled or yet in the future. So my question to you what is your dream hunt or animal or place to hunt?

Personally I would like to go for a mountain goat. I think the challenge would be high with where they choose to take up residents. My second dream hunt would be for moose. I just like moose.

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#20268

High country mule deer anywhere in the West and Russian boar in France!!

[Ralph]

#20292

Another axis hunt.

[shaneharley]

#20299

That’s a nice axis buck. Where did you get him?

[shaneharley]

#20300

Alex, do you have a specific state in mind for mule deer?

[shreffler]

#20302

Either bear or deer in Alaska, or elk and mountain goat in Montana or Colorado.

Wow, that was about 6 different combinations, but I’m not stingy 😆

[Ralph]

#20308

I got the axis near Bourne, Tx. A free range hunt. The hunt was a gift from my peers when I retired. The only guided hunt I’ve ever been on and that felt really strange. Was way fun though..

[Brennan Herr]

#20316

I have a few…first and most likely to happen is an Elk hunt. Next would be a Alaska moose hunt. Then there is the always dreamed of African hunt for a cape buffalo. But if I make the Elk hunt I can met the Lord happy.

[Alexandre Bugnon]

#20353

ShaneHarley wrote: Alex, do you have a specific state in mind for mule deer?

Shane, the easiest place to get a license, since I don’t play the lottery game. It might never happen, but Colorado and Oregon would be 2 states I have in mind.

[Ed Ashby]

#20368

Well, the back injury ended my hopes for my bucket list hunt. I always wanted to take a Giant Forrest Hog. Had a hunt set up for the Ivory Coast but, just days before I was to go, the government there was overthrown and things fell into open warfare. I don’t think any modern bowhunter has taken one yet.

Ed

[David Fudala]

#20370

I would love to attempt to take a Glacier Bear in southeast Alaska! No prettier animal to my eyes!

[Bruce Smithhammer]

#20618

Hawaii has been on my list for a while. Pigs and rams and sleeping in a hammock, and maybe a little bonefishing along the way? What’s not to like? 😀

I want to make a javelina hunt happen sometime soon as well.

And caribou.

And…

[Troy Warner]

#20904

Moose, caribou would be a bonus but a moose hunt anywhere would be my bucket list hunt. 🙂

[James Harvey]

#21035

Smithhammer wrote: Hawaii has been on my list for a while. Pigs and rams and sleeping in a hammock, and maybe a little bonefishing along the way? What’s not to like? 😀

I just read recently that Oahu is one of the few places in the world with a healthy wallaby population. Some kind of rock wallaby I think.

[Ralph]

#21786

DR. Ed, how big do giant forest hogs get? Jim can you get through the metal detectors to get to Hawaii? Do you know of Lurch?

[Ed Ashby]

#21861

The big Boar Giant Forrest Hogs are usually about 600 pounds. In some area they have a color similar to the one in this photo, but in other areas they are typically red, white and black; much like an overgrown bush pig. – Ed

[Ralph]

#21887

I don’t think I want to tell that thing how ugly he is and tick him off. He’s big. Thx for info.

[David Petersen]

#21909

Doc Ed– I’ll bet Kingwannabe would welcome you on one of his giant CA chaparral hog hunts … next best thing, seems to me.

Dare I say that I have no bucket hunt wishes left? Coues was on it but now I’ve done that. Feral hogs are attractive because they’re so good to eat and from what I hear a very challenging hunt if done fair chase. But several of the states where they thrive are on my no-go list for forget that. I’ve never in my life taken a nice big whitetail or muley buck, so I guess that would be it. Although the second Coues, small as he is, is a 4×5 and a pretty nice buck for that midget whitetail race. Neither have I taken a pronghorn buck but I don’t want to ambush them over water and I’m getting too old to crawl miles over cactus and rock. So I guess I can say I’m satisfied as it is, but will be most grateful if I can take an elk this year with the Osage selfbow Clay Hayes built for me. That would be a first.

[William Warren]

#21973

Elk and Mule deer were once a dream of mine. Even thought a red deer bow hunt in Scotland, the land of my ancestors would be cool. Couple that with a driven black cock hunt and a hike in the heather among the Seven Sisters and I’d be a happy man.

But these days I’d be inclined to try javelina in NM or hogs in Tx or anywhere small game is plentiful and sporting. I’d even go to Fla and shoot some of those invasive iguanas I’ve heard of, or tilapia in the canals. An area I visited once in Illinois had huge red fox squirrels and huge deer. Seems that place would make an ideal hunt destination. Another sika deer hunt would be great in VA or MD and would be very doable from where I live.

Anyway those are a few of mine.

[paleoman]

#22011

If I had a bucket list, it would be spent in the wilds of the Adirondacks, or any of the wilder, more remote regions of the northeast. Those places are home to my soul. Big buck sign a few miles in, that’ s all I need to be content anymore. The need for a kill is almost nil.

[Wolfshead]

#22448

My bucket list, at this moment, is my first hunt.

It will be for whitetail, as I live in the northeast.

My first day will be on public land, on the ground, with longbow in hand.

If’in I ever become successful then my bucket list would include, most likely, Elk in Colorado. I would love to experience that.

But, that is a long way off at present and I really need to build my woodsmanship for that to happen.

Here’s to everyone enjoying the experience of filling the list!

[jpd]

#22924

My bucket list would be to go after a Mt.Lion with my bow on a diy hunt. I really don’t know if I would shoot one as I have no idea what I would do with it after killing it. I have seen numerous cats in the field while deer hunting and they amaze me while watching them.—jim

[shaneharley]

#22927

jpd, I know some people eat mt. Lion. If I get one I’m going to try it.

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