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I'm sure everyone has a bucket list. This is for big game hunting only. I suppose you might add just one deer hunt, if you must. Also let us keep it to things that we have some hope of doing. I know everyone here wants a 500B&C elk, but that's not what I'm asking. I want a doable list. Let's also keep it to 5 or less. Also let's leave out good health etc.
Based on affordability, mine are;
1. A pig hunt in the Caprock and one in the Palo Duro part of Texas
2. A decent pig lease close to home
The following are doable, probably not financially so
3. A decent red stag, free ranging or large high fenced
4. An eland cow, large high fenced
Captdavid

1. A good elk hunt

2. A good moose hunt

3. A Chamois hunt.

I want one more Moose. Other than that I want a Mule deer. And a Blacktail.

1. Mule Deer Buck
2. Bull Elk
3. Speed Goat
4. Some sort of a big ass goat with big ass horns.
5. Caribou
6. Moose

I could make a list a mile long, but if we are limiting to what is financially feasible, here is a list in order of likely to happen:

1. A bull elk (any size), preferably with a bow. (I will do this one in the next few years)
2. Turkey Grand Slam. (won't cost much really, just need time)
3. Moose (probably out of reach)
4. A really big bull elk. (my assumption is this will be done with an outfitter or limited draw, so it will take a lot more $$$ and time)
5. African plains game hunt

I was fortunate enough to go on an Argentina dove hunt last year, which set me back on the elk hunt a couple of years, but it was an opportunity I couldn't pass up and it was an awesome trip with good friends.

1. Cape buffalo
2. Mountain goat
3. Elk

Hoping to get the buffalo and elk done in the next few years.

1. A good bear hunt
2. A good moose hunt

Alaska-Yukon moose.
Caribou.
Sitka blacktail.
A chocolate phase black bear (already have a couple of blacks and a platinum blonde).
A B&C antelope.

The chocolate bear is the most likely to happen as I am accumulating bear points for Utah and have a buddy who has hounds.

1) Mountain Goat
2) Mountain Goat
3) Canadian whitetail

1) A deer hunt with my son where he notches his first tag.
2) Several successful "Campfire Invitational" hunts. You guys are good people, and I'd like to hunt with many of you.
3) An old fashioned, 2 week deer hunt from our camp in Pa. Would be nice to relive the days of yore when deer camp was two weeks, everybody showed up, and great times were had.

A quaint Euro hunt ( reh, hirsch,) with a flint Jäger rifle while bunking with a young Bavarian bier mädchen in a nice old hunting lodge.

Stay above ground long enough to put a few more elk in the freezer.

Not so much hunt what, as with.

I'd like to hunt a new to me and still new 50 year old Salvinelli o/u .410 for upland game. It was born about when I was and I'd really like to get to know the little .410. I can't believe it took me this long to acquire a beautiful little .410 double.









After 20 years of wanting one, I was finally able to accumulate the parts to get a Savage 99 rotary magazine 22-250 assembled. Savage made removable magazine 22-250's and I've owned a few, but they lacked the classic rotary mag. Coyotes or deer.



One of my last dreams is to rebarrel a 99C to a .284 wildcat. i have the parts but need to decide between 6.5-284 and 338/358/375-284.

captdavid, Dreamed of Africa, but with lack of money and political unrest.... probably aint gonna happen! And most important... an Alaskan do it yourself for moose, caribou, and or black bear. But, with getting older, a do it yourselfer is getting more difficult! memtb

Alligator and wild hog/boar. It would be exceptional if the boar hunting happened in Europe preferably in Germany. More than likely it will happen in Texas or some other southern state.

a Color Phase Bear, a Michigan Elk, and to make a Campfire Hog Hunt one day!

I will have to think about this!!

This is tough at my age (66) and I'm not in the best health. All of mine will take a good guide/outfitter. Knee surgery next Monday hopefully #1 will be 2018.

1. Spiral horn hunt Africa
a. Eland
b. Kudu (another one)
c. Nyala
d. Bushbuck
2. Descent Bull Elk
3. Nice Mule deer buck
4. Heavy Canadian Whitetail

1. A nice mule deer hunt
2. Canoe based big game hunt where I use the canoe to get said animal out.
3. Take a ruffed grouse on the wing gracefully, no flailing away.
4. Kill a deer with my recurve
5. Kudu

With nothing left for me realistically in the lower 48 at least one more trip to South Africa and a couple trips to Alaska


But I've never had a "list"