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Never had any interest in the African game. In North America? Maybe musk ox. Don't seem worth the trouble. Had a chance at a skunk this fall...wasn't sure what the outcome would be so it got a pass!

Same here.

Man, I hate to hear of those big bucks going to waste.

If talking Africa, I'd say no Elephant, Rhino, Giraffe, or any primate.
Closer to home I have passed on wolves, but got over that.
I don't shoot Ravens.

saves a few tons of deer / cat.

Where can I get one? They remind me of pimps.

One time I stopped at a ranch in Central Oregon to check if I could hunt the property. The owner, a woman, told me, If it isn't live stock kill it." I could do that.

There is one animal I forgot, that I will never shoot again.
The porcupine.
As kids we used to shoot alot of them, but I don't see many of them anymore, and the dumb little dipsticks will let you walk right up to them, to dumb to know death awaits.
I give them a pass.

Red fox. A few years ago, a kit/pup hung out with me a few days as I cleared a garden plot in the woods (remote).
The second and third day, it actually greeted me in the a.m. as I walked toward the plot and would bop around in the grass and nap in the sun only a few yards away as I worked. I absolutley did not feed it and probably should have scared it back to Mama, whom I noticed was watching from the den about 40 yards away.

Now I'd rather hit my thumb with a hammer than shoot one.

Only a couple on the list for me:

Swans (don't know why, some of my buds shoot one every year, but i have zero interest) bobcats, and sand hill cranes here in the States. Bobcats mainly because I have one that hangs out near our house and gives me some good entertainment watching him thin the cottontail population. He likes the ones that hang underneath my front porch so I wake up to bunny fur on the steps about every other week.

Giraffes and baboons in Africa.

I had elephant on the no-shoot list for a long time but after reading numerous books and researching hunts I think I would if it was a proper elephant hunt. No buggy shooting or at night but a long tracking job in the thick brush, up close and personal. Definitely only one and it would have to be a bull.

Always wanted to hunt African lions. It'll never happen but I am hunting leopard this June!

Same here.

Bears or Cougars with dogs.

I forgot one.....camel, though i cannot guarantee the safety of their passengers

Gunner

Cats don't interest me.......Cougars or African cats.

Wolverines and badgers. Probably the big bears too

Let's just say I'm not allowed to go to the zoo anymore ....

Quite happy with antelope, deer and elk but would hunt hogs, caribou and moose if a good opportunity presented itself. Other than that, birds and varmints, no interest.

I don't kill anything other than big game animals, and the occasional gopher/pdog, and a few grouse.

The only female animal I've ever killed besides finishing off another hunter's cow elk, was a bear this year that I thought was a boar.

No problem with other people killing does, cows, coyotes, foxes, ducks, swans or whatever, just never had the urge to myself.

For me it's woodchucks. The last time I hunted them I shot a couple hundred that summer. By the end of that summer I was fairly sick of it. Haven't shot one since. (I do still like the rifles we used on them though!)

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