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I'd shoot the hell out of a zebra just for looking like a horse.

Elephant.. No, what the hell are ya gonna do with a dead elephant? Jebus!

Closer to home, I have no interest in shooting ducks and gease, although I have before.

They taste like chit, the feathers aint good for nuthin and they don't piss me off.

Camels, Mustangs and wild cattle just don't sound all that interesting, and birds of prey are safe. Other then the mentioned list If I can legally hunt it, I'm game.

Shipster

It would really be easier for me to list the animals I would like to hunt. I like or would like to hunt:

Deer all types
Pronghorn
Caribou ( Like to see the country)
Elk ????
African plains game
Hogs


That's it and the first 2-3 are the main ones I am interested in. I do love small game hunting though lead by doves then rabbits and quail. Squirrel hunting is fun too. I also use to be a big groundhog hunter but they aren't as plentiful as they use to be.

Basically everything in Africa except for Cape Buff and Leopard.

Unfortunately I don't even have enough of a desire to really make that happen either.

Here at home? Bobcat up here. I'd go to TX and get one, beautiful but I'd not shoot one up here. Too few and far between.

Mulie does.


Primates of any variety. I can't even stand to look at them, long enough to take aim.

I've wondered about elephant, no for sure on giraffes. I'll never see Africa anyway so it really doesn't matter.

For me I'll limit my choice to animals I could legally shoot in N. America. I'll never shoot a swan, musk ox, grizzly, coot, merganser, or sea ducks. All the rest I'm glad to add to the plate or I'd gladly hunt if circumstances allowed. Some things like possum or skunk I wouldn't go looking for, but might consider shooting in the right circumstance.

On two bowhunts in Africa I've passed up zebra, blue wildebeest, a huge water buck, red hartebeest, giraffe, eland. No interest in killing them. On the other hand I really wanted a black wildebeest, steenbok, duiker and a gemsbok. No logic, just what excited me and what did not. I really like kudu, impala, warthogs, etc and shot them the first opportunity I had.

In British Columbia stalking black bears with my bow is about as much fun as anything! My fall "blueberry" eating bear was superb eating this year. Grizzlies and stone sheep excite me too. Moose are another good bowhunt and good to eat.

I wouldn't hunt another AZ javelina as they aren't very good eating.....nor are sage grouse and geese, at least the way we cooked them.

Don't believe I'll ever shoot a javelina. Don't think I'll shoot any more Jacks.

Try not to shoot anything I'm not going to eat, outside of predators. Still get a bear and a lion tag every year, but I don't work very hard to get one. Bobcat, Fox, or Coyote WILL draw fire.

Sycamore

Same here.

First thing that popped in to my head was bears. I've just never had the desire to kill one. They don't make good mounts, and a skull with no antlers holds zero interest for me.

I'm sure if I put more thought in to it, there's a bunch of things that I have no desire to ever kill, and would just let walk if I was ever presented a shot anyway.

The only thing I don't hunt, locally, is Javalina.
I don't care for the meat so I don't bother with 'em.

Biker

Nothing in Africa. My Great Grandfather did shoot an elephant once, but that was in Indiana... (And yes, he DID use a 7x57!)

I'm done with waterfowl - yuck. Upland birds are tasty, though.

I was hard-up to shoot a black bear, but when I finally did so this Fall, it felt like shooting my Labrador. So, I'm done with those, too.

I used to want a grizz, but that was only to prove that my Whelen was grizz-worthy. I won't chase one, but I'd send lead (or copper... ) his way if one was coming for me.

No more rabbits or squirrels, as I can't abide the taste, & they don't pizz me off. Groundhogs, gophers, chucks of rock or wood, coyotes, wolves, are all fair game.

I'm sure my list will "evolve" like a politician's policy positions. This is what it looks like today.

FC

I won't shoot a dove because my Grandma told me they are a sacred bird. I can't shoot a fox because I have a Welsh Corgi and they look almost identical.

I have no forbidden fruit if the species are huntable in the country i hunt.

I have forbidden way of hunting: baited, lighted with spotlight at night, from any vehicule or push by vehicule.
But i had no desire to hunt giraffe or rhino...

Dom

I'll hunt and shoot about any game but I never will hunt with an azzhole for anything. I have no interest in Sandhill cranes or snipe, rails ,etc.. Never get to Africa so I don't worry about that.Enjoy the hunts you can, don't sweat the ones that won't happen anyway. Wish there was a raptor season, cause there is just to many of them anymore. They need balancing like everything else. Magnum Man

Okay, I took the time to read 18 pages of forbidden fruit, and love to hunt like no tomorrow, but my father's sayin' which always worked for me is "I don't wish to kill anything I don't intend to eat"....well maybe I will have to learn to like wolf and possum