Bucket List

Whats on yours to hunt

Mine is short, controlled by getting older and being retired, not wealthy.

1. Nilgai Bull
2. Aoudad with beautiful, long coat
3. Pronghorn over 15"
4. Elk, this ones a stretch but you never know. It will be a very expensive hunt, guided on private land. Got to be pretty much a guarantee cuz, I can go hiking here.

Mine was short my bucket list was to kill a 180 inch free range Texas mule deer and I accomplished that plus some this yr so now I’m just gonna go back to WT hunting and be happy.

1. Helihog
2. Cordoba
3. Guided Elk (only done DIY)
4. Mt. Lion
5. Dall

Big Muel Deer.

Got a nice pronghorn in WY this year, which was my first venture outside of Texas for hunting. I whiffed on a bunch of other tries at tags, but I'm starting to get active in buying points in states where you can do that.

realistic within the next few years:
nice mule deer
elk

kinda pipe dreaming:
caribou
moose

really pipe dreaming:
goat or sheep hunt

Fortunately, I'm starting at early middle age, so if I manage to stay healthy I do have a decent runway here...

In no particular order:

Marco Polo/Argali Sheep - somewhat reasonable elevation and temperature, not interested in not being able to breath and freezing to death at the same time

Dall Sheep

190" Muley, but I'd be very happy with a 180" buck. Would really like it to be a big, fat Rocky Mountain Muley

Mid Asian Ibex

Rocky Mountain Bighorn

Bull elk✓
Axis buck✓
Pronghorn ✓
Big mule deer buck
Oryx
Red stag
Aoudad
Nilgai
Big whitetail buck

yes you did !!!!! What a great deer !!! one of the hardest trophies to get IMO.

Realistic to pipe dream..
1.Archery axis ( almost got it done last week )
2. Respectable Mule Deer in TX, KS, CO
3. Mountain lion
4. Guided Elk hunt
5. Caribou
6. Red stag in New Zealand

No desire for anything in Africa.. nothing against it, just no desire.

In no particular order:

1. Cape Buffalo
2. Bull Moose
3. Grizzly Bear
4. Mountain Goat
5. Stone, Big Horn, or Desert Sheep

There are a few others I would like, black bear, for example, but the above are the top of the list.

30”+ Axis buck
8”+ Nilgai bull
Big mule deer
20”+ blackbuck with super dark cape

Free range bull bison, Need to draw my Wyoming tag.

I have my B&C bighorn sheep, a mt lion, cow bison, bull elk, B&C pronghorn, nice mule deer and nice whitetail.


Buzzsaw I know some ranches in general areas in Wyoming that could get you on a nice bull elk for a reasonable price, well less than $10,000 for sure. No guarantees but very high success rates.

200"+ mule deer
Big fallow deer will get this Dec.15th I hope.

Mine would be....in no order and with archery if all possible

Elk
Mule Deer
Caribou
Grizzle Bear
Axis
Black Bear
Pronghorn
Moose

Big Muley
Nice Bull Elk
Nilgai Bull
New Mexico Gemsbok
Manchurian Sika
Mountain Lion

Oh gosh! Where to start? Still so many species I would love to hunt. If I had the money, the time and provided the animals could ethically and legally be hunted on a sustainable utilisation basis, I don't know if there would be any I would exclude. These are the one's I have hunted already followed by the ones I would start with if money, time, etc were not factors.

Done:
- Steenbok
- Duiker
- Grey rhebuck
- Klipspringer
- Mountain reedbuck
- Springbok
- Common reedbuck
- Impala
- Bushbuck
- Blesbuck
- Fallow deer
- Black wildebeest
- Blue wildebeest
- Nyala
- Waterbuck
- Kudu
- Gemsbok
- Eland
- Warthog
- Bushpig
- Plains zebra
- Black-backed jackal

Realistic bucket list:
- Red hartebeest

Still hopeful bucket list
- Buffalo
- Sable
- Roan
- Tsesebee
- Blue duiker
- Red duiker
- Cape & Sharpe's Grysbok
- Oribi
- Sitatunga
- Lechwe
- Hartmann's Mountain Zebra

Pipedream bucket list
- Elephant
- Lion
- Leopard
- Bongo
- Mountain nyala
- Lesser kudu
- Giant forest hog
- Red deer stag in Scotland
- Elk in the US
- Caribou in Alaska
- European wild boar in Greece
- Whitetail deer in the US
- Indian Blackbuck & Axis Deer in India
- Banteng in Cambodia
- Asian Water Buffalo in India

I want to chase mountain lions with dogs and go on some bird hunts that I haven’t made yet. Other than that I don’t have any other hunts I would be that fired up about that aren’t yearly occurrences.

Where ya going for your Fallow? They eat really good, I just finished the last of mine from last year. Still waiting on my shoulder mount

Guest Ranch intersection hwy.16 and hwy. 180. $3000. want to go?

I’d sure like to do some quail hunting next year. And it might sound a bit odd, but I want to eventually kill a 12 point on this place (low fence and all paid for). I’ve been looking at pictures from 8 and 10 years ago, and the racks are considerably better now than they were then. So, I’m apparently heading in the right direction with my approach to letting the best herd bull buck live.

Good question, Buzz. There's animals that I'd be interested in taking but, like you, age is starting to be a factor.

1. Nilgai. I actually made a run down to the King four years ago, but didn't pull the trigger.

2. Aoudad. Such a handsome animal and often in some really beautiful country.

3. Desert Mule Deer. I'll make this happen as soon as Mexico gets the drug cartels under control. I'm holding my breath...

4. Cape Buffalo. I want to see Africa one more time before I kick and I figure I've got one more buffalo left in me!

Mark

#1 Get a bigger bucket.

LOL. I wish I could, but getting to old to carry the one I got.

I have an Oryx hunt this month.

Big Whitetail
Fallow
Red Stag
Nilgai

- Free Range Palo Duro Aoudad
- Texas Antelope
- Texas Fee Range Elk
- Red Hartebeest and Cape Buff in Africa.

Categorized and listed alphabetically:

Complete
* Deer - Whitetail (but want a good one to mount)
* Dog - Coyote (but want one to mount)
* Misc - Pig (but want one to mount)

Scheduled
* Sheep - Aoudad

Planning
* Bear - Black
* Deer - Elk

Researching
* Cat - Mountain Lion
* Deer - Mule
* Dog - Wolf
* Sheep - Dall

Basically as I complete animals above then animals from below move to Researching > Planning > Scheduled. Realistically, I doubt I'll cross many off the list.

* Antelope - Blackbuck
* Antelope - Gemsbok
* Antelope - Kudu
* Antelope - Scimitar Horned Oryx
* Cat - Bobcat
* Cat - Lynx
* Deer - Axis
* Deer - Moose
* Goat - Ibex
* Goat - Markhor
* Goat - Mountain
* Misc - Buffalo
* Misc - Zebra
* Sheep - Bighorn
* Sheep - Mouflon

Lowest priority
* Sheep - Texas Dall/Corsican/Black Hawaiian/Painted Desert (*IF* I make it to this point I'll likely only pick one)

I guess with exception to Texas Dall/Corsican/Black Hawaiian/Painted Desert all will be free range, ideally DIY on public land. Where necessary or smart I'll make exceptions. For example, I'm working out the details of a DIY, solo, spot-and-stalk, backpack hunt on public land for Black Bear in Idaho. The Elk hunt is in Wyoming and has an A and B plan. A is with a WY resident family member fulfilling the resident guide requirement for wilderness access; B would be solo so no wilderness access.

Why a pipe dream? There are OTC opportunities. Not saying they're cheap or high success - just don't have to draw.

I don’t care about size, I care about days a field

I want to be able to consistently hit the 120 days a field mark. With 50 of those chasing bugling bulls in a multiple of states.

Wow mine would also have to include a divorce to get even close to that!

Elk
Pronghorn
Caribou
Moose maybe
Spear fishing the keys... but i gotta learn to hold my breath longer!

Outside of the unlimited areas in Montana, I don't think there are any other OTC units for either one of these. The unlimited areas are definitely not for the faint of heart, even by sheep hunting standards.

There are a lot of guided OTC In Alaska. If you Canadian lot of OTC options also.

Unlimited arent that bad, just a lot of country waiting for a sheep migration.

Idaho has some pretty good draw odds in church etc that are probably more physical demanding then some of the Unlimited Units... but have more sheep.

If I was a sheep guy, I’d hunt unlimited when ever I could.

Mine would visit me and probably join me on a few. She likes to hunt

Gotcha. I was just thinking about DIY stuff.

Argentina dove hunt

JR

Red stag in New Zealand
160+ whitetail in Saskatchewan
Grizzly
Mountain Lion
Bull Elk
Next year I’ll start putting in for some Wyoming hunts so hopefully within the next 5 years I’ll be able to get the Elk marked off the list.

Just an elk hunt with my son.

The only animal I would like to try but on it's own turf would be the Scimitar Horned Oryx

Mountain lion and black bear with a handgun and a deer hunt in South tx with a handgun .

There are only like 150 animals left in their native habitat. Would be an exhilarating poaching expedition in Sahara


The were listed as extinct in the wild in 2000

west texas auodad
Colorado Elk
170" clean 10 point, low fence

Desert Bighorn
Muskox
Cous deer
Walrus
Beceite ibex
Cape buffalo

Current #1 = killing a bull elk with my bow during the rut. (2021 hunt) Tired of eating tag soup!
#2 is either dall or stone sheep hunt (probably 2023 hunt when I'm done with my Masters as a reward as long as a maintain a 4.0)
#3 is Red Stag in New Zealand. (have a friend that lives there that's offered to host me. I just need to stop saying next year and do it)

Maybe a black bear too

Mine is very short. Kill every coyote I see. Shoot, snare, run over on the road and a few more I don't advertise about.

Varmints with Max.

Buzz,
I have not hunted with these folks personally, but know a couple guys that have. They had a great hunt, and the facilities were nice enough that they took their wives.
https://www.utahelkhunt.com/pricing-3/

Outside of what I have available to me on family and friend owned property, I have not hunted anything, so my list is pretty boring I guess...

1. Pronghorn
2. Elk
3. Prairie Dog

Once I have those three down, I might add some more.

Make it to the next season to hunt with family would be my goal. I have hunted Canada and many ranches in Texas so l have had my fun. An annual dove hunting spot would be most enjoyable. Don't need much, just an annual meat supply.

I've done my bucket list, I guess I have the same goals, just do them over again.