Your Dream Hunt...

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  1. PinkPony

    PinkPony Grizzled Veteran

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    If you could go on a hunt where would you go and what would you hunt for? This can either be realistic or a dream.

    We are looking into going to New Zealand in four years for our five year anniversary. He wants to get a Red Stag and I'd do either a fallow or sika (no reason for two of the same). I just found the ocellated turkey - it's only in Mexico (that I found so far) - but they are gorgeous! I'd love to get one and have it mounted.

    Do you have a dream hunt? Are you planning on going on any "out of the ordinary" hunts?
     
  2. tacklebox

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    Ha! Way too many to list here....
     
  3. b_walte15

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    I have a lot as well.. But if I had to narrow it down to one dream hunt it would be an Arkansas duck hunt with my two uncles who ultimately fueled the fire in me. It would only slightly repay them for what they gave me!
     
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    My dream would be a Yukon moose hunt guided by Jim Shockey
     
  5. PinkPony

    PinkPony Grizzled Veteran

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    Tackle, do you have just one that if you were able to do right now you would?
     
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    Maybe I'm just boring but I have zero interest in any big or small game species outside the US/Canada.

    I would have to say a dream hunt of mine would be two weeks straight of chasing snow geese north in the spring starting in Arkansas.
     
  7. henson59

    henson59 Die Hard Bowhunter

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    A guided New Mexico Elk hunt would be at the top of my list.
     
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    I would have to go with a grizzly bear bowhunt in Alaska...
     
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    MnHunterr Legendary Woodsman

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    At this time I have no desire to pursue anything other than whitetail (boring, I know)... Free range Iowa/Kansas bow hunt for whitetail as of now.

    I'm sure as I get older I will broaden the scope of my hunts.
     
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    I been trying to check off one dream hunt every year for the 20 years...the list iF anything has gotten longer then when I started.
     
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  11. PinkPony

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    My husband went on a snow goose hunt in New York two years ago. They had flocks of 500+ at a time flying over. He said it was awesome even though they didn't connect (it was nasty weather).
     
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    There's nothing better than tornadoes of snows.
     
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    We had 100,000+ land in the same fields as us over a 2 day period last year in Arkansas. Fun times for sure.

    My dream hunt is a brown bear archery hunt in AK. Followed by moose, Dall sheep, and Mtn goat.
     
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    MartinHunter Die Hard Bowhunter

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    Have no desire to hunt off of this Continent, my dream hunt would be somewhere for 2 weeks for big whitetails... The wife wants to go on an Elk hunt somewhere..
     
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    I don't really feel a need to leave North America either... a bear hunt for sure, elk, alligator.
     
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    Add a guided ice fishing trip to Lake Eerie for monster walleyes to my list. (not hunting, but similar)
     
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    Alaska Coastal Brownie
     
  18. MartinHunter

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    my cousin went on a coastal brown bear hunt years ago was the most fun yet the scariest hunt he ever went on..
     
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    From my experience filming a bowhunt for them last fall, by far the most adrenaline pumping hunt available on this continent. When you drop into a patch of alders you saw a bear head into trying to cut him off with limited visibility... Your thumper is pumping blood at an elevated rate for sure!
     
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    exactly...
     

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