Bowhunters "Bucketlist" what's on yours?

Nothing younger than 4 1/2 years old in the following order
1. 200"+ Non Typical Whitetail
2. P&Y 6 point Typical
3. 150" or bigger 8 point Typical
4. 170" or bigger 10 Typical
5. 12 or 14 point Typical

 

I've had a bear on the brain for the last couple of years now, I really want to stick one with my Longbow, big time! That and I want to shoot a pheasant out of the air as well! I "barely" missed one this year!

 

I've done that twice Joe with flu flu arrows and man did I get excited!! We had a group of about 10 people pheasant hunting In my dads CRP field and we shot 4 pheasants that afternoon. I was lucky enough to stick 2 out of the 4. One of the guys also stuck the topper on my dads pickup accidentally when he shot at a pheasant, man we laughed our ass's off!!:d

 

1) P&Y Whitetail
2) Elk
3) Moose (Part of my dream to hunt in Alaska)
4) Antelope

 

I'm too young to be setting these sort of concrete goals for myself.:d

I'm still trying to figure out my hunting properties and have fun with it

 

To instill in at least one other person my love for bowhunting.

 

A kill from the ground with compound and traditional.
Go back to Colorado for a Elk Hunt with Bow only.
Black Bear hunt in Northern Wisconsin. (I have 4 points and need 7-9)
Take up bowfishing
First turk with a bow.
Hopefully be a successful mentor for my boys in archery.

 

I'll get back to you once I tag my first whitetail with my bow.

I got the big dreams....just need to make the time. Some species I have always thought would be cool to hunt where elk, mule deer, and sheep.

 

- Harvest a mature whitetail with my bow
- Get to the point where i can do it every year
- Harvest a booner buck (next year is my chance)
- Take a gobbler with my bow
- Get to the point where i can do it every year
- Take an elk with my bow


A big thing for me is becoming consistent at taking trophy animals. That is my ultimate goal.

 

150" whitetail in Mississippi
Booner in the midwest

 

I would say the one thing that I plan on doing (becoming), is a completely traditional guy, all the time.... Thats my hunting bucket list...

 

1. Arrow a 200"+ buck. (I'd love to get over that 200" mark)
2. Shoot a mature buck off my own property ( It'll be 10-12 years, but i'll be excited when the habitat management pays off)
3. My wife arrow a P&Y Buck.
4. Arrow several big game animals. (Elk, Mulie, Caribou, Moose)

 

This is exactly what I intend to do. Did you coin the phrase "NA Representative Slam"? I like that.

 

Nope, been around for a while...not sure who thunk it up? Had a guy 22 animals through the 29 Super Slam explain that one to me...made sense, just doesn't break down into subspecies within a certain type of animal.

Best of luck, would make one hell of an accomplishment and one hell of a lifetime full of memories.

 

Going out and getting some large animals, elk, moose, bear, etc. anything other than whitetails.

 

What do you think your chances of 200" are? Do you have a target animal, or are you just hoping oen presents itself during the coming years?

 

Well....he has somewhere around a 192" buck hanging on his wall....I would say the opportunity is there!

 

I know of that buck, but i was wondering if it was a "set goal", or if he is keeping tabs on a 200+ deer. Just being a little nosy :d

 

I'm just hoping & don't have a target buck. I didn't see anything over 170" last year. I think the chances of me seeing a 200" in the next 5 years is pretty good. But arrowing him is a whole nother thing!

 

For about $12,500 you can do that here in OHIO, and if you're sneaky, you can check your preserve deer in as a fair-chase kill!!!! They found that this guy's other big buck which scored 191, was also a preserve kill, not a fair-chase deer!!! CHEATING BASTARD!!!

For me, if I can make it out to Colorado and kill an elk, any elk would make me happy, I'd consider this fall a success, if I could tandem an elk kill with a nice 140" buck here at home, I'd be thrilled!!!