what are the goals you have set for your hunting career?

Kill a turkey with more than one beard.
Kill a 170+ buck.
Take my kids hunting every chance I get.( Already do, my 11 yo stepson can't get enough. My 12 year old son like hunting, but he hasn't killed a deer yet. I hope that changes this weekend! :D )
Kill every tree rat on Earth. You can all thank me later.

 

I want more than anything to train a REALLY good bird dog. I'd love a German Shorthair, working birds over a dog is amazing.

I'd also love to own my own piece of whitetail ground around where I live (Northern IL). Every year the group I gun hunt with takes ENOURMOUS deer, but with the way the shotgun season works here, you really need your own sanctuary to really be able to work deer like that.

I love turkey hunting but have never been lucky enough to get a decent shot! Maybe this spring with the bow I can cross another one off my list!

I want to black bear, antelope, and elk hunt. If I could hunt anything in North America though, it would be moose.

And after I really make the money we'll see about sheep and africa!

 

Whitetails are my favorite. I prefer them over anything else. I've accomplished more than I ever dreamed about when it comes to hunting them. What I hope the future holds for me is that I finally buy my own piece of land so I can manage it as I see fit and to let my friends and relatives come over for a hunt or two. I'd like to get back to rabbit and squirrel hunting also as I really enjoyed hunting for them. I'd like to also get a recurve and hunt with that, it's what I started with. Not for the challenge but because I like the look and feel of them. I plan on moving when I retire to a place where big whitetails aren't all that common but I have good friends there and the people there are the friendliest. I'll make of it what I can. I also want to farm a bit for myself. It's something that I enjoy.

 

Damn, Greg. Did you take all those with a bow? Even if you didn't, that's a lot of success. Nice work.

 

I took 1 with a rifle (top right). the rest were bow.

 

Have you ever added up all those inches on that display Greg? :O

I like to make a few goals, and accomplish them, before I set new ones.

I really want the turkey Grand Slam W/Bow and I really want to hunt Moose in MN with bow. That is all for now :D

 

Never did until now..... about 2086 gross non-typical.

 

wow greg that is some bone right there. that is a display to be proud of. and that doesnt have your double drop included?! wow!

 

The guy Is good dmjarb01!! Damn good!!!

 

Only 2 real goals, I don't like to set things up such that it takes the fun out of it.

Shoot a 150" buck with my bow in PA
Hunt elk on as regular of a basis as I can, for as long as I am physically able to. Which in return, I hope to keep myself in healthy enough shape to hunt elk for as long as I can.

And then a general goal would be more towards an attitude to not turn down(and more so look to create)opportunities to hunt different animals in all kinds of places with all kinds of weapons, with all kinds of people(friends)

 

So it would seem. That's my main goal of all. To be able to take a lot of good bucks like that. At the moment, I know I don't have the knowledge about deer to achieve that. However, every year I seem to learn a lot more. I feel like I'm getting closer all the time. I can't wait until next year to find out if this years buck was just luck, or if I have learned something over the past several years.

 

Greg, are all those bucks Wisconsin bucks or do you travel around? Regardless, you have a very nice trophy wall. I hope someday to be able to kill deer of that quality.

 

7 are from Wis (3 different counties) and 8 are from Ill (2 different counties).

 

Greg were they all self scouted deer?

 

All taken on private land that I obtained permission to hunt. No guides.

 

That's awesome. That's exactly what I want to be able to achieve.