We've talked about "dream hunts" and "what if you had a $100k hunts", but what hunts are you planning in the next few years?

For 2005 LaRita and I have applied for Antelope tags in Wyoming, I'm booked for a Muskox and Caribou hunt in Oct. on Victoria Island, I've been invited on a 5 day Alaska Black Bear hunt in May and we're putting in for the New Brunswick Moose draw. Even though we aren't going to Africa this year, if we draw some tags, it should be a great year.

For 2006 I'm looking at a Mt. Lion hunt and after that we've got lots of things on the "to do list" for the next few years. Like another trip to Africa, I want a color phase Black Bear, I'd like to hunt Bison, we'd both like to go to New Zealand for Red Stag and maybe Thar, I'd like to hunt deer in Mexico, LaRita wants to hunt Caribou and ........

Mark,

Sounds like you've got a full plate ahead of you!!

I just sent off a check for a Spring bear hunt with Korell Outfitter for this May. He has about 50% color phase bears.

While at SCI I'll be handing Bill Williamson a deposit check for a 2006 Buff hunt with Russ Broom. My buddy's going to hunt Ele at the same time. Might hunt in RSA with Riaan again on this same trip.

I am looking for a nice trophy muley hunt for this fall my deer hunting buddies and I. Will be checking outfitters out while at SCI and the Portland Sportsman show.

Take Care,

-Steve

I am going to do eveything possible to stay home and not hunt anywhere this year, but thats going to be a long shot...I will try hard.

Also I need a break from hunting, my worst fear is to overdo it and lose that desire to hunt and sometimes I think that is happening to me..

I need to stay home and catch up on my roping, work on my pasture, corrals, before this place falls apart because some ner do well is off slaying the Kings Buffalo....and mamas looking at me! when mama ain't happy nobodys happy!

Ray,

I know what you mean. We talked about just doing the Antelope hunt, then staying home, save some money and doing somethings that need doing around the house. But wheres the fun in that!!!

going elephant hunting in march in zim w/jumbo moore. also if time permits there was a huge leopard in the same area a couple of years ago. jumbo thought it might even been bigger than the 200#+ one i got then.

For 05 I will be antelope hunting in Wyoming in October. Also will be hunting pheasant in North Dakota in October as well. November will hold the requisite whitetail and turkey hunting in the Texas hill country. For 06, the big trip will be to Zambia for buffalo and a few plains game. For 07.........perhaps bear. 08..leopard? 09.....mule deer. 10....lion. Damn it is fun to dream!!!

lets see, At Reno I'm putting my deposit inb for a New Zealand Tahr and Chamios hunt (2006) I also want to talk with some outfitters about a Mt. Lion hunt for this coming winter. then I'm going back to Zimbabwe in September for Lion and Sable. I think that should hold me for awhile.... (I hope!)

Applying for Elk in new Mexico and Montana in 2005.

With luck 2006/07 will find me in Africa.

Wow, my first post on the new site. I have for 2005 my first trip to Africa for plains game, Illinois bow hunt, South Carolina bow hunt, Florida hog hunt, and as many days hunting in Mississippi as I can cram in. I will be in Dallas this weekend looking for a Cape buffalo hunt for 2006 as well as caribou and hopefully elk or mule deer. This hunting is tough work.

May 2005 will be my first hunt if Africa. Plains game in RSA. The anticipation, planning, and excitement are well worth it, and then I get to actually go!

Way Cool!

Going to Argentina in May to bowhunt Asiatic Water bufalo.Intend to slay a russian boar or two as well.Gonna do a South Texas bowhunt in October and some hog hunting in between.Next trip to Africa is scheduled for August of 06.

Elk in new mexico,

urdubob

Elk in Colorado this fall is the only thing on my agenda at the moment. That is until I go after that old greenhead in the morning. Good shooting.

Ray: I really admire you´re effort to concentrate on other things than hunting. You probably won´t make it though.

We´re finishing up whitetail right now, that ends on the last day of Jan. On Febr 26 I´m off to SA for plainsgame (waterbuck, warthog, impala) and we might do a sidetrip to Botswana. I´ll be staying a month so I´ll have time.

Then it´s empty until Aug when duck season opens, then elk and whitetail from Oct-Dec and maybe a bearhunt in late August.

In 06 I´d like to go back to SA and Namibia with the family...

Problem: When am I going to find the time to work?

Zimbabwe (Lemco) September 2005. Husband leopard, plainsgame for me. Then for my husband's 50th birthday we are going to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in October 2006 (any AR members that would like to join us are more than welcome).

I'll be following Kathi at Lemco in mid-September, for Sable and plainsgame. I have a Dall Sheep hunt here in mid-August. Hoping to get into the Prince William Sound for a deer hunt sometime in November.

3o day Namibia hunt and sigthseeing trip ,September moose & grizzly hunt in the best area of Alaska(Selawik drainage)October Kansas white tail hunt,Cameroon or CAR in the spring of 06

I'm headed to Tanzania this season, then Idaho for whitetails, Oregon for elk, and Texas for whitetails and hogs.

Among other hunts for 2006, I have a Namibian safari planned with two friends I've hunted with for some 25 years. One of these gentlemen has been to Zimbabwe once, the other hasn't been to Africa at all yet. Long ago, we pledged to do a safari together if we could collectively make it work, and this appears to be our window of opportunity. I'm as excited for this hunt as much as any I've ever planned.........

AD

July - plainsgame in Botswana with Mark Kyriacou then whitetail in South Carolina in the fall. Might even get out in Pa for more than one day this year.

2005 i am taking momma on her first caribou hunt.
2006 i am taking momma to Mongolia for a gobi ibex
2007 partner & i are planning dagestan tur.
Not sure when I return to africa, the mountains get steeper every year & africa is still fairly flat, so it may have to wait abit till I get some of this mountain stuff taken care of.

it ain't bed being poor but it sure is inconvenient. Work interferes a lot with my free time.
Mike

No trip to Africa again unless a lotto million falls my way, but definitely a Northern Territory Water Buffalo, pigs and magpie geese is on the cards. A friend has a yen to shoot a buffalo with his 6.5x54mm M-S and I aim to be there.

A pig hunting trip or two plus a trip after sambar or fallow.

I'll be hunting plainsgame in RSA with Clive Perkins in May. I hunted with him this past May with great success and lots of fun that I was able to talk my fiance into going back for our honeymoon this year. I leave May 25th, so if anyone will be in the Atlanta airport for the 10:30AM flight to Joburg, let me know. I would like to meet you.

Mark.....are you booking your antelope with Bill at Flying B? My son and I just hunted with him last Oct. and had a great time. My son took a nice antelope and I took both a nice 'lope and a 5x4 mulie. I think??? you had hunted with him before. Take care.

Gary B.

You have a PM.

Leaving the end of April for my first safari in South Africa.

I am really looking forward to it!

In January of 2005 we're close to finishing our 4 month deer season but still have plenty more ducks and quail to pursue. Turkey season begins shortly after that and last almost 2 months, so we'll be busy until mid May. About a month later I head to Tanzania to begin a lion/leopard hunt. 5 weeks after getting home from there we start again with dove, then deer, and then all the rest.... If my wife will put up with me, it should be another fun year!

Headed for the Luangua valley in July of this year for buff and assorted plainsgame. My 6th African hunt, but ther first since 1998. Can't wait!

Lemco early July 2005 for leopard, sable and plains game. But leopard and sable will be the main game. Fall 2005 WT deer mostly with mule deer in either Colorado or Arizonia if I can draw a tag. Oh and Spring Gobbler in Connecticut and PA.

Finish up bird season here, probably shoot a pig or two with Shumba, Detorre and Kyler this spring and summer, then September bear hunt in Alaska.

Back to the Zambezi Valley for a buff or tuskless ele in July 06!

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Then for my husband's 50th birthday we are going to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in October 2006 (any AR members that would like to join us are more than welcome).

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Kathi,

Might I suggest that while you're in the area, you consider using a few more days to go up to Lake Natron. The main reason to go to Lake Natron is not really to see the lake, which by the way is filled with pink flamingos, but to climb up Ol Doinyo Lengai, a live volcano that is veiwed as a god by the Masai. It might not look steep from this angle, but believe me, it is on the far right side where you climb/crawl up! The volcano is made of Carbonate, Which is why they can produce natron from Lake Natron, below the volcano. The downside of this substance is that the ash layer covering the sides is crystalized in some places, and thus very sharp, ripping the soles of your boots up, not to mention your hands when crawling on all 4... Where it wasn't sharp, it was so loose that you'd slide 2 steps back for every step up! Because of the high temperature in this area, and the higher temp in the crater itself during the day, you have to start climbing at midnight. This should get you to the top by sunrise, at least if you're in reasonably good shape.
The amazing thing up in the crater is that there's lots of "mini craters" bubbling up lava. It's glowing red in the dark and you have to be a bit carefull so you don't get hit by any of the globs that get spit out. Once daylight came, we saw that we had mistakenly walked right in an area where lots of football sized globs landed... When dawn broke, the red glowing lava turned black, and at this hour it was actually quite cold. The only heat available was to sit next to the black lava to warm up! The lava we are next to in the pictures was about 8-9 hours old, with a continous flow out in the middle. The only reason that it's possible to be in the crater is that Carbonate melts at a much lower temperature than other types of lava.

The volcano in the backround:


Rift valley below:


On the crater floor:


Wifey getting warmed up by the fresh (black) lava:





Although the climb up Ol Doinyo Lengai only takes a night, it is supposed to be more pysically challenging then Kilimanjaro. At least according to friends of ours who've done both. We unfortunatly couldn't, or rather, decided to skip doing Kilimanjaro, since it was covered in rain, snow and fog for the few weeks we were in the area. Wrong time of year, so I guess that'll have to be for later.

Again, I would highly reccomend few days side trip up to Lake Natron. This is also undoubtably the region in Tanzania where we met Masai with little to no tourist influence. Worth the trip in itself IMO.

I will be returning from Fallujah, Iraq in mid march, plan on heading back home on leave for Spring Black Bear in SW Montana ,late April / early May, back to California for pigs in the Central coast in May/June, putting in for Oryz in New Mexico, and back to MT in the fall for Elk / deer and birds. Trying to slide my combat pay for lion / leopard / Sable in 06 vice a remodled kitchen.

My second hunt with my son is this weekend on Sunday. Ducks in the morning and Geese in the afternoon.
Then boar in the spring.
Africa plains game the summer of 2006. Now my wife is planning on joining us. She said we needed male bonding. What part of that included her.

Looks like just mule deer and elk for 2005. Hoping russ broom can twist my arm with a good deal for 2006.

Pretty mellow this year Axis deer in march,may,june and july. feral and mouflon sheep feb-sept., boar and goats yearound, blacktail depends on state lottery,spring gobblers. Texas for hogs and exotics in may thats about it for 05.

06 Namibian Leopard/PG Safari, Australia 07 cape buffalo safari 08 new zealand for stag,tahr,chamois,wapiti. With elk mule deer and hopefully a mountain goat mixed in there.

Happy New Year to All and have a very safe and memorable hunting season.

ALOHA!!!

I signed up last year for a 21 day, full bag hunt in Tanzania in July 2005. As I have mentioned, I am currently getting rifles and loads ready for the event. I am SUPPOSED to be working on my physical conditioning. This may well be my last trip to Africa, but it will certainly be the "Big One." Just got the word Tz went up approx. 20% on their trophy fees for 2005. I have to say that it hurts, but they are still quite reasonable. I am looking forward to this trip like you would not believe. Kudude