What are your hunting plans for 2008?

It would be nice to hear about who's hunting what and where this year.

I was like a kid in a candy store this year and booked way too many:
June - New Zealand (Stag, Thar, Chamois)
July - Mozambique (Lion, Buffalo, Sable)
August - Alaska (Sheep)
Septameber - Alaska (Moose)
October - Oregon (Blacktail)
November - Montana (Mule Deer and Whitetail)
Jan (09) - Colorado (Mountain Lion)

Plans so far...

May - Prince William Sound, Alaska - black bear
August - Brooks Range, Alaska - sheep
September - Kodiak Island, Alaska - goat
September - East Cape Baja, Mexico - marlin fishing
October - North Dakota - pheasant
November - South Dakota - pheasant
March (09) - Argentina - doves

On my side;
March, doves & ducks argentina
April, roe deer spain
may, Elephant,bongo, sitatunga,dwarf buffalo,duikers Hope i don´t miss a billion with the shotgun this year.Cameroon
June and july, roe deer in spain
August, elephant. zimbabwe
september, deer in the ratlee
October, november,december, Wild boar and deer in monteria, spain.
I wanted to go fot marco polo in tazijistan in october but my wife....
well, maybe next year

April/May/June: Turkey and Black Bear
August: maybe Stone Sheep
September/Oct/Nov/Dec: Elk, Bighorn Sheep, Mule Deer, Whitetail, and if lucky on LEHs, goat and moose too!

All in BC. All as a resident.

Don't have any plans outside of BC for the foreseeable future. Just made my last payment in January on my 2006 Tanzania hunt! Going to be a while before I can start saving again. Can't complain with hunting opportunities like I listed above though!!

Cheers
Canuck

To some it would appear that this is almost no foreign travel. Those some that have never visited the parallel dimention of Dillingham.

May- brown bear, waterfowl on a "flyout" camping trip west of Dillingham
May- Mark Young and a bottle of Knob Creek in Wyoming
June- King Salmon in Dillingham
September- flyout moose hunt north of Dillingham
October- Saskatchewan waterfowl
December- North Dakota pheasants and geese

The trip in May to Marks world is from one parallel dimention to another. Surely strange proceedings and abnormal occurences will be the norm.

Had to sneak this one in here even though it's later, August '09, buffalo, sable, leopard, and others to be designated in Zimbabwe.

In case anyone is interested.

If anyone wants to bring me along I will take pictures of your hunts and carry your rifles for you all day.

Just wanted to throw that out there.

Dang, you guys really have some great trips planned. Unless I get lucky this year and get drawn for some coveted tags I've got nothing planned. This sucks

Whitetail in SC from August through December and whitetail in Alabama in January. You Canadians, westerners and Alaskans have all the fun. Florida deer are usually about the size of German Shepards. May get a hog hunt or two in this year, though.

(But, then, there's buff in Masailand in July next year, if I'm still tickin'.)

Feb-march Blue wildebeest and impala
march zebra
may Eland,Reedbuck and Blesbuck
june Blue wildebeest,springbuck,red hartebeest, impala and bushpig
July big impala hunt
August Gemsbuck and springbuck

and if at any stage i see my monster kudu i will take the Shot

My 2008 Hunting Schedule:

March - Namibia Plains Game (open but probably Hartmann's Zebra, Black Wildebeest, Red Hartebeest, Blesbok, Springbok, Caracal, Warthog, and Jackal)

July - Oregon Rockchucks, Ground Squirrels

August - Oregon Pronghorn (if I luck out on the draw), Black Bear, Cougar, Coyote

September - Oregon Mourning Dove, Upland Game Birds, Black Bear, Cougar

October - Oregon Blacktail Deer, Pheasant, Upland Game Birds, Black Bear, Cougar

November - Oregon Roosevelt Elk, Black Bear, Cougar

December - Oregon Black Bear, Cougar

Wait 'til 2009, Zimbabwe!

Namibiahunter

March: England, fallow and muntjac with fellow AR members.

May: RSA, PG hunting with Clive Perkins Sportsmans Safaris.

August: Norway, roebuck.

September to November: Norway, red deer and moose.

And some upland shooting in between
Life is good

Well, after reading the first few posts in this thread I was sure I had joined the wrong forum. Thank goodness a few more poor folks showed up later!

2008 hunts: april-may: turkeys in the back 40

october: maybe moose in northern Ontario

november: deer in the back 40

all fall: grouse and rabbit in the back 40

all winter: coyotes in the back 40

all year: crows in the back 40
starlings in the back yard

Does anyone see a pattern here?

BUT.....2009....Africa at last!

John

Apr- Turkey, Pigs and Gators in FL
Apr on way home from Fl stop in Va for a few days Turkey
May - Turkeys in Pa
sometime in the fall hopefully Moz for Sharps Grysbok, Suni, Red Duiker and Chobe Bushbuck along with Croc and Hippo and any PAC animials ava. Then to Zim for Cow Elephant.
Va in Nov for black powder Whitetail.
Nov/Dec - Turkey, Deer and small game at home.
Jan planning for 09.

June- three weeks in the Botswana’s Okavango for my first Buffalo, Croc, Impala, Tsessebe, Red Lechwe then some sightseeing in Bots and Zim

October-perhaps Wyoming for antelope

November-North Carolina for deer with my son and then our usual western PA trek for Pennsylvania deer season

Paul

March: Fallow deer in NSW.

April: Kangaroo culling.

May: Wild pigs (hopfully) and some 'roo shooting.
June: A week of 'roo shooting, the three of us should take around 500.
August: 14 days with Mike Kibble in Namibia, Livingstone Eland, Waterbuck, Giraffe, Blue Wilderbeest, Kalaharai Oryx bull ( try to beat the monster I shot in 2006 ) Springbuck, Kudu if possible and as many baboons as possible

Not much on the schedule compared to most:

Late August & early September: Namibia for first plains game hunt w/wife.

October/November/December: Maryland's eastern shore for dove, whitetail, duck, & geese as well as DSC trip prep.

Oh, almost forgot - reading post hunt reports from returning fellow AR members.

Dave

Looks like there are some fantastic hunts happening from the RA guys this year...

Here is my schedule as of now...

March - FL Osceolas and hogs
April - TX turkeys
April KY Turkeys
May - AB BL Bear
May - VT Turkeys
July - Namibia bow plainsgame (and ? leopard)
Sept - MT bow Pronghorn & Deer
Sept BC - Moose & Mt Goat
Oct - NM m-loader ELk
Oct - Sask m-loader WTdeer
Nov - KY WT deer
Nov IL - WT Deer
Dec - TX WT Deer
Dec - KS WT Deer
Jan 09 -MX Coue's Deer

Hmmm,

Apr - Turkey in Colorado
May - Wild Hogs in Texas
Jun - Prairie Dogs in Wyoming
Jun-Aug - Prairie Dogs in Colorado
Sep - Dove
Oct - Mule Deer in Colorado
Nov - White Tail in Michigan
Dec - Elk in Colorado if lucky in draw

2009 - Kudu, etc., in Namibia!

May - June Buffalo and plainsgame in the Okavango and Kalahari
October - Whitetail in SC
November - Whitetail in Pa

Paul
who are you hunting with in the Delta? I'll be with Mark Kyriacou's Big Game &Bird Safris - my foueth hunt with them.

End July - Zebra, Klipspringer, Mountain Reedbuck in Limpopo and some of the other critters I didn't get on my trip to Africa in '06. Then down to Natal for Nyala, Reedbuck and whatever else walks into my sights. As in '06 I'm hunting with Chris Troskie and am looking forward to another great trip.

Sometime between now and end of Mar. catching some snows around here on their way back north.

July/Aug Spilt hunt RSA and Zim primarily for buff, nyala, and bushbuck. Beyond those 3 just whatever comes along.

Sept. maybe some dove in OK.

Nov-Feb waterfowl in OK. Also planning a trip home to coastal Tx for snow geese with some ducks thrown in.

And from a conversation today, looks like a duck hunt in Arkansas may be added to the mix.

April---Namibia for Mr. spots!!!!
spring--local coyote dog hunting S.E. Idaho
June--fishing Smith river MT. (if I draw a permit)
Sept. --Wyoming antlope hunting
Oct/Nov.----Local deer/Elk/bear hunting--S.E. Idaho

Might be adding alligator spearing in the summer, if I can get done

July: sable, nyala, steenbok, bushbuck, warthog
all with Tino Erasmus www.tgsafari.co.za
November: mule deer and elk near Meeker, CO with friends on a ranch near White River NF
And...hopefully a little spring turkey and fall whitetail thrown in for good measure. Good hunting and safe trips to all.

Yeah I have to save wow! and congrats to some of the years you fellas have booked.
Very nice stuff!
Mine will all be local.
The PA seasons of Watefowl, Whitetail and Turkey with a little MD seas ducks thrown in will have to suffice until my 2009 PG hunt in Namibia.

Wow! Some of you have quite a year planned!

Mine will be all local. It looks like this:

Now-end of March: Rabbit
April: Turkey
October - January: Whitetail.

quote:

Originally posted by quickshot:
April---Namibia for Mr. spots!!!!
spring--local coyote dog hunting S.E. Idaho
June--fishing Smith river MT. (if I draw a permit)
Sept. --Wyoming antlope hunting
Oct/Nov.----Local deer/Elk/bear hunting--S.E. Idaho

Might be adding alligator spearing in the summer, if I can get done

Whoa, alligator spearing

You guys need a permit for fishing certain areas?

May: Turkey in MA
July: Leopard and Plains game in Namibia
September: Black Bear in the Berkshires, MA
October/November: Grouse/woodcock throughout the glorious New England uplands
December: Local whitetails

Wow, there is some huntin go'in on this year. My fellow A/R's are a diverse group with one thing in common, the love of the hunt.
Good luck to you all, but I suspect that just being out there doing it is reward enough.

Hell, I'm just a piker: Mar-Apr Zim after elephant then targets of opportunity!

May/June-black,grizz,brown bear hunting
August-possible goat/deer, sheep/caribou
September-Delta sheep and moose/grizz ducks/grouse
October-caribou
November-moose/caribou

March 14th going to Burkina Faso to hunt Lion, Buff, Roan & a few other plains game animals.

Ahmed

Going on almost year around: fox hunting, craws
April: PG hunt in Estern Cape
May: Beaver
Aug: Roebuck, Reindeer
Sept: possible brown bear in finland
moose in Norway

May: Black Bear in BC
June: Fishing in Puerto Vallarta
Fall: Archery Deer in AZ unless I get drawn for something else.

July 2009: lion and leopard in Zambia

So Far:

Mar/Apr -- Turkeys & crappie in Louisiana
June -- Buffalo in Zimbabwe
July -- Halibut out of Homer, AK
August -- New Mexico antelope
Sept -- Ducks & geese in Manitoba
December -- Texas Whitetail

Still waiting on tag draws for Nevada, Arizona, & Wyoming

You feloows have some awesome hunts listed here. As for me, most of my is done here at home, which conveniently is only 20 miles down the road. One of the great benefits of this part of the county is that you don't have to travel to enjoy awesome hunting about as much as you'd like.
Here's my year:

March: turkeys
April: turkeys
May: turkeys
June-August: A bit of fishing while I wait on fall
September: Lion in Tanzania
October: deer, dove
November: deer, dove, quail
December: deer, dove, quail, ducks
January: deer, dove, quail, ducks
February: quail