mine is hunting catamount on horseback, with pistols .. ot waylaying a sounder of pigs with safarikid's benelli

I don't know where in Africa but I do want to hunt there some day.

Not D.G. I cant afford that, but a nice plaines game hunt would be a dream hunt for me.

Affordable is relative. Forgo the new truck for two years & you have a trip to Africa. I would like one more trip to Africa for Sable & another buff!

DG in Africa, probably buffalo or tuskless ele. I've been to RSA for plains game twice and had a blast both times. But just once I'd like to hunt something that makes you worry about your place in the scheme of things.

Fred,
I'm driving a fifteen year old Jeep Wrangler so my dream hunt is going to take a back seat to a new(er) set of wheels.

Lets see,
Affordable, attainable, reasonable dream hunt........

Some folks dream big, some dream small. Some dream and make it a reality.
Sunday, I'm heading to my deer lease. Be there three days. During that time I'll set up some snares for hogs. Do some varmint calling for fox and coyote. Climb to the top of one of the hills adjacent my camper and watch the sun rise. During the day I'll do a little work. Break a sweat. Drink a beer, roll a smoke and just enjoy being there.
At nite I'll have a toddy, smoke a cigar, watch the moon rise and listen to the wind and the nite sounds. It'll be in the 40's and in the hill country the humidity will be in the 30% range, great sleeping weather. May get the chance to take hogs, audad sheep or axis deer.
Like a dream come true to me.
GWB

I think I want to try turkey hunting, down south somewhere, probably Georgia. The kin folks are pestering me to attend a family reunion, and it just so happens to be in turkey season. So, I may make a brief appearance at the gathering, especially if there's food, and more especially if it's in the middle of the day. So, I can get out there and try out this new turkey call and the Encore turkey barrel.

KB

The animal I've always liked to hunt most is moose. No problem in western Canada.

However the one hunt I've been wishing I could do again is Woods Buffalo, wild and free, just into Alberta on the edge of the NWT north of Lake Athabasca. Don't even know if it is still legal, or if the danger from anthrax has subsided. But that's my kind of wild country, and it isn't game that lots of people in the world can go hunt. Would also be a nice place to blood my Ruger .450/.400 with something fitting to the cartridge.

Only downside is the mosquitos. When a couple of young "fly" grabbed my ex-hunting partner there many years ago, they got in a big fight just outside the tent. They couldn't agree on whether to eat him there or take him home. Finally decided to eat him there...were afraid if they took him home the big 'uns would take him away from them!

My dream hunt will be starting in about a month on Kodiak Island. I've been guiding intensively for 30yrs and will be hunting in Joe Wants famed Halibut Bay area. My partner also has a permit and will be using a traditional bow,I've not yet put a tag of my own on a bear so it should be interesting.

My achievable dream hunt, right now? Two weeks hunting pigs on my lease in Texas. Seeing the morning sun rise, the dew vapor in the morning rising, the smoke of a campfire.

My dream hunt next year? Plains game Africa...

My budgeted dream hunt in two years? Sable or Buffalo...I'm so horribly torn. I want the Sable bad. But not having it will keep me coming back for more...and more....and more.

right now?? hey its about prairie dog shootn time

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right now?? hey its about prairie dog shootn time

Now while the white geese are flying....might accidently smack a crane too!

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Originally posted by butchloc:
right now?? hey its about prairie dog shootn time

10-4 of the PD's

Spring Grizzly draw in the high country central B.C. About 6 hours from my place. Couple of scouting trips to see what the snow's doing then get serious in May.

Something fun that the average Joe can do.
How about Python hunting in the Florida Everglades?
Blast around the Glades in an airboat, shooting giant snakes. LOL sounds like fun!!!

John

Now that I think about it some more, I've got a dream hunt out my back door too. Often we take for granted what we have close by. A spring black bear hunt in Prince William Sound is really a world class hunt. I don't have to go far, and I know where to look.

KB

Bison... This year for sure... but in NW texas

Achievable this weekend with all this fresh snow and late season will be limited to calling fox.

In NZ it is Fallow Buck and Red Stag that I think about.
Off shore it would be Africa and a Buff with Nyalla, Sable,and Kudu.
I have always thought that we need a dream to sustain us in life, that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that makes our time here exciting and anticipatery. On the other hand an achievable dream is just planing and that is an endorfin release of a different stamp.

Knowing the difference is what brings contentment.

Von Gruff.

Moles eating the bulbs in the front yard with m80's

Come on Boomer,

You mean you guys can't make any decent pipe bombs for moles!!!
Just use paper tubes and fiberglass and tell everyone they are LOW Frag...

John

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Moles eating the bulbs in the front yard with m80's

I sure hope you're gonna share that experience with the next generation while you're at it.


For me, it would be Rocky Mt. Elk this Fall.

This year I am going to draw a Moose tag here in Colorado that I've been trying to draw since 1986. I will also draw my Colorado Desert Bighorn tag this year, been trying for that since 1995 or so.

Africa for a big ass Lion and a Westley Richards .375 H&H.
A classic hunt with a classic rifle, in a classic caliber!

O, you said 'acheivable'. . . . . . Crap. . . . OK. . . . .

Then it would be a 20 minute drive in the Jeep from home, for a Roosevelt Bull Elk with my .375 Ruger Alaskan, and a six pac of Coors light!

South Pacific, hunting for "Island Girls."

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and a six pac of Coors light!

I get anxious when drinking and hunting come up in the same sentence.

My "dream hunt" will be any of the sheep hunts available to me in B.C., the newly opened Kootenay general open season on Elk this coming autumn and mixed-bag hunts in the Yukon and NWT, both of which I will probably visit next July-August.

I prefer wilderness hunting in BC to going to Africa, etc., each to his own.

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and a six pac of Coors light!

I get anxious when drinking and hunting come up in the same sentence.

Relax! The Coors is for after dark while kicking around a camp fire. . . . . sheeeeesh!

Dream Hunt
Anything high in the Rockies

Sorry, but my "dream hunt" isn't possible:

To hunt anything, anywhere, with any gun, with my son, who was called home to heaven May 23rd of last year. He was 6.

Nothing else would ever come close to that one.

My deepest and most sincere sympathies, I hope that God will ease your pain and bring you some measure of peace.

If, I can in any way assist you should you ever wish to hunt in BC, I would be only too pleased to do so.

Got an elk hunt lined up this fall in NW Nebraska.

Slim, your son is with you every-where you go and watching over you when you are asleep. He is protecting you now.

Knocking over Roos with the 338LM on some of the big stations in the outback.
Really trying to push the range out as far as I can.

A return trip to Newfoundland with my Whelen for a 60" Moose!

Right this minute ..
Bison in Texas .. or eland
or just prowling my lease on a 4wheeler

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Originally posted by Slowpoke Slim:
Sorry, but my "dream hunt" isn't possible:

To hunt anything, anywhere, with any gun, with my son, who was called home to heaven May 23rd of last year. He was 6.

Nothing else would ever come close to that one.

SlowpokeSlim -

Please allow me to share a thought or two with you.

Everything in this universe exists as a tangible "thought" or "conception" of the Great Spirit. HE did not build this world by assembling bits of matter and energy. If HE had, the universe would have had to have existed BEFORE the Great Spirit. Otherwise HE would have had no source of matter and energy to build it from. And if it existed before HIM, then there would be some "Being" even greater than him which created it all originally. There wasn't, and isn't.

So everything exists because the Great Spirit "conceives" of it.

Further, NOTHING (and NO-ONE) ceases to exist. Everything the Great Spirit conceives is eternal and immortal because it is all PART of the Great Spirit, and the Great Spirit does not die.

Look at it this way. We are receiving light today from stars which exploded 1,000,000,000,000 years ago. Those stars are STILL seen by us here, aren't they? They are simply in a different form than they used to be, energy lighting new environs, rather than clumps of burning gases as they once were.

The same is true with human life. Your son still exists. He is an immortal being conceived by the Great Spirit and therefore cannot cease to exist. His existance, as yours, is eternal.

Your very thoughts of him are proof he still IS. Your thoughts of him are simply one part of his continued existance in other forms.

He, like the light from those stars, is still travelling as the Great Spirit planned, and doing other things.

As part of the Great Spirit's plan, he, and you, will eventually return from the West to the East from whence you came, just as the sun appears to set in the West and then appears to rise again in the East..yet existing all the while (even when not seen).

And eventually you and your son WILL be perceivably together yet again. That is not a hope, it is a certainty!

The Great Spirit and HIS creations NEVER die. They cannot even be actually separated, as they are all one entity.

Every time you hunt, or do anything else, in this world or any other, you will have your son with you.

I wish you comfort in knowing that you and your son WILL be fully known to each other again...and even now are eternally part of each other.

My very best wishes to you.

AC

The spring after I retire I will be in Florida for the opening day of spring gobbler season and I will hunt my way home.

If I can find the toilet bowl in the dark when I have to pee at 03:00 in the wee hours. Well, that is an acheivable dream for me these days.

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Right this minute ..
Bison in Texas .. or eland
or just prowling my lease on a 4wheeler

+1 for Bison in Texas...

Where do you plan to Go?

I am looking for a place this fall.

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mine is hunting catamount on horseback, with pistols .. ot waylaying a sounder of pigs with safarikid's benelli

I've always wanted to seek out and have a shot at the So. Cal bearded clam and just for grins take a chance on the Rocky Mountain Whisker Biscuit. Just a couple of fantasy hunts. But my wife just won't have it.