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I thought since most of us are in stand-by mode, for bird hunting, that we might start a list of birds we would like to hunt before we kick the bucket.
I'll start.

1) Bobwhite Quail

2) Wood duck drake - Never been lucky enough to get Into them.

3) Rio- turkey

4) ptarmigan

I'm sure there are more ,but what is your list.:)
 
Not In Any Necessary Order:
1.) Wild Huns
2.) Wild Chukar (if I'm not too old for this one already, elsewise it could mean the bucket gets tipped over for good) :p
3.) Ptarmigan (ditto #2)
4.) Sage Grouse
5.) Harlequin/Montezuma Quail
6.) One Big-Water Sea Duck Hunt (something really pretty like Oldsquaw or Harlequin ducks)
7.) A Merriam's or Osceola Gobbler (already had plenty Easterns & Rios) - even better yet, whatever that bluish-tinted Central or South American Variety is???

I would actually put a monster, steep-&-deep lovin Himilayan Snow Cock @ the very tip-top of the list - but looks like I already missed my buff/stud-days chance at that, for me nowadays that one would mean Kickin-The-Bucket 4 sure!!! But hey, if a man's just dreamin anyways (a certain good book I pay close attention to says a little something-something about, "Old men dream-dreams & young men see (and fulfill) visions'... :D
 
1. All quail in north America. (I've got valleys, mountains, and gambel's done.)

2. Sage grouse in California.

3. Ruffies in California.

4. Ptarmigan in California.

5. Snow cock.

6. Chacalaca.

7. Mixed bag (pheasants, huns, sharpies) in Montana.

8. Mexicali pheasant, quail, and dove hunt.

9. Hawaii mixed bag.

10. South African bird safari.

I have a few more but I'll keep my list short for today.:cheers:
 
Hey Hen,hen,
Maybe we can go chase some Sage and Blue(Dusky) grouse this September.
PairOfLabs
 
I feel fortunate that I married late and was a hunting bum in my youth, but I would sure like to do some things again! U.P. grouse and woodcock, Nevada chuckars, (may have passed me by!), I'm going to take a run at Huns, this year, used to hunt around Pipestone and Melita, Manitoba, and down into North Dakota. Seems like a good place to start. Might try ruffies in the Turtle Mountains, while I'm up there. Got into the Snow Cock country once, ( Ruby Mountains), but didn't hunt even though equipped with dogs, guns, and young legs and lungs. Thought I might want to shoot a Capercaille before I go west, but I don't relish a long tedious trip to Europe. I'd trade it all for bobwhite quail hunting like I had as a kid.
 
Sorry I can't put up any birds, but rather hunt with some good friends I have come to know here on UPH.

But for my bucket list I definalely want to go on a bull elk hunt with Cougervan some day. I guess I would like to put in a prairie chicken tag here in MN and get a nice bird.
 
I would like to someday hunt all the upland game available in the America's, but most of all chukar, grouse, sharptails.

I'd also like to do one hunt in Alaska for big game (moose if there is a preference). Here in the Midwest I still need to bag an antelope and elk as well.

What's really next on my list though? A wild hog hunt with my bow in Arkansas. That is just because hog hunts are really affordable, and I have family that live in NW Arkansas.
 
jmac said:
I thought since most of us are in stand-by mode, for bird hunting, that we might start a list of birds we would like to hunt before we kick the bucket.
I'll start.

1) Bobwhite Quail

2) Wood duck drake - Never been lucky enough to get Into them.

3) Rio- turkey

4) ptarmigan

I'm sure there are more ,but what is your list.:)
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Jmac, if you are ever in the neighborhood, I can help you with the Woody Drake!!!! As far as the Rio, they keep out smarting me!!! I got a nice one in Kansas 15 years ago!!!

Moose, Trophy Bull Elk and a Grizz are on my list!!!!
 
BleuBijou said:
Moose, Trophy Bull Elk and a Grizz are on my list!!!!
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So, how big does that bull elk need to be to quality as 'trophy' in your books? I too would like to take a moose. Grizzly might be out of my ability these days, but would sure like to get back to Alaska and fill my tag on a nice blackie.
 
BleuBijou said:
Jmac, if you are ever in the neighborhood, I can help you with the Woody Drake!!!! As far as the Rio, they keep out smarting me!!! I got a nice one in Kansas 15 years ago!!!

Moose, Trophy Bull Elk and a Grizz are on my list!!!!
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Thanks Bleu, I'll let ya know.

Good list's keep them coming.

Qh what the heck is a Chacal???? I'm going to have to look that up.:)
 
Thank you QH,

I just Googled it myself. I had not heard of this bird Chachalaca. I thought it was a Starbucks 5 dollar cup of coffee. LOL Very cool I learned somthing.:thumbsup::cheers:
 
1: SD Pheasant
2: Every quail species in the US
3: Red Head
4: Pintail
5: Canvas Back (drake)
6: Woodcock
7: RIO Turkey
8: ptarmigan

Thats about sum's it up for me, I would love to hunt the Mississippi Flyway from Canada / US border to Louisiana Delta for ducks, this would be a great road trip when the kids are out of the house.
 
On my list was a South Dakota pheasant hunt and I crossed that one off 4 years ago. Now, I'd like to head to Georgia and do the old school plantation quail hunt from wagons and watch the pointers run big. I'd also like to get to Argentina for a dove hunt.
 
M. R. Byrd said:
So, how big does that bull elk need to be to quality as 'trophy' in your books? I too would like to take a moose. Grizzly might be out of my ability these days, but would sure like to get back to Alaska and fill my tag on a nice blackie.
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Maynard, when I draw my tag, it will be in an area that 320 bulls are common!! I will be happy with a 320!! But there are bulls in there that will tape at 390 and 350 is a very good possibility!!!!!! I will not shoot the first few days unless he is 350 plus. But if I see a few 350 to 390's and hunt for 7-10 days and shoot a 320, it will be a trophy in my heart!!!:cheers:
 
BleuBijou said:
Maynard, when I draw my tag, it will be in an area that 320 bulls are common!! I will be happy with a 320!! But there are bulls in there that will tape at 390 and 350 is a very good possibility!!!!!! I will not shoot the first few days unless he is 350 plus. But if I see a few 350 to 390's and hunt for 7-10 days and shoot a 320, it will be a trophy in my heart!!!:cheers:
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I need to get back to Colorado for an elk hunt again, if my health will let me.

Back in 2005 I was on a hunt and the first day of the hunt my hunting partner told me where to go. It was dark thirty and I hadn't seen the hunting area. I went to where I thought he wanted me, but stopped one park shy of where I was supposed to be. I sat under a big pine in view of a beautiful park running above me and below me. I was enjoying the beauty of the sunrise coming up to my back, but things were quiet until a herd of mule doe about ran over me going north. Pretty soon they about did it again going south. About that time a shot rings out, very close in some scrub oak on the other side the park, then a shot rings out a little further away, then a young man comes into the park below me, stops and stretches, looks around a dry pond, disappears in the shrub oak and almost immediately two shots ring out.

I wait for a bit, rifle ready, but nothing happening, so a head to the first shot and find my hunting partner field dressing a bull. It was about 150 yards from me.

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He told me he was in the park that he sent me to and there was two more bulls down just below him.

I go to check the other bulls out while I wait the help pack the meat out. Here is the sixteen year old kid's 6 x 6.

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Down the park just a little further was the kid's brother-in-law with his bull

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All in all the bulls were killed within 400 yards of me and I never saw anything except the kid stretching. Close but no cigar.
 
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We have the same luck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL:thumbsup:
 
I haven't come up completely empty-

I took this a year later-
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Then my son took this one in 2008-

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And his buddy took this one at the exact same time-

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Oh, and I like the scenery-
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