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Post by vandyvan on Mar 6, 2014 15:46:13 GMT -6
Do you guys have any bucket list/dream hunts that you would like to do? Hunting the upper Mississippi is one for me and looks like it will become a reality. But what about the REALLY exotic hunts. Hunting teal and all the other wild species in Argentina maybe? Or geese and duck in Saskatchewan? New Zealand? Mexico?
I think for me the ultimate bucket list hunt would be hunting king eiders, harlequins, old squaws etc in harsh conditions of the Pribilofs or Aleutian Island in the Bering Sea. I think that would be incredible.
Where would you go if money and time were no object?
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Post by koonce on Mar 6, 2014 17:03:48 GMT -6
I think for me the ultimate bucket list hunt would be hunting king eiders, harlequins, old squaws etc in harsh conditions of the Pribilofs or Aleutian Island in the Bering Sea. I think that would be incredible. ? That is one of mine as well. I would also like to do a layout hunt on a massive body of water, green timber mallards, rice field out hunt, flooded corn hunt, Missouri River hunt. Would also like to go to Canada and looks like that may happen this year and also a trip to NoDak which is also in the plans for the near future. I'd love to go the west coast and chase cacklers, would also love to hunt the coastal marshes down south. Honestly anywhere different is a pleasure or would be a pleasure for me to hunt. My family had always gunned the river and this is where I cut my teeth. My great uncle has hand carved cans that his great grandfather carved and gunned on the Mississippi in the late 1800s early 1900s that have been passed down thru the family. |
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Post by Tanner Wildes on Mar 6, 2014 17:13:48 GMT -6
Duck hunting delta marsh is the top of my list and very close to that are ducks on Salt lake, and hunting in the Pacific Northwest, preferably Washington state, for widgeon (A legit shot at a eurasion) and mallards, I heard the numbers of mallards out there blow every other flyway out of the water, and the least amount of hunters.
I've hunted the Texas coast out of rockport about 15 times, and I love it, my favorite waterfowling I have ever done, and highly recommend it to anyone!! Seriously the greatest!!
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Post by vandyvan on Mar 7, 2014 9:41:11 GMT -6
5 grand plus airfare to Anchorage, one night hotel, stamps and permits gets a 6 day all inclusive, guided, hunt for king eiders and other sea ducks on Island-X with a 100% return policy in writing if you don't get the opportunity to harvest a drake king eider.
That's alot of money but it actually seems like a fair price for a 6 day hunt of that nature.
The Aleutians also have large numbers of harlequins, old squaw, pintail, mallards, and bluebills.
I'd also like to do a big water hunt form layout boats, even in Lake Michiagn. I think they run some out of Port Washington and/or Sheboygan.
Then there is the flooded timber of LA, The prairie pothole region, etc. Like Koonce said, just going different places is great, even within the state.
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Post by Tanner Wildes on Mar 7, 2014 10:42:06 GMT -6
yeah I agree an all inclusive 6 day hunt, that isn't bad. But it might as well be a million dollars for me. That would be an awesome hunt!
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Post by vandyvan on Mar 7, 2014 11:11:48 GMT -6
Yeah it's pricey and if I had a spare 5 grand lying around I'm sure it would go to something other than a duck hunt. BUT if you put aside a dollar a day starting today you could save enough to go by 2028!
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