Hunting Bucket List

[Redtick12]

Was conversing with @L.Leon about his experience rat hunting, and expressed that I had not been ratting before. It got me thinking about the hunts I would like to do. So I am think about a bucket list of airgun hunts. My favorites are invasive, and damaging species, but not limited to that
Already checked off:
1. Starlings, this is my regular quarry
2. Ground squirrels
3. Rock Chucks/ Marmot
4. Pigeon

Still on the bucket list:
1. Rats, night stalking sounds like a lot of fun.
2. Iguana, followed by a BBQ.
3. Wild pig/boar.
4. Deer.
5. Coyote

Anyone else have a bucket list? What is the favorite hunt you have done? Out of the ones I have done my favorite was pigeon. With Starling I rarely get more than one at at a time. They are too smart and flee after the first one not to return for hours. Damn things even see me coming with the gun and take off. Pigeons on the other hand will just fly around to another spot an let me shot them there. I have only been pigeon hunting a few times, got 8-10 pigeons in a hunt, collected all of them and dressed them and ate them. Not bad eating actually.

 

[Ranchibi]

My main bucket list critter to get is a ghog! Funnest time pesting/hunting was a ground squirrel shoot in NO WIND! LOL! Would enjoy getting a yote too.

 

[Emu]

Sandhill crane
Snow goose
Pheasant
Cougar
Bobcat
Wild turkeys from the jungle of Yucatan
Antelope
Mule deer
Badger
European wild boar
Sonora desert wild sheep
Audad sheep
African Antelopes.

Very few of them I maight get. But if I have the chance I will make the effort.

I am getting older and wirder, my increasing passión for shooting with airgun has also develop an increasing aversión for dead animals. Therefore each time I take less animals.
Any dove or squirrel that is to close is immediatelly pardon.

I got to know that my challenge in making a shot, my immediate success satisfacción, implies an impact in the scenary with imposible "undo". As a consequence each time I am taking less animals.

I am getting older and wirder...

 

[L.Leon]

Would love to hunt some ground squirrels like the guys out west... And would welcome an opportunity at iguanas. My next trip to Puerto Rico will involve some iguana action.

 

[Ezana4CE]

With airguns? I look forward to hunting turkey. I’d also like to try hunting pheasant. Mountain lion/cougar/puma is a probably the the bucket list American airgun hunt fo me. Off the continent? Well…that’s another story.

I have thoroughly enjoyed squirrel hunting with PCPs.

 

[Steelhead707]

Apart from travelling to Texas where I can use my big bores on large game, an airgun coyote is on my bucket list. I'm embarrassed to say, but there are a LOT of them right in my back yard. I've been holding off on using my powder burner as A) it's too easy, and B) I REALLY want to call one in and knock it down with my Texan .308. Coyotes being what they are (smart), I haven't tainted them with calls yet as I want to do the perfect setup and not screw the pooch. Doubtful I'll get a second chance if I do.

I DID manage to put an NSA 26.8 slug into a 'yote out of my .25 Impact a few months ago; offhand shot at about 60 yards. It was a spontaneous encounter with no time get a rest and attempt a head shot. I centerpunched it pretty hard in the chest/upper neck (it was looking at me straight on) but it rolled down the hill and got up and ran off. Next time I'll use the appropriate horsepower.

 

[Deleted 45061]

Gator hunting with the new Talonp arrow/bolt shooting airgun (don't know what name they will give it) and maybe some fishing with that too.

Since I just moved to FL I think this will be happening soon ish!

 

[Deleted 45061]

Oh...and bear. I would love to do a black bear hunt with my Bushbuck 45.

 

[Ezana4CE]

Oh...and bear. I would love to do a black bear hunt with my Bushbuck 45.

@AtlasAirguns I thought about this one. I’d like to see it done with an airgun first. Lotta fur and a lot of fat and tissue to penetrate to reach vitals. I’m not familiar with this gun. Is it capable?

 

[Redtick12]

@Emu that is a big bucket list. I had forgotten about wild turkey. That is added to my bucket list now.

 

[Emu]

@Emu that is a big bucket list. I had forgotten about wild turkey. That is added to my bucket list now.

I have taken 4 wild turkeys from the north of Mexico with air rifle, both those from Yucatan are very different.

If you have not seen my hunting videos, here it is the link:

Some hunting videos.

New platform allows to upload the videos. I will share my hunting videos. Do not expect perfection !!!

www.airgunnation.com

 

[Redtick12]

Very nice. I will check out the vids.

 

[Hal4son]

A feral peacock. It's the one bird mount I was truly envious of. With the tail feathers down like a wedding gown train. Feral peacocks are an alert and wary bird.

 

[JungleShooter]

Wow, it's amazing the freedom that you enjoy in the US....! Please, keep it safe from bureaucrats, certain politicians, and people that like to produce laws and restrictions to justify that society needs them.
And don't follow Germany where the people actually seem to revel in having signs just about everywhere that prohibit just about everything ("Deutschland im Schilderwald").

So, yeah, my options of killing game are severely limited.
If I lived in Germany, I probably would go to prison if I hunted a deer with an airgun.
But I live in Peru, and airgun hunting is allowed, but with very limited options what you can shoot. (Seems like the German tree huggers arrived here before I could get into airgun hunting.)


So, a hunting bucket list...? I don't think that's a viable pursuit in this country — I'm just glad I get to shoot ANYTHING!!

Matthias

 

[crittahitta]

Mine would be wild boar, prairie dogs, woodchucks and some night rat hunting. But most of all would be to hunt deer in NY with my Texan. Maybe someday. My goal this year is coyote.