RE: Plan to complete the grand slam? any slams?
I hear ya bigbulls, I think I want to hunt most of the animals, and tastes may change over time.....but there are a few I could kinda care less to hunt right now. Maybe after I've taken others I'll take up those other ones/ or want to.
I just went on my first real elk hunt last year, archery, new mexico, (have hunted 2 other times with little action)I think I may be addicted, so far elk seem to be one of those species I could hunt annually and not get bored. Personally I think I'd like to hunt a tule, roosevelt, rck mtn. I have some of my own slams too I hope to complete, I want to take an antelope from each of the great regions......wyoming region, NW Nevada/SE oregon, and NM/Arizona. I kinda think it would be cool to take an elk from each state......even though 1 animal cant represent an entire states elk population I think it would be cool down the road to look up at the wall and see that wide one from wyoming.......that huge one from arizona....new mexico.
Turkey's I do want to do the slam of, or at least most of them. I hunt the easterns, while pretty in their own right, I love the white tipped feathers of some of the others, I really want to get a merriam's and a rio in the near future, then maybe a goulds or the florida one, not sure about the yucatan one not sure about flying down there to hunt that bird in the jungle....haha. that'll be later on the list if I do go after all of them.
I suspect many animals become addicting to hunt....whether its elk, turkey's, sheep, then there's always being addicted to hunting them all. I'd like to try for most of them, then focus on the ones I enjoyed hunting the most, never know til you try right?