Plan to complete the grand slam? any slams?
 

Just curious what you guys out there plan to do in your hunting career? the grand slam(all NA big game animals, I think 29 of them) ? Most of them, minus a few you don't care to hunt? or don't ever plan to get a chance to due to cost or luck of drawing a tag?

Personally I want to hunt most of them in NA, though polar bear doesn't exactly appeal too much to me, nor does mtn. goat right now.

What about any other slams etc...across the world? african sheep /antelope etc...?

RE: Plan to complete the grand slam? any slams?
 

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RE: Plan to complete the grand slam? any slams?
 

I want to "Slam" an arrow or bullet into a Wyoming elk this fall and maybe a CO elk as well. Other than that, just enjoying every moment I spend in the woods!! Not that there is anything wrong with having that type of goal in mind but just not something I really wanted...

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Personally my near future goals are besides a whitetail with a bow, an elk with a bow....., a moose with a bow would be nice, but that tags going to take a while I think, a rcky mtn bighorn sheep, though probably rifle not bow I'd love to take, again that tag should take alotta years.

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My grandpa finished his sheep slam last year with his desert. I would love to follow in his shoes but i dont think its going to happen any time to soon. He got his first three within five years of each other then waited another twenty five to finish it.

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That is my goal in life .I have taken 8 so far ,all DYS. The guide requiments blow.If it wasn't for that I would be much farther a head in the game.

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which 8 dayna?

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W.T. deer ,mulie,black bear,caribou,moose,pronghorn,elk,and turkey if thats one. The last time I counted I had 28 mounts . I want to hunt a big billy goat or a grizz .Mostly b/c I have had lots of them in my crosshairs or bow sights. But those darn guide laws make it hard on a poor working guy with a wife and kids. Maybe I should be looking at some of the critters I can still hunt unguided. Any advice?


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My current dream/wish list:

NA
Sheep - Rcky Mtn Bighorn & Dall
Caribou - Mountain & Quebec Barren Ground's. I also would like to one day hunt Woodland Caribou.
Moose - Yukon

African:
Gemsbok
Springbok
Impala
Waterbuck
Kudu
Zebra
Cape Buffalo

New Zealand:
Red Stag
Fallow Deer

Asia:
Marco Polo Sheep
Ibex


Some of these are realistic others may not be but hey that is what dream/wish are all about.:)

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I've never really had much interest in animals outside of N.A.. . .seems in Africa, all you have to do is sit on a water hole and pull the trigger. Not much sport in that. My life time wish list at this point is (in addition to white tail and turkey) : mulies, antelope, elk, bear(black and grizz), moose,bighorn sheep, caribou and maybe a bison.

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only time I see africa/water holes is for bow hunting, which is pretty typical way of hunting many western US species.....

I love to bowhunt, but I really want to gun hunt africa. I don't want to sit on a water hole with a bow, plus to me african just has this sense about it touch to the past wit ha big bore rifle, dangerous game all around you. May be life/death.

Big billy/dall? I think there are quite a few non wilderness units you can hunt without a guide for those. Least goats in the lower 48 is possible to hunt w/o a guide I'm quite certain. If you really need a guide in a respective state, find a buddy who lives there to pay the $10 or whatever and have him tag along. If you can.

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If you get 2 elk in 2 states, I wanna hear YOUR story!!

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Ihave taken both Dalls and Stones, my Bro in Alberta has taken Bighorns.
My goal is to take a California Bighorn before he takes a Dall.
We've both taken whitetails, mule deer, blackbear, moose, and elk
I have taken grizzly and caribou, wolves
He's taken antelope
I think I'll try for a goat next and he should concentrate on a couger.
This makes for a pretty nice combined trophy room.

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I don't care about any of the so called "slams".I would rather just enjoy hunting instead of worrying if I were going to kill the next animal on some made up list.

And some animalsI just don't care about hunitng. Walrus for instance.

Orthe turkey slam. To me a turkey is a turkey to some the different species are as different as night and day.

Or Tule elk. I would much rather be hunting Rocky Mt. (American) elk.

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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?