Anyone else have a hunting wish list?

[daddywpb]

While I was sitting around contemplating the universe, I started thinking about things that I've always wanted to do, but haven't done yet. I've come up with two:

I'd like to go to South Dakota and hunt pheasant, and I'd like to go to one of those fancy plantation style lodges in Georgia and hunt quail over dogs. I watch the upland hunting shows on TV, and I'm always facinated watching the dogs work. My dogs won't even come when I call them, unless they're hungry. Just something I'd like to experiance before I check out.

That's assuming that I live through my daughter being thirteen. She doesn't come when I call her either.

The list could also include any guns that you have always hoped to get! I have been fortunate enough to get two guns that have been on my list for many years, and all within the last two months. Through some judicious trading I was able to get a nice Ruger M77 MK2 30/06 with a Nikon Monarch 4x12x40, and a beautiful 12 gauge Ruger Red Label. Both brand new guns ordered for me. Total out of pocket expense for the two of them $32.80. It doesn't happen often, but every once in a while something does work out right.

[Graybeard]

Since this is a wing shooting forum I'll stick to that and say yeah I do have a wish list of hunts I'd one day like to make that I haven't. Like you I'd really like to one day hunt pheasant. Maybe SD or one of the other good pheasant hunting states. I'd also like to try some of the other western birds like Huns and Sharptails perhaps mixed in with a pheasant hunt. I'd like to try some dry land duck and/or goose hunting one day.

Down here in Bama there are no pheasant and darn little water fowling anywhere near me so I've done mightly little waterfowl hunting and never fired a shot at a pheasant.

[Flash]

There are a few bird lodges here in Pennsylvania that have been featured on television. I had the fortunate opertunity of growing up when the Pheasant population was booming here and in northern Maryland. You almost had to shoot them in self defense :grin: .The Susquehanna river in Pa and the bordering lowlands have good bird hunting. There are places here that stock birds but that's like shooting chickens.

[od green]

born and raised in missouri, we had tons of pheasants, turkeys, and quail.
 now ya got me thinking of trying to get home this year.

[mountainview]

GB,

I hope you get the chance to experience the thrill of pheasant hunting with dogs and waterfowling. Watching the geese set their wings and prepare to come over a spread of decoys and watching a pheasant flush are experiences that never fail to thrill me.  Given the rapacious appetite for green spaces that the developers have in my area, the game farms for phesants are increasingly becoming the only place to hunt. Even so I have found that these farms generally do provide sporting opportunities that are hard to discern from my younger days hunting in PA.

Daddywpb,

I too got a lot of things on my wish list (my list for guns is several pages and does not include the hunts I want to go on) but then I got some things that I reckon all in all I ain't too bad off even if I wasted a lot of years being away from the sport.  Don't forget to spend some time dwelling on the good things. However, my biggest wish would be that my son had the same passion for the sport that I do though my daughter seems to be interested in trying things out so ......

Safe shooting.

[encore31]

i have hunted in sd several times for pheasant not tryin to rub it in but to give a visual on the amount of birds there that are truly wild no game farm birds we walked a corn field one time that i recall and the second i walked in i was looking down the rows as i was walking and its like the corn field comes to life there were pheasants running all over the place but the real action begins when you get to the end of the field imagine them huge flocks of black birds and that in all honesty is what it is like it is truly a site to behold on a late december hunt when the birds start bunching up in the winter (feed becoming more scarce) we were walking down a feild road along some really long switch grass some spots over your head and as the good lord up above as my wittnes if there was 1 pheasant there were i know we seen at least 10.000 birds in that 160 acre area that we were hunting if you southern guys and gals ever get a chance you have to see it to believe it sd is the capitol of the world for pheasant hunting and is worth every dime the goin rate if you look around is around 100.00 a day per gun and the hunting is awesome and even putting like that doesnt hardly do justice to what you would expierence its something you will never forget if you go bring allot of shells!!!!!!! Oh ya in regaurds to my hunting wish list I would love to go wild boar hunting maybe someone that wants to try there hand at sd pheasant hunting maybe we could do a hunt swap ill take you pheasant huntin in sd for exchange for a wild boar hunt ive got allot of contacts in sd to get on private land it will cost about fifty bucks a day for the hunting. i dont know if im suppose to talk about swap hunts here if not sorry. :roll:

[tony212]

Oh Man, South Dakota pheasant hunting sounds great to me.  In Massachusetts all we have are stocked pheasants on public land. Sometimes there are more hunters and dogs than pheasants. But pheasant hunting is my most favorite hunting.  I would love to go to South Dakaota before my dog gets too old. Only thing is he hates the dog crate so flying is out of the question. Oh well guess I probably won't get out there.
Tony212

[Ramrod]

I'd like to go someplace to hunt ruffed grouse (or partridge as they are known around here), where I could flush as many as I did when I was a kid. Sometimes 8 or 10 a day. As I was a lousy shot then, I didn't get many. Nowadays, you have to hump all day in these parts to flush 2 or 3. Now that I can hit the things once in a while, they are pretty scarce. :cry: