What's on the bucket list for 15-16 season??

[lurejunkee]

Since this year should be my first true attempt at duck hunting I'll start out by saying that my bucket list is pretty small...
1. Go duck hunting
2. Learn something
3. Kill a duck
4. Have a great time with my son and girlfriend doing it.

Is there anything new for y'all that you've added or want to cross out?

[The Duck Hammer]

break double digits again

[Throbbin Rods]

1. Get out more
2. Kibo to make his first retrieve (and many more)
3. Kill a banded anything

[flyn88]

This will be my first year having a mud motor. So learning some new areas is high up on the list. Also going to be my dogs first year duck hunting. Ready to see is all the training pays off.

[Rick]

break double digits again

Reach high, T-boy, reach high.

[Olly]

Go hunting somewhere new.

[The Duck Hammer]

break double digits again

Reach high, T-boy, reach high.

Lol

[team216]

Like others 1) bear to make her first retrieve. And working with her. I don't care if I shoot one bird this year. As long as someone in my boat does so I can watch my dog

[lurejunkee]

Like others 1) bear to make her first retrieve. And working with her. I don't care if I shoot one bird this year. As long as someone in my boat does so I can watch my dog

Yea I'll never forget the first bird Gunner retrieved, albeit a dove but it was special because I did every bit of his training.

[SpinnerMan]

Sea duck hunt on Lake Michigan. Dates are set. Now we just need to pray the weather cooperates.

Also a 6 duck limit. I have never got a full limit. Given that I only shot 4 all of last season and 2 were mergansers, this perennial goal seems to be getting more ellusive.

Maybe on the sea duck trip and I can get 2 goals in one day.

The last is a mature buck with the bow. I am getting greedy here since I have never got a buck with the bow, but I have seen some nice bucks and missed 2 so I'll take a doe for the freezer, but saving the buck tags for mature bucks. Well at least that is the plan until a young buck gets the adrenaline up and I decide any buck will do, especially if I haven't got a doe yet.

[Darren]

First season with a dog....ohhhhh boy here we go. Will either be huge boon or huge bust, but I'm excited to give him a shot. Other than that, just hunt with a variety of people to make memories and get some new faces in the pictures.

[Rick]

First season with a dog....ohhhhh boy here we go. Will either be huge boon or huge bust...

Either way, expect it to be wet. There were two buddies with really good goldens in my hunting past, and one of my memories of them is the need for rain gear and a good bail scoop. Neat dogs, but holy moly could they haul some water.

[The Duck Hammer]

The last is a mature buck with the bow. I am getting greedy here since I have never got a buck with the bow, but I have seen some nice bucks and missed 2 so I'll take a doe for the freezer, but saving the buck tags for mature bucks. Well at least that is the plan until a young buck gets the adrenaline up and I decide any buck will do, especially if I haven't got a doe yet.

I didn't think about that. Getting a buck is definitely on my list. Watched several the past few years but never been able to stick one. But like you I'm willing to take what I can get buck, doe, yearling not real picky when it comes to using the bow.

[SpinnerMan]

The last is a mature buck with the bow. I am getting greedy here since I have never got a buck with the bow, but I have seen some nice bucks and missed 2 so I'll take a doe for the freezer, but saving the buck tags for mature bucks. Well at least that is the plan until a young buck gets the adrenaline up and I decide any buck will do, especially if I haven't got a doe yet.

I didn't think about that. Getting a buck is definitely on my list. Watched several the past few years but never been able to stick one. But like you I'm willing to take what I can get buck, doe, yearling not real picky when it comes to using the bow.

My plan is to be picky and not shoot a young buck. Doe or yearling, absolutely. First chance I get. However, I only have 2 buck tags. No limit on the antlerless tags. I do not want to use one of the buck tags on a young buck. Even with one left, the two big bucks I missed were about 15 minutes apart One's for any mature buck and one is for the one I missed that will haunt me. I actually got a trail cam picture of it last year, but I heard it got hit and lost. Let's hope it recovered. However, there have been others in the area of equal or better proportions that I plan to keep hunting for even if I do get a mature buck.

I want to go into peak rut with both buck tags in hand. It could be like last year where I only saw the big boys on the camera or it could be like the year before where I saw 3 damn fine buck, two of them were 15 minutes apart and I blew both shots. The first because I had to shoot quick, but still should have been an easy shot and just let the damn arrow go when my 10 yard pin hit his chest when I was coming up on him at 20 yards. The other because the adrenaline was still sky high from the previous. I was planning to shoot that buck in the same exact spot I just missed until he hung up at 30 yards, I think actually because he caught scent of my arrow that had skipped off the rocks and was in the bush next to him. Once I was not sure he was going to come closer, I decided to take that shot. However I shot at 20 yards, where he was supposed to be and not where he actually was. Although, I seem like I missed lower than that. Two shots well under the chest of two mature buck, the first was a beauty, the second would have been my biggest ever by far.

The one in the picture is my true fantasy bucket list. I literally missed him a couple steps forward heading the opposite direction just over a year earlier. The other was a little ways behind that little pine tree.

[Deltaman]

Long weekend South of Venice, hopefully several, which helps offset the shitty hunting here with all of the Johnny come lately newbies that don't seem to have a job, but can afford to hunt most days of the season Usually get an invite or two for hunts in Northern Mississippi, and when it is on, can be incredible.

[Olly]

Long weekend South of Venice, hopefully several, which helps offset the shitty hunting here with all of the Johnny come lately newbies that don't seem to have a job, but can afford to hunt most days of the season Usually get an invite or two for hunts in Northern Mississippi, and when it is on, can be incredible.

Let me add hunt with Deltaman more than once this season to my bucket list.

[Darren]

First season with a dog....ohhhhh boy here we go. Will either be huge boon or huge bust...

Either way, expect it to be wet. There were two buddies with really good goldens in my hunting past, and one of my memories of them is the need for rain gear and a good bail scoop. Neat dogs, but holy moly could they haul some water.

Will make for fun tales in my daily hunt log at least, just hoping to minimize pirogue flippings.

[Woody]

Since I'll be in Cali for most of the season, cinnamon teal and full plume sprig

[Deltaman]

Long weekend South of Venice, hopefully several, which helps offset the shitty hunting here with all of the Johnny come lately newbies that don't seem to have a job, but can afford to hunt most days of the season Usually get an invite or two for hunts in Northern Mississippi, and when it is on, can be incredible.

Let me add hunt with Deltaman more than once this season to my bucket list.

We'll definitely make that one happen Olly! Doubtful I'll bother with the teal, unless I find a few tucked away somewhere that is out of the way, but once big duck season rolls in, we can give'm hell

[lurejunkee]

Pretty neat to see all of these goals!

[Weston81]

I would love to see my Dad shoot a banded duck and be there to see it. This will be our sixth year in the field we have, we kill a fair number of ducks each year and sooner or later it's bound to happen. Dad and I put in an a lot of time preparing the field and hunting, neither of us have shot one but I think I'd be just as tickled to see him get one as I would shooting one myself.

[Bad17]

break double digits again

Reach high, T-boy, reach high.

Lol

Soooo your trying for 10 ducks again this year. That's triple last year right. Let me know if I can help. I'll help you reach your goal.

[The Duck Hammer]

break double digits again

Reach high, T-boy, reach high.

Lol

Soooo your trying for 10 ducks again this year. That's triple last year right. Let me know if I can help. I'll help you reach your goal.

Actually it's 3.333, repeating of course, times the amount of ducks I killed last year. Let's keep everything historically accurate for my followers.

[Bad17]

break double digits again

Reach high, T-boy, reach high.

Lol

Soooo your trying for 10 ducks again this year. That's triple last year right. Let me know if I can help. I'll help you reach your goal.

Actually it's 3.333, repeating of course, times the amount of ducks I killed last year. Let's keep everything historically accurate for my followers.

My bad. Was trying to make simple math

[Capttrae]

Buck w/ my bow
Kill more ducks. Really wanting a Drake Can, Pintail, Widgedon, GWT, and a Black Duck

[DukMan]

I'd like to shoot a full limit (6 ducks) of drake Oldsquaw.

[DeadEye_Dan]

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I shouldn't be so nonchalant about it...it's pretty fun. But usually just requires enough patience to wait on drakes and a little skill to keep from hitting hens

[Tomkat]

Kill a deer

Kill a few coyotes

Kill some ducks

Kill some geese

MAKE THE BIGGEST, BADDEST POND JUMP VIDEO EVER MAKE during snow season. Listen to the bitches whine about it.

Life would be good.

For those who have never seen it-

https://youtu.be/WKYoT0ZnWBY (now has 51,000 views)

[DukMan]

zzzzzzzz....

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I shouldn't be so nonchalant about it...it's pretty fun. But usually just requires enough patience to wait on drakes and a little skill to keep from hitting hens

Where are you hunting? I'm going to be trying to make it happen on Green Bay.