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Not quite what you are asking CZ but what I wish I could do is
Jump shoot ducks in Manitoba with my brother again.
Walk the Sandhills with my friend Mike again.
Watch our setters hold a covey of huns in Saskatchewan with my friend Harvey again.
Go fishing for anything with my dad again.
Those opportunities are gone now. I’ll go to the places and do those things again. But it’s who I was with that made them special.
The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia
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I have spent a fair bit of time in different parts of Alaska but still want to see the Arctic coast and Brooks Range. Not interested in shooting anything bigger than ptarmigan, however.
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I will do whatever my grandkids want. They want to shoot soup cans, that's what we'll do. If one of them draws a goat or big horn tag, I hope it's not too far down the road. In the mean time, we'll do the in betweens.
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My bucket list is fairly short but my wish list is not. I have a long list of I wish things. Like I wish I had figured out how to make a place for wild quail on my farms. I so enjoyed hunting them in my youth, but at the time never fully appreciated how wonderful hearing a covey sounded when flushed, or when first one and then another would start calling for their mates. Farms which held a dozen coveys, now struggle to support two coveys.
As to my bucket list they all seem to involve my kids and grand kids. I would like to shoot a couple canvasbacks with my middle son, he is the duck hunter, over a set of decoys he has carved for me. Then when I pass I will give him the decoys back so he can remember that hunt for 50 years. I would like to sit in the blind, with all my grandsons and granddaughters. Do not care if we shoot a thing, just sit and think about how happy my own grandfathers were to sit with me 60 years ago in a blind. A triple on doves with my 42. Kill another duck for my Lab. She so loves to retrieve. Just watching her makes me happy. Live and be healthy enough to take a limit of Dove at 90, like my father did with his grand kids. 15 dove, with 23 shells with a 16 gauge Fox I lent him. Darn good shooting at any age. Last time he ever hunted and I got to watch him do it. Heck I will be happy to do it at 70 or 80 if I get to go with my sons and grand kids. Like I said most of my bucket list involves the kids.
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The point comes where it’s not one more adventure but one less. Trouble is you don’t know when that is. Enjoy them like they are your last!
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A trip to Alaska might be fun, for Dolly Varden, char and halibut. I'd like to go fish the Dean for steelhead, and maybe the Gaspe Peninsula for Atlantic Salmon. Maybe another antelope hunt? I feel pretty blessed to this point (in so-many ways). It'd be fun if my son showed more interest in these things too, but... he's young and figuring it all out yet. Grandkids would be gravy. I haven't gotten to shoot wild pheasant in a while, maybe a trip to the Dakotas again? Ted, you interested?
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I would say you should do a tandem skydive. That's something I still do on a regular bases. Hope to have 1K by years end. Now that is impressive, Bill. There is nothing in me that wishes I had done any type hunting or fishing that I didn't do. I had dreams of Africa once, and Scotland. But, I've done enough far away hunting if I never get to go again. I'm driven to chase ducks and doves, and have spent much of my life doing so. Any of those far away "undone" places would have required, and would require, my family to be placed in uncomfortable circumstances with me being away for long periods, and I will never wish I would have put them in that situation. I guess what I'm vainly trying to express is that I go, and have gone, as much as my conscience allows me to be away from them. My wife depends on me a great deal, and I'm perfectly happy with fulfilling that need, and missing out on "great adventures".
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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Africa....but I am booked to go. Remind me, which part of Africa? Should be a great time. I'd be interested to know what rifle(s?) you are taking. Mozambique in October. I will be bring a .375 H&H I built on a Mauser action a while back. Looking forward to seeing the place as much as the hunt. I would like to do walked up Grouse in Scotland over dogs, setters or flushers.
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I'd like, if a fantasy wish is allowed here, to shoot pigeons and crows with George Digweed in England farmland. I'll use my "Hemingway-ed" M12- like his, a pre-WW2 12 gauge 30" solid rib "Perfect Repeater" And as Dave Petzal once replied- go back to my boyhood and shoot rats at the township dump Saturday afternoons, my Win M63 .22lr weaver scoped-- RWTF
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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My bucket item, well to finally say I have enough guns. Probably never happen
Mike Proctor
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