Your 2025 Hunt Plans?

[UKHunter]

Hi UK Hunter, no this is not a McNab. It is just a challenge for our Carruthers members to achieve. Carruthers & Co is a small hunting and fishing club of life-loving adventurers and we dream up challenges from time to time. The Golden Tie challenge requires our group to hunt some specific quarry in Africa and Scotland. A bit of fun. Spice has no value in a bottle.
As soon as I have the plans cemented I will let you know Para45. It would be great to meet up. Kevin

Ah sorry, i misunderstood then. Sounds a great idea to come up with some challenges to go after.

 

[375Fox]

Stop caring about work. I'm halfway serious about that.

Bezoar Ibex (Turkey) in Feb
Leopard (Namibia) in July
Chamois (Croatia) in November

Going to be a good year!

That’s really what I’ve found too. I can book a trip and then find a way to get the days off work or I can stress and use work as an excuse to not book a trip. It’s a mindset. There are a lot of hunters who could have done a lot more than they did and regret it later.

 

[lhook7]

Uganda for buffalo in Feb/Mar.

 

[aminkus]

Heading to SCI to book my next Elephant hunt!
Very excited

 

[joker2400]

Just Botswana non trophy elephant in September for me. Otherwise, I’ll be spending the year working on my deer property and hunting that.

Thinking Canada moose for 2026 if anyone has a place they’d recommend (preferably Manitoba or Alberta)

 

[Manwe]

Planning a Botwana hunt next year. Still on the works though.

 

[SCHUNTER73]

Going to plan for antelope in Wyoming this fall. Maybe black bear in NC also. Typical deer and turkey in South Carolina also.

 

[375Fox]

Just Botswana non trophy elephant in September for me. Otherwise, I’ll be spending the year working on my deer property and hunting that.

Thinking Canada moose for 2026 if anyone has a place they’d recommend (preferably Manitoba or Alberta)

I didn’t know Botswana offered non-trophy elephant hunts? Is it a true non-trophy non-exportable bull or still an exportable bull in an area that doesn’t produce large ivory?

 

[Moe324]

Peru in June for geese and ducks
Michigan for Turkey in may.
Might try wv for deer this fall, want to kill something with a .35rem lever action Marlin I inherited from my uncle.

 

[Franco]

January/Feb - sandhill cranes in Texas.b
June - Mozambique for leopard, to complete my Big Five/Dangerous Seven. Looking for a croc to better the 15' I got in Zambia, hippo if the opportunity presents. Not much else on my list, porcupine - maybe.
October - back to Louisiana for alligators.

Good luck to all in 2025

 

[russ473]

Sounds like everyone has some awesome hunts planned, shoot straight, be safe and enjoy

 

[R eight]

Just Botswana non trophy elephant in September for me. Otherwise, I’ll be spending the year working on my deer property and hunting that.

Thinking Canada moose for 2026 if anyone has a place they’d recommend (preferably Manitoba or Alberta)

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[joker2400]

I didn’t know Botswana offered non-trophy elephant hunts? Is it a true non-trophy non-exportable bull or still an exportable bull in an area that doesn’t produce large ivory?

Non trophy non exportable in NG4 I believe. I bought it in the local SCI auction. The hunt is with GameTrackers Africa. I plan to post a report when I return

 

[Hunt anything]

January, hunt the whitetail rut hard, waterfowl if any of my holes fill up. Bone dry right low.
February, finish up deer season and then hogs in central Alabama.
August, South Africa for tsessebe, birds and fishing then anything else I can afford.
September, doves and teal.
December, possibly Northern California for cackling and Aleutian Canada geese.

 

[MLindsay]

Save in July

 

[Hogpatrol]

Tibet in July for Yeti, Oregon and Washington state in August for Sasquatch, if I have any energy remaining, September in the New Jersey pine barrens for the Jersey Devil.

 

[19_A_CPT]

Alberta for moose and wolf in October with the wife.
Pheasant in January with the Boys.
Maybe Florida in September for Lake Dinosaurs

 

[Hunt anything]

Tibet in July for Yeti, Oregon and Washington state in August for Sasquatch, if I have any energy remaining, September in the New Jersey pine barrens for the Jersey Devil.

Don’t forget skunk ape in Florida or the roogaroo in Louisiana and that would be a mythical beast grand slam.

 

[UKHunter]

Tibet in July for Yeti, Oregon and Washington state in August for Sasquatch, if I have any energy remaining, September in the New Jersey pine barrens for the Jersey Devil.

Maybe add a haggis in Scotland to the list?

 

[375Ruger416]

Have an elk hunt in September of 2025 in the Kootenay mountains of BC and hunting whitetail here in Alberta in the fall.

Did Namibia this past September - took Springbok, Gemsbok, Blue wildebeest, Kudu, Eland, Impala, jackal, and baboon - planning to return in 2026 with my wife and kids and do some fishing as well and then do my first Cape buffalo hunt in 2027. Reading everyone else’s plans, I’m thinking I need to get more ambitious!

After such a great hunting experience in Namibia, its hard to go back to only hunting whitetail every fall as well as elk, moose, and mule deer every few years when you get drawn here in Alberta.