What are your 2025 Hunting Plans

[Hawk Tuah]

(Sort of in order)
ID mountain goat (daughter's tag)
ID archery gen deer (semi-serious...have a few interesting bucks hanging around near me that I'll try for if they hang around)
UT rifle cow elk (burned points due to price increase)
ID deer (twin daughters and wife)
UT rifle gen deer with buddies (burned points due to price increase)
ID cow elk (controlled hunt for me...2nd draw success)
ID cow elk late draw tag for sister-in-law's first hunt
(maybe) MO youth deer on a recent property acquisition
UT rifle doe antelope
NM aoudad
ID mountain lions (friends/family probably will not kill any this year, just run them)
Mixed in with local bird hunting

Obviously the main tag is the goat tag...if she fills that, the rest are bonuses. Our family eats a ton of meat.

 

[Rack Daniels]

Wyoming general W elk hunt.
Maybe a couple rabbits this winter.
I have a couple areas I can whitetail hunt if I don't kill an elk.

Dude! You’re gonna kill a whopper!

 

[Dave N]

Dude! You’re gonna kill a whopper!

Dunno. If that rabbit is TOO big it might be pretty chewy!

 

[Nick87]

(Sort of in order)
ID mountain goat (daughter's tag)
ID archery gen deer (semi-serious...have a few interesting bucks hanging around near me that I'll try for if they hang around)
UT rifle cow elk (burned points due to price increase)
ID deer (twin daughters and wife)
UT rifle gen deer with buddies (burned points due to price increase)
ID cow elk (controlled hunt for me...2nd draw success)
ID cow elk late draw tag for sister-in-law's first hunt
(maybe) MO youth deer on a recent property acquisition
UT rifle doe antelope
NM aoudad
ID mountain lions (friends/family probably will not kill any this year, just run them)
Mixed in with local bird hunting

Obviously the main tag is the goat tag...if she fills that, the rest are bonuses. Our family eats a ton of meat.

Adopt me...

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Adopt me...

Top funny. Busy year helping some family fill tags.

 

[Nick87]

Top funny. Busy year helping some family fill tags.

Your living life. Good luck!

 

[Bullshot]

My 2025 plan has one simple goal: I've come up empty on last 2 elk hunts, I don't want to go 3 strikes in a row. And last elk I shot was in 2019. ANY LEGAL BULL is therefore in trouble. It's a 3rd choice tag. A cow may be in trouble later in the hunt. A mule deer buck on same trip would also be a nice cherry on top but if I have to choose 1, it's an elk, pretty much any elk.

 

[rjthehunter]

(Sort of in order)
ID mountain goat (daughter's tag)
ID archery gen deer (semi-serious...have a few interesting bucks hanging around near me that I'll try for if they hang around)
UT rifle cow elk (burned points due to price increase)
ID deer (twin daughters and wife)
UT rifle gen deer with buddies (burned points due to price increase)
ID cow elk (controlled hunt for me...2nd draw success)
ID cow elk late draw tag for sister-in-law's first hunt
(maybe) MO youth deer on a recent property acquisition
UT rifle doe antelope
NM aoudad
ID mountain lions (friends/family probably will not kill any this year, just run them)
Mixed in with local bird hunting

Obviously the main tag is the goat tag...if she fills that, the rest are bonuses. Our family eats a ton of meat.

Now that's a pile of tags! I really need to plan a lion hunt. Sounds like you're going to be busy for a few months.

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Now that's a pile of tags! I really need to plan a lion hunt. Sounds like you're going to be busy for a few months.

Thanks, I'm excited. Once I wrote them all out, I realized it is quite a few. I'll be busy for sure. The majority are non-trophy type hunts and should be a lot of fun. Lions are one of my favorites.

As luck would have it, two of my UT tags are smack in the middle of their largest wildfire, so those should be interesting...

 

[TrapperJ]

My plan for this year is to do better and learn more then I did last year I also wanna hunt a bit more then last year and learn how to hunt different things like rubs and trails and scrapes I also wanna experiment with stands or a blind I wanna zero my rifle farther I wanna shoot it a bit more and I wanna hunt in the snow or freezing cold (always seemed really cool just wish me luck on not getting frost bite)

MO Oct doe season
MO nov buck season
MO nov cwd season
MO dec doe season
MO Jan doe season.
Seems like a good amount of seasons to learn about and to hunt. Good luck everyone on you're hunts

 

[rjthehunter]

Thanks, I'm excited. Once I wrote them all out, I realized it is quite a few. I'll be busy for sure. The majority are non-trophy type hunts and should be a lot of fun. Lions are one of my favorites.

As luck would have it, two of my UT tags are smack in the middle of their largest wildfire, so those should be interesting...

Do you run your own hounds?

There has been some fires popping up where I'm going to hunt in WY but so far nothing too close to where I plan to hunt! You're going to need another freezer or two at this rate!!

 

[PoleX]

10 days from now i'll hopefully be looking for one of these:

 

[nrpate05]

Focusing on Wyoming General W. Depending on how that goes I may pick up an Idaho OTC deer/elk tag.

 

[Rack Daniels]

Veni Vidi Vici

 

[Bill Zent]

Idaho elk, deer, lion, wolf, turkey and coyotes.
As usual I will be in the recliner drinking coffee with binoculars, spotting scope and rifle at the ready if I see an animal I want. No sense freezing outside.

 

[Matthew57]

New job begins Sept 8th. Heart procedures Sept 26 & Oct 26. Was fortunate to not draw anything this year. Whitetail hunt Illinois November with my new xgun because doc says I should not draw my bow until wire in artery heals. Have no idea if new job will allow me to hunt much.

2025, the lost year for me. Will have to wait until 2026 to burn points. But not complaining because I need the job bad. Will claim SS in eleven months.

Best of luck on your procedure! Hope it goes well.

 

[jpc01101]

Year to date:
KY Turkey with 8yo (Successful)
KY Turkey with Wife (Successful)
KY Turkey for myself (Successful x2)
Montana Spring Turkey (Fail)
Montana Spring Bear (Successful)
Africa for 8yo (Blesbuck, Impala)
Africa for wife (Zebra)
Africa for me (Springbok, Kudu, Red Hartebeest, Impala, Impala, Gemsbok)

Coming up:
KY Archery Deer with 8yo
KY Archery Deer with wife
KY Archery Deer for me (only if other two successful)
Montana Big Game Combo (headed out for Archery 9/22 for a couple weeks and back in Nov for a couple more)
Montana fall turkey (not giving up hope, will change up approach)
ID Bear tag in my pocket...if I kill everything early may see about putting out a bait or two
Colorado Mule Deer
NM Coues

That'll do it for me I believe

 

[Hawk Tuah]

Do you run your own hounds?

There has been some fires popping up where I'm going to hunt in WY but so far nothing too close to where I plan to hunt! You're going to need another freezer or two at this rate!!

I do run my own hounds for lions.

Hope there is no fire interference for you in Wyoming!

 

[Bicyclerips]

All in colorado
Special Regs Cow Elk Tag Sept-Jan
September Bear Tag
1st rifle elk tag(In same GMU as Bear Tag)
3rd Rifle Deer(In same unit at Special Cow Tag)
Bird Chasing in SD/NE as much as possible.

Looking forward to all of it!

 

[Elkoholic]

- Mt elk (general) archery, rifle later if needed
- Mt deer (general) archery, rifle later if needed
- Mt moose (tag along with a buddy as packer if I can get tagged out in archery)
- Wy elk rifle (cow), (2 other partners have Bull & cow tags each)
- Wy elk (Tag along with buddy as packer in an awesome LE unit)
- Mt Elk rifle (tag along with buddy as packer in LE unit)
- Ohio WT archery (Nov rut)
That should keep me busy, I'll be in Mt & Wy all Sept. and Oct.
Retirement doesn't suck.