2025-26 Season plans?

[Addicting]

Guess I'm going to try for Wyoming elk. Other than that the guy that rents the farm is looking at getting me a spot for whitetails here around home.

I’m with Dave, except the whitetail thing.

Swing for the fences with the kids and see what they pull. Otherwise, probably just save for the holiday vacation I obliged to.

 

[gonhunting247]

I hope to draw an antelope tag in UT or WY, since I haven't been in a couple years. I will start out with javelina HAM hunt in AZ this spring.
OR spring bear and hopefully 3 Toms like the last few years, will keep the spring challenging and busy.
I'll put in for AZ, UT, WY, NV, ID, CO, NM for most species and hope to draw a tag or two. I have a lot of points built all across the west and would like to keep using them gradually .
In OR fall hunts I should draw my MZ deer tag and get OTC and easy draw bear and elk tags respectively.
I should get a MT deer tag and I'll put in for antelope. One of my BIL's, his brother and my brother always comes along for this hunt and even though it isn't what it used to be; it's a great time with family!
I have an ID whitetail tag already (if I don't draw a LE) and might get lucky for my longshot draws in AK.
It's actually been hard to not have too many hunts for my leave time (and income ), I know tough problems to have.
If I truly strike out completely I'll plan on getting back to my sisters in SE AK and try to find a sitka blacktail there!
Good luck to everyone in the draws!
I'll pray for some kind of crazy luck and I finally draw my WY moose tag!

 

[Forkyfinder]

Hunting where i live. Hoping for glory tags for some, but reasonable odds at a sweet elk tag. If not that - then archery hunting elk for a week with some good spots with friends and completing the obligatory mule deer rut hunt (wont shoot one under 160, so probsbly wont shoot one lol). Maybe try to find a whitetail for thanksgiving.

More inportantly - attending public meetings that i can. Communicating with my representation on relevant wildlife bills. And convincing friends fo do the same.

Trolling @Treeshark less. maybe.

 

[TheTone]

Heading a a hunt in a couple weeks that maybe my favorite of the year. Buying points for WY elk, deer and pronghorn, points for AZ deer and pronghorn, maybe applying for elk? Planning to draw a phenomenal archery elk tag at home with my wife and a good friend. If we don’t draw that we plan to hunt together anyways in a new to us all unit. Will also apply for a mule deer tag in Idaho but plan to hunt OTC

 

[Beignet]

Never applied to an out of state hunt before, but plan to swing for the fences on an archery tag in NM. It’d be neat to hunt an area with an actual abundance of elk on public land.

I haven’t held a pronghorn tag since 2019. Hope this is the year I get another.

Otherwise, I’ll do some local archery elk and continue my quest to find a bread & butter mountain whitetail spot close to home.

 

[Birdbander]

This year is ending rough and will continue into the next until things get settled. Due to that, my hunting and fishing plans have been altered.

I had planned a pike spearing trip to the UP and a perch spearing trip to LSC if they get ice.
Planned a spring turkey hunt to Indiana.
A spring/summer full of local crappie fishing.
A dove hunt to west Texas with a stop back in Indiana.
A blue grouse hunt to Colorado.
A ruffed grouse hunt to NMW.
Ruffed grouse trip or two to the UP.
Buy antelope points for MT & WY.

Updated plans:
Pike spearing on local waters as ice allows.
Local spring turkey.
Spring/summer of as much local crappie as possible.
Blue grouse hunt in CO.
Hopefullyan opportunity to get to the UP for grouse.

The outcome of what's currently altering my future will dictate.

 

[Yooper906]

Torn on what to do. I have an open invite to hunt Alberta archery elk with a buddy who lives up there.

But I also want to burn my CO deer points on a high country archery hunt.

Decisions decisions……

 

[WVTXn]

Whatever I can pull off!

 

[homestead]

Build points for CO elk and WY pronghorn.
Headed to Maine for grouse in October.
Despite making plans for a spring bear hunt, my wife decided this would be the year to travel to Spain.