You want a completely stupid answer? Well, mine probably is. I don't have ANY desire for a buck with a HUGE rack. Please let me explain:
There I am, up in my stand several feet up with a view of the Rockies in the background, clearing in the foregound. That beautiful buck peacefully grazing...couldn't do it. The moment of nature would overcome my desire to do it. I have no qualms of anybody taking the shot. It just wouldn't happen with me.
I've never had a desire to hunt Wolves. I think they are beautiful animals and even if they were plentiful I'd never be willing to kill one. I've shot coyotes and have no problem with that at all, but their bigger cousins are off limits for me.
I would love to hunt just about any animal a person can hunt. I just think the idea of hunting ground-dwelling animals with dogs (by bringing the critter to bay) sounds yucky. I think it's mostly a bear, lion, coon thing. I'm sure there are other animals people hunt this way.
I can pretty much hunt anything as long as I can eat it and it tastes good. Or if there are way too many. I might have troubles with rabbits because they're kind of cute and there aren't many of them around my area.
Anything where there is no chance for "fair chase", or if I have no intention of harvesting the animal for meat. I guess most African safari game would be part of my NO list. Moose would be one I wouldn't shoot either.
yeah any thing that is cornered or tree'd doesn't strike my fancy :barf: ,I want it to be me against the animal,not me and 8 dogs or me and a fenced in quarry,I want a even playing field.well except for a deerstand or something like that.
My no hunt (no shoot) list includes whales, polar bear, ducks, geese and most snakes (water mocasins excluded). I have passed shooting bobcats, but that was because I was deer hunting.
I don't want to hunt bats. I would, however, like to know how penguines, Giraffe, Zebra, seal (various type), and Thar taste before I remove them from my "wanna harvest" list.
Your input would be appreciated.
DesertFox - I heard they all taste like chicken....
Since the chances of me ever having enough money to leave North America are less than zero, The only game species I can think of is buffalo. The hunts I have seen on TV don't look very challenging or exciting.
I don't hunt "varmints"... seems like killing only for the sake of killing. Unless you have a real problem with them on your property it seems a little odd to me to sit around blowing up prairie dogs just for the hell of it.
Second on the sittin around blowin up prarie dogs. Seems a little bent to me too. I may be out of the loop, I know they are destructive, but you would have to kill thousands to cure that problem. Killin just to watch something die seems dangerously close to disturbed. Or may actually be the definition.
If I am missing something, I am open minded enough to listen.