What Are Your 2026 Hunt Plans?

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This was posted last year by @TheGrayRider , and I found it very interesting to look through.

I also thought it was fun to look back on what I wrote and see how it compared to what really happened.

I think this would be a fun yearly thread. Maybe say what your hunt plans are for 2026 and how your season went in 2025 compared to what you thought/said you were going to do.

Feel free to add photos of your successful 2025 hunts as a recap if you care to do so.
 
- SCI convention coming up soon
- Fishing around home in the Spring and Summer
- Leaving for SA first week of July to hunt buffalo and plains game in the Timbavati and Songmivelo.
- Patiently wait for duck season to start here in northern Indiana
 
Blue sheep - Nepal, Himalayan mountains, Asian Continent. Mid-late October 2026. (Neal & Brownlee Outfitters) The training continues…

Looking forward to the SCI Convention in Nashville in a few weeks. Please remember to sign up for the Veterans Breakfast on Saturday morning at the Omni Hotel. Free for veterans of any service during any time period and of any country. Family members can also attend for a small fee, I believe.

Good luck with your planning, travel, and hunts in 2026, TheGrayRider a.k.a Tom.
 
Beyond SCI in a few weeks, we have a few things.

Trout fishing in June.
Hopefully conservation season goose in September.
Possibly a hunt with another AH member for waterfowl in Arkansas.

Looking at booking a trip it Africa for ‘27 or ‘28 while we are at SCI, but haven’t decided on a specific kind of hunt yet.
 
Last year took off from any hunts dealing with family issues. Went to TTHA Dallas and HSC Houston visiting with lots of people this year. Heading to Mozambique in June 26 with Brandon, Tsala Safaris for non export Elephant and Hippo. No other plans at this time for 2026.
 
Had a wonderful opening chapter to my African hunting career in Namibia last year.

‘26 opened poorly for me initially with an unscheduled but necessary hernia surgery. So my PT training for leopard in Nuanetsi for May and Barbary Sheep in SA is stalled. But, I’ll bounce back, no worries.

In August/September I will try to finally complete a personal goal. After years of dreaming and planning everything is finally on track to do a X-continent drive to Alaska from the lower 48, do a solo DIY float hunt for moose/black bear and return home by way of ferry to Washington through a couple NP’s and back to the farm.
 
Rabbit hunting. Still trying to shot a doe with my recurve bow. Apparently bow hunting 2 times per month isn’t helping my odds.

We may put a hunt together in northern Italy. I am looking at a modified “McNab” hunt in Scotland ( 3 day not one) then going to visit wife’s relatives in Italy.

Spring/ summer trout and salmon. Pheasant hunting

Archery Elk with CWO

Grouse hunting

Back to deer hunting, fall salmon and trout
 
Busy year -
  • Fly fishing around the SE US
  • Flounder gigging when we can
  • Back to RSA for my son's first (back with Game 4 Africa)
  • Kyrgyzstan in August (kicked back one year for Hernia)
  • Bird hunting in the SE in the fall
Scheduling / researching 2027 options - still hoping to pulls some tags out west or figure out if Namibia, New Zealand, Spain, are next. Planning half of the fun - or making your bucket list.
 
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We’re just starting to plan 2026… right now we’re thinking prairie dogs in Montana in June… and Croatia for boar and possibly stag in perhaps May….

We may still try to pull off a late season hunt in South Africa as well…
 
Brown bear on southern end of Alaskan peninsula in May, elk at home in WY , maybe a moose/ elk combo in BC. pheasants in Oct, maybe try to also squeeze in a black bear hunt while I am in Alaska after the brown bear hunt, then a dreaded knee surgery in June. No plans for Africa this year.
 
Roe deer, pheasants, and in the meantime looking for number of planets in galaxy to align, to get to Afrika.
 
TheGrayRider said:
Blue sheep - Nepal, Himalayan mountains, Asian Continent. Mid-late October 2026. (Neal & Brownlee Outfitters) The training continues…

Looking forward to the SCI Convention in Nashville in a few weeks. Please remember to sign up for the Veterans Breakfast on Saturday morning at the Omni Hotel. Free for veterans of any service during any time period and of any country. Family members can also attend for a small fee, I believe.

Good luck with your planning, travel, and hunts in 2026, TheGrayRider a.k.a Tom.
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GrayRider, the best training method I have found for extreme altitudes and steep hills. Is tire dragging.

I think the Austrian climber Christian Stangl was the first to come up with it. And he would drag a tractor tire up Austrian mountains that most struggle to climb period .

Tire dragging works your legs, lungs and heart at one time. After it gets easy. Pick an object in front of you. Say the next utility pole. Or that parked blue car. And hold your breath while dragging the tire until you reach that target. It will best duplicate the feeling of your heart and lungs exploding while climbing steep hills.

 
For 2026, so far:
Hunted duck in January in TX
Namibia PG in May
Dove hunt in TX
Antelope hunt in Wyoming in Oct.
Texas exotics in November
Possibly fishing in Belize in December

I did just book a NZ hunt but its for 2027 and am close to putting Moz 2028 on the calendar/make the deposit.

2025 went as planned actually with the caveat that my Namibia PG hunt turned into a problem bull elephant hunt (a very positive turn of events) and our mule deer hunt in Arizona was a bust due to weather.

cheers
 
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