engineer40
Well-Known Member
My Dad started me shooting when I was very young. I remember Christmas when I was 10 he got me a reloading press for my 20 Gauge. I'm thankful for all the time he spent teaching me various things about firearms while I was growing up.
We live in Michigan. He has always talked about wanting to go "west" for a hunt. He never has because of financial reasons...
I do better financially than he ever dreamed of; however I have a couple young kids and a stay-at-home wife that use up a lot of my financial resources.
I always tell myself that "Someday I'm going to take my Dad on his hunting trip out west". Well we all know the road to Someday leads to a town called Nowhere... It never happens.
My Dad has had cancer twice. He still gets around decent, still cuts firewood, etc... But chances are if I don't plan something relatively soon, I'm not sure how much longer he'll be in good enough health to go on a hunt.
I'd love to take him on an elk hunt. But some Googling has me thinking that will be cost prohibitive. So maybe mule deer and antelope?
All of my hunting has been in the Midwest. I know some of you on this forum have TONS of experience planning and going on hunting trips. If you were trying to be cost conscious, what would a good hunting trip look like to you all?
I guess I'm asking you guys to help me plan my first trip somewhere in a western state to go hunting and I can bring my Dad with. I'll be paying for both of us. So I can't spend so much that my wife will get too irate.
Off hand, I'm thinking hunting state land in Montana for Mule Deer...? Thoughts?
Thanks!
We live in Michigan. He has always talked about wanting to go "west" for a hunt. He never has because of financial reasons...
I do better financially than he ever dreamed of; however I have a couple young kids and a stay-at-home wife that use up a lot of my financial resources.
I always tell myself that "Someday I'm going to take my Dad on his hunting trip out west". Well we all know the road to Someday leads to a town called Nowhere... It never happens.
My Dad has had cancer twice. He still gets around decent, still cuts firewood, etc... But chances are if I don't plan something relatively soon, I'm not sure how much longer he'll be in good enough health to go on a hunt.
I'd love to take him on an elk hunt. But some Googling has me thinking that will be cost prohibitive. So maybe mule deer and antelope?
All of my hunting has been in the Midwest. I know some of you on this forum have TONS of experience planning and going on hunting trips. If you were trying to be cost conscious, what would a good hunting trip look like to you all?
I guess I'm asking you guys to help me plan my first trip somewhere in a western state to go hunting and I can bring my Dad with. I'll be paying for both of us. So I can't spend so much that my wife will get too irate.
Off hand, I'm thinking hunting state land in Montana for Mule Deer...? Thoughts?
Thanks!