I have debated with myself about responding to this question. Here I am.
In high school (in the dark ages, the 1960s) I enrolled in Junior ROTC so I could compete on the rifle team. I qualified, made the team each year. My friend Jack and I swapped the number 1 position almost weekly in our senior year. My goal each week, each match, was to beat Jack. He died three years ago, ALS, so I guess I won. I wish he were here.
From 1998 to 2020 I was a cowboy action shooting competitor. Shoulder arthritis put an end to my competition. I loved competing in the blackpowder categories because I liked the percussion revolvers, the smoke, the balls of fire, and the fewer number of competitors. The first time I won the Missouri State Championship in Frontiersman category, I congratulated myself for about an hour, then I realized I had to win it again to prove that the first win was not a fluke. So I did. Winning was important to me because I felt like I had something to prove. Poor self image, I guess. Turns out I was the only one who cared. Everyone else was getting ready for the next match, or whatever. I have a stack of wooden plaques stored in a cabinet as mementoes of those wins. I suspect they will be firewood someday.
There was a website that documented "World Record" times for each SASS cowboy action category. I watched some of the videos on that website, and thought to myself, "I think I can beat some of those times." The requirements for submitting a video included setting up the "world record" target array with specified target sizes and distances, having a timer showing the elapsed time in the video from start to finish, etc. My local SASS club kindly allowed me to set up one of our stages to comply with the world record requirements. I practiced, made lots of videos, and between 2016 and 2018 I held "world records" in cowboy action shooting in three categories: Frontiersman, Frontier Cartridge, and Frontier Cartridge categories.
Nobody cared. I thought I would at least get some emails/comments about holding three world records (yes, even in these less popular categories) simultaneously. But nothin'.
Now, I have a pretty good grasp on reality. I was, at my best, a slightly better than average cowboy action shooting competitor overall. There were lots of shooters better than I am/was. I was not truly a world championship level competitor. But still... world records...
I think world records should be held by true champions, and I know I am not really one. So I arranged for Missouri Lefty, (Clayton Wisdom in real life) to try to beat my times at the 2018 Missouri State Championship match. And he did. Since he is a true championship caliber competitor, having won the World Championship of SASS, I am proud to have my times beaten by him, and to have the three SASS blackpowder category world record times be held by him, since he has consistently been one of the top SASS shooters for years.
All of this is to say that "bucket list" goals overall have only been briefly satisfying for me. So I don't have any at this time.
I shoot a couple of times a week at a local indoor range. I still have an ego. I enjoy shooting small groups with my old Smith and Wessons while the kids spray and pray at shorter ranges with their black guns on neighboring lanes. I kinda keep hoping that one of them might come over to my lane and ask me to coach them on how to shoot more accurately. I would happily do so.
Hasn't happened yet. But that's as close to a bucket list goal as I got.
I've just shown you my soul. For what it's worth.