12 Volt Man
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waterhouse said:
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I have two nice pointers. Can't beat a wild pheasant hunt when there are birds. I also found the joy of chukar hunting this year. I enjoy all types of upland hunting.
Favorite hunting?
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I have two nice pointers. Can't beat a wild pheasant hunt when there are birds. I also found the joy of chukar hunting this year. I enjoy all types of upland hunting.
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Any kind of physical hunting. I really do not like stand hunting.
I love hunting hogs on foot.
I really love hunting them in thick swampy cover or jumping them out of cedar thickets. Kind of like jumping quail only bigger.
Tracking cape buffalo is a lot like hunting really dangerous, really big hogs. I dearly love it.
Hunting the high country on horse back is awesome.
Chasing a lion with pack of hounds in the dead of winter is one of the truly exciting and most physical hunts on the planet.
Sitting on a high point as the sun comes up or goes down surveying the landscape with rifle in hand and possibly a good dog at your side or from the saddle of one of your best horses.
These are moments to be cherished and loved.
Having your family with you makes these moments all that much more meaningful.
I love hunting hogs on foot.
I really love hunting them in thick swampy cover or jumping them out of cedar thickets. Kind of like jumping quail only bigger.
Tracking cape buffalo is a lot like hunting really dangerous, really big hogs. I dearly love it.
Hunting the high country on horse back is awesome.
Chasing a lion with pack of hounds in the dead of winter is one of the truly exciting and most physical hunts on the planet.
Sitting on a high point as the sun comes up or goes down surveying the landscape with rifle in hand and possibly a good dog at your side or from the saddle of one of your best horses.
These are moments to be cherished and loved.
Having your family with you makes these moments all that much more meaningful.
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H&H,
As always you paint a great picture with your posts!
Me...
Bird hunting. I miss the quail we no longer have. Doves...I can do doves.
Time Restraints never really afforded me big game. So Bird hunting, Duck Hunting (which has also fallen by the wayside with time restraints) small game. I like taking a handgun and going squirrel/ rabbit hunting for instance.
Just getting out, the good folks, kids, especially kids or ladies first time out, dogs, eats, the whole experience. If we get game - that is a bonus.
I can have more fun with a single shot shotgun, mostly .410 taking doves, small game (rabbits in the snow) or similar.
Helping a kid take his first dove, then having the gun handed safely to me...and watching a kid race the dog to get his first bird. Now why on earth do I have to even fire a shotgun that morning? I don't, I haven't.
Funniest Rabbit hunt : Snow, kids out , some first time. All the adults had a kid to watch over, and the adults were limited to single shot shotguns.
Kid misses his rabbit, yells at dad "get 'em...hurry". I was not near enough, besides too busy laughing... Five Adults fired, missed, pulling triggers again, or trying to pump a single shot. Then the beagles gave the adults that "ya'll suck at shooting" look.
Tell anyone I am a fuddy-dud and sentimental - I'll deny it.
Hot chocolate, dry socks, beef jerky, warm vehicle...and kids are ready to have at it some more.
"DaaaaAAAd...I thought you could shoot? You missed my rabbit".
As always you paint a great picture with your posts!
Me...
Bird hunting. I miss the quail we no longer have. Doves...I can do doves.
Time Restraints never really afforded me big game. So Bird hunting, Duck Hunting (which has also fallen by the wayside with time restraints) small game. I like taking a handgun and going squirrel/ rabbit hunting for instance.
Just getting out, the good folks, kids, especially kids or ladies first time out, dogs, eats, the whole experience. If we get game - that is a bonus.
I can have more fun with a single shot shotgun, mostly .410 taking doves, small game (rabbits in the snow) or similar.
Helping a kid take his first dove, then having the gun handed safely to me...and watching a kid race the dog to get his first bird. Now why on earth do I have to even fire a shotgun that morning? I don't, I haven't.
Funniest Rabbit hunt : Snow, kids out , some first time. All the adults had a kid to watch over, and the adults were limited to single shot shotguns.
Kid misses his rabbit, yells at dad "get 'em...hurry". I was not near enough, besides too busy laughing... Five Adults fired, missed, pulling triggers again, or trying to pump a single shot. Then the beagles gave the adults that "ya'll suck at shooting" look.
Tell anyone I am a fuddy-dud and sentimental - I'll deny it.
Hot chocolate, dry socks, beef jerky, warm vehicle...and kids are ready to have at it some more.
"DaaaaAAAd...I thought you could shoot? You missed my rabbit".
JohnBT
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I'm partial to duck and goose hunting in tidal rivers and marshes. This year we hunted a marsh out of a brushed-up 16' skiff. Nothing like watching the sun come up while the bald eagles, hawks and owls prowl the sky.
John
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There's nothing like a big group of greenheads and woodies descending down into your decoy spread at 90 miles an hour, swooping through the trees in flooded timber. Then seeing your best buddy swim out through the icy-cold water and bring your bird back to you, seeing the pride in his eyes of the job he just accomplished for you due to his implicit desire to please you.
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duckslayer said:
Don't forget the pleasure of talkin' the ducks down with the sweet voice of a virgin hen.
I like calling about as much as the shooting. Sometimes after a limit is filled on a good day in the marsh down here, I'll just sit on the pothole and talk to the ducks and get 'em into the deeks, well, so long as I'm not messing up any other groups of hunters. I rather like sweet talkin' 'em so they'll cup their wings and float in rather than buzzing in like an early morning teal.Waterfowl hunting is an art as much as a sport. It's become a life, really, for me. There's lots of good marsh hunting in this area and on the rice fields inland. Much as I like walking the canyons for mulies out west, I couldn't live in New Mexico. Not enough duck hunting out there.
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Man! Now there's a tough question.
Any kind of hunting. But definately big game. Bear in the Northwestern Cascades. In the high country. Not down in the farm valleys. Expansive views in every direction while hiking through plateaus of wild Blue Berries then down slope to groves of Salmon Berries. Seeing a large Black Bear from 600yds on the slope above then putting on the stalk to get within shooting range.
Not second to that but equal, is Blacktail, Whitetail or Mule Deer hunting. I cover a lot of ground when I hunt. Some call it still hunting, but I watch for sign, follow sometimes, look at the lay of the land, and put myself in good position to see anything that's wandering the woods or fields in front of me. (Hunting from tree stand is not hunting to me. It's waiting for something to walk by.) I seldom sit on stand. That said, I do attempt to put myself at an elevation where I have the best view of the territory I'm hunting. Again, seldom near farm land. I shoot off hand, no shooting stix. But I'll use a rest if there's one quick and available. Sometimes with pistol. Sometimes with open sighted lever action or scoped bolt action -depending upon the environment. I prefer it to be colder than warmer. No matter what game I'm hunting.
2005 -My first Whitetail http://www.cnw.com/~hotrod/Hunting/5x6_2005Whitetail.JPG
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Any kind of hunting. But definately big game. Bear in the Northwestern Cascades. In the high country. Not down in the farm valleys. Expansive views in every direction while hiking through plateaus of wild Blue Berries then down slope to groves of Salmon Berries. Seeing a large Black Bear from 600yds on the slope above then putting on the stalk to get within shooting range.
Not second to that but equal, is Blacktail, Whitetail or Mule Deer hunting. I cover a lot of ground when I hunt. Some call it still hunting, but I watch for sign, follow sometimes, look at the lay of the land, and put myself in good position to see anything that's wandering the woods or fields in front of me. (Hunting from tree stand is not hunting to me. It's waiting for something to walk by.) I seldom sit on stand. That said, I do attempt to put myself at an elevation where I have the best view of the territory I'm hunting. Again, seldom near farm land. I shoot off hand, no shooting stix. But I'll use a rest if there's one quick and available. Sometimes with pistol. Sometimes with open sighted lever action or scoped bolt action -depending upon the environment. I prefer it to be colder than warmer. No matter what game I'm hunting.
2005 -My first Whitetail http://www.cnw.com/~hotrod/Hunting/5x6_2005Whitetail.JPG
-Steve
newfalguy101
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My favorite is squirrel, but really when we go out we usually end up yaking so much that we rarely ever kill anything cept time.
I like deer hunting also, but with a 9 day season, its too much pressure to "tag-out" to be much fun. ( I am a meat hunter, and bambi keeps us in meat all winter)
as for technique,
squirrel: mostly slow walk through woodlots, watching for movement
Deer: elevated blind, wait, and wait, and wait.
I like deer hunting also, but with a 9 day season, its too much pressure to "tag-out" to be much fun. ( I am a meat hunter, and bambi keeps us in meat all winter)
as for technique,
squirrel: mostly slow walk through woodlots, watching for movement
Deer: elevated blind, wait, and wait, and wait.
Can't think of any favorites, but I enjoy all these:
Antelope; Trying to sneak up on a buck who's a half mile away and the only thing between him and you is 4" tall grass.
Ducks; Jump shooting an icy river, calling from a blind over decoys, or maybe canoeing down the river.
Pheasants; Pushing stubble fields and weed patches with either a good dog or a bunch of buddies, or both. Big old rooster flushes out and maybe gets hit, maybe not. They're mostly tail, so most people shoot behind them.
Doves are always fun. We always considered them a tune-up for the rest of bird season.
Here's one most of you probably haven't tried: Hunting Blue Grouse just below timberline, with a .22lr pistol. Fool hens, they're almost more fun to watch than they are to shoot. They'll hide behind a tree and peek around to see if you have left yet. I've been known to empty a whole magazine only to have the bird get bored with it all and fly off.
Antelope; Trying to sneak up on a buck who's a half mile away and the only thing between him and you is 4" tall grass.
Ducks; Jump shooting an icy river, calling from a blind over decoys, or maybe canoeing down the river.
Pheasants; Pushing stubble fields and weed patches with either a good dog or a bunch of buddies, or both. Big old rooster flushes out and maybe gets hit, maybe not. They're mostly tail, so most people shoot behind them.
Doves are always fun. We always considered them a tune-up for the rest of bird season.
Here's one most of you probably haven't tried: Hunting Blue Grouse just below timberline, with a .22lr pistol. Fool hens, they're almost more fun to watch than they are to shoot. They'll hide behind a tree and peek around to see if you have left yet. I've been known to empty a whole magazine only to have the bird get bored with it all and fly off.
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Can you take a wild guess?
Actually, duck hunting is probably my favorite type of hunting. Yet, I frequent the woods much more often hunting deer, rather than sitting around the neighboring ponds waiting for duck.
Favorite method is the tree stand.
Actually, duck hunting is probably my favorite type of hunting. Yet, I frequent the woods much more often hunting deer, rather than sitting around the neighboring ponds waiting for duck.
Favorite method is the tree stand.
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