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".