What is your favorite type of Hunting

[wankerjake]

Big game, deer and elk. Bucks and bulls get it done for me. Squirrel hunting is a lot of fun as well. A good productive bird hunt is good but nothing beats big game. I discovered coyote hunting this past year, and it combines the thrill of big game hunting with a multiple bag limit and long season. If they were good eating it would rank higher for me.

 

[jmorris]

Dove, by far. One can hunt no other animal while sitting on a cooler talking with friends (in shorts and a t shirt).

 

[MCgunner]

Dove, by far. One can hunt no other animal while sitting on a cooler talking with friends (in shorts and a t shirt).

Yeah, that's what I like about dove hunting. However, one of our annual goose hunts was in shirt sleeve weather this year just before a front that came in that afternoon. Wind was laid, fog about 30 yards up and didn't lift til about 11:00. I mean, my gawd, does it get any better? And, the birds were a LOT bigger.

 

[AKElroy]

Not sure why it isn't on your list, but dove are it for me. Lots of action, lots of shooting, good eats. Deer hunts have become a freezer filling activity, hogs are pest control & balistic testing media, while dove are just a blast to blast. Nothing sweeter than a double; I had a buddy come up to me last year after two hours shooting & ask if I had counted my bag. 12 is the daily allowable, I had 24. Woops---

 

[Uncle Mike]

Doves are in the Waterfowl/Upland category.

 

[pymi]

I chose big game, to me there ain't nothing like being in the tree stand during late fall deer archery.

 

[Harve Curry]

Big game, wether walking, stalking or horse back in the mountains. Glassing for hours.

 

[stevelyn]

Big game and predators.

 

[Dr.Rob]

Big game by far, esp. stalking elk above 8000 feet in November. Ahhhh... brisk!

And I chuckled at "speed goat," I've lost count of how many I've harvested in CO and WY.

 

[H&Hhunter]

I like all hunting but I voted for big game. There isn't anything on this planet quite like closing that last 20 yards on a big old cape buffalo bull in the thick stuff, or dodging a herd of PO'ed elephants. The smell of mopane smoke while listening to hyenas light up the African night.

Catching that first spot of sorrel hide across the canyon in a blizzard in the Rockies.Or busting a nasty ole boar out of his swampy bed on a blazing Texas afternoon with a fine double rifle in hand and then rolling him at in full stride with the first barrel.

Listening to my hounds light up on a cougar track at first light in the high country. Busting a quail rising out of a brush pile or folding a greater Canada just as he sets his wings over your decoy.

Watching a coyote come skipping across the sage brush looking for that free meal. The agony of ten days in the high country with nothing to show for but an empty wallet, sore muscles and a life time of memories. It's all good.

I love it all. In fact you could say that I am a bit touched by it.

 

[MCgunner]

Not too many wing shooters. Guess that leaves more birds for me.

 

[Uncle Mike]

wow.. with all the turkey huntin' shows on tv, I would have thought the tom turkey would be fairing better.

 

[MCgunner]

I shot a turkey on a spring turkey hunt once. It was great fun and I could really get into it if I had a place to do it. I live in Texas, land of the private ranch and my place ain't got turkeys. There are turkeys around here, just not on land that I can hunt.

 

[buck460XVR]

Altho I enjoy all types of hunting, if I could do only one, it would be Turkeys. No other quarry gives you so much opportunity to interact with them before the kill, both visually and acoustically. No other game animal is active all day, every day of the season.....and very few other game animal tell you whether or not you have a chance to kill them today.....and never has a deer given me so much pleasure to work when I don't have a license.

Also at my age, the work that comes after the kill is much easier with Turkeys than it is with big game. 5 minutes after I'm home from Turkey huntin' the meat is in the freezer and I'm lookin' forward to when we can eat it. Butcherin' a deer is a 4 hour project for me.

 

[oron]

favorite type of hunting

AMBUSH
Oh!!! wait a min. wrong thred.
Feather and fur man myself
oron

 

[MCgunner]

Butcherin' a deer is a 4 hour project for me.

Grinding and stuffing the sausage turns it into an all day deal with me, but it's a labor of love. I just have a small grinder, but it beats the hell out of the hand cranker I used to use.

 

[Art Eatman]

I've mostly liked walking-hunting for Bambi. Doing it Sneaky Snake in timber or swamps; working the likely ridges in open country. Nowadays, though, I mostly sit in my 4WD deer blind.

Bird-hunting? Love to play with the doves, and out my way the quail are "run-run birds" and they're not only fun but superb eating.

Calling coyotes is a hoot.

Just sittin' and watchin' critters makes a day worth while...

 

[gbran]

I gotta group quail, varmints, tree squirrel together. I've got a a special place up in the mountains where I can hunt all these on the same day trip.

Next is elk, but not often enough.

Then deer, pig, bear.

 

[MCgunner]

Bird-hunting? Love to play with the doves, and out my way the quail are "run-run birds" and they're not only fun but superb eating.

It pays to be a track and field athlete if you're going to hunt cotton tops, especially by yourself. Best way is with friends, surround 'em, they gotta go one way or the other, just watch out for crossfire.

They say those things will run a dog to death. I believe it. LOL I was carrying a .410 contender, though, cause I'd jumped a few cottontails the day before walking and stalking. I'd walk along with my rifle slung muzzle down as I like to do, quick to the shoulder, and my hand on the contender in the UM's shoulder rig. Was walking very slow, still hunt style, and suddenly found myself surrounded by quail. I took one on the flush, eased up on one that landed not too far away, and took him! Okay, I cheated and shot that one on the ground at 15-20 yards, but he ate just as well. THAT was fun, but I had no witnesses. I did come back to camp with two quail for supper, though, and only that .410 contender and a rifle.

I've attempted to go after 'em with a shotgun, but I can never get that close to those things on purpose. I just happened to have the contender at the right time on me that day, but I was really thinking rabbits, not quail.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Well, the amount of enjoyment entails not only the hunt, but how much I enjoy eating the kill; therefore, it is tough to beat quail or pheasant with good dogs. And which is why waterfowl & doves don't make the top 5. Upland birds are fun in the field, and mighty mighty tasty fried up later.

Elk and turkey talk back to you, which is exciting, and taste very good, so they'd be tied for 2nd.

Feral hogs is the poor man's grizzly, and don't taste too shabby, so that'd be third.

Sandhill crane (yummy) & deer are up there, but deer are crafty and require a lot of patience and time - can be very frustrating at times.

I've not tried sheep, goats, and similar, but I'd imagine they'd be very exciting, provided you don't die of a stroke or heart attack trudging around the mountains.

Quite sure that nothing would beat the adrenaline rush of dangerous game like elephant, hippo, cape buff, leopard, lion, but gotta save up for that trip.

 

[MCgunner]

Elk and turkey talk back to you, which is exciting, and taste very good, so they'd be tied for 2nd.

I talk to the ducks and geese all the time, just sort of a 1 way conversation. It is rewarding, though. You can tell by their attitudes and actions whether they are responding. It's one of the really cool things about waterfowl hunting.

Native American hunters actually carved and used decoys. That had to be tough hitting 'em with a bow, though, but I guess you could let 'em land in the deeks. Wasn't really done to be sporting back then.

 

[3pairs12]

deer dove and pigs in that order I think.

 

[dakotasin]

big game trips my trigger, but that does not mean i don't hunt predators or small game, etc. i'll hunt anything i can get a tag or license for...

and, you will not find me in a tree stand. i tried it once, and think it is the most ridiculous way to hunt ever conceived.

that said, i do live in s.d., which is not exactly noted for its tree population.

 

[t165]

Depends what part of the country I am in. Home (Indiana) it's Whitetails. In Las Vegas it would have to be Hookers!

 

[proplinker]

Dove is IT for me!! I just got a MoJo dove and have to wait another 115 days. but who's counting!!!!