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Author Topic: Is anyone else prefer hunting small game to big game?  (Read 617 times)

Offline South MS Bowhunter

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Re: Is anyone else prefer hunting small game to big game?
« Reply #20 on: June 05, 2014, 08:16:00 PM »
I do!  Love to bow hunt and it is mainly Deer and Hog for Big Game, but when the season is out and summer warms up its frogs!

I believe a lot of folks are missing the pure joy of flinging arrows, while deer hunting it is very rare to get more than 3 shots in a season (at least for me).

Small game give the fix a truly addicted bow hunter needs.
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Offline stabow

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Re: Is anyone else prefer hunting small game to big game?
« Reply #21 on: June 07, 2014, 12:10:00 PM »
I like using a flintlock on small criters I might be the odd man out but it's all fun.
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Re: Is anyone else prefer hunting small game to big game?
« Reply #22 on: June 07, 2014, 06:10:00 PM »
Deer hunting is boring . Can't beat the rush of a coyote charging in on you.
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Re: Is anyone else prefer hunting small game to big game?
« Reply #23 on: June 07, 2014, 06:15:00 PM »
A bit of fresh snow, late season. I decided to make sure that I had plenty of pheasant arrows.  On the way to a different place, I came by a large farm grove with a machine shed, no house, a bunch of bunnies running around, a group of cock pheasants at one end and a farmer closing the gate. I asked if I could go after the critters with my longbow and wood arrows.  He looked over my stuff and said "kill 'em all".  It is more fun than I can describe what it is to be a 12 year old kid again with a bow and a quiver full of rabbit and pheasant arrows.

Offline Red Beastmaster

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Re: Is anyone else prefer hunting small game to big game?
« Reply #24 on: June 07, 2014, 11:38:00 PM »
I've been hunting carp, groundhogs, and other small critters this summer and having a blast!

Deer hunting is boring. There's just not enough deer around here anymore to even make me set an alarm.

I'll take small game hunting over big game anytime.
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Offline PeteA

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Re: Is anyone else prefer hunting small game to big game?
« Reply #25 on: June 08, 2014, 08:14:00 AM »
My deer hunts quickly become squirrel hunting and my squirrel hunting quickly become stump shooting. I just love to rove around the woods, scouting, looking for stand locations, looking for sign thinking what next season will bring.  A small haversack, a few blunt tipped arrows a good hunting buddy, a PBJ and a little brew kit and I'm set for a good morning rove. Just love the sounds, the sites, the smells, the cool morning air and being in the woods with bow in hand.
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Re: Is anyone else prefer hunting small game to big game?
« Reply #26 on: June 09, 2014, 07:45:00 PM »
I threaten to hunt just small game every year.
This year may be the year.
Deer hunting to me has always been fun but lately its getting old.
I have came to the realization that the reason I hunt is to spend time in the woods and shoot my bow.
Although I like venison, by the time you buy the license, tag and processing its pretty expensive ground round.
Plus if I miss a deer it tears me up for a while.
If I miss a squirrel I laugh and move on.
Plus If Im lucky I see a deer in range. But I always see squirrels in range.
OK , I may have talked myself into it!
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