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Author Topic: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????  (Read 526 times)

Offline joe ashton

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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #20 on: December 29, 2010, 03:10:00 PM »
If I could only hunt one animal a year it would be whitetail (385 miles from home)... but... that is not the case so.. I hunt elk 18 days every year, (only 50 miles from my front door)
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Offline Thumper Dunker

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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #21 on: December 29, 2010, 03:26:00 PM »
Coyotes then squirrels and rabbits
You can hop but you can't hide.
If it was not for rabbits I would never get a buck.
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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #22 on: December 29, 2010, 03:34:00 PM »
Nothing blows my hair back like spot and stalk mule deer hunting.

As far as small game goes, cottontails.
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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #23 on: December 29, 2010, 05:36:00 PM »
I'm with Charlie.  Anymore I think I'd rather hunt small game with my kids than just about anything else.  I also really, really like hunting blacktail deer though.  Guess I'm glad I don't have to choose  ;)

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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #24 on: December 29, 2010, 06:12:00 PM »
Well there's

Grouse
Hogs
Elk
Moose

Did I mention Grouse?

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Offline Littlejake

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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #25 on: December 29, 2010, 06:32:00 PM »
Large...Whitetails   Small...Carp
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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #26 on: December 29, 2010, 06:42:00 PM »
rabbits i just love getting out and shooting with the dog and buddies and the beer and grillin afterwards aint bad either
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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #27 on: December 29, 2010, 06:56:00 PM »
Turkeys
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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #28 on: December 29, 2010, 07:06:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Charlie Lamb:
Really good rabbit hunting and a good buddy or two is hard to beat!
Yes Sir!!

I love to rabbit hunt.

Offline ChuckC

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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #29 on: December 29, 2010, 07:36:00 PM »
I actually love stump shooting the most.  I like hunting, and seeing game is important.  Not so much GETTING game but once in a while that is important as well.  I like skwerl hunting a bunch, but don't have, or take, a lot of time to do it.  Wait till I retire !
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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #30 on: December 29, 2010, 09:26:00 PM »
oh...that is a good question!  And a difficult one to answer.  

I think that during the 30+ years in Michigan that I hunted with trad gear I remember hunting anything that was legal...I always carried a small game arrow in my quiver but really never took too many little critters those days.

When my son Andy was old enough to learn the woods, I changed my focus and walked the sunny warm days with him when ever I had enough time.  Those days were just plain fun and relaxing.  There was no self-imposed pressure to harvest a monster buck.  

I guess what Charlie said about being with a good friend (or family)- that is tuff to beat.  Nowadays, I would choose the small game hunt for the fellowship/friendship.

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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #31 on: December 29, 2010, 11:38:00 PM »
#1 Javelina ( hogs),#2 mule deer#3,antelope,#4 elk, it used to be elk(1) but maybe Iam getting old,they are alot of work. Javelina now because we dont take the hunting real serious just have a good time.You can shoot two of them then concentrate on hogs, so you get alot of shooting in and its a kick the ass.

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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #32 on: December 30, 2010, 01:49:00 AM »
Elk. Mulies spot and stalk are close, but elk will always carry the day.
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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #33 on: December 30, 2010, 03:09:00 AM »
I appreciate everybody's in put and good luck to every body on there adventures to come.

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Offline bkyrdshooter

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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #34 on: December 30, 2010, 12:58:00 PM »
Small game is my sport. Be it squirrel or rabbit. You just can't beat a day of walking around with your buddy(Son,Brother,Wife,Daughter,Etc) and enjoying the time spent together while doing something that all will remember and carry with them the rest of thier days.
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Re: Favorite to hunt, Small, Large????
« Reply #35 on: December 30, 2010, 01:15:00 PM »
My favorite is a mature mule deer. Not that I don't shoot small ones but old mule deer are just so elusive they light a fire within me.

Small game is a toss up between cottontails and grouse. I have harvested more small game than all my big species combined. I have had just as much fun chasing the small game during many big game hunts than the speices that was I was hunting.

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