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Author Topic: Big game or small game?  (Read 267 times)

Offline moleman

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Big game or small game?
« on: August 13, 2012, 09:43:00 PM »
As much I love to hunt Whitetails and Turkeys, the action of hunting small game is second to none, i   think the fact of more shooting opps. teters me to the small game side.
Which is your favorite? small game or big game?   :campfire:

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #1 on: August 13, 2012, 09:55:00 PM »
For enjoyment, small game.  For meat, big/medium game.  My favorite game of all time to hunt is tree squirrels.
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Offline Night Wing

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #2 on: August 13, 2012, 10:56:00 PM »
My favorite small game to bowhunt is.............frogs. Next in line after frogs is rabbits.
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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #3 on: August 13, 2012, 11:22:00 PM »
I'm with GDPolk, squirrel hunting is a lot of fun. Seems I always have more fun small game hunting than big game.
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Offline Mongo

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2012, 01:25:00 AM »
NO real small game in my neck of the woods.  I just shoot hogs year round.  When I did live on the Mainland I loved shooting small game.
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Offline Thumper Dunker

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2012, 01:29:00 AM »
Rabbits. And in the late summer and winter its coyotes. Ground squirrels are always a target. Go deer hunting but get board and start calling coyotes.  :jumper:
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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2012, 03:26:00 AM »
Targets of oppurtunity.. Lots of times i have found myself stalking squirrel  while deer hunting... Always a lot of fun
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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2012, 01:57:00 PM »
I actually have more fun missing err um hunting small game than large game just because there are more shot opportunities and I like to shoot!  :bigsmyl:

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #8 on: August 14, 2012, 02:56:00 PM »
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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #9 on: August 14, 2012, 03:13:00 PM »
I like big game. Elk and deer, but I love just being out there and plus I can get some scouting in while keeping an eye out for the small stuff...
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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #10 on: August 14, 2012, 04:30:00 PM »
Big game for sure, although i am very hard on small game numbers here in these parts!! lol
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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #11 on: August 14, 2012, 04:33:00 PM »
I like big game, but small game seasons are so much longer, and you get more shooting in.

You guys in states with hogs are lucky. That would be awesome to hunt them all year long.
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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #12 on: August 14, 2012, 07:30:00 PM »
Big or small, I seem to miss both with ease!!!

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #13 on: August 14, 2012, 07:35:00 PM »
Deer is my favorite, but I will go after anything that is legal!

Offline Arwin

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #14 on: August 14, 2012, 08:02:00 PM »
As I get older I think it's become a tie. Deer used to prevail but I really love hunting small game!!!   :thumbsup:
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Offline Goshawkin

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #15 on: August 14, 2012, 08:36:00 PM »
My favorite is hunting spring turkey with a bow,so I guess I'll go with medium game.Early season whitetails are cool too,but once November rolls around I switch to hunting rabbits,squirrels and ducks with my birds until the end of March.I do manage to get the bow out a few times for deer late season though.Hunting starlings is a blast with a longbow and blunts,puts hawk food in the freezer too.They're like mini blackbears on the baitpile.  :p

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Re: Big game or small game?
« Reply #16 on: August 14, 2012, 08:53:00 PM »
Nothing like November in the whitetail woods.
But stalking carp in June and July is pretty cool too.
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