favourite game animal and why?

After many years of elk hunting, I still get a chill down my spine when a bull answers my bugle. Just imagine the feeling when they come charging looking for a fight. They are #1 on my list. After that, every ongulate is a close 2nd.
Gophers are a blast in the summer.
 
Ruffed grouse, I love walking threw the bush flsuhing grouse and its a bit of a challenge. Even better with a dog, although I haven't had much experience hunting with dogs.(can't wait to get my own someday.)
 
big horns are the funest and toughest ive hunted lots of work (would love to hunt goats)
then whiteys there tough to find the big ones ... infact im still looking for him
then geese there pretty good to hunt and you can just keep shooting
 
#1 whitetail
#2 everything else

Mostly because I've hunted WT more than anything lse and it would be the only animal I would consider myself reasonably good at hunting.
 
martinbns said:
#1 whitetail
#2 everything else

Mostly because I've hunted WT more than anything lse and it would be the only animal I would consider myself reasonably good at hunting.
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You've cerainly had no problems since I've known you, martin!:dancingbanana:
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Tough choice, for sure! But I think I would have to choose the mighty elk as first on my list, with moose a close second. After that Whitetails, Muleys and any other edible big game animal that can be hunted. Regards, Eagleye.
 
My temptation is to say coyotes, but I'm not sure they are a game animal. Predator, yes. Fur animal, check. Pest, at times. Frustrating, you bet!Doesn't "Game" mean that you can eat it though?
If I can't have coyotes then my pick is muledeer. It's more active than WT hunting, more getting out after them than waiting for the deer to do something.
 
I'd love to do some big game hunting, but I haven't had the chance to yet. I am in the right area now to start off with some of the smaller meat-on-the-hoof. Gonna hit some deer next season with my SVT40 :D

For now though, even though I have LEFT the good areas, I like waterfowl. Geese and Ducks are some of the most fun I've had. It can get right psychotic in the right area where you just blasted two out of the air, are trying to reload and another wing of 50 just zip right past before you can get a shot off.

All you can do is swear and curse while you fumble for shells :D
 
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Dogleg said:
My temptation is to say coyotes, but I'm not sure they are a game animal. Predator, yes. Fur animal, check. Pest, at times. Frustrating, you bet!Doesn't "Game" mean that you can eat it though?
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Like Bartell said, they can make a hell of a good stir fry ;)
 
Whitetail Deer... because the of the numbers and the opportunities to hunt them in my area.
Turkeys are a close second.... for the same reasons!

I would have to say Russian Boar is the most exciting though....
 
Ducks on water. Not waterfowl in general but ducks specifically (I'll shoot a goose if one presents itself but I target ducks). Like the boats, the setting of the decoys, the chance for multiple shooting opportunites, the variety of species you can shoot and watching the dog work. Plus a blue wing teal crisped almost to black on the outside and running red with juices on the inside is one of the hunting world's true culinary delicacies. With two small kids and a Mon-Fri job I can squeeze in evening hunts and Saturday hunts with little competition and reasonable expectations of good success. Kids can come on good days and it's a great way to introduce newbies to hunting.

Big game only exists for me once the marshes freeze up.
 
gitrdun said:
After many years of elk hunting, I still get a chill down my spine when a bull answers my bugle. Just imagine the feeling when they come charging looking for a fight. They are #1 on my list. After that, every ongulate is a close 2nd.
Gophers are a blast in the summer.
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I couldn't agree more on the sound of a bugleing bull elk plus if you are downwind you can smell them too.Elk hunters know what I'm talking about.;)
 
There's hardly anything better than walking the bush with the old man flushing grouse while having numerous heart attacks and missing wild wing-shots and laughing about it afterward.

Ducks are a close second; I love being out on the calm water of the marsh before anything has woken up.
 
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