FrankenMauser
New member
I have hunted everything from ants and grasshoppers, to quail and grouse, to deer and elk, to rabbits and squirrels, to rocks and rotten logs.
For me, I found the most joy in three hunts:
1. Pronghorn Antelope. Good, lean meat, and stalking in for a close shot is more fun than any other hunt I have been on.
2. Muzzle loader mule deer. The warm, T-shirt weather, low number of hunters, and additional challenge of a muzzle loader are a great deal of fun (in-lines and sabots are legal, but I only hunt with a cap-and-ball rifle).
3. Elk. The weather is miserable, the terrain is brutal, and a kill means hours of packing heavy loads out of the woods. ...But it's a lot of fun.
However... During the Elk and Deer hunts, it is legal to take cottontail rabbits and pine grouse (blue and ruffed - provided you have a license). If the big game hunting is bad, the upland game come into our sights - and end up as dinner.
For me, I found the most joy in three hunts:
1. Pronghorn Antelope. Good, lean meat, and stalking in for a close shot is more fun than any other hunt I have been on.
2. Muzzle loader mule deer. The warm, T-shirt weather, low number of hunters, and additional challenge of a muzzle loader are a great deal of fun (in-lines and sabots are legal, but I only hunt with a cap-and-ball rifle).
3. Elk. The weather is miserable, the terrain is brutal, and a kill means hours of packing heavy loads out of the woods. ...But it's a lot of fun.
However... During the Elk and Deer hunts, it is legal to take cottontail rabbits and pine grouse (blue and ruffed - provided you have a license). If the big game hunting is bad, the upland game come into our sights - and end up as dinner.