are you selective about what you hunt?

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.
 
If it wears hair, game on. I'll pass on feathers although I rarely pass up any shots of opportunity.

My main game is coon, rabbit, squirrel, and deer and I would like to hunt members of the cat family, antelope, black bear and maybe elk. I've done a lot of fox and coyote hunting but the cost vs. value vs. numbers thing just ain't adding up for me anymore. With pelt prices like they are I just don't see burning much gas on em but the shots of opportunity rule still plays there too.

LK
 
I don't really have much interest in bird hunting, but I don't suppose I'd turn down an invitation. Other than that I only have interest in killing either animals I wish to eat or pests.
 
Feral tin cans and destructive varmints is all,,,

It's just me so I don't need to stock up on meat anymore,,,
I'm pretty much of a sport shooter now.

Although last fall I was an armadillo slayer,,,
A retired lady friend of mine had her garden destroyed by them critters.

Since it really was a main food source for her,,,
I had no qualms performing an every morning slaughter.

I have nothing but good thoughts about hunting and hunters,,,
It's just that I've killed everything I ever had a yen for,,,
Now it's targets, tin cans, and paper plates.

Aarond
 
I love to hunt..:)Not too many things here on earth get me going like hunting and fishing. I probably fish harder than hunt. Hunting deer means most of my children can and will go with me, fishing not so much, they like to fish but I can't stand all of em in my bass boat at the same time. So one week a year wer'e all in the woods, minus my oldest daughter, she does'nt care to go, so I leave it at that. A family that hunts and fishes together, are closer than some, and funnier than most!!!:rolleyes: This pic say's it all for me..:) these are four out of five of my kids.. and hell yes I'm proud of it!!!;)
 
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hehehe that's my number three son Truman, and he likes to "walk in comfort":D (the only thing that you don't see is his mother shaking a stick at him saying "take those off outside young man, or I'll wear you out"!!;)
 
I have never been a trophy hunter,fact most of the antlers off of deer and elk I have killed are hanging on walls in Texas or somewhere,I used to sell them to out of staters that came up to Colorado and spent more time in the bars than in the woods.In that regard I am not selective as to the size of an animal I will take.

I would shoot a big ol dry cow though,rather than a bull that has just come out of rut,but cow tags are not a for sure draw every year.
I no longer hunt deer,don't care for the meat any more unless it is summer sausage or hot links.Tags are getting harder to draw too.
I kill coyotes,prairie dogs, skunks I don't hunt them. I have trapped bobcat and fox but never hunted them.

Grouse,dove,turkey ,the only birds I still hunt.

Used to love lion and bear hunts but only for the chase, I never shot either species ,mainly cause I could never justify the expense of a rug or a mount and I don't care for the meat of either species.
 
Deer almost exclusively. Not because I'm selective. It's more that I don't seem to have the time and initiative that I used to.
 
The wife and I like to go more for big game, deer, elk, prong horn, and big horn sheep some day if we can get a tags but since we have young ones that are begining hunters we have recently gotten into bunnies, squirrels, and birds. It is funny but I had forgotten just how much I like squirrel dumplins and rabbit stew... Go figure. But with that said I will definately say that we are meat hunters. We would shoot 100 does or cow elk before I will shoot a big racker for the trophy.
 
I'M a old COUNTRYBOY & if it will stink up a skillet IM A gona kill it.Aint goin to pass on yotes or ground either.:D
 
I hunt coyotes almost exclusively but love to shoot prairie dogs when I have the opportunity. A couple times per year I'll take a younger hen turkey because they're so tasty. Otherwise I don't hunt meat and I won't kill something for its horns. Hard to want deer when I have a deepfreeze full of home-raised Angus beef. So I mostly shoot coyotes.
 
I really like seeing bobcats when I'm out hiking so I don't hunt them. Of course it's OK with me if others do, so long as a sustainable population is maintained. I spoke to one guy who ate the meat and said it was a bit like veal.
 
I only hunt animals that I will eat with the exception of rock chucks as they consume large amounts of hay and over populate quickly. I would like to hunt Antelope but my brother got one a few years ago and the meat was terrible and stunk which has kept me from hunting them. I very much enjoyed hunting ducks, but I do not care for the meat so I no longer hunt them. I do not have a problem with other people who hunt coyotes or for the trophies, it is just not my thing.
 
I don't hunt coyotes for the trophies. Most of the time I leave them lay. Cattle create a large portion of my income. Coyotes can be detrimental to that income therefore I like to see them dead. Pretty simple math when an 800 pound steer is worth a thousand dollars to me. It's hard for my baby calves to grow up to become a steak on your grill if he's coyote **** two days after he's born.
 
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