OT: MGoHunters Random Questions

I do like hunting, but I am more about harvesting than going for trophies.  Most years I shoot does as they generally taste better.

i actually love the Muzzleloading season as it is late, usually snowy and peaceful.  I also prefer to fish for Steel during rifle season as the rivers are less crowded and October archery is often too warm for me to want to go.

i too hope to shoot an elk out west some day as I think elk (with moose as a close second) is the best tasting game.  

duck hunting is fun as it is social, you can talk and drink coffee in the blind between flights.  But it is a real hassle because of all the equipment, deeks, blind building, etc., and we don’t get flights like in the Dakotas or AR.  Then again, they aren’t getting the flights they used to either as climate change is disrupting migrations

I'm more of a fisherman, but get out hunting a few times a year maybe.

1. Shotgun

2. Fowl

3. I have always wanted to hunt boar. I have a couple cousins who do down in Missouri and they've taken some behemoths and seem to have a good time (and get some delicious meat).

1. What method do you enjoy the most (archery, shotgun, rifle)?

Can't beat archery hunting - truly nothing better than sitting with your bow in the woods on an early November morning. In the past couple years I've gotten into muzzleloader hunting as well. It's fun to tinker with different bullets/powder combinations to see what fires best from your gun.

2. Favorite quarry?

While it may be sacrilege to deer hunting, I have to say that I enjoy wild turkey hunting the most. I love being in the warming spring woods, being able to watch everything come alive around me. Also, turkeys are just badass animals to see in the wild and especially up close. Contrary to what some people might assume, these animals are incredibly wary and smart and they have some of the best vision in the animal kingdom.

3. Bucket list hunt/location?

Something out west someday

I'm an upland bird hunter. Used to hunt a fair bit of big game, whitetail, mule deer, elk, antelope. After I got my first bird dog, a pointing lab, things shifted. Dogs are a lifestyle.

I have access to some private land in Boulder/Larimer counties, do usually buy a private land tag, and it can be fairly easy to take a mulie or cow elk. The area is loaded with turkeys these days as well. 

But grouse, quail and pheasants are my thing. Most years I hunt about ~30 days a season in eastern Colorado and western Nebraska. Blue grouse season opens in the mountains on Sept 1 (though I'm usually fishing hard in the fall), then I'll start hunting the Plains in mid-October for prairie grouse once snake weather subsides, and now and then make an end-of-season trip in early February to Arizona to hunt quail.

Shoot a 28ga sxs mainly. Rifle is a Ruger #1B .30-06 with Leopold 40mm.

Bucketlists aren't really what I do. I'm always very gratified just to be in my favorite places in SW Nebraska, some places I've been hunting every season since the mid 90s. In January, it's my favorite place on Earth.

Not a hunter. My family just wasn't into it enough to get me involved at a young age. Friends never got me involved any further than a drunken "hey, we need to go hunting THIS fall, for real. I swear I won't forget to ask before I'm already packed and ready to go this year." At this point who knows if I'd pull the trigger on a deer if it's in my sights. 

I'd love to go bird hunting sometime though. My uncles have had some great bird dogs in the past, and there is something much more alluring to me about getting a buzz on with your friends, walking trails, chit chatting, and allowing a dog fulfill it's bred purpose. 

1.Shotgun

2. MILFs

3. CJ Barrymores

1.  Archery

2.  Elk (whitetail is very close and is my normal favorite)

3.  This is tough, archery elk hunt with someone who know's what they're doing is high on the list but so is a moose hunt.  If I had to pick one, it would be a moose hunt.  I can do the archery elk hunt about any year.  Red stag is also another.  That's a bucket list due to the scenery too.  

Mountain quail here in California.  There are plenty here on my property but I head up I-80 a lil bit and hunt there.  
 

I don’t hunt turkey anymore but just started calling them in. Only 1 Tom so far.  Didn’t shoot it. Same reason. My property. There are 2 hens that come in as soon as I start calling.  There’s a ridge right at my property line that drops off and they are always down the valley.  Love the calling as much as hunting. 
 

same as others on duck hunting. Used to love it but lots of work. Pacific flyway is amazing. 

I hunt pheasants because I have an awesome German Shorthaired Pointer that is an excellent hunter.  If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't hunt.  

1. Archery - because I can do it off my deck into my back yard, which backs up to 30+ acres of woods ... and I live in a rapidly expanding suburb of Charlotte, so every deer I whack is a public service (out town opts into an extended archery season to maximize the chance of filling your limit)

2. White tail ... though the squirrels around me who think they have a right to my family's bird feeder might file a formal protest

3. Helo hog hunting ... if I get a deal done I'm working on right now, it may actually become a near-term reality!

1. Archery, I love the challenge of it. I shoot an Elite right now, because I tore my bicep a few years ago and the back tension is light light light. I prefer to shoot a Matthews though. 

2. I actually prefer coonhunting, I hunt with treeing walker coonhounds. I really don't kill a lot, it's more about the world of competition coonhunting for me and the time alone in the woods listening to a hound move a track and come treed. 

3. I am planning on an elk hunt in the next couple years out to Montana, I have actually started to condition myself for this adventure already because Montana air and mountains are definitely not the same as Indiana air and hills. 

1.  I love archery hunting for whitetails.... late Oct early Nov the weather is decent, no bugs and the deer aren't overly pressured....   Great stuff!

2. Grouse over a good pointer.  My last GSP, Mr. Fritz, had to be put down a month ago, he was 13 years old and had cancer.....  Within a year I'm getting a German Wirehaired Pointer pup. Looking forward to training another pointer and spending a lot of time in the field lookin' for birds.

3.  Archery moose hunt.  in '03 I took myself on a rifle moose hunt in Ontario, as a divorce gift to me.  I was fortunate enough to take a young bull (36" wide rack).  Since then I've gone on several train in fishing trips with a great outfitter north of Sudbury who has peaked my interest in going after moose with my compound.   One day.

1) archery by far. It's quiet, longer deer season, a lot more peaceful

2) deer is the most frequent and I do love it, especially for the food aspect, but if I had to pick forever and all else (season, availability, etc) equal I'd pick spring turkey hunting. Love to be out in the woods that time of year, and it's so active with calling. 

3) As i get older it's not so much of a "where" or "what" but a "who with" thing. Even though I don't love gun hunting deer, I pine for the days of rifle opener for the social side of things. Or going on a 2 week road trip with a family member out to the prairie to bird hunt. Can't really do those things any more due to time and money obligations. 

That said, I'd love an extended camping and cast and blast out in the Dakotas or Montana.Turkeys and trout, upland and trout, ducks and pike... whatever!

I want to get into compound bow hunting. My boys (7 and 6) love their beginner bows we got them for Christmas last year, so I want to make sure Dad is able to teach and hunt with them as their strength develops and the time comes.

Question for the board: What is the best entry level bow?

I don't want to break the bank until I know this will be a passion for me and the boys. Just something that will get the job done until the picture becomes more clear.

I use to hunt a lot between ages 8 - 18. Pheasants were quite plentiful in southern MI back in the 60s and 70s and that was my favorite game to hunt. I would go deer hunting as well. Never got into rabbit or squirrel hunting. I use to do a lot of bass fishing that would usually turn into catfish fishing after dark.  Now I hunt with my camera, I'll take a lot of nature shots. 

1) Shotgun, because upland birds and ducks are fairly tough shot with a rifle...

2) Upland birds, especially pheasant, quail, and dove.  But ducks are ring-necked close!  Duck hunting is a more social sport than upland because you have some time between flights.

3) A South African upland bird hunt would be so much fun!

I grew up pheasant hunting with Ufer on the radio between fields.  Great times!  And I spent the better part of 25 years training retrievers for both upland and waterfowl hunts.  I both ran dogs in, and judged, non-competitive hunt tests (NAHRA, some AKC), and dabbled with the Super Retriever Series (judged several qualifiers, and two of the Outdoor Games events - the first in Lake Placid, and one in Reno).  My life has since turned in a different direction, but of all the things I've done in my life, it's that part of it that I would go back to in a heartbeat.