Hunting

[skdvr]

I was just curious about how many hunters we have on here. What do you like to hunt?

I hunt a little... I dove hunt, deer hunt, and turkey hunt (a little bit) here in Mo. I try to make is out as often as I can for Deer season. I hunt the rifle season and bow season. I have only hunted Black Powder once.

My favorite hunting is Prarie Dog hunting though. I do not get to do that here in Mo. we usually travel to New Castle Wyoming for that. It is a blast. Over a 3 day weekend 1 will usually go through about 1000 to 1200 rounds, between my .22 and .204. Most of the guys that hunt with me are using .22 and .17 HMR's for the close shooting (within 100 yards) and then 6mm BR (bench rest) and one or two .223's. I love my .204. Hunting Praire Dogs is so much fun becaose of the long ranges and lots of shooting. We are shooting dogs at 300 yards all day long, and you can reach out to 600 yards and beyond if you want to. 2 years ago I had the longest kill out of our group of 6 at 655 yards with a 20 knot cross wind. It did take me 3 shots but I got the little guy. If you ever have the chance to go you need to try it.

I wish I got to Prarie Dog hunt more. With vacation time conflictions I did not get to go last year and I will not make it this year either. My group is trying a different place this year in South Dakota, because the farm land that we hunted on in Wy. was sold and the new owner does not want hunters out there...

So what do you like to hunt???


Phil

[jwdizney]

Hunting was my favorite hobby before scuba screwed up my life..
was just turkey hunting this past weekend.. deer bow/black powder/ rifle, dove, quail and pheasant when I can get to Kansas.. never tried prairie dog! do you eat them? I like the though of long shots with varmint guns, but i'm a "don't kill it if you won't eat it" kinda guy, unless i'm shooting predators like coyotes etc...

[cutter77]

Seems like the older I get, the less I hunt.
Find it harder and harder to kill anything....I'm reduced to the point where now I even catch moths and turn them loose outside. Sheesh.

[Splitlip]

Originally Posted by cutter77

Seems like the older I get, the less I hunt.
Find it harder and harder to kill anything....I'm reduced to the point where now I even catch moths and turn them loose outside. Sheesh.

Yeah, me too.

And I have a few very nice hunting fire arms including a Remington BDL, an Ithaca Deer Slayer with buck and bird barrels, a Browning Sweet 16, a Marlin .35 Rem and .22 with the gold trigger. A couple of 30-06's, .223's...

Don't even hunt fish much. Use a camera. Sold my Biller, but have an old ScubaPro panther.

Now bugs....

[skdvr]

Originally Posted by jwdizney

never tried prairie dog! do you eat them? I like the though of long shots with varmint guns, but i'm a "don't kill it if you won't eat it" kinda guy, unless i'm shooting predators like coyotes etc...

No you do not eat them... They are pretty much full of disease. Plus after shooting them with the high power rifles there is NOTHING left of them. They completely destroy farm land so the land owners are happy to get rig of them...

Coyote - I forgot about that. I love hunting them. The funny thing is that I have only been out actually hunting Coyote a fw times and never saw one. I have killed a few while deer hunting though... That is always exciting for me

Phil

[unclepooty]

Hunted alot in teen age years back home in Okla. Mainly deer, dove, squirrel, and rabbit during the day, 'coons and 'possum at night. Dad didn't hunt much, but Grandpa taught me, and later the time was spent with best friend in the Deep Fork River bottom. Quit through my 20's & 30's, but started deer and dove hunting again when my son got old enough and showed interest. For me, now it's not so much the killing or even shooting. But It's usually just the two of us, and we get to talk and spend time together without interuptions or distractions. As he (now 17) gets older, I know these times will become harder to come by, but we live on several hundred acres and can walk out the front door to do it, until he leaves for college.

[mm2002]

I do my hunting at the grocery store. Nothing more rewarding than scoring a nice porter house on sale! I don't have to sit in a tree in the cold weather to do that either!

[Sounder]

Originally Posted by mm2002

I do my hunting at the grocery store. Nothing more rewarding than scoring a nice porter house on sale! I don't have to sit in a tree in the cold weather to do that either!

Yeah, but there is something to the hunt... I love walking into Costco and sneaking up on a tray of filets and then JUMPING on it, wrestling it into my cart with my bare hands, and then grilling my prize.

[Sounder]

I do hunt Dungeness crab on scuba and shoot/eat the occassional lingcod. When the crew descends on the Dungies with X-scooters and catch bags, it just doesn't seem fair.

[bechwel]

You bet I'll kill about anything. And eat almost everything I kill. I told my wife before we got married if she came between me and hunting she would lose. The best part about that is we are going on 15 years this month Great WIFE. I like deer and elk hunting best but spend most of my time hunting ducks.