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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: SwampHunterFw] #3824633 12/07/12 03:56 PM
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I love all types of hunting, but havent been able to do enough of what I plan to someday to tell at this point. I would love to hunt mule deer and elk and antelope and plan on it. I would also like to go after carabo and moose some day.

I really do love duck hunting, but dont know enough about the different kind of ducks to do it... legally so after three years of duck hunting I cut my losses and gave it up before I got a ticket.

I would have to say of what I have done so far it would be a draw between white tail and ducks, but white tail will win out because I can do it legally and the meat yeild is much better in quality and quantity to me.

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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: redchevy] #3824687 12/07/12 04:12 PM
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i like to hunt sheep like mouflon and aoudad

my type of hunting; physical, rough country hunting, just a lot of fun.


For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: txtrophy85] #3824748 12/07/12 04:32 PM
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T85, you need to do an Escalante sheep hunt. Buddies call it the 21 mile death march.

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: rifleman] #3824771 12/07/12 04:37 PM
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Originally Posted By: rifleman
T85, you need to do an Escalante sheep hunt. Buddies call it the 21 mile death march.


never heard of it? whats entailed?

I heard from everyone and their brother that colorado was going to be the death of me.....well, I whooped that mountains arse.

I like the rough physical type of hunting


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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: txtrophy85] #3824789 12/07/12 04:43 PM
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Desert sheep in the escalate desert...you have to tote in everything and pray the potholes aren't dried up along the drainages. Mountain hunting isn't bad in the 7-10k range... get up past that and you got no oxygen to go to you muscles.

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: rifleman] #3824823 12/07/12 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted By: rifleman
Desert sheep in the escalate desert...you have to tote in everything and pray the potholes aren't dried up along the drainages. Mountain hunting isn't bad in the 7-10k range... get up past that and you got no oxygen to go to you muscles.


we were at 9600 ft. I was told that this is considered fairly high and the altitude would affect my breathing. fortunately that didnt happen.

is the escalante in mexico?


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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: txtrophy85] #3824843 12/07/12 05:04 PM
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Utah

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: rifleman] #3824873 12/07/12 05:12 PM
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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: rifleman] #3824879 12/07/12 05:14 PM
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Utah


I"m assuming you draw for the tag.


I hear Utah is tough to draw a tag in


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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: txtrophy85] #3824886 12/07/12 05:17 PM
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Deer, White Tail and Mulies

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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: txtrophy85] #3824893 12/07/12 05:20 PM
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that would be a OIL tag. My buddy drew it last year to finish out his slam. Walked 21 miles in, figured out they didn't have any water, walked 21 miles out to get a guide to go back in with him. Shot a ram at 400yds and it took them until the next evening to get to the thing.

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: chital_shikari] #3824907 12/07/12 05:26 PM
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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: rifleman] #3824918 12/07/12 05:28 PM
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I got a duck hunting addiction.... hard to pass up a good duck hunt over anything else...

Bow hunting for deer is close behind but dont have to hunt to enjoy them, watching them grow, feeding them, keeping up with records over the years... more of a long term thing.

Ha i say all this but i deffinintly hog hunt twice as much as both above combined

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: SwampHunterFw] #3824988 12/07/12 05:51 PM
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Whitetail deer. Big, mature, cagey ones.

I'd really like to try for Trans-Pecos MD. Next year I'm gonna try to get drawn for NM archery Elk.

Back in the day, though, I relentlessly pursued the two-legged whitetail. Even caught a couple.


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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: chital_shikari] #3825002 12/07/12 05:55 PM
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hogs, cause I can hunt um anytime any way




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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: SwampHunterFw] #3825477 12/07/12 08:28 PM
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Coyotes...daylight hunting.....it requires camouflage,no scent and decent hunting skills....there is nothing more fun than to see the expression on a coyote's face when he realizes that dying cottontail he thought he was gonna eat is actually 240lbs and has an AR... grin

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: IHateFeralPigs] #3825481 12/07/12 08:30 PM
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NICE y'all. TT85 go do a chukar hunt in Utah. "Sheep hunting for birds."

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: chital_shikari] #3825527 12/07/12 08:46 PM
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Originally Posted By: chital_shikari
NICE y'all. TT85 go do a chukar hunt in Utah. "Sheep hunting for birds."


I'm not going to utah to shoot birds.

I prefer to do my bird hunting from a mule drawn wagon wearing cotton tweeds shooting my grandfathers side by side

Stay classy my friend


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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: TreeBass] #3825955 12/07/12 11:02 PM
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Whitetail for one reason: Accessibility

I can hunt them all over the country and in my own backyard.


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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: Troutfisch] #3825968 12/07/12 11:05 PM
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Coyote is by far my favorite. Pigs when the are around

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: SwampHunterFw] #3826149 12/08/12 12:20 AM
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Whitetail any day of the week, i only get to shoot 2-3 wt trophys a year and 4-6 exotics but whitetail are all diffrent as exotics they all are the same within reason in each species horn configuration wise that is


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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: txtrophy85] #3826162 12/08/12 12:24 AM
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Originally Posted By: txtrophy85
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NICE y'all. TT85 go do a chukar hunt in Utah. "Sheep hunting for birds."


I'm not going to utah to shoot birds.

I prefer to do my bird hunting from a mule drawn wagon wearing cotton tweeds shooting my grandfathers side by side

Stay classy my friend
Good one. But like no joke. Utah chukar hunts are just as demanding as sheep hunts. Or so ive read..

Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: BBD84] #3826250 12/08/12 12:49 AM
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Originally Posted By: BBD84
Whitetail any day of the week, i only get to shoot 2-3 wt trophys a year and 4-6 exotics but whitetail are all diffrent as exotics they all are the same within reason in each species horn configuration wise that is


you pull the trigger alot


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Re: Favorite species to hunt [Re: chital_shikari] #3826255 12/08/12 12:50 AM
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Elk at about 11,000 ft. No feeders or fences involved in this kind of hunting.


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