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Re: Favorite species to hunt
[Re: SwampHunterFw]
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12/07/12 03:56 PM
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redchevy
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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.
matt
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
[Re: redchevy]
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12/07/12 04:12 PM
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txtrophy85
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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.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
[Re: txtrophy85]
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12/07/12 04:32 PM
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rifleman
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T85, you need to do an Escalante sheep hunt. Buddies call it the 21 mile death march.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
[Re: rifleman]
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12/07/12 04:37 PM
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txtrophy85
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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
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
[Re: txtrophy85]
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12/07/12 04:43 PM
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rifleman
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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.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 04:56 PM
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txtrophy85
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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. 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?
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 05:04 PM
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 05:12 PM
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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, b/c they know not victory nor defeat"- #26 TR
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 05:14 PM
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txtrophy85
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I"m assuming you draw for the tag. I hear Utah is tough to draw a tag in
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 05:17 PM
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Deer, White Tail and Mulies
Any game bird that flies, especially "covey birds."
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 05:20 PM
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rifleman
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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.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 05:26 PM
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Doves � Opening weekend has been a father son event since I was in my teens. While other animals are far more interesting and challenging, nothing compares to the time I get to spend with my father.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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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
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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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.
Mike Buda, Tx Hunt near Freer
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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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
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12/07/12 08:28 PM
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IHateFeralPigs
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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... 
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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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."
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 08:46 PM
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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
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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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.
"In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen." -Theodore Roosevelt
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/07/12 11:05 PM
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MrRick
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Coyote is by far my favorite. Pigs when the are around
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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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
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12/08/12 12:24 AM
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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..
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/08/12 12:49 AM
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txtrophy85
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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 you pull the trigger alot
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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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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Re: Favorite species to hunt
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12/08/12 02:24 AM
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September elk or November muleys used to work for a lion outfitter that's fun too, lion hunters are insane
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