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What is your favorite North America big game animal to hunt and why? Axis More bang for the buck. Public hunt Texas Whitetails are hardly worth the effort. Actually it's more buck for the bang.
By the way, in case you missed it, Jeremiah was a bullfrog.
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KMS, your right Nilgai, are the S.TEXAS, elk and great eating.rio7
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I love elk hunting but thinking back over the years I had the most fun chasing Blacktail Deer. Maybe because I was younger then and there was more of a thrill to it, but I really miss those days. It's unlikely, because I have so few hunts left in me, but I would love to do it one more time
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I've only ever hunted moose, whitetails and black bear. Lived a pretty sheltered life, I guess. My favourite for all the reasons above is moose. 1.) Big animals. 2.) Loads of good lean meat. 3.) Rugged country to hunt. 4.) Usually accompanied by some hard work. 5.) Hunted during my favourite time of the year -- Autumn. Whitetails are also fun, and not nearly as much work. The meat is good too, perhaps like it better than moose, but you gotta shoot a lot of deer to fill the freezer compared to a decent moose. I have decided that I am really not a bear hunter anymore, though I love a good bear stew and fried tenderloins.
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Mule Deer are my favorite. But, I'm only interested in real trophy sized bucks. For that reason I haven't killed a buck for several years even though I've had tags. I almost always get a bull elk, they're easy compared to a real trophy buck mule deer. Also like antelope, even like the way they taste. I'll have a tag for each again this year, so maybe, just maybe I'll see Mr. Big, If not I'll eat another deer tag.
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Mule Deer are my favorite. But, I'm only interested in real trophy sized bucks. For that reason I haven't killed a buck for several years even though I've had tags. I almost always get a bull elk, they're easy compared to a real trophy buck mule deer. Also like antelope, even like the way they taste. I'll have a tag for each again this year, so maybe, just maybe I'll see Mr. Big, If not I'll eat another deer tag. I empathize and somewhat sympathize with you. I'm strictly a trophy hunter and I have been since 1973. In that 40-year span I've accrued a heck of a lot of un-punched tags across the United States, because I chose to not pull the trigger. Granted, I've killed more than a mere so-called "room full" of quality big game animals. But even still, I've also not "cut" a large number of tags because I also chose not to kill. That, in and of itself, is gratifying, though. For me, there's nothing quite like trophy hunting for an inconspicuously large male specimen or an incredibly old male specimen of big game.
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I'm the opposite, I'd rather take a half dozen 1.5 year olds of any species than one "trophy". all my family eats is big game so it takes several a year to feed us. an elk would be nice, hard to get tags in SD though.
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Interesting read, with my vote for elk the very UNOFFICIAL results thus far are;
Deer - 33 Elk - 24 Antelope - 13 Sheep - 7 Bear - 6 Moose - 4 Hogs - 1 Nilgai - 1 Aoudad - 1 Turkey - 1
Last edited by duxndogs; 05/13/14. Reason: forgot the turkey
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