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For fun it's deer with my flintlock.
For a purpose driven hunt (meat in the freezer,) it's elk. I enjoy this most with iron sighted rifles but in the last week or so of the season, if I have not killed my elk I get out my "cheating guns" my 270 or sometimes my 375H&H .......both with scopes
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Newfoundland moose with Westwoods Outfitters. I'd like to get this 80yr body out there again.
Jim
BE STRONG IN THE LORD, AND IN HIS MIGHTY POWER. ~ Ephesians 6:10
Socialism is a philosophy of failure,
the creed of ignorance,
and the gospel of envy,
its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
--Winston Churchill
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Ducks in Arkansas
Doves with my buddies each September. A true southern tradition.
South Dakota pheasant hunt this past fall was a great time too.
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When I was a kid ( we didn't have any deer ) I would grab the Ithaca 20 gauge and start walking trough the woods and fields. Some days I would come home with squirrel, rabbit, dove, and quail. I think I enjoyed that hunting as much as any thing I have ever done. ^^This, same here except I grabbed an old L.C. Smith 16 and a handful of paper hulled shells...still love the smell of a fresh fired paper shotgun hull.. Clearly, these two boys understand what I call “old Carolina”. It doesn’t get any better than described above. I wouldn’t have wanted to grow up any other way. Cheers to The Old North State!
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My favorite hunts have all been northern Alaska caribou hunts. Honorable mention to predator calling when coyotes or wolfs come in really aggressive.
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Ping pong balls for the win.
Once you've wrestled everything else in life is easy. Dan Gable
I keep my circle small, I’d rather have 4 quarters than 100 pennies.
Ain’t easy havin pals.
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Elk hunting during the rut
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I would enjoy hog hunting out of a chopper.
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I miss South Texas dove hunts also! We had some dame fine dove hunts in Coleman county too! Yep. Dove hunting in Coleman County sucks nowadays. Hardly no birds the last 3 years on my buddy’s Ranch. Hardly any on our Ranch in Stonewall County either. Rarely every see a quail anymore either here. I think the hogs wiped out our quail here at the Ranch. Dove and Deer hunting are still my favorite. Followed closely by Prairie Dogs and Antelope.
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I would enjoy hog hunting out of a chopper. If I could use a electric 30 cal mini-gun ! 🤠
"Allways speak the truth and you will never have to remember what you said before..." Sam Houston
Texans, "We say Grace, We Say Mam, If You Don't Like it, We Don't Give a Damn!"
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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I think my favorite is hunting chukars and staying in a wall tent camp. It can be as tough or as easy as you want to make it, you get to see some great country that a lot of folks don't get to play in, and you get to try and knock those little SOBs out of the sky. Then at the end of the day, you come back to a warm tent, relax, eat good food, and live like kings.
For big game, there's nothing that can top a Dall sheep hunt for me. Its all fun though, just in different ways. You got that right cwh2, it's all good!
What goes up must come down, what goes around comes around, there's no free lunch. Trump's comin' back, get over it!
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"For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks ... the horn of the hunter never winds at all" Robert Ruark, The Horn of the Hunter
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My favorite hunt was my one and only antelope hunt. No good campgrounds so I finally got a room in Fields, Oregon to stay in after the first buch checked out.. Great people, great food, great town.
I did it alone. I got out there 5 days late. Hunt was remote from towns, fuel and water supplies. I got it in the evening and it took til midnight to get it to the road.
He was in the fourth bunch I saw, 15 in very nice conformance. Got him at around 265 yds. .30-06 M70 FW, .30-06 180 gr Partition handload, 57gr H-4350, 2.5-8x36 Leupold. Rifle has iron sights also.
Got back to camp and got it bagged and in coolers by 4 AM. Had to bone it out and put it on ice the next day. I have never had more fun.
My next favorite hunting is for varmints, oftensage rats out neear John /Day, Oregon.
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That certainly looked like fun.
I am continually astounded at how quickly people make up their minds on little evidence or none at all.
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Slipping around on the ground hunting white tail buck deer with a 58 cal Hawken or Sharps Rifle, I put five on ice this year in three states with the largest topping 160+ inches, no better critter to match wits with and keep your chit sharp, imho.
Trump Won!
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......and warm 
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A pack in full wall tent camp elk hunt in Wilderness area when I was using my own string of mules. Punched tag or not, didn't matter. That's something I really want to do. Preferably with someone else's mules, though.
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