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For all out adrenalin rush, elk in the rut!

Get a big bull inside 10 yards in the thick timber; bugling and beating the brush, breathing, snorting, glunking, seeing his antler tops, smelling his musk and the fresh pine pitch while he's shredding the trees just feet away, and see his legs moving...but try to get a clear shot at his vitals with an arrow or a bullet...now that's living!

Tough call ... but I'd settle for either Sambar deer or quail. Someone else can pick which one for me. But both would be hunted with Brittany's!
Cheers...
Con

blacktail

This is a tough one but, for me, it's ducks & geese over decoys. With all the gear, the calls and calling, the shotguns: whether semi-autos, pumps, or double barrels, the retrievers, the sunrises spent in the blind with buddies, the hot coffee and steaming chocolate, squished PBJ sandwiches...and the graceful flip of a flock of Pintails cupping to the dekes. It'd be tough to give all that up so I'm shootin' waterfowl boys.

Nice pics, AZJR.

For me -- elk. Wildebeest might be second.

Man oh man, I can't get it down to one so I'll just do one in the USA and one in Mex.

Bruins in the USA and Coues in Sonora........that fair enough?

Dober

I'll have to do as Dober, and qualify by location.

In Alaska...Sitka deer.

In America....Whitetails.

Both are small enough, that no matter how old a geezer I become, I can still get after them, and be able to get them out of the field on my own. Plus they're just plain fun to hunt, and good to eat!

Jeff

Elk......

High Country Mule Deer.

Wild Ring-Necked Pheasants, without a doubt. More to watch the dog work, than to kill the pheasant.

I was wondering when somebody was going to get to waterfowl hunting. There have been years when I passed on every other kind of hunting just to hunt ducks anyway. I hunt them two to three times a week from October into January.

Like AZJR said, it's the whole package, well trained dogs, a duck boat you made yourself, hunting with a Model 12 that was passed from your grandfather to your Dad to you, hand carved decoys, having your special spot all to yourself, that twenty minutes before shoot time, after the dekes are all set, the boat blind is camoed up and ready, you and your buddy are sitting there with a hot cup of coffee (tea in my case), your retriever is sitting at full attention as birds glide in and land, the sky is pink in the east, almost shoot time. Thats my favorite.

Muledeer

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ditto

The two best eatin' meats that I've ever et.

Boy, I'd much rather be limited to having to hunt with just one rifle. There is just so many great things to see and hunt in this world.

White-tailed deer in the North Maine Woods

Blacktails or anything else that would allow me to get away from everything at work for a few days of solitude.

Waterfowl and pheasants with my Labs. Having geese come into the decoys and watching my Labs working. And when possible Elk

Whitetail Deer

Moose .........

....I don't like to think about being limited to just one quarry, but pressed I'd say at this stage of life, with my family grown and off into the world on thier own, I'd have to say Squirrel. SQUIRREL? Yes, Squirrel, the little critter provides all the good eating I, by myself NEED, and is the most challenging game I hunt from the standpoint of necessary marksmanship skills (.22RF only please). BUT what would I do with all my 'artillery' if only squirrel was on the list afield.

...... No , whitetail deer bring the taste of wildness into rural land, and they capture a hunter's heart with the thrill of a wilderness hunt in tamer country available to us all. I just couldn't give up my deer hunting so long as my legs can carry me afield in thier pursuit. My dogs sure would be disappointed if my venison locker ceased to offer them some treats from time to time as well!