Favourite animal to hunt and why?

Question

Here in NZ we have 7 species of deer as well as thar, chamios, pigs, goats, water foul, phesants etc.
Personally I like hunting either the red deer because of their size or the fallow because that was the first deer i ever roared in. Pigs will alway be special if taken with a bow. But what do you love hunting where you are and why?

If you dont hunt stay out of it. I dont butt into your tree hugging questions to tell you sex with trees is wrong do I.

chamois is a type of mountaingoat native to asia i think and introduced here over a century ago.

Answer 1

Elk in the western United States -- similar to your red stag. NZ scenery is grand for sure, but the Western Slope of the Colorado Rockies on a cold fall morning with bugling elk all around is beyond compare.

Answer 2

I live in Pennsylvania and we have whitetail deer, black bear, turkey, and many other species of game. I hunt basically everything allowed by law and I trap everything else. I love the thrill of hunting for whitetail deer, however one of the coolest animals to hunt is the coyote. You hunt coyotes, or "yotees" as we call 'em, at night when it's pitched black. I usually use either a 12-gauge with 00 buckshot or a small rifle such as a .223. It is not all that dangerous i suppose but it is very interesting because you never know how close a coyote might be. I play tapes like "rabbit in distress" or use a call to mimic the lone howl of a coyote. Then you wait a few minutes and flip on the spotlight to see what's around. It's a very cool experience and a coyote makes a very nice and colorful rug. "Live to Hunt
Hunt to Live"

Answer 3

In Illinois we have whitetail deer, pheasant, squirrel, turkey,dove, quail, pheasant, rabbit and probably a few more I forgot to mention. I like Deer best since you get more meat for the license and deer camp is one of those " Boy's clubhouse shack-No girls allowed" type thing.

I also like squirrel, rabbit and pheasant but rarely hunt the birds or rabbits anymore. I'm pretty much down to whitetail deer and squirrel. I go along on the Turkey hunt because I am the best camp cook they have.

Answer 4

I dont get to do much hunting these days but to me coyotes were my favorite. Using a predator mouthcall or a squeaker, call em in very close. we hunted them in the winter so there pelts are bueatiful and thick, this was in eastern washington. We didnt eat them we just wanted the pelts, plus they have overpopulated in most places and need to be hunted for there own good. You would be surprised at how tough of a quarry these guys are. Rifle used was a ruger m77 mark 2 chambered in .243 win. with custom loads, were talkin 4,000 feet per second with that badboy. I also like hunting small game, squirrels, rabbits turkeys.

Answer 5

These are all my favorite to hunt in Pennsylvania*... Cottontail Rabbits with my Beagle Dogs, Squirrel, Grouse, Pheasant, Woodcock, Whitetail Deer, Turkey*... because I really enjoy being out amongst the Wildlife, Fields, Woods, Streams, Forests*.....Crows, Groundhogs*....

Answer 6

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Answer 7

Katrina and Roger....please STFU and go hug a tree or something. This is a hunting board, your opinions much like yourselves are not relevant here.

I live in the southeast United States and we have fantastic hunting here. While I enjoy many hunts, my favorite has the be the VERY large hogs we have here. I really enjoy squirrels as they let me do a tremendous amount of hiking and scouting while I hunt.

Whats a Chamios?

Answer 8

I used to go Moose hunting into Canada with my folks - it was fun because I got to miss two weeks of school, and I had the time to bond even more closely with my parents.

It was also fun because the Moose is so big, and when they get mad, whoa! You are taking your life in your own hands! There is a certain thrill when you have a bull charging at you and your rifle jams!

Answer 9

Mine is deer because you get a lot of meet and I because I live in Pennsylvania with the most deer hunters.

Answer 10

Here in East Coast Canada for me its Moose first and Caribou second.Coyotes are gaining ground here fast and when and if my health completely returns I will have a crack at them.No wild pigs here at all except for the ones who break and enter to steel,would love to put a set of sights on them,with a 12 guage ,then they would be holly.-lol -Must be nice there in N Z.