I used to quite a bit when I was younger, but I don't find it challenging or exciting enough anymore. I'm more of a small game watcher now.
I wouldn't mind a few partridge (they make a great sandwich!) but I don't expect to do too much small game hunting next year Unless I get lucky and get a deer in my first year
I recently got into dove hunting with my retired compound. Fluflus and Snaro tips offer quite a challenge! Was watching Tim Wells do it, but he made it look really easy
I first started hunting squirrels when I was a wee lad but deer hunting has consumed my passion and obsession. For the sake of fun and passing on tradition, though, my brother-in-law and I plan on introducing our kids to squirrel hunting and I think it will be fun for us too. I can't tell you how many squirrels are on my property that would make a great stew, some true fat tree rats.
We hunt everything in PA but bear. Deer, turkey, small game, waterfowl. Though, of course, not all by bow.
Grew up rabbit hunting mostly. Had beagles until recently, when I was in college and unable to hunt them as much as I wanted. So I sold them. I'll get some new ones one day when I have more time. I grew up dove hunting, which I love to do. New to duck hunting but really enjoy it. But I primarily deer hunt which as encouraged me to trap, so started that last year...really enjoy that! Trapped raccoon and beaver/otter last year, this year I will start trapping fox and coyotes.
I am a professional upland bird Guide on my families shooting preserve here in NJ. We hunt pheasant, quail, and Chukar. We also guide turkey hunts in the spring.
We shoot jackrabbits all year. Various ground squirrels in the spring and summer. Desert and mountain cottontails in the fall. It's grouse season but I have yet to shoot one here in Utah. I seem to always have a rifle and not my bow or shotgun when I stumble into a flock of grouse. I have permission to hunt 70 acres on the river out here. It's suppose to have a lot of ducks and geese when the lakes freeze up. I've only ever shot one duck and one goose in my life but I'm willing to try it again. I have six bobcat tags so hopefully I can fill at least one of them. I may set some traps for raccoons, muskrats, beaver along that river. I also want to catch a spotted skunk and a ringtail cat. Got my first Utah coyote on Saturday. Woot!! (there's a $50.00 bounty on them out here) 7800' elevation.
I love to deer hunt, but one of my favorite things to do is grab my longbow or Hoyt and get after squirrels or whatever else I come across that's legal. My favorite heads for the job are the VPA SGT or Red Feather Archery Talon. They stun and cut. I've taken opossums, coon, chipmunks, quail, and squirrels. Awesome times for sure! If you haven't you should try it.
Yep! Shot the Fox squirrel from 20yds off the side of a tree, and the gray from 32yards on the ground.
Love to hunt grouse in Norther MN. It was a cold,wet spring about the time of the hatch. They got whacked pretty good, but there have been a few in pockets here and there.
Rabbit, squirrel, turkey, predator, dove, waterfowl...I thoroughly love hunting everything. Furthermore, I wish we had pheasant in NC..I think once I graduate and get some money together, I'll take my dad out west and try and get on a few.
