Favorite animal to hunt and why
 

Mine is specklebellies. I like being able to "drive" the birds for multiple passes and watch how pretty they work. I like slipping my gun out the grass and folding the biggest general I see. I also like being able to share the blind with friends and family and make memories doing so. I enjoy duck hunting and squirrel hunting. Not too big on deer though. Anyone else care to add?

Deer rule!

I like to hunt cougars.





Nothin like sackin' up an experienced one with a good career and a nice rack. :rotfl:

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nice post Jared hahah. Specks for sure. seeing them bad boys cut flips outta the sky is awesome! FIXED.... progress not perfection is my goal!!!

Do you think it's possible to truly master the craft? I have never met a true speck hunter who has ever said, I get em every day. I have heard a few say that who really don't hunt geese but a few times a year. I hunt them a lot and there are days when they just won't do anything. Those days mess with my head

NOPE... i had put progress not perfection but it sounded LAME lol. let me rephrase.... I hope to improve on what i know and keep educating myself along the way. I wish for more opportunities to present themselves in order for me to soak up more knowledge. I dont get em as much as alot of people soo i know what you are talking about. I am blessed to know as much as i do and thats not as much as some....

My favorite has to be specklebellies working to a call, getting lower ready for me to cut into them.

Beavers....some taste better than others and some are hairless......and they play with wood all day....beavers are great.....

LOL!!!!!!

Yea I knew what you meant. Just wanted to put something out there to think about. I think that's a part of it that makes it so fun, is it is such a challenge. Dont get me wrong, I enjoy the easy days (like Sunday) but I appreciate the tough days (like Monday). You really learn on tougher mornings.

I like a challenge. Which is why turkeys would have to be my favorite. There's nothing like turkey hunting and having all the stars align. Specks are fun too but they're easy.

never been turkey hunting. I would love to do it, but i just don't know where to begin to kill one. I heard it's one hell of a rush calling in one and giving it a dirt nap.

The best. The highest high u can get.

yall need to get your minds out the gutter DUCKGOGETTER.....LOL
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man i would love to learn if anyone would teach a young grasshopper.

Yeah monday was a decent day for us.... cant slaughter em every day. I appreciate hunts like that. went from having a spot last year to not having one this year. sooo specks is it. I just feel like laying the smack down on my two is magical. seeing them flip and cup up is awesome. the work put into it is worth it IMO. especially if you are the one taking care of your field and not some farmer.

so the opening day pooldoo wacking means nothing to you? Hurtful lol!!!!!!!!!

pooodoooo is 1st on my list of most HISTERICAL hunts!!! i dont think i have ever laughed and shot soo much at the same time. priceless!

Yea I enjoy the prep work as well. Then again, why bother with it, specks are super easy

i'll take that! It was pretty frickin funny watching them goofy suckers dive bombing us. Just wish i could have got you on some more ducks. Had a great hunt yesterday probably my best all year this year and we killed some ducks in gc, but yesterday was great in the burns.

That's funny right there!!


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wooooahhh who said that? Prep work has to be there and things gotta be right. dats one smart aze bird IMO. cant just sit in a field and hope they come down.

not the ones i my marsh in grand chenier. Killing one of them this year will be like killing a african throphy. Them suckers want no part of anything this year.

Just a joke. Refer to post 12

I have no experience yet with waterfowl so I cant really compare them. I am still gaining experience with Turkeys. At one time I would have said Dove hunting, but every year the seem to be getting harder to find. My vote will have to be Deer!!! Nothing like the job of dragging one out to let you know that you've accomplished something.

gotcha.

I agree fully with Top Dawg. Specks and mallards are easy. They are easy to call and easy to kill. Turkeys are a lesson in frustration. Your competition is live hens and day in and day out the hens will win. But when you finally get that gobbler to come in, nothing beats it! Just nothing. If turkey season was during duck and goose season, I would give up ducks and geese!
Years ago we had access to a farm in Thornwell. We had 4 flambeau speck shells with no stakes. We sat on a levee, called in our specks and was usually drinin beer by 8. If you can call specks they are not difficult to kill. Same with mallards, das why everyone loves mallards. They are easy to dupe and easy to kill.

Yup. Das my point. Have killed limits of specks in waist high grass with no decoys before. But gettin one on one with that Tom having several run ins with him only to be defeated by him. Getting to know him by name and after several frustrating weeks he stands in your sights rattlin your bones with his hair raising gobbles.

that's it i have to try this! Will be willing to pay someone to take me on a turkey hunt. I would love to hear and see a thunder chicken strutting and gobbling.

Like dat damn old loud mouth dat took me 8 camping trips and nearly all season to kill. But I got him.

I'd be happy to teach, but it'd have to be your land and your turkeys. I hunt public, so I have to compete with hens AND other people. I cannot divulge my areas.:D

can't help with the land only turkeys we have on my lease in grand chenier are water turkeys.

Dove........by far..............wake up in time to remedy the headache from the night before, family everywhere, not too much mess to clean, good eats, hardly any cover needed...........just too much fun.

That and woodcock.

Screw a Turkey, y'all can have them nasty creachers! Specklebellies and Mallards in Timber by far in my book!!!

Don't blame you. Specks and mallards is easy and fun. Hard to pass up. I am thankfull dat turkey season doesn't run da same time as ducks and geese.

Duck/goose hunting period is by the far the best. Nothing like specks in the fields or ducks in the marsh. Like i always say if seeing geese or ducks coming to your decoys and calling (if that don't light your fire your woods wet).

Oh I agree it's great. But the OP asked what was our favorite. Hell I love to hunt deer too. Doves, skirls, alligators too. But my favorite is turkey.

If you want a challenge, you should try to kill a wild turkey on public land or a white tail deer on public land with your bow. Now we talking challenge. Huntin specks in rice fields is fun, but I wouldn't really call it a challenge when you compare it to what I have listed above.

Elk with a bow when they're bugling. A bull elk bugles at 1/2 mile, them 100 yards, then 40 yards and heads right at you when he sees the decoy your hiding behind and your stuff comes unglued!!!! Your hoping your partner shoots him before he pile drives you! Makes buck fever seem like a baby hot flash!

Your right dude. Your the man!

Now dat would be awesome.

Turkey, hands down. Nothing harder to kill in my book. And I have hunted just about anything you can hunt in the US. Wish the season was longer than 30 days. In my lifetime I have killed 1000s of ducks, 100s of geese, caught 1000s of trout, close to 100 deer, and SEVEN turkeys. And I have been hunting all these since the same age. They are very tough to get. To hear that big tom sounding off is something you will never forget.
Someone else mentioned bow hunting for elk, that would come in 2nd for me. I have done it before and it is quite a rush. Unfortunately I didn't get one. I was in the 5th grade and stuck him right in the shoulder blade. Have killed a bunch with my rifle though. I will go on a bow hunt again soon for elk.
I am going to Argentina this summer on a duck hunt. Can't wait.

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Me too!

Never killed a Tom. Heard em fire off and seen em strut but never dirt-rolled one. Killed several Jakes but still waiting on that Ol' Longbeard to mess up. Got plenty on the lease but them Tom's is wise. Killed my fair share of Specks and they're still my favorite, but if I could ever bag a Gobbler, that might change.

What you gettin your panties knotted up about? You started talking about a challenge. How do you know what a challenge is if all you have ever done is easy stuff?

Oh, and it's you're.

Torn between the ducks and deer! Nothing like the sound of an arrow slapping the hide on a deer, or the splash of the water when a fat drake hit's it. Its realy all a big deal for me from the wings wistleing, as they fly over then lock to commit, as it is to sneek into a stand long before the sunrise to hear the crunching of leaves and twigs as a deer walks down the trail ur sittting on! Either way they both get me stoked, and theirs much more to it then just the hunts!
Now cougars on the other hand use to be at the top of my list, until I finally landed the trophy of a life time, and just hung it on my wall! lol

Love to turkey hunt especially once the real turkeys get out the woods after opening day:)

All I was saying is you're right. I don't know what a challenge is. All I ever do is kill those dumb old specks. I really just wanted to discuss hunting on the hunting discussion forum. I really was hoping you or your cousin would be on the fuge and not coming over here telling everyone on here how dumb we are and how good y'all are. And thanks for the grammar lesson, coming from the guy who always puts dem and dis and all dat udda bull**** you type. I'm done replying to either of you, it's impossible to reason with you