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July 4, 2004, 11:06 PM | #76 |
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What's the most challenging species you've ever hunted?
I stalked one of those big black things for three days once. the boss wouldn't let us shoot it.
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July 5, 2004, 01:28 AM | #77 |
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I haven't seen anyone mention turkey!
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July 5, 2004, 11:17 PM | #78 |
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I'll second on the Turkey followed by whitetails.
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July 6, 2004, 08:37 AM | #79 |
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The Flies in the backyard, it's hard to hit a fly with a .45, or the roaches in the attic, the SO gets mad everytime a put a hole in the roof.
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July 6, 2004, 06:05 PM | #80 |
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For common game animals in the lower 48, I would
have to say a wily ol blacktail buck. here in Wa, its so thick they often will just walk into a thicket and a hunter can be 10 feet from them and never know they're there. I know this from experience, and how i missed out on a chance on a nice 5x5. My buddy looking down on me from a logging road seen the whole thing from about 250 yards away with his binoculars. the beast heard me coming walked into a small thicket, and just stood there as I came up on him, I knew a deer was somewhere around i caught a glimpse of a body, as I was walking up the small incline. I had no clue he was there, my friend said I was standing right next to him for about 10 minuites, I went forward, after I was about 30 yards away, the deer came out and started to follow me. then went down his excape route. Gotta love them blacktails!! Of course if you jump one, they usually run about 15-20 yards and then stop to see what jumped them........go figure.
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July 12, 2004, 12:27 AM | #81 |
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Humans, Water Buffaloes don't have Claymore mines or Brains.
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August 9, 2004, 09:05 PM | #82 |
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Mountain goat in the Canadian Rockies.
I thought I was in good shape...I was wrong. Three days before we saw them, another day to work close, a day to complete the stalk...and one shot to miss. But it was stunning country and just to sit with a cup of coffee and look at the mountains was all the reward I could ever have wanted. |
August 10, 2004, 12:04 PM | #83 |
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My ex-girlfriend
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August 10, 2004, 07:04 PM | #84 |
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Hey, Art Eatman - -
Back on page two of this thread, on 05-13-2002, 09:21 a.m., you posted “The Playground.,” with an image - -
http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/...achmentid=3554. Is that taken from about the place where we went on 3 or 4 July, and the kiddos dug up some resurrection plants? “Oh that I had the power to describe the wonderful country as I saw it then.” James B. Gillette, on the Big Bend area, in Six Years With the Texas Rangers, 1875 to 1881 as quoted by Tom Lea in The Wonderful Country. (From memory - I may have a word or two wrong.) Johnny |
August 11, 2004, 04:46 PM | #85 |
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woodpigions (when using air rifle) You can hear them but they're always buryed so deep in the crown of the tree they spot you before you can spot them, and they have better eyesite than magpies.
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August 20, 2004, 02:00 PM | #86 |
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Hey, speaking of tough hunting with air rifles, blue jays are smarter than heck...they never sit in one place more than a couple seconds, and they look around closely before flying down to the ground to get food, then off again immediately. Crows too of course, but crows' smarts can be overcome with their weakness - the susceptibility to game calls.
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August 27, 2004, 12:44 AM | #87 |
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Chukar, followed by Mountain quail.
"The first time is for sport and afterward, for revenge!"
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September 6, 2004, 03:33 AM | #88 |
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I have to say Eastern Wild Turkey. Followed by brown bears. Not because brown bears are physically dangerous, but because they're no where to be found when hunting them.
Normally out here on the Penisula you can't turn around without bumping into one. Bears in the yard, bears in the dumpsters, I've even seen one in the back of a pick up. Buy a bear tag and walk out the door with a rifle and they vanish. I've often told folks who've asked about bear protection out here to buy a bear tag and carry a rifle. I guarantee they'll never encounter bears. |
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I don't have enough experience to add much to this thread, but it was a good read |
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September 19, 2004, 12:48 AM | #90 |
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yellowjackets, definately. Taking on a horde of stinging insects with nothing more than a pellet gun can be an invigorating experience. Try shooting the little devils in mid air with a 1.77 wadcutter and bear hunting starts to feel like grocery shopping
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September 19, 2004, 04:16 PM | #91 |
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For me every species is difficult.
When was the last time you all seen a 400+lbs man go hunting in the woods. For me it was when I look in the mirror after my last hunting trip. |
September 21, 2004, 04:40 AM | #92 |
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You took the words right out of my mouth canonoch (although I'm not overweight). I can't recall any species that didn't try real hard to avoid being hunted. They're all tough! Guess that's why they call it hunting.
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September 24, 2004, 02:09 AM | #93 |
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Yep and the darn critters look at the hunting regs like we do. Except they're look at how long they got till the have to leave for the city, while we head for the woods at the same time.
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September 24, 2004, 10:26 AM | #94 |
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Well, you have to have the right weapon for yellowjackets - it's not a .177 pellet - it's a bottle of Aqua Net and a lighter.
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