Whatever I'm drawing a bead on, stalking a rabbit, squirrel, or hog. Rewarding your squirrel dog or beagle with a kill. Calling an elk, moose, turkey, or duck into shooting range. Killing a double on doves and seeing plenty of eyes when grabbing frogs or hunting gators. I like it all. May they find me dead sitting against a big oak with a dead gobbler 20 yards away.

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Originally posted by MARK H. YOUNG:
Buglemeintoday,

A wilderness moose hunt is hard to beat. I was fortunate enough to live in AK for 22 years in an area with good moose numbers and trophy quality. Calling in a 1500 lb animals is a thrill and moose hunting is really the only thing I still miss about AK. I think if I lived somewhere I could hunt the elk rut with a rifle on private land elk could be as good.

Mark

I am not surprised by the antelope numbers, but I agree.

If I had 20,000 acres of my own to hunt, and more than one elk tag I could pick that first.

There is a prince who owns a big estate called Berleberg about 5 hours north of me (maybe not that far). www.huntersvideo.dk has videos of his red stag hunts on his place. It is supposed to be free range, not sure if it is or not. He has a hell of a hunting program up there, and it is my dream some day he will adopt me.

Winter Bobcat with hounds. A wiley animal,some are willing to fight the hounds. Deep snow and solitude.

Big Black Bear with hounds. Bear hunting is the only real dangerous game we have in North America. Pursuing these big black bears with hounds is as exciting as hunting Cape Buffalo. Most bears over 450 will not tree and have a tendency to charge.

Funny that nobody has mentioned our little deer: Colombia blacktail. I true challenge and difficult animal to get a trophy of.

1. Elk
2. Colombia Blacktail
3. Mule Deer.

Bucket List: Brown Bear.

I'll limit mine mostly to what's available in New Mexico for the first round:
1. Oryx (like bigger, tastier, cooler-looking pronghorn)
2. Pronghorn
3. Mule deer

I'm also a dedicated coyote caller, but left them off the list because this is "American Big Game." I also just recently started down the road to sheep hunting addiction, so auodad are creeping up the list.

Nationwide?
1. Pronghorn
2. Mule deer
3. Elk

Wish list?
1. Desert bighorn sheep
2. Persian ibex
3. Coues whitetail

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Originally posted by Capt. Purvis:
Big Black Bear with hounds. Bear hunting is the only real dangerous game we have in North America. Pursuing these big black bears with hounds is as exciting as hunting Cape Buffalo. Most bears over 450 will not tree and have a tendency to charge.

Capt:

Interesting comment. I just returned from a hound hunt here in my home state of Utah. The dogs ran the bear into a cave. My son had to crawl on his stomach, throug the opening to get a shot! He told me after the hunt that it he had never had an adrenaline rush quite like that! I now feel guilty for allowing him to crawl in there. It did work out well, however!

Elk during the rut on a packstring hunt (ok, in AZ even if lacking horses), moose, or brown/griz bears. Sheep are pretty majestic, but I have had some miserable sheep hunts.

I have shot a bunch of black bears and antelope, and while they are fun, they just aren't the adventure the others are. JMO.

Capt:

Interesting comment. I just returned from a hound hunt here in my home state of Utah. The dogs ran the bear into a cave. My son had to crawl on his stomach, throug the opening to get a shot! He told me after the hunt that it he had never had an adrenaline rush quite like that! I now feel guilty for allowing him to crawl in there. It did work out well, however!


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Jason

We were on a bear this year and it disappeared. They only way we found it was we heard him growl. The bear had ran into a big drainage tile directly underneath the logging road we were standing. It was a small 250 pound bear. I put my 10 year old on one side and I crawled through the other side to get the bear to run out. Filmed some of it on GoPro.

Guess I'm just simple:

I like hunting whitetail deer
& I love hunting ducks!

However along the way we've shot many yotes and hogs. Our deer lease has a rule, If a hog or yote shows up and you shoot. Even duck hunting I've had to shoot the hogs out of 1 certain blind before we could set-up.

I've gotten kind of fond of Wyoming antelope. Naives liked deer better, but they didn't make sour cream stroganoff.

Ron, that is one brute of a Pronghorn!

Bears with hounds
Mt goats
caribou
2 years ago I shot a 10'plus brown bear and said one a life time was enough. Now I'm not so sure

I enjoy pronghorn hunting but am surprised at the number of guys who rank it as their favorite. Surprised to not see more mule deer, as some hunters truly are "Muley crazy".

For me, #1 is big September elk in the rut. Hunting bugling bulls and calling them in is just fantastic fun, especially when it's with an Arizona tag in hand. After that, it'd be Alaska-Yukon moose in the rut and brown bear. Those hunts are simply grand wild adventures that everyone should get to experience at least once. I'll never forget those hunts and really look forward to taking my son on them (he's already enjoyed some fantastic elk rut hunts).

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2 years ago I shot a 10'plus brown bear and said one a life time was enough. Now I'm not so sure

10' or 7', brown/grizzly hunting has a way of becoming infectious. I can't imagine my life without them and I do about 12 grizzly hunts a year and trying to figure out places and ways to do more!

There is a lot of game I would like to hunt but haven't. If I could only hunt one thing it would be wild pheasant with my own dog. The top three on my wish list would be:

Moose
Caribou
Bear, black or grizzly

Tom

Elk preferably in the black timber
Mule deer
Brown bear (only 3rd because of the weather)

Heck, I like pig hunting. I may sound like a redneck, but I like pulling the trigger a lot for not much, if any, cost.

For the feathereds, bobwhite quail hands down.

Pigs are fun! Gonna take my two sons down to Texas and clean some out with our big bores when the younger one gets well.

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Originally posted by chuck375:
Pigs are fun! Gonna take my two sons down to Texas and clean some out with our big bores when the younger one gets well.

Chuck,

Thanks for agreeing. They were great practice off the sticks when preparing for Africa.

Only did it once, but I would have to say elk. Great experience.

I have been Moose hunting in Ontario and that was pretty awesome.
I hunt Whitetail deer all over Michigan and that is fun.
My absolute favorite hunt is with my daughter hunting for Squirrels in the big woods. We have been all over the Lower Peninsula and several hunts in the Upper Peninsula. She even went tent camping in the U.P. with me between Christmas and New Years a few years ago (-12 F). She will be getting married this time next year, and has told me not to plan on giving up our Squirrel hunting. We may even invite him to come along, if he is good.
Doug

Elk, mule deer, Moose and in that order. Love to hunt desert sheep and love sheep meat, but alas they are all but impossible to draw, and now Im too damned old to hunt them.

I still shoot an elk for meat and a Mule Deer locally and sometimes a cow elk in Colorado early Sept hunt near Walsenburg. I trophy hunt deer for 4 or 5 days for a monster, if not then I shoot a spike or fork horn for meat. I love deer meat, also go to Texas and shoot whitetail off my nephew or a couple of frinds ranches, all low fences and medium size bucks are the rule, but lots of them.

Not much on Antelope, grew up on a ranch over run with Mule deer, Coues deer, and Pronghorn Antelope and don't care for the pronghorn meat. Even had a few Desert Big Horns, and an ocassional Mexican Grizley, but that was before my time, but was in my Granddads and my dads day. They hunted them.

Elk in the Rut with a Bow!!!

1. Elk (preferably in September with a longbow in my hand)
2. Pronghorn

Bucket list
1. Stone Sheep
2. Alaskan/Yukon moose (with a longbow)

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Originally posted by Slider:
Elk in the Rut with a Bow!!!

Same here! #2 is whitetail with a bow and #3 is antelope with a rifle.

1. Elk
2. Coues Deer
3. Mule Deer

Im surprised so many like to hunt Pronghorn, they were considered pests on the ranch I was raised on, herds of 100 hundred back in the 50s, but over population and poor game management, lack of preditors took its tole, and today the numbers are much less, still good hunting but not like it was, and as much game meat as my family eats the pronghorn is the least, that dark blackish meat, looks like horse meat or burro meat, none of which turns me on..Ive heard all the stories about how its processed and cooked, tried them all, give me deer, and elk, even Mt. Lion, its all better IMO. I love to hunt Moose, but if they have been eating willows they tend to be gamey..I dodn't like to eat any game animal that's rutting as a rule.