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NH_Hunter
.416 Rigby
aka The Kid
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Topic: What is your favorite small game? Posted: 13 June 2003 at 03:11 |
Hey guys, i was just wondering what small game you guys like to hunt the most. Personnally it is rabbit with my beagle and my Savage Stevens model 94 20 guage single shot shotgun. I have bagged three rabbits with that little number. Over the summer, when i get the cash, i am going to invest in a Cabelas double barrel black powder shotgun. That should liven things up a bit! I couldnt go hunting rabbits much last winter because my dog couldnt get around in the deep snow.
My hunting strategy is to park a little ways down a road and let the dog loose and walk down a trail. I wait for the beagle, Titanic, to get going on a rabbit and get in position. I will NOT shoot at the rabbit until Ti runs the bunny in a full circle, so as to make it a little bit more fair chase. The last rabbit i shot, Ti had run him about 4 circles until i got a shot, and BOOOM the rabbit ran through a ditch. I thought i had missed him because i couldnt see too well. Then i see Ti run by and he followed the trail. I then saw this white thing fly up in the air. When beagles catch up to the dead rabbit, they like to throw it up in the air for triumph. I was laughing soo hard when i saw that. My dad ended up cooking hte rabbit while i wasnt at the house so i couldnt experience the fruits of my labor.
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TasunkaWitko
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aka The Gipper
Joined: 10 June 2003
Location: Chinook Montana
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Posted: 13 June 2003 at 12:14 |
gophers, otherwise known as richardson's ground squirrels.
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TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen
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klallen
.416 Rigby
** The RockChucker **
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Posted: 13 June 2003 at 13:13 |
From a varminting stand-point, the rockchucks are what I like to hunt the most. Gophers, by the sheer volume of shots are fun. Coyotes and badgers and jack rabbits tend to be a bit more elusive of an animal in the areas that I typically hunt, so when the opportunity comes for them, it's always a pleasant treat.
But all in all, I'd much rather be set up on a distant rock quarry, where the chucks are moving early in the am, before the wind gets whipping and the heat starts to boil. What a blast !!!
Rain storms permiting, that's where I'll be 8am tomorrow. Later. >> klallen
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mr mom
.30/06 SpringField
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Posted: 13 June 2003 at 13:35 |
my vote has to go to the crows. its a blast . and the kids love it.
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mr mom
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soggyshooter
.375 Holland & Holland Magnum
Joined: 11 June 2003
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Posted: 14 June 2003 at 13:26 |
Grouse, bunnies, coyotes.
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There's a village in Kenya that's looking for their idiot...
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CB900F
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Honor, Integrity
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Posted: 14 June 2003 at 14:58 |
Gophers in the summer, grouse in season & 'yotes anytime, but winter's best.
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Birth certificate!? He don't need no steenkink birth certificate!!
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Triggerguard
.416 Rigby
aka The San Antonio Terminator
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Posted: 15 June 2003 at 14:21 |
Rabbit, squirrel, and dove. If I can't eat it, I normaly don't kill it.
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"...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke
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NH_Hunter
.416 Rigby
aka The Kid
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Posted: 15 June 2003 at 15:29 |
Triggerguard, that is a good rule to live by. What do you people who hunt gopher and chucks do with them after you kill them, i have never actually known what you do with them.
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TasunkaWitko
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Posted: 15 June 2003 at 16:26 |
nh,
i can't speak for the chucks, but the gophers are considered pests out here. as for eating them, no way!
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TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen
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NH_Hunter
.416 Rigby
aka The Kid
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Posted: 16 June 2003 at 15:45 |
Hey Tasunk, i can understand the pest thing. Squirrels are pests here in my town, so i have been up in my garage, in the middle of town, with a .22 loaded with ratshot. I havent seen one yet, but i should get one of those spawns of satan pretty soon. They have been messing around with our garbage and my dad is getting pretty pissed off.
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Triggerguard
.416 Rigby
aka The San Antonio Terminator
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Posted: 17 June 2003 at 09:43 |
I didn't mean to sound noble or anything. It depends on whether I'm hunting or controling pests/varmints.
I kill stuff and trap animals for a living. I've killed more than my share of armadillos, squirrels, racoons, etc. You gotta do what you gotta do.
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"...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke
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TasunkaWitko
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aka The Gipper
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Posted: 17 June 2003 at 11:35 |
trigger,
i know what you're talking about. i teach my kids to never hunt or fish unless they plan on eating what they get. kinda goes against the shooting of gophers, etc., but i guess that life is full of contradictions which exist for reasons which are difficult to explain.
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TasunkaWitko - Chinook, Montana Helfen, Wehren, Heilen Die Wahrheit wird euch frei machen
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TexasShooter
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Posted: 17 June 2003 at 13:36 |
Ron, I know what you mean exactly. Some days it bugs me and some days it doesn't, I suppose. I do know that killing an animal like a deer or a dove that I have 100% intention to eat doesn't really bother me at all, while some of the others... well... it's not like I lose sleep over it, but I am not as quick to get up and go varmint hunting anymore.
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klallen
.416 Rigby
** The RockChucker **
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Posted: 17 June 2003 at 14:21 |
Considering the moral right or wrong of varminting.?.?.?.?.? Hmmmm.
It's an interesting way to rationalize thing, I suppose. If I eat a prairie dog, killing it is ok. But if I leave it for the crows and coyotes to enjoy, it's wrong. Sure would cut down on the varminters if it were required that they eat all that they killed. My stomach's turning, as we speak.
Nope. I don't dig that. I can't live by the "thou shalt not kill (unless you eat it)" rule. Killing be killing, regardless of weather I dine or not. At least that's the way I look at it. Do any animals (big game or varmint) really deserve to die? Probably not. And if I concentrated on that, I'd hang up the guns and take up another hobby. Rather, I concentrate on what animals "will" die and go about that business as humanely and short-suffering for the animal as I can.
There was a strange string started some time back on one of these sites where someone asked if varmints didn't deserve the same moral treatment and respect as big game animals. One of the wierder strings I've seen. If we can't differentiate between pests (animals mostly categorized as varmints) and big game animals, then we've definitely made things much more complicated than they need be. But then again, brilliant folks in the east are making pets of the damn things. Pests as pets? Wow!!! These fine folks would have been horrified to see what happened to a good # of their pet supply last weekend. >> klallen
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Triggerguard
.416 Rigby
aka The San Antonio Terminator
Joined: 13 June 2003
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Posted: 17 June 2003 at 16:07 |
This is how the professional does it. Questioning the subject to find where his buddies are...
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"...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke
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macca
.416 Rigby
AKA The Thunder From DownUnder
Joined: 10 June 2003
Location: Australia
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Posted: 18 June 2003 at 21:18 |
Did he talk?
We do not have a moral dilema down under with pest animals.The law(praise the law)states we must kill all pest animals.The law also states we may not use any tagged animals to eat or skin.We do have to let them rot.Very strange rules.So I also do not live by the shoot and eat rule.Interestingly there are moves afoot to have deer declared a pest animal.This will mean a major cull program to try and eradicate deer from the wild in my state.Strange times we live in.Have a good one macca.
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don't let the bastards grind you down.
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macca
.416 Rigby
AKA The Thunder From DownUnder
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Posted: 18 June 2003 at 21:20 |
Oh yeah I like to shoot rabbits and crows.I used to hunt with beagles and foxhounds.Love the howl when they find the scent.Macca
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don't let the bastards grind you down.
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NH_Hunter
.416 Rigby
aka The Kid
Joined: 13 June 2003
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Posted: 19 June 2003 at 04:04 |
The sound of a beagle first catching the scent of a rabbit and then following is one of the funniest sounds i have ever heard. My dad is always saying that my beagle isnt on the scent, he caught his penis on a stick or a rock. The baying does really get your heart rate up and your adrenaline pumping
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Triggerguard
.416 Rigby
aka The San Antonio Terminator
Joined: 13 June 2003
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Posted: 19 June 2003 at 11:02 |
Hearing them bay is great, EXCEPT in country where there are mixed cottontail and jack rabbits. Jacks don't circle much, and you can hear your dog getting farther and farther away when that jack kicks in the burners and travels a mile or two. Most rabbit dogs will stay on him, and just run themselves ragged. Sure can stop the hunting for the day!
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"...A moral compass needs a butt end.Whatever direction France is pointing-towards collaboration with Nazis, accomodation with communists,...we can go the other way with a quiet conscience"-O'Rourke
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