Rabbits on a cool, windless night. Here in Texas, I can spotlight them, and it is a blast with a flashlight and your semi auto .22. I like it better than deer, and they taste really good, too. If deer didn't taste a little better, I probably would give up deer and hunt just rabbits!

Pheasants for sure! The best tasting game out there! Only catch is that you NEED a good dog. If you are from up north then my second choice is Ruffed Grouse. Friendly to hunt on public ground and tasty like buggers! Long seasons for these birds also make it easy to get out and chase them. Lastly I would agree that rabbit is fun to hunt! If you are just starting to get into hunting you can get a single shot 12 gauge or a 870 Remington for a bargain. Good luck and introduce someone to hunting!

Personal favorite is deer. But I cut my teeth on squirrel and Rabbit. Both are easier to get into need less gear and especially with squirrel you have (here in indiana at least) almost 2 months of hunting before deer season begins. both are easy to do on public land.

I havn'e hunted much, but so far squirrel hunting beats all. I hunt squirrel with dogs, so it is very fast paced. The one problem people will find with dog hunting is that the preys adrenaline is going to be flowing when it is shot. so even with my walther falcon hunter edition .22 air rifle they are hard to bring down. once I shot a decent sized squirrel with a gamo shadow 1000 .177 and it leaped of the tree and started jumping towards me,but luckily my big anatolian pup nailed it with his paw and the other dogs pounced on it.

I am undecided I like to deer hunt but recently I have gotten into waterfowl and that is alot fun but it is more expensive.

Between dove, deer, squirrel, rabbit, turkey it's hard for me to say which would be my favorite. I love them all. I can start in Sept. and with a short break mid Feb. to mid March we hunt clear till end of April. To me they all taste good. Me and some buddies own several beagles which really makes rabbit hunting fun. With a good shotgun you can hunt anything you want relatively cheap. But what makes all of them great to me is being able to be in the outdoors enjoying what god and mother nature has in store for the new day. And then there is creek fishing in the late spring and summer but that's a whole nother story ain't it.

Goose and duck hunting with my Lab. Elk hunting a close second.

I to love to hunt ducks. I like the idea, of not really knowing what species of duck might drop in. I am trying to get as many species mounted as I can. The one that keeps eluding me is the Woody, my wife has insisted that I get one. Who am I to argue. After ducks is has to be Elk.

Elk. You go after them instead of sitting around all day. They are big and beautiful. They are incredibly tasty. And you can call them in and listen to their spine-tingling bugles. You'll never work so hard for one animal, be so incredibly beat at the end of the day, and still grin from ear to ear like you will after packing out a big bull...and you'll never forget a single encounter. No other animal can do that to me.

I enjoy hunting waterfowl most and upland second. Big game hunting is almost too formal. I like just driving out to a pond after work in the Fall with nothing but my shotgun and some shells. It's peaceful just to sit and watch life go by.

The whitetail hands down. There is nothing like a cool November morning as the sun comes up and the challenge of matching wits with an animal that only knows how to survive.

I enjoy varminting for many of the same reasons I enjoyed benchrest shooting. I can take a fairly relaxed approach, concentrate on my shooting, practice doping the wind, and I have to shoot regularly just to maintain a working knowledge of the .22 centerfires I rely on for the task.
Whether my day's success is one coyote, a few marmots, several ground squirrels or a number of prairie dogs, I've had a good day. If I take a difficult shot and misjudge the wind, then the lucky ground squirrel has had a good day, but it doesn't detract from the time afield. I occasionally shoot with a few other gentlemen and we're all equipped with a sense of humor so, hit or miss, we'll have something to discuss at day's end.

Sarge01

Got a question for you.

From your blog, I can only "assume" you are retired or no longer a "Conservation Officer".
If you became aware of an infraction by one of your hunting companions, would you:
A. Address that person
B. Turn them in
C. Just ignore it

If you don't want to answer, I understand.

Bubba

Sarge01

Thanks for the reply.
I have been involved with several hunting "groups".
One of the groups, though the "property" owner had no problems with anything "legal", had three friends that had become self appointed QDM "experts" and by virtue of "moral" majority, began imposing their own rules and regs.
One hunters teenage son shot a buck that was totally legal according to state regs, but didn't meet "their" requirements.
One of the "leaders" heard the shot, but when the deer wasn't seen in camp, excused himself and went to town and checked the local "ice house" and found the "illegal"(?) deer.
Those three guys hounded the hunter until he eventually had to find another lease.
I don't have a problem with following my local game laws. Never have, never will.
In the groups that I have hunted in, I have seen game law infractions. If I felt the infraction was that serious, I always tried to address that person quietly, one on one. Most of the time, the goofy stuff ended. The one's that didn't stop, usually ended up going elsewhere because that was their MO. Do what I can here until I get caught, then go somewhere else. We (the main group) never had really big problems from "slob" hunters.

Bubba

Squirrel for sure

I dont have a favorite but I like whitetail and Quail. I kinda like dove but they can get me so mad because of their crazy flying patterns.

Elk, but I hunt deer too and would shoot a coyote if I saw it.

Last year I shot a fair sized mule deer, he was smaller than a small cow elk and not 1/5 as smart. I'm happy enough to hunt anything but there's an economy of scale. My only complaint is they live too far up the hill.

I absolutely love hunting rabbits behind a good beagle. Nothing gets my heart pumping more than hearing her sing.

I really love hunting wild boar and roe deer. I'd love to shoot a Red Stag, but those hunts can get super expensive quickly. The Roe Deer and wild boar are considered nuissance animals that destroy farmland so you can normally take them inexpensively.