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What about small game. I love huntingrabbits than anything, andsquirrles are a close second. For oneI am a hounds men. I do hunt deer but all you do it sit and hope then aim and shoot. I like to get up and stock and animal.I use a 410 that i can shoot 40 yards and kill game but i am usually 20 yards away, and talk about a good food. Fried rabbit squirrel with mash potatoes, gravy, and biscuts.

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umm....yea....i hunt partridge which is brid and white tail rabbits!

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I love to hunt and eat squirrel. i killed 32 last season i like to rabit hunt but i dont like the meat. I like to shoot doves aswell. But... I'd much rather hunt deer!

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You've obviously never been on a good whitetail hunt then, or any good big game hunt for that matter. There is so much more to it than just sitting, waiting, aiming, and shooting. Sure, the majority of whitetail hunters hunt from stands or ground blinds, but they spend countless hours scouting and researching their land before and after the season opens. If you can tell me that you get the same rush shooting rabbits and squirells as you do when that big whitetail buck walks under a stand you placed yourself right before dusk, I'll eat my favorite hunting hat. If you get the same rush hunting rabbits and squirells as you do when you have an elk bugle in your face at 10 yards, I'll give up hunting all together. Don't get me wrong, I have fun hunting rabbits and other small game, but nothing, and I do mean nothing beats a good big game hunt.

So to answer your question, yes, I am a big game hunter and yes, I do hunt small game when I get bored or there isn't a big game season open.

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hunting rabbit behind a beagle hound is a fun thing to do and rabbit is a very tasty meal but nothing compares to the rush of shooting that deer you have been scouting all year long and finally have him and make that shot. i think i get more of a rush bow hunting deer than gun hunting just because with bow the deer just has to be so much closer and when he comes in and you make the shot there is no other feeling that compares to that.

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So whats for breakfast? Squirell. mmmm....squirell! :D

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Dan has it right

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Please do not lable me. For one thing school comes first so i can only hunt after school and weekends plus maybe a day or two off. My dad is one of the hardest workers i have ever seen. He is usually gone around 14 hours a day.I live in western ohio so i dont have all the land you have out there, but the deer here are grain feed and can kick all others deers butts when it comes to size and especially taste. I do know what it is like to have the rush and it is better. Ive had a 12 point250 pound buck in my sights an dafter firing he croosed the road. WE drove to the road but seen no blood. 10 days later we found himdead. I have stalked driven called and waited for deer. Its fun but i would rather hunt small game with big game every once in a while. But tell me this if you hunt with dogs. Would u rather kill a big animal or to watch your dog that you raised as a puprun its first rabbit back to you to get kill. Me i would rather watch my pup work. Trust me. I know what im talking about. Im not some little kid. Im just saying try some small game. Besides a good hunter knows that small game will take food form larger game. Well in small woods. Its a dying sport. Most people like big game. I dont like taking alot of time for one animal. I go in to a woods and get 4 squirrels in 2 hours in the right condition. And yes i do have patients.

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glad people have opions. didnt mean to sound mean. Ive posted stuff on other fourmsto support hunting and they act like its a joke. Glad i found some hunters

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First off, no one was labeling anyone, I've got no idea where you got that idea from. Secondly, don't put words in my [or anyone else here's] mouth. No one called you a little kid. No one said you weren't a hunter. No one said small game hunting wasn't sporting.

Yes, I have a dog. Yes, I raised him [and trained him myself] from a pup. Yes, I enjoy watching him work a field for pheasants or a lake, pond, or river for ducks and geese. Just because I enjoy hunting big game more than I do rabbits doesn't mean I don't also enjoy other aspects of our sport.

I'm 17, not only do I go to school full time I work part time too. My days are taken up with school and my evenings are taken with work. I get to hunt on the weekends and a week that I take off every year specifically for big game hunting. I don't have all the time in the world to hunt, I enjoy it when I can, and I would much rather spend what time I do get chasing something that will fill my freezer for a solid month or two rather than something that's going to fill a plate for an evening.

First impressions are everything, and so far you haven't made a very good one with me.

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Just because he does not have the same opinions as you, you don't like him? Just because the animal is bigger and harder to hunt doesn't make it more fun.

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You should know better than that Zak. The tone someone uses when they write or type something can generally say a lot about a person. I dislike him [so far] because he has assumed too much and put words in my mouth. That's not something you do with me without being called-out for it.

And also, as side note Zak, you're one to talk about opinions. How often do you give people a hard time on here (sarcastic or not) about bowhunting being a better sport than rifle hunting? Just because one sport is more difficult than the other doesn't make it better. :eek:

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People, people! Oppinions and first impressions dont matter on the internet. C'mon.

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I do not remember saying that bowhunting was better than gun hunting. Imay havegiven a few hints, butI was just messing around.I have never put down another hunter because of the weapon he uses. The difference between my post and your post is one of them is meant as a joke, and the other is not.

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Whatever Zak, I'm not arguing about it. I said the kid was making a bad first impression with me because of the way he came across in his post, you decided to create something out of it. If you want to go ahead and keep it up, feel free, but I'm not arguing about it.

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I'll take you up on your offer.

I think it's funny how you say I decided to create something out of it, when you did also. If you wanted to answer the ''question'' then all you had to say was, "I hunt small game, but I prefer big game." You don't need to say that he is not hunting big game the right way. That right there is starting something.

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Ok fine, you want to argue and debate, we'll go for it.

Point the part that I made bold out. I said he must not have ever been on a good big game hunt if he got a bigger rush out of shooting rabbits and squirells than he did big game. I never said he hunted the wrong way.

I also mentioned the fact that I enjoy big game hunting more than I do small game hunting, though I participate in both, answering his question.

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why did u make the comments you did wwho cares if he gets the same amount of rush shooting cotton tails as you do shooting whitetails
washington dont be soo negative

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Why did I? Go back and look at his original post, in it he stated that when hunting deer all you did was sit and wait and hope then aim and shoot. Something along those lines anyhow. There was no negativity in my original post, I was stating the fact that there is generally a larger rush when hunting big game than small game, thus the reason I enjoy hunting big game more.

Heaven forbid someone elaborate on a post more than one or two sentences. :eek:

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i read the whole ppost...twice and he said he did shoot at a deer ... and did not make a clean shot..
maybe he is afraid to miss again
sitting stalking and drives he said hes done what else is there to do
maybe as he gets older hell learn to apreciate just sitting and "waiting"..like i

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I should have said implied, not said.

You've obviously never been on a good whitetail hunt then, or any good big game hunt for that matter. There is so much more to it than just sitting, waiting, aiming, and shooting.

When I read over that, it sounded like you meant he was hunting the wrong way, because big game hunting should be fun. That isjust what happens tomessages on the internet; they are misunderstood.

As for the fighting- it's not going to solve anything, so why should I continue? And bowhunting is better than rifle hunting! :DJust kidding about that of course.

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I am a Big Game hunter.

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I generally hunt big game but if I ever see a small game animal I usually shoot it. So you can't really call it small game hunting, more small game shooting, lol. Like Dan said, I get a bit more of a rush shooting a big game. Buck fever makes me tremble more when I'm about to shoot a buck or bull then shooting a squirrel or rabbit. Just doesn't excite me as much I guess.

Hunting with hounds sure is fun though. Before they outlawed much of it here in Washington my dad and I used to hunt bobcats quite a bit. I get excited with that just by listening to the race.

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im sorry i ever posted this. Washingot im sorry i came across that way. I have become very offensive from having to listen to peoples alot. Yes i do get abigger rush form big game. And allseasonhunter7 please do not call mea kid. Your still in schooland cant be much older than me. I am the youngest in my family and extended family. I have been labeled little to long, and still get treated like a kid by my older friends.Plese do not implie when i grow up. The truth is for deer i do take my time. i sit in 2 foot of snow untill i cant fell my feet. I Find a very good spot for deer and sit. So lets all quit being so hasty.

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you be quiet i never said you were kid

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I'm locking this topic due to flaming.