I grew up hunting and still love it. I hunt dove and then mostly quail. My love for this is tied a lot to my many bird dogs over the years. The act of training a dog to point and retrieve and then hunting with them gives a special feeling.

I also hunt rabbits a couple of times a year with my brother and his beagles. I do not deer hunt but eat plenty of venison that my friend provide.

Question:
How many of you hunt?

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Grew up hunting upland game (Pheasant, quail, woodcock, turkey, etc...)

Now I have an annual deer hunt in Nebraska and raising my kids to do the same.

I also grew up in a hunting family, and I still do it every year.

Although I have stopped waterfowl hunting since I no longer like to eat them.

Already have my out of state tags sent in, and just waiting on the draw results...

Down to just deer now.

I mainly hunt hogs, once or twice a year.

I've been deer hunting a few times, and duck and quail hunting once each.

While I love to hunt anything, my real passion is for deer and other big game. Haven't gotten to do as much hunting as I would like these last few years.

I did not grow up hunting. However, my wife;s uncle loves to hunt. He raises llamas to take on pack trips for deer and elk season. He currently has about 12 llamas or so. We usually take about 8 llamas on the annual elk hunt. We go to a wilderness area so no motorized vehicles are allowed. I've never seen another hunter as far back as we go. I left my GPS on the entire time 3 years ago. We did 42 miles on foot in 6 days.

I'd probably go during deer season if I had more vacation time.

I shoot feral hogs whenever I see them, but I wouldn't classify it as hunting. more like killing cockroaches.

You name it, I'll hunt it. Mostly bird hunting (doves, waterfowl, quail, pheasant) and deer hunting. We kill the occasional rabbits, hogs, and turkeys, as well. And I have a soft spot for small game hunting that I can't wait to introduce my boys to. I have such great memories of squirrel hunting when I was younger but I don't do it much anymore.

I love following dogs around looking for quail, but if I had to just pick one thing to do forever, it'd be dove hunting. I love all of the social aspects of the hunt, to go along with the challenging wing shooting.

I have, mostly deer, but I suck at it.

It wasn't something I grew up doing. Dad and brothers didn't hunt for a few reasons but mostly because game was scarce at that time in central Michigan. The odd pheasant, maybe a rabbit if you were lucky.

So lack of experience, lack of practice, lack of knowledge and now advancing age, stiffness, inability to sit for more than a few minutes without moving to relieve stiffness and pain, inability to get through the woods quietly just makes it pretty pointless these days.

Daughter and grandson are all over hunting and fishing and pretty darn good at both. Daughter has taken turkey and black bear, been skunked on deer so far but really getting after it both gun and bow seasons. She's also right into fishing.

I've done a little fishing and had fun when the perch were biting. Enjoyed a day on the ice and caught a couple of nice ones, but the "catch and release" thing doesn't interest me. The couple of times I went out with friends to do that all I could think of was all the stuff I could be getting done if I wasn't sitting on my ass wasting time in a boat.

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Originally posted by arfmel:
I shoot feral hogs whenever I see them, but I wouldn't classify it as hunting. more like killing cockroaches.

I'm the same way with foxes and porcupines.

I hunt doves every year, and often waterfowl as well.

I am not a big game hunter. Not for any particular reason other than it is a greater time and money commitment.

I grew up hunting, did it most of my life, taught my kids to hunt, hunted everything available in my state, birds, small game, deer, hogs, now due to arthritis a can no longer hunt. Well I could hunt but due to my hands and lack of hand strength I can't do the stuff that is required after the kill. In the past I processed my own deer, I had access to a walk in cooler, I would age deer for a week or two hide on, skin it, cut the meat off the carcass, break down the cuts to cooking size portions, etc. now I could still kill a deer, but the rest of the process can not do. Same for fishing. My left hand can just barely handle 5 pounds and that for only a short time, right hand is better but no by much. Getting old sucks!!

Never been bird hunting.
Used to deer hunt every year; actual got an elk one year.

Great experience, but expensive elk meat. Must have cost close to $100,000......in 15 years of 'elk pursuit' I wore out 2 campers & 3 pick ups & changed rifles 3 times.....

Ok, ok.....just got too geezered up to continue my joyful excursions into the awesome outback to bear the concerns of 'what if I actually get another one?'

Been hunting rabbit, grouse, turkey, duck & deer for over 40 years now.

Also tried my hand at Chukar hunting in Oregon which was a whole lot of work for very little reward.

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I hunt doves every year, and often waterfowl as well.

I am not a big game hunter. Not for any particular reason other than it is a greater time and money commitment.

We did not have deer or so little there was no hunting season where I grew up. So I never did it and later got so involved with wing shooting that I just never tried it,

Now it the same area they have huge number of deer. My brother who still lives there has hit two with his car in the last year.

I bowhunt for deer, hogs and turkeys and enjoy wingshooting as well. These days I am mostly a guide for my 10 and 13 year old boys but that suits me just fine.

I missed the window where I was of age and my dad would have taken me hunting. He fractured his leg around that age and never hunted again until I was out of the house and in the Marines. He's gone now and we never hunted together.

Once I got married and had a full time job, kids and responsibilities, I didn't have time for it.

I only recently got back into it and have been hunting for the last 6 years. I finally got my first deer in 2015 at the age of 42. I've resolved that I won't miss another season now until I can't hold up a rifle. By that time, I'll be driving the jeep so my kid(s) can hunt and traipse through the woods.

Tony.

I don't know if what I do/have done is actually hunting or not. I have shot varmints on the ranch. Rabid raccoons, groundhogs etc that were posing a threat to the horses or farming.

I don't much care for the experience of killing things. I have no problem the idea of hunting and I get how people like to hunt. My in-laws are avid duck hunters. I just don't really care for it.

Fishing on the other hand. But even there we catch and release about 99% of the time.

German Wirehaired Pointer owner here. I love watching a dog work. Unfortunately, we have very few pheasants anymore here in southern Michigan even though we manage our property for upland bird habitat. We are on the far north edge of quail range so quail hunting is pretty hit or miss. No dove hunting as the HSUS got it banned via referendum after one season.

Most of my hunting anymore is deer hunting which I can do out my back door. I have to travel 3 hours north to get into partridge or woodcock.

We do have ducks and geese but I'm not a big waterfowl hunter.