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Crafty Critters....what is the hardest one to hunt?

RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
edited October 2001 in General Discussion
In your experience, what is the most difficult North American game bird/animal to hunt factoring in eyesight, sense of smell, and hearing?
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  • metzmetz Member Posts: 121 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Turkeys and Honkers have always been the hardest for me. I have perfetcted my technique on all the others. Those two dang birds are tough. I am getting turkeys down, but a migratory (I have tasted the "other")honker has always eluded me. Ofcourse I'm not a shotgun guy. I guess bears are a good challenge and a man is never to be underestimated.Andy
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  • WyomingSwedeWyomingSwede Member Posts: 402 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Gotta go with elk.....can you imagine a 1000 lb animal with the hearing of a owl, eyesight of an eagle, nose of a bloodhound, and can move up and over the vertical slopes with the speed it does??? Plus you have to hunt it on its own turf...beware all you flatlanders...elk has a magic all its own...and its addictive. ..regards swede
    WyomingSwede
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  • ysacresysacres Member Posts: 294 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Good point swedeI'll be diffrent and say cougars, without hounds they are impossible hunt.
    Ruger-Remington-RULE THE ROOST
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  • DaRoostaDaRoosta Member Posts: 270 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Elk and cougars are tough, but there's one out there that they won't even give me a tag for...the elusive...and ever-dangerous...
    SASQUATCH
    I ask when I buy my tags if it's a controlled hunt...but, only if it's a girl working at the counter. Kind of fun, you guys should try it sometime. It's just funny watching them search for it in the computer.
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  • will270winwill270win Member Posts: 4,845
    edited November -1
    Eastern turkeys. They is a little smarter than I.
    If you run, you'll just die tired!
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  • legn4legn4 Member Posts: 481 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Turkeys ! But could be rabbits also, you see in my area they are gone.
    Work'n like a dog all nite
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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Democrats.
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  • RembrandtRembrandt Member Posts: 4,486 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The spookiest animals I ever tried to get close to were Antelope (eye sight equals 8X binoculars) during the mid day,.....Aaudad Sheep, where every critter in the herd has their eyes on the lookout for each other, like hunting something with 20 eyes on watch,......and older mature Whitetail bucks, not the dumb 3-4 year olds, but the sly old boys with some experience that have to be hunted like a totally separate species....
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  • wiredogwiredog Member Posts: 116 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    here in missouri it's turkey's (gobbler's) in the spring for me. bagged my first spring of 2001. I am 30 and have hunted since I was a kid. No problem killing them in the fall, just spring. maybe it's because I sound like an old dead animal trying to call them.
    I spent all my money on guns, women, and beer. The rest I just wasted.wiredog70@hotmail.com[This message has been edited by wiredog (edited 10-03-2001).]
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  • Ronald J. SnowRonald J. Snow Member Posts: 1,346 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The bobcat. Years ago we hunted them with dogs and that was easy compared to trying to get they without a dog. Have done it both ways. How many of you have ever seen a bobcat while hunting?
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  • cpermdcpermd Member Posts: 5,273 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    ElkWolfBobcatTurkey
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  • varmit huntervarmit hunter Member Posts: 1,674 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Have called in elk.mounton lion,bobcat,red and gray fox,plus turkey.got to go with the coyote as the hardest.Just luckey there is so many.
    A unarmed man is a subject.A armed man is a citizen.
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  • thesupermonkeythesupermonkey Member Posts: 3,905 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Humans...
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  • TRIGGERSGHOSTTRIGGERSGHOST Member Posts: 59 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    SteelheadTroutCatfishBig Mouth BassDead Horse Walking
    Remember everybody looks good 5 minutes before the bar closes.
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  • TRIGGERSGHOSTTRIGGERSGHOST Member Posts: 59 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    SteelheadTroutCatfishBig Mouth BassDead Horse Walking
    Remember everybody looks good 5 minutes before the bar closes.
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  • shaneshane Member Posts: 882 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Back when I hunted them, girls!!!!!!!!It was hell finding one that liked the outdoors as much as I do, so when I finally treed one I didn't let her go!!
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