What would you do?

[SSSTaxidermy]

If you were limited to hunting ONE SEASON ONLY, whether it be; waterfowl, upland, deer, bear, moose, small game, out of state big game, etc…Bow, gun, muzzy…What would you do? And why?

[fishn4kids]

Archery deer. Its, more of a challenge and thats what its all about for me. The thrill of the challenge and the hunt. I've tried the whole rifle hunting thing and there just wasn't enough challenge for me. Sorry rifle and shot gun hunters but I just don't see the point in shooting a deer at 200 yards. Gotta love the challenge and the fact that you can watch your arrow hit its mark.

Duane

[prechlerker]

Shot gun hunting for deer.We hunt 96acres and got a trailer there.My grandpa,dad,uncle,brother,and friend of my dads since he was a little kid.Some of the best moments ever.Hopefully I will be bring my kids with someday.

[surewood]

I tried but I can't decide between bowhunting and waterfowl. But it does look like there is more of a future for bowhunting.

[ANYFISH]

Archery Deer- just something about being to spend so much time in the solitude of the woods. I see things I have never seen rifle hunting, so much more wildlife behavior! I absolutly love bow hunting.

[coop09]

ROOOOSTERRRRR!!!!!!!!

[Neighbor_guy]

Archery deer. Sept 15 - Dec. 31. Thats a lot of hunting

[goblueM]

yeah ROOSTER! Far and away my favorite, chasin Mr. Phez. Long season too

[Eric Wettschreck]

Hands down, no questions asked, this is an easy one. Waterfowl.

Nothing beats the sight of mallards coming in with their landing gear down while it's cold, raining, and you're hungry.

[Pyrex]

Gotta go for the rooties, I love watching the dog work. I sure hope it would never come down to picking though, It makes me sad just thinking about it.

[hanso612]

Crashing cover for grouse is a young man's game and walking trails at dusk, breathing in the sweat smells of summers decay is peacefull but not action filled enough to be my only.

Driving deer is heart pounding and filled with tradtion-but the season is too short and the pace to hecktick to recharge a man.

That feeling you get- when all the work of getting to the slew,launching the rig, loading the gear, praying your spot is open and finding it is, keeping the dogs calm and quiet as you set the decoys, finally tucking into your blind and doning the camo on your steaming body, getting the shells out, uncasing the gun, and weighting. That 5 minute weight just as the morning sky gets it's first hint of light, the flutter of coots as they run by, the first pass of woodies, and the blackbirds starting to stir- is the pinacle moment for me. Deer hunters know this feelling as they load the gun silently in the stand and zip there jacket up tight and just sit. Goose hunters in pits and fields feel it to as they look out that little slit with palpable anticipation. Turkey guys found a way to feel it it in the spring too and for that I am geleous.

This utter calm overriding the trembling of things to come is the world coming alive. It's as if the hole globe made a cavernous almost inaudible rumble as it started to turn each day, but you could feel it under your feet, mostly in your belly, but all the way back to your roots.

Pheasnt hunters who have been lucky enough to cross the Missouri breaks at dawn,crest the western bluff with the sun at their back, and have seen the flat light turn the sea of grass before them a golden color unequaled in nature only by their quarry- know this feeling too. No where else on earth do I feel so much like I am on a rumbling globe that is moving, waking, coming alive.

So I'm with Pyrex on this, there is tremendous sadness thinking of leaving any of it behind. Hans

[BoxMN]

 Originally Posted By: boilerguy

Hands down, no questions asked, this is an easy one. Waterfowl.

Nothing beats the sight of mallards coming in with their landing gear down while it's cold, raining, and you're hungry.

Ditto. cept I like divers better

[tybo]

Grouse, my dog would destroy the house if he never went again.

[tedl]

 Originally Posted By: Neighbor_guy

Archery deer. Sept 15 - Dec. 31. Thats a lot of hunting

[bigbucks]

I'd really miss the comradarie of firearm season if I had to choose & the thrill of all the shots that start at first light or a little before... I'd still have to say that bowhunting whitetails is my #1 outdoor passion. The long season's definitely a big part of that & being able to hunt so many spots you just couldn't get to during gun season. The bottom line is that I've never felt as big a rush as sticking a deer with the bow & then when they crash in view or you see how hard hit they are & you hear them crash in the brush.

[bowhunters]

bowhunting deer all the way

[Hammer Handle]

One? That is tough.

Either archery deer or waterfowl.

I can archery deer during the rifle season too witht he family.

[walleyes12]

I will probably be a loner on this one but I would choose Coyotes!! Gotta love the challenge and the adreneline rush watching a Coyote coming across the prairie to your calls!!

[SDbowhunter]

Thats a tough one... Probably have to pick my first love of Bowhunting... But I do have a new found love of chasing the pheasants. I know which one my dog would choose.

[charliepete2]

I'd pick upland hunting. I can be in the woods from September 15th - Jan 31st. If I didn't have dogs it would be archery deer for sure.

[archerystud]

I think my user id and avatar speak for themselves

[SnoManX]

Definitely be sitting in the stand with the bow!

[stretch]

It would definitely be waterfowl. I love the early season honkers to the late season greenheads and honkers in the field and even the spring migration for snows. Nothing gets better that in my eyes and also me dog would just freak out if we didn't waterfowl hunt anymore

[Jarrod32]

Living where I live, I would have to take pheasant. Waterfowl is a close second, though. Of course, there are plenty of places where you can hunt both at the same time...

Same season, same gun, same place...does the choice presented in this thread limit me to shooting only one kind of bird?

[BLACKJACK]

I love deer hunting but if I had to choose, it would be pheasant hunting!!! Love the flush of that cackling, gaudy rooster!!! Love the excitement of my Labs!!! Love hunting and exploring new territory and finding roosters!! I've always said, when I die and goto he!! I'll be hunting behind a young male lab that is constantly busting birds at 80 yards!!! But if I'm lucky and goto heaven I'll be hunting behind an old female lab that hunts at 20 yards and we'll be flushing birds for eternity!!