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Ernie Bishop
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What animals do you intend to hunt in the upcoming hunting seasons?
Ernie Bishop
Senior MemberPosts: 7,570 Senior Member
I just applied for buck and doe antelope, and mule deer (buck) recently. I will pick a general elk permit in the future. I also plan to hunt blacktail deer with a friend, if the circumstances allow. Hopefully, after the first of the year, I can make a trip to Texas and hunt with some friends as well.
What hunting plans do you guys have in mind?
Weapons you intend to use?
Ernie
"The Un-Tactical"
"The Un-Tactical"
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Dove may or may not happen. There's enthusiasm for shooting them, but not really eating them. It's usually hot as a furnace around here during the opener. My primary hunting buddy (Pop) has hand issues that impose limitations for running a pump action, but the only shotguns in either of our collections compatible with California's non-lead shot requirements are pumps. The classics are NOT getting steel and bismuth is expensive. SOOOOOOOOOO. . .fates conspiring against it.
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
Makers Mark.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Pigs
Dove
Ground Squirrel
Rats
Mice
Tarantulas
Scorpions
Aardvark
Wombat
Hedgehog
Etc.
"The Un-Tactical"
"The Un-Tactical"
"The Un-Tactical"
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
Weapons you will use?
"The Un-Tactical"
Alone, could be 300BO AR, or one of my 2 Grendels.
With the wife, 223 AR, OR if I ever get it back, my Ruger 77R that's being transformed into a 77R-INT in 7x57
It is nice to see a diversity of weapons
"The Un-Tactical"
Antelope (my favorite thing to hunt) numbers are way down, and pdogs have been scarce since the plague wiped most of them out 10 years ago.
For all of you guys dreaming of a Colorado hunt.....truth is, it's pretty much sucky.
Mike
N454casull
"The Un-Tactical"
something just occurred to me regarding the paucity of antelope where we used to hunt. If you recall, which I'm sure you do, we saw goats the last time you and I hunted together, but they were always way off and running like crazy, and we really couldn't see a reason for that. Maybe my memory is faulty, but I don't recall seeing any more hunters than usual that day.
What I also recall are those two big coyotes. They did not seem the least bit disturbed by us, even though we were within easy shooting distance. They just stopped and looked at us as if we were part of the landscape.
When you took Luis out there, it was pretty much the same, and he did kill a coyote.
See where I'm going with this? I have to wonder if the coyote population had grown to the point they were doing some serious damage to the goat population. It might be worthwhile to check with the folks you know out there to see if they are noticing this, or even talking to someone in fish and game.
Heck, maybe the decimation of the prairie dog population is a factor. If it is a predator/prey thing, it's just a matter of time until the predators run out of prey, and the pendulum will swing the other way.
Just a thought.
Gun control laws make about as much sense as taking ex-lax to cure a cough.
N454casull
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
"Nothing is safe from stupid." - Zee
"The Un-Tactical"
When I was a really young kid, my Dad once made dove-breasts and dumplings instead of chicken and dumplings. (I'm from the South....dumplings are flat, not round doughy gooey balls of flour mud like they make in the Yankee states. My wife's from Iowa and we have differing opinions on what constitutes a proper dumpling. I won't eat hers and she won't eat mine. Therefore....we don't have dumplings at my house). That was pretty darned good as I recall.
Mike
N454casull
Mike
N454casull
"The Un-Tactical"
It might be a texture thing. I've not quit gagging long enough to figure it out.
Kinda reminds me of eating paste in kindergarten, except with lumps and slimey liquid.
Mike
N454casull
Matzo ball soup? I'll eat the cat first.
Mike
N454casull