Favorite bird to hunt

[KurtR]

From SD and my favorite is hunting mallards in a cornfield with some standing water. Doesn't matter to me if the heavy rains came before or after corn harvest. Water and corn have made for some epic hunts!

One of the best two week stretches of my life was that exact scenario 10 years ago. Heavy october rain flooded a couple acres of corn. 1 spinner and 6 floaters and it was absolute gang busters as soon as the sun came up. Then it froze out. I think i cried a little bit

 

[Bama67]

Growing up in South Alabama, I loved turkey hunting, and it was pretty hard as lots of people did it.

Now I lived in North Idaho and I don't think I've met a person yet that turkey hunts.
The turkeys are also way less wary that Bama birds, my 8 year old has called in a tom just yelping with her mouth.

 

[Honyock]

Turkey in Oklahoma and pheasant in South Dakota.

 

[TheGreek]

Never understood why folks called those birds the king of upland birds though. I'd say near 60% of them are just barely smart enough to breath. I have killed them with rocks


Though you get a smart one in the brush and that is a good time.

Then you aren’t hunting them in the Great Lakes states.

 

[Dos XX]

Quail. All of them.

 

[Jack321]

I know they're "Sky carp," but geese!

Actually I'd say waterfowl (geese and ducks), but we shoot a 4:1 ratio of geese to ducks.

Ducks fly like they're on crack and can be hard to shoot, even when decoying because they dip and dive so fast. But I love the colors of their iridescent feathers and a game strap of green heads is tough to beat.

I could watch geese maple leaf all day. Love shooting decoying honkers. Watching them lock up a mile out and suck right into the kill hole or work a decoy spread with locked wings, feet down.

When it's snowing, raining, sleet, windy and nasty, I'm like a pig in mud. I love the grind and embrace "the suck." Non-waterfowlers and non-hunters think I'm absolutely insane when it's cold, windy, rainy and nasty and I'm out in a layout with a smile on my face, perfectly dry and content.

Setting deeks, hunkering down in a field or an a frame with a bunch of buddies, wind at your back, hearing the first honk of the day of the "scout bird." Or ducks dive bomb the spinner coming out of no where as it's zero-dark-thirty in the morning. Or that 1-2 minutes before shooting light you can hear the whistling wings above and see the ducks trying to land on the spinners as your checking your watch for official start of shooting time.

That and you're sharing experiences with people you enjoy, goofing around in the blinds and playing pranks on each other, chatting with buddies while it's slow.

Also enjoy scouting for birds and knowing if your on a hot field. Reading birds as they're flying, honking at them communicating with them and trying to trick them with flags, motion decoys and switching the spread if they don't "work" the way you want them to.

Hunting waterfowl with everything from field, ponds, boats, pits, layouts, a frames, trailer full of decoys, atvs, socks, silos, full bodies, spinners and everything in between.

I love it!

 

[BigDuckHunter]

That and you're sharing experiences with people you enjoy, goofing around in the blinds and playing pranks on each other, chatting with buddies while it's slow.

That’s my favorite part of waterfowl hunting. Nothing better than hanging out in the blind on a miserable day with some buddies.

That and watching my dog work.

 

[RocketRob16]

Turkeys for me. The birds in my area are few and highly pressured. Makes it into a chess match. I’ve had more heartbreak chasing turkeys and that has made the highs so much sweeter.

Dove is just a great time with a big group of guys, no pressure, tons of action. Lots of fun but only 2-3 hunts per year for me.

 

[JDT1982]

Wild Bobwhite Quail over pointers.

 

[Johnson27]

Turkey in the spring with a shotgun and archery in the fall.

 

[chemist]

I grew up in Missouri and shot turkey, quail and woodcock there. Hunted bobs in Oklahoma and pheasant in South Dakota. Lived in arizona for a spell and now live in washington with two species of quail, three species of grouse, plus chukar, huns and pheasant. I have shot waterfowl along the way.

At the end of the day, I don't have a strong preference on species as long as my dog points it.

 

[Mr.Ktm]

Grouse for me

 

[KurtR]

I know they're "Sky carp," but geese!

Actually I'd say waterfowl (geese and ducks), but we shoot a 4:1 ratio of geese to ducks.

Ducks fly like they're on crack and can be hard to shoot, even when decoying because they dip and dive so fast. But I love the colors of their iridescent feathers and a game strap of green heads is tough to beat.

I could watch geese maple leaf all day. Love shooting decoying honkers. Watching them lock up a mile out and suck right into the kill hole or work a decoy spread with locked wings, feet down.

When it's snowing, raining, sleet, windy and nasty, I'm like a pig in mud. I love the grind and embrace "the suck." Non-waterfowlers and non-hunters think I'm absolutely insane when it's cold, windy, rainy and nasty and I'm out in a layout with a smile on my face, perfectly dry and content.

Setting deeks, hunkering down in a field or an a frame with a bunch of buddies, wind at your back, hearing the first honk of the day of the "scout bird." Or ducks dive bomb the spinner coming out of no where as it's zero-dark-thirty in the morning. Or that 1-2 minutes before shooting light you can hear the whistling wings above and see the ducks trying to land on the spinners as your checking your watch for official start of shooting time.

That and you're sharing experiences with people you enjoy, goofing around in the blinds and playing pranks on each other, chatting with buddies while it's slow.

Also enjoy scouting for birds and knowing if your on a hot field. Reading birds as they're flying, honking at them communicating with them and trying to trick them with flags, motion decoys and switching the spread if they don't "work" the way you want them to.

Hunting waterfowl with everything from field, ponds, boats, pits, layouts, a frames, trailer full of decoys, atvs, socks, silos, full bodies, spinners and everything in between.

I love it!

Out driving around scouting and cutting it up with buddies is one thing I really enjoy. When you find that hot feed the excitement everyone has for then next morning is fun.

 

[cmahoney]

Chukar

Nevada


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[cacklercrazy]

Cacklers , taverners more specifically. They can be a challenge but when it goes right it’s awesome.

Fun to shoot,but not as fun to call in as specks or honkers

 

[SwampBone]

Pheasants in the midwest. Ptarmigan in AK. Chasing pheasants behind a bird dog is something I could never get tired of. Favorite bird to eat would be a fat cornish cross.