How many animals do you hunt in a year?

[jtevanMT]

I hunt the following on public land every year.
Bull Elk
WT or Mule Deer
Antelope (most years depending on draw)
Turkey
Bear

I apply for the following draw hunts.
Moose (have drawn this once)
Mountain Goat
Bighorn sheep
Bison

 

[Pookie]

I generally try and get to the coast 4-5 times a year. With work this year I might get to go 3 times. If I want to watch a pretty sunrise I’ll go to the lake down from the house if I don’t have anything else going on.

 

[WRO]

The kids are an extension of my hunts now..


Between tags and helping others

Every year is:

Antelope

Deer (muleys, sometimes whitetails)

Elk - mostly bulls

Moose - about every other year shiras locally (4 bulls in the last 4 years 1 mine)

Sheep (every other year with someone, haven’t drawn a tag personally yet)

Mtn goat - this year another tag in 2028

Oryx - every other year, I’ve had 1 tag so far

Bison- this year (2 dad and mine)

Average year is 4 big game animals personally, best year was 10 worst was 2 in the last decade) and 12 that I’m a part of between friends and family.

Quail, Huns, chukars, grouse, and the occasional pheasant every year.


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[Jack321]

I live east of the Mississippi, so for me

Every Year:
Doves
Geese
Ducks
Turkey
Pheasant
Whitetail
Prairie Dogs

Then I'll do a "bucket list hunt" somewhere. Ive done:
One black bear hunt (successful)
Two elk hunts (1 for 2)
Three antelope (2 for 3)
One muley (0 for 1)
One hog (Successful)
Argentina Dove (shot 1200+)
Cranes (3 days, 3 limits)

I'm not a, "I do this hunt with this outfitt/place every year," kinda guy.

I got too many things I want to hunt outside my home and only so much time this side of the grass to do them. So time, money and preference points are what I consider to do as many as I can.

 

[ssimo]

I’ve hunted them specifically a lot. They’re extremely difficult to kill by traditional methods. There’s a reason our predecessors used poison to get rid of them originally. Almost no one consistently kills wolves recreationally.

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I imagine is difficult also cause they are not spread around and, if you don’t find the whole pack, you don’t see any. They have also huge hunting areas so they are not easy to find without intel

 

[ssimo]

Generally speaking;
Mule deer
Whitetail deer
Blacktail deer
Bull and cow Elk
Wild pigs
Antelope

Haven’t drawn a Moose but if I decide to make the trek to Canada or Alaska it’ll be for Moose, Caribou and Brown or Grizzly bear.

Since I’m in the “old” man category I usually keep it pretty close to camp or the vehicle. Mostly my hunting is with my grandkids now and I let them do the work part.

You are a lucky man having such a family

 

[coyotekilla]

So im from the Pennsylvania, only hunt Pennsylvania, for reference this state is 119k square kilometers.
I buy a resident license which let's me hunt whitetail buck, spring and fall turkey, small game, & coyote. I add fur bearer, that adds fox, coon, and the other little critters. Its also the license trappers need but I don't trap, just use rifles. I also buy a bobcat & black bear tag, and a doe (whitetail) tag for whatever block I'll be hunting.

As for what i kill, sometimes i get a buck, not every year, I've been kinda picky with an 8 already on the wall. Doe fill the freezer, they arnt hard to get. I don't hunt turkey cause I don't want to eat turkey. Coyote I target, 37 the year before last, 41 last year. Didn't fill my bobcat tag this year, did last year. Have yet to fill a bear tag. Fox, coon, skunk, possum don't get counted.

Private ground 99% of the time. Very rarely am I supervised by the landowners. I hunt about 20k acres of land, mostly at night, mostly for coyote. If I get 1, or see something that I feel the landowner needs aware of, then I bother them. Last year I found a beef cow who was down and almost dead being a prime example.

Here is 1 of last year's coyotes.

 

[ssimo]

That’s not necessarily the case private land. Lots of great fair chase hunts on private land.

Between big game, small game (waterfowl, upland birds, etc), and spring turkey, just in my home state I could hunt September through May.

Sounds good. We have two main hunting periods (wild boars all year round). January to march for females and small ones, may to september for roe males. In november actually we can also hunt (red deer and fallow deer)

 

[Dbevans]

Last year I harvested 15 caribou, 2 brown bears, a moose, hundreds of ptarmigan, a few porcupines, a few lynx, many red foxes and a ton of water fowl


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[ssimo]

Elk, mule deer, black bears, mountain lions, grouse, turkey, marmots, prairie dogs, coyotes. This is generally every year.

Every couple of years its moose, Dall sheep and caribou.

When I get a tag I’ll add antelope.

Hunting mountain lions must be a crazy experience. How do you hunt them?

 

[ssimo]

All of them that I have a tag for, usually:
Bull elk (spike only)
mule deer
whitetail deer
lion
bear
coyote

Sometimes:
Cow elk
cow moose

And maybe sometime:
bull moose
sheep
Branched bull elk

Do you have specialized rifles for coyote?

 

[ssimo]

The kids are an extension of my hunts now..


Between tags and helping others

Every year is:

Antelope

Deer (muleys, sometimes whitetails)

Elk - mostly bulls

Moose - about every other year shiras locally (4 bulls in the last 4 years 1 mine)

Sheep (every other year with someone, haven’t drawn a tag personally yet)

Mtn goat - this year another tag in 2028

Oryx - every other year, I’ve had 1 tag so far

Bison- this year (2 dad and mine)

Average year is 4 big game animals personally, best year was 10 worst was 2 in the last decade) and 12 that I’m a part of between friends and family.

Quail, Huns, chukars, grouse, and the occasional pheasant every year.


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That’s a good amount of meat, enough for all
The pack ahah

Best year was 27 for me (16 roes including 7 males, the rest were wild boars and one fallow deer) then i was single and things became a bit more complicated XD

 

[ssimo]

I live east of the Mississippi, so for me

Every Year:
Doves
Geese
Ducks
Turkey
Pheasant
Whitetail
Prairie Dogs

Then I'll do a "bucket list hunt" somewhere. Ive done:
One black bear hunt (successful)
Two elk hunts (1 for 2)
Three antelope (2 for 3)
One muley (0 for 1)
One hog (Successful)
Argentina Dove (shot 1200+)
Cranes (3 days, 3 limits)

I'm not a, "I do this hunt with this outfitt/place every year," kinda guy.

I got too many things I want to hunt outside my home and only so much time this side of the grass to do them. So time, money and preference points are what I consider to do as many as I can.

That’s a very nice approach in my opinion. I hunt more in my hills and swamps but i want to hunt chamois in the future. I will definitely hunt in north america too, soon or late

 

[ssimo]

So im from the Pennsylvania, only hunt Pennsylvania, for reference this state is 119k square kilometers.
I buy a resident license which let's me hunt whitetail buck, spring and fall turkey, small game, & coyote. I add fur bearer, that adds fox, coon, and the other little critters. Its also the license trappers need but I don't trap, just use rifles. I also buy a bobcat & black bear tag, and a doe (whitetail) tag for whatever block I'll be hunting.

As for what i kill, sometimes i get a buck, not every year, I've been kinda picky with an 8 already on the wall. Doe fill the freezer, they arnt hard to get. I don't hunt turkey cause I don't want to eat turkey. Coyote I target, 37 the year before last, 41 last year. Didn't fill my bobcat tag this year, did last year. Have yet to fill a bear tag. Fox, coon, skunk, possum don't get counted.

Private ground 99% of the time. Very rarely am I supervised by the landowners. I hunt about 20k acres of land, mostly at night, mostly for coyote. If I get 1, or see something that I feel the landowner needs aware of, then I bother them. Last year I found a beef cow who was down and almost dead being a prime example.

Here is 1 of last year's coyotes.

How can you kill 41 yotes? Are there so many?

That’s very cool, you must be very experienced at this pace!

 

[ssimo]

Last year I harvested 15 caribou, 2 brown bears, a moose, hundreds of ptarmigan, a few porcupines, a few lynx, many red foxes and a ton of water fowl


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So you didn’t have to get a tag for each one of those caribous?

 

[ssimo]

I hunt the following on public land every year.
Bull Elk
WT or Mule Deer
Antelope (most years depending on draw)
Turkey
Bear

I apply for the following draw hunts.
Moose (have drawn this once)
Mountain Goat
Bighorn sheep
Bison

which caliber do you hunt Bisons with?

 

[Flswamprat]

Hi guys, as you can understand from my bad english i am not american. I always read your threads and i really like your way of hunting, much more than the rigid dogmatic way of central europe. In my country, Italy, we are lucky. Hunting is strictly regulated but you still have some freedom of movement after you survive to all the damned burocracy. And we can hunt basically as many animals as we want in two specific periods of the year on public land.

So i am curious about how many animals you kill each year and of which species on public land. I speak of public land because i assume most private land hunt are a joke like here in Italy, where basically the owner points you the deer and almost squeeze the trigger for you

Edit: i like your hunting style so much (and without knowing it, i found out that is very similar to mine) that I will participate to a shoot to hunt class in the future if i manage to (trying to organize at the moment being on the other side of the planet!)

For me in Florida - Whitetail, Hogs, Turkeys, ducks and alligators depending on draws.

 

[ssimo]

For me in Florida - Whitetail, Hogs, Turkeys, ducks and alligators depending on draws.

How do you hunt allogators? Do you eat them?

 

[EastHumboldt]

Hunting mountain lions must be a crazy experience. How do you hunt them?

For lions, Most people use dogs, chase and tree the cat, then shoot it. Very seldom see one just walking around, as they tend to be somewhat nocturnal and shy. Never done it myself, or any other guided hunt.

Every US state has different hunting regs and tag quotas. I live in Nevada, where all big game species tags are given out through a lottery. Bull elk tags are very tight. If you kill one you can’t even apply again for seven years. I usually put in for mule deer, cow elk, spike elk, and antelope. There’s a lot of competition and a points system. I haven’t drawn any kind of big game tag the two previous seasons. (See my avatar ).

My son and brother both put in for similar tags every year so if anyone draws one we all go. We usually do a wilderness drop camp, where an outfitter drops our camping gear and supplies (all of which we provide) at a pre arranged location, and we hunt from our base camp for a week or two, then he comes and gets us. It’s a big adventure for us and a real family bonding ritual.

 

[Maverick1]

Whatever I can get a tag for. Elk. Deer. Bear. Moose. Every year is different.