Hunting in July?
 

just wondering if anybody hunts in July and if so what is the game?

i hunt mostly dr pepper cans and ocasinally big black birds that get in the garden and sometimes armadillos at nite...charlie

Woodchucks.

Girls with loose morals in my single days. Now I hunt a place to take a nap.

I knew as soon as I hit the post button this was going to go south real fast :rotf:

I like to hunt Walleye

Varmints - crow, woodchuck, coyote and Tax collectors;-)

SNATTLERAKES!!!

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Last several years we've started Damage Control hunting deer for several local farmers if they get permits . Hopefully we'll have permits for 3 farms this year in the next two weeks !

Varmints of any kind. I have squirrels, raccoons, possums, ring-tailed cats, coyotes, bobcats & cougars crossing the property at any given time.

Clay pigeons, those ornery little things keep trying to fly away. Love it when the club has special import of "minis" on the "sporting clays" and "5 stand" courses. Funny here is AZ the season is open 365 days a year.

However if the "rifles" need some exercise a couple days "Prairie Doggone" fulls the need.

This is the first summer we have had my Jon boat and we have had a great time taking it for rides and trying to fish. Still looking forward to hunting season. It is so hot, the barrels on my gun get red hot after 25 rounds and that is Wednesday evening just before sundown.

Got this one with my Sterly 16 upgrade...In my backyard!

Mark: That big rattler could do some serious harm even through some protective wear. Hope your dogs know to stay away from them. He's a good snake now. Bob

No doubt Bob! Fact of life around here. Its a slow year if I dont kill 15-20 a year between the house, ranch and fishing cabin. Snake training dogs is a normal practice. This one was crossing the back yard when i was shooting the dummy out for the dogs.

I hope you don't waste those rattlers... they're awful good eating!

Dean,

You are right.....but skinning a rattler in 99 degree heat and 90% humidity ain't for the faint of heart! The meat spoils as fast as fish...and the smell of hot snake is not a favorite of mine. I catch a few at the ranch for snake training the dogs, and making a point with guests not used to the critters, then we give them to an outfit that milks the venom to produce anti-venom. We eat wild game or fish i catch nine out of ten meals here....and rattler once or twice a year is enough.....usually to impress a client or person that didnt grow up "outside"!

Double Cut wild hog loin chops tonight, with applesauce and wild ramps, asparagus and home grown tomatos........tough duty

Awww.... that's too bad :violin:................:rotf:

Second that....:)

John Folse has some rattler recipes in his game cook book.

I don't have any pics but back in the day I had the privilege to participate in a good old fashion Rat Killing. An old corn crib was being removed and literally hundreds of rats were trying to escape in every direction. The weapons of choice were either tobacco sticks or lengths of hose. An old terrier was taking his share as well. We did battle in the mid summer heat for an hour. That was 45 years ago but is a vivid memory to this day. We didn't have the Internet , video games, or computers in Kentucky. Thank god!

About 40yrs. ago me and my buddy used to go to the dump in a local suburb and slaughter rats. I mean hundreds a night. We used .22's, rifles and pistols, and shotguns. Every night at around 11pm. the local seafood house would bring mounds of crab shells and fish carcasses and dump them. We would wait 15min. or so then hit our headlights and they would be hundreds of rats swarming over that pile. You could'nt load fast enough. Now it's a "sanitary landfill" and all the rats have moved into the surrounding neighborhoods. Can you imagine doing that now? Not once were we bothered by the police as they realized we were actually doing a public service. I really miss that as there is nothing more satisfying to me than killing rats. I hate them.

I can pass shoot Mosquito's at my place in the Upper Peninsula.
Prairie dogs in Wyoming but that will wait until Labor Day

Dump rats are the best! We used to set up in a "hide" overlooking a small dump in our town and snipe them with scoped .22's. That was great training and more fun than a 16 yr old should be allowed to have.

I got him about 9:00 this evening. 50 yards with a Ruger 10/22 in one ear and out the other. Son of a biscuit was eating the deer corn.

Nice shot!

Thanks, in one ear & out the other

That saying just took on new meaning. I'm going to Las Vegas next week. I wonder what's in season out there

Hotel owners say "Gift horse" every time we walk through the doors.

Hookers !

I don't think that's a hard hunt. Just bring plenty of green folding bait....you the kind with pictures of dead presidents.

We pass the summer months with pork.Just really got hot in the past couple weeks but early morning and late afternoon are fine.
These were taken with a 44 lever gun.

Bob's hog operation is outstanding! We killed a couple on our trip in January and it was exhilarating!

No pun intended I would assume that most certainly NEEDS to be a "hard" hunt :rotf:

I suspect as far as the dead presidents are concerned the more you bring the better the quality of the uhm animal taken :rotf:

Those are just meat hogs they average 140lbs but get alot bigger.Its really just how the cards are dealt on a particular day.As the rains pick up daily the hogs will put on weight to a point but should stay fat til late summer.

I'm assuming you use the dogs to hunt the hogs? Never been hog hunting yet but it's on the list.

We offer the dog hunts as well as stand and stalking just depends on how much time the client wants to spend in the woods.

I've been hunting the whiskey bottle a little too much lately. Got to dry out starting this month and do some clay bird shooting to warm up for doves.

I've been on a few bang up barn pigeon shoots over the 4th of July weekend in years past. I don't fish much, so mostly I just piddle around waiting for hunting season to start.

Off on a road trip to Iowa this weekend hunting Boy Scout stuff for my collection. Does that count?

DLH

Groundhogs.