Combination hunters

onpoint

onpoint

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How many of you hunt multi species at the same time?

I hunt just about anything legal whenever I'm in the field. Be it pheasants, ducks, geese, rabbits, squirrel's, Ruff Grouse...you name it. I like eating all types of wild game and I'm looking to harvest as table fair all of them. All on the same hunt/walk in the field/woods

how about yourselves?
 
I do the same--with the pheasant season starting next Sat. I'll be after pheasnat,grouse--sharpetails--, huns and also ducks and geese.
 
It depends on the area. I've often hunted ducks 1/2 before sunrise then go for the pheasants within the same area. If I come across squirrels and rabbits I'll take those too. It's all food to me.

I like mixed bags:thumbsup:
 
Anything on the wing for me. I have never shot a rabbit or a squirrel and don't intend to. It doesn't interest me to eat them.

My springer Ellie has caught a few rabbits when pheasant hunting but I make her let them go.
 
I enjoy mixed bag hunts most of all.
I have a particular spot that I love to hunt here in Colorado that can yield ducks, pheasants, quail and other small game.
I make a couple of trips there each season and I'm rarely skunked.
 
I love combo hunts or fin & feather duos, but I usually focus on them separately within the same day for much better success - except for my favorite of all: combo set/spreads for ducks & geese at the same time!!! :thumbsup:

In younger days, many a time have limited out on resident canada geese early on a Sept morning & came back to the same cutover cornfield later in the morning or aft for a limit of doves OR did well on a.m. ducks/p.m. doves or dove-&-quail when I lived in the desert southwest...Several times bagged a big ol' spring tom & then broke out the fishing rod for a few nice rainbows to complete the day...Often broke up elk hunting in the past with a blue grouse or two for camp meat, to catch a few rainbows or brookies, or snag a cooler full of salmon...Once even got a nice archery gobbler & buck on the same day...Even one time saw my rare opportunity & took a several mile jog along the warm FL beach rod in hand & caught a few pompano, spanish macs & "specks" (spotted seatrout) before flying out late-morning & then went night-skiing on the cool, snowy slopes back home just to say I did before too old to pull it off! :eek: :D

Would love a chance to get into a true wild-pheasant/quail combo situation with the dog, but I don't like mixing rabbits & squirrels in with my bird hunting & dog work (nothing at all against those who do, just ain't my thing).

All that said, the older I get the less runnin-&-gunnin it takes to make for a happy day afield... :cheers:
 
I've done it:thumbsup:

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onpoint said:
How many of you hunt multi species at the same time?

I hunt just about anything legal whenever I'm in the field. Be it pheasants, ducks, geese, rabbits, squirrel's, Ruff Grouse...you name it. I like eating all types of wild game and I'm looking to harvest as table fair all of them. All on the same hunt/walk in the field/woods

how about yourselves?
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Combo quail/pheasant hunts are the reason I've been passing up promotion opportunities in MN. Based on what I've read lately, I should take one of those promotions b/c there may actually be more combo oppotunities up that way. I just don't know how lfe is going to be w/o bobwhites. I really like hunting those little boogers.
 
My all time favorite is big fat greenhead Mallards and roosters.

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I love combo hunts. Pheasants, quail, doves and rabbits on a walk with the dog is a good day in my book. Quail and chukar are possible too and my dog has even treed a few squirrels for me. I don't shoot rabbits for my dogs but if they catch a one I will dispatch it and add it to the bag.
 
I'm a little surprised to see so many combo hunting waterfowl. I find combo hunts including waterfowl difficult because I don't walk around with only steel shot on me. :(

The only times it works is to sit somewhere in the immediate AM with steel, then go back to the truck and change out for lead for the remainder of the day.
 
In South Dakota, steel shot is mandatory on all public land. No matter if your hunting upland birds or waterfowl. Many of my hunting partners in South Dakota don't even buy lead shot anymore. I use lead when only hunting pheasants or Ruff Grouse in Minnesota. Otherwise, it's only steel shot in my possession.
 
Pheasant, quail, and turkey. Hope to add ducks this year.
 
In my younger years, my father and his pals would hunt ducks in the morning and then drive a half hour or so and begin squirrel hunting to around noon, break for lunch and then chase ruffies, woodcock, rabbits, and whatever else was legal in the early afternoon. Talk about a whole day of hunting.
 
When woodcocks come through I don't pass a chance at a pointed one so its woodcock/pheasants or woodcock/ruffed grouse. Also occasionally jump shoot ducks in the uplands, and have shot sharptails and pheasants together. Going to spend sometimes in a couple weeks looking for ruffs and wild pheasants together if its even possible.
 
1GB said:
I'm a little surprised to see so many combo hunting waterfowl. I find combo hunts including waterfowl difficult because I don't walk around with only steel shot on me. :(.
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I have always hunted with #4 steel for phez. I walk lots of areas where ducks could be. Steel shoots different then lead so I just shoot steel I will shoot lead for Ruff grouse.
 
Ive been known to smack a few ducks while phez hunting. I always shoot steel for that reason.
 
I've hunted pheasants, ducks, ruffed grouse and deer on the same day. I know I've gotten all but the grouse on one particular day too. Deer in the morning, pheasants in the mid day and ducks at sunset.

Where I upland hunt we get a mixed bag of pheasants and quail and rabbits and an occassional squirrell but I don't shoot those. Could do ducks and geese as we jump them as well but I don't like shooting steel at pheasants and especially quail.
 
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