Many RVers consider themselves outdoor enthusiasts. And many outdoor enthusiasts enjoy hunting. Do you enjoy hunting? If so, what do you most enjoy hunting?
About a year ago we ran a poll that asked you to pick your favorite outdoor activity. Only 4 percent, 110 of you, said hunting, which isn’t a large number (the activity with the most votes, 32 percent, was hiking). But we still want to know how many of you enjoy hunting.
Take off the camo, wash your hands, then vote in the poll below. Thanks!
I quit hunting after my second back surgery. Couldn’t take the chance of falling and breaking all the rods and screws holding me together. So I took up fishing, but I still target shoot a box of shells every day. I have done this since I got my first .22 at age 10.
Where are you getting enough ammo to shoot a box a day? All the store shelves in my area empty.
Exactly what I was wondering! I love to shoot targets too. Used to hunt – lost the desire.
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Buy it online…there are many websites! Ammotogo dot com is one
No, don’t hunt. Understand to need. Nothing worse than starving deer during Winter due to herd size. More deer exist in the US, than during colonial times.
Deer, turkey, squirrel, rabbit, pheasant
hunting?, no. target shooting with either my gun or bow and arrow, love it and do so as often as i can.
I’m with you there. Love to shoot, clays and targets. I have hunted some and may again if need be to eat.
Hunting and killing Gods beautiful creatures is not for me. Is deer stands and baiting actually hunting? Now if the meat is eaten and not wasted have at it. I am not here to battle those who hunt legitimately. It is a good adventure for many. But not for me.
No I don’t hunt. I would rather walk through the woods and watch all the animals.
I have no problem with hunters that actually hunt to supplement their food supply. But the ones that have to wait to kill trophy animal upset me since all they do is brag about it.
I do have friends that deer hunt and I usually end up with a few pounds of the meat.
I don’t like dressing a dead animal, that is the main reason I don’t hunt. People give all kinds of reason to hate hunters, still enjoy a burger. As George Carlin said “Plants don’t scream as Loud”, we kill to survive be plants or animal.
Hunting for a campsite is my new pass time.
I use to hunt, the years have taken the desire to traipse though the woods and fields looking for game, with a bad knee and arthritis I hurt to long afterwards.
Use to love to quail and pheasant hunt. Being outdoors and following the bird dog, Weimar, was a great sport. Eyesight now will not allow it but great memories.
I haven’t hunted with a firearm since November 1975. It got too chaotic in the field, too many idiots not knowing gun safety, or proper hunting etiquette. I had been shot at twice and decided it would be better to hunt off season with a camera than in season with a gun.
I was an avid bow hunter for 45 years, until we started our full time travel. Now, the non-resident hunting fees in states we travel to are too expensive, so I haven’t hunted in 11 years. It was a big part of my life & the one thing I miss the most about my pre-travel life.
When I was a young teenager I went hunting with my Mom and brother. Haven’t hunted since I learned how to drive sixty years ago.
I don’t hunt, but I used to enjoy Sporting Clays and clay target shooting.
At about 9 yrs. old I started carrying a .22 with me every time I went walking near home. Occasionally even went “hunting.” Last time was probably in the late 60s. Still have 4 guns including the rifle the wife wanted for Christmas 5 yrs.ago. She hasn’t used up that first box of shells yet. Have a married couple among our friends who supply us with venison every year and this year even included some elk.
I used to go out dove hunting when I was in high school. Joined the Army and came home on leave and went deer hunting once. Froze my butt off and haven’t hunted since. Now I do my hunting with a camera and don’t have to be out freezing.
Same story here except it was ducks and Navy.
I used to but I just can’t take the drudging up and down hills anymore. Fishing is my thing now, love scootin’ around the lakes in my 18′ Lund catchin’ bass and walleye!
Like the quite alone time but enjoy hunting with my brother and my son’s. The sense of being, the no stress. Taking in of all nature. Sense of accomplishment rather successful or not in collecting the quarary. Hunted Europe, Australia, Canada and the great USofA. Only three I have not perused is moose, grizzly or brown bear and sheep. But have covered other large animals and upland and water fowl.
I used to hunt , but stopped when I realized there was a whole lot of drunks with LOADED guns out there hunting….So now I fish….
Not any longer. Used to enjoy hunting but urban expansion has ruined it. No where to go without owning land. Like fishing, the water is there but so many people searching for the same fish/ rabbit, there is hardly anything to catch/shoot.
As I get older I do much less hunting. Not a physical thing, just find it harder to end the life of any target, even when hunting for food. Ducks, deer etc. often get a free pass when I am in the field. just my mind working.
I actually enjoy “hunting” it’s the dressing and cleaning part I think of as work. So I “hunt” and shoot with a camera.
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I like hunting for deer, did like squirrel hunting. But not a lot of nut trees where I hunt. Don’t see a lot of people hunting. Pa game commission gives out to many doe license. It is difficult buying ammo because of the pandemic and the anti gunners now buying guns. Gun supply is also low. Some are afraid people will steal their food. Between the pandemic and democrats being in charge. People are being greedy and not only buying ammo by the case. but also by the pallet. They claim ammo mfg’s are working 24/7 and ammo’s still hard to find.
I was one of a loosely defined group of maybe a dozen men, ages 18-70, five to eight of whom hunted elk & deer together out of the same camp in the western Colorado Rockies each year for almost 50 years. Some seasons we brought out half a dozen animals, some years we were unsuccessful; but it didn’t matter. Each year was a joy – to experience the outdoors, closely observe all kinds of wildlife in situ, and share our comradery. I’ve hunted only twice in the ten years I’ve been RVing with my wife of 32 years, but what I experienced in the planning and living of those hunting trips are among my very fondest memories.
It dawned on me quite a while ago that the part I like about hunting is the camping and shooting. Now I let the hunters have their time during their short season and I can camp and target shoot the rest of the time when the weather is also generally better.
I hunt. Only out of season and with a camera. When I got back from Vietnam it lost its pleasure.
I don’t hunt or fish because it’s boring! After an hour without success, I’m headed home.
Only with my camera!
I don’t hunt, but don’t have a problem with it as long as it is done legally. Several of my family members hunt. I was excited for my grandsons and granddaughters when they all showed me pictures of their multi point deer. I don’t like venison, duck and quail. Nor, do I really have the patience for creeping through or sitting in the woods waiting for a target. Now if a wild animal is attacking livestock or a person, sure I have no trouble hunting/shooting it. Target practice and such are more to my liking. In fact, I’m eagerly awaiting a new shooting and archery range opening up down the road.
Ditto….although I might add gophers to my kill list whenever I get around to it. Gophers bring the badgers in so they get thinned out once in a while.
I don’t hunt as I can’t walk far but I do enjoy fishing.
I have never “hunted”. That said, I have NO problem with those who choose to hunt / fish as long as they do so in a responsible manner (which I believe the overwhelming majority of hunters do). I was a “County Mountie” for decades. In the course of my duties, there were several times when the humane thing to do was to euthanize an injured animal (most often do to animal / vehicle contact). Most people are NOT aware that in the early 1940s, an 11% Federal tax was added to the price of ammunition and a 10% Federal tax added to the price of firearms. These taxes were over and above whatever sales tax would be collected at the point of sale. These Federal taxes were to be used SOLELY for the benefit of conservation and were embraced by the firearms industry & sportsmen. Politicians are ALWAYS looking for more money to pay for their “pet projects” and are currently trying to SIGNIFICANTLY raise the Federal taxes in order to further two goals. “Gun Control” & pet projects.