Duck hunting VS. Deer Hunting!!!

[Dejashoot]

Both for different reasons here myself. It depends on my mood.

[Tuoms]

Even though i have a heated blind overlooking a huge foodplot full of deer usually i still say duck. Because on that day that it is raining really hard on and off, wind blowing 25 mph, close to freezing temps and your miserable in between flocks, being able to laugh at your buddy and call him a jack&$@ because he forgot his gloves and his teeth are chattering is priceless. Argueing over who shot what, saying you tripled when you know **** well you shot bad and only hit one just to givek your buddies a hard time and second guess their shooting abilities. Watching your dog run down cripples in shallow water at warp speed or make that long retrieve swimming through whitecaps what seems like a mile out. Watching wave after wave of migrators fly over, highballing and seeing them fall out of the sky and cup up. Shooting then reloading only to empty your gun again at a pace that makes you feel like your in a gun fight. Yeah im gonna go with duckhunting, none of that stuff happens deer hunting. Its pretty cool to shoot a good buck so close you think he can hear your heart beating, so im glad i get to do both.

You just made me want to leave work right now and get out to the hole!

[Mayhem]

No question....Duck Hunting. I enjoy the comradery of my friends in the blind. I enjoy the cupped wings over decoys. I enjoy watching my dog work. I'm not as stupid about it as I was 10-15 years ago, but gimme a day in the marsh or woods with ducks on a suicide mission anyday.

Now goose hunting? I'd rather be shot in the face with #7 lead from 20yds away than lay in another goose spread.

this is the best part of duck hunting to me. i grew up duck hunting and got back into this year and i had forgot how much i missed it. the only thing deer hunting has over duck hunting for me is the adrenaline run you get when you shoot. just dont get that with ducks. 50/50 split for me.

[RdRdrFan]

I don't duck hunt very much at all so I'll take deer hunting.

For me a more difficult question would be quail hunting (behind MY dogs) vs. deer hunting. On that one deer hunting would likely get the SLIGHTEST edge.

[asttbe]

I don't duck hunt very much at all so I'll take deer hunting.

For me a more difficult question would be quail hunting (behind MY dogs) vs. deer hunting. On that one deer hunting would likely get the SLIGHTEST edge.

Quail hunting behind my dogs hands down, even on a day they are sucking.

Duck hunting second.

Deer third, unless it is spot and stalk with a bow then it jumps way up the list.

Sitting and waiting at a feeder doesn't do anything for me. I have been on the lease I'm on for two years now. Haven't sat in a blind yet. I do spot and stalk pigs after the season is over though

[tvc184]

When I was young I almost exclusively duck hunted, mainly due to access. I liked deer hunting being younger, I liked pulling the trigger also. I have pulled the trigger more times on a couple of duck hunts back then than all of my deer hunts put together.

Now, I don't duck hunt at all and don't really have a desire to but I remember some great times doing so. Now I would rather side in a blind and watch the world and wildlife go by in a deer stand and enjoy the outdoors.

Both are great but I kind of grew out of duck hunting and now enjoy the solitude more.

[TENRMORE]

I love them both but got out of duck hunting in the early 2000 cause my kids were young and duck hunting had slowed down now that they are older we dropped the west texas deer lease and go duck hunting almost every weekend. Its defenitly a young mans sport like smart said. When that alarm goes off at 3 am I'm like what the heck am I doing...then I say it again and again with each step of duck hunting but when they start coming in its all worth it. When my kids get old enough to go without me I'm sure ill go back to relaxing in a tree waiting on a whitetail.

[TxAg]

I don't care what I'm hunting as long as I can shoot it with a longbow....it makes everything fun.

[canny]

I absolutely love wing shooting, my ideal hunting would start in Sept with Teal/Dove, October would be archery for deer, November/December would be deer hunting during the rut (depending on where I am hunting) and the rest of it chasing Ducks/Quail. So to answer the OP I would do more duck hunting than deer hunting if possible.

[Randy]

Deer hunting was so poor this fall that I am ate *** up with duck hunting right now.

[Reaper33]

I love them both. But i guess when i get asked that i say that i think that the actuall hunt is better when you are duck hunting just bc you are more active in calling in the birds and working the dog and things like that where deer hunting you just sit there quite. But with that said nothing gets your blood pumping more than having a big buck come out of the trees.

[Bleu]

This is a geography question for me. If I'm in Louisiana, I want to be in rice or green timber on a blue bird day, with a shivering dog, and a group of mallards falling like willow leaves. If I'm in Texas, I want to be somewhere between bedding and feeding with a sharp G5 growling on the end of a rocket...and if I'm downtown at the Cadillac...well nevermind.

[TWP]

This is a geography question for me. If I'm in Louisiana, I want to be in rice or green timber on a blue bird day, with a shivering dog, and a group of mallards falling like willow leaves. If I'm in Texas, I want to be somewhere between bedding and feeding with a sharp G5 growling on the end of a rocket...and if I'm downtown at the Cadillac...well nevermind.

Calling in game at the Caddillac is an awful good time indeed! Can be just as much fun, and you tend to stay warmer.

Duck hunting all the way for me! I can no longer stand sitting in a tree or a pop up blind waiting on deer. Elk and mulies are different, but deer waiting is not for me anymore. Think it might have to do with shooting way more deer than ducks.

But my early twenties were filled with bars, late night food, gathering of gear, blaring music of all genres, hot coffee, T&C burrito, and fresh Copenhagen. Getting in later than you wanted, laughing and cracking up at "the drunk guy" falls in the mud or can't throw out decoys, hollering at dogs, making fun of whomever the ugly girl was at the bar...and then stopping on a dime as the sound of early morning teal dive bomb you and your spread. The anticipation of "shooting light" is one of the finer things in my hunting life. Wish I did it more these days, but something I will always cherish.

[Good Ol' T]

Hell why choose! Do as much of both as you can along with squierrl , rabbit and dove