Rabbit hunting is pre-eminent among the south’s small-game animals. Cottontail rabbits are perhaps the most can-be-found-anywhere species in the United States, and they make up the most popular game animal enjoyed by youthful beginners as well as experienced hunters.

Part of its popularity stems from South America to Southern Canada, as these highly adaptable creatures are at home in inhabited areas as well as conventional agricultural surroundings.

The best habitat for rabbits is a combination of food and cover, which are ideally spots of brushy area just off the farm field. A mixed pattern of cover type will bring more rabbits and provide more rabbit hunting than large area of any one type of habitat.

Rabbit hunting seasons are long and normally starts in early fall and running till late winter. There is little hazard of over harvesting even with long seasons and generous bag limits.

Rabbit hunting pressure drops off when the number of rabbits decline, but fortunately it does not take much of a reservoir of rabbits to quickly rebuild its population.

At six months of age, rabbits start breeding and bear three or four litters a year of four or five young per litter.  At the start of rabbit hunting season during fall, rabbit populations are at its peak.

For most people, when they hear the word “treasure hunting”, the first thing that would pop on their minds would be gold coins or precious gems. But the fact is, treasure hunting is more than looking for gold or gems.

Treasure hunting is like looking for valuable objects and precious things. For example, an old baby rattles, for most people this stuff is junk but for the mother of the baby whom the rattle belongs, it is very valuable.

For it brings lots of memories of intimate moments between mother and child.

So where can you hit upon hidden treasures? Where would you go treasure hunting? In the African jungles? Nope, you can go treasure hunting on the vicinity of your own house or street or city. Treasure hunting usually starts at home.

Some people would discover famous old books hidden behind the bookshelf or priceless antiques on the attics of their own house.

When you go treasure hunting it does not necessarily mean that you are looking for gold and gems. Even the most common item in your house might be valuable without your knowledge.

The North American Hunting Club is one of the affinity clubs to the world’s largest affinity lifestyle membership company, North American Membership Group (NAMG).

The NAMG was established in 1978 and is a consumer lifestyle company that successfully merges membership, publishing, and merchandise marketing into one emerging and innovative business.

This company is privately held by Doughty Hanson & Co. Ltd., the largest equity fund manager in Europe.

The NAMG’s business of developing, servicing, and marketing lifestyle Club memberships provide consumer enthusiasts, with the support and comradeship of a shared association benefits and services enabling consumers to increase their enjoyment of their chosen special interest and leisure time activities.

NAMG’s merchandising marketing in today’s competitive environment offers club members with high quality products that entertain, advice, and instruct to help members get more satisfaction from their leisure activities.

The NAMG clubs provide colorful and informative magazines developed by their publishing division. The magazines are filled with informative articles and how-to features that inform, teach, motivate, and entertain members with their chosen lifestyle interest.

There are ten distinct membership-based lifestyle affinity clubs owned and operated by NAMG and they are:

• Cooking Club of America

Mushroom hunting is a thrilling, exciting and enjoyable activity of searching for mushrooms in the wild, which is normally for consumption. It is famous in the Nordic and Baltic countries and in Slavic cultures as well.

Mushroom hunting to some hunters is considered a sport in which as if mushrooms may actually have a chance of “winning” if the hunter does a poor job of identifying the species as some wild mushrooms may be very toxic and poisonous.

However mushroom hunting is a safe activity as long as one knows toxic types and properly identifies it, and stays with the most common edible mushrooms.

There are thousands of different kinds of mushrooms that one mushroom hunter may take interest in and are regularly consumed by them.  A popular delicacy for mushroom hunters is the King Bolete.

Another popular mushroom for mushroom hunting is the Sulphur Shelf because it occurs in bulks, and recurs year after year; in addition to that, it is easily identified and has a wide variety of culinary uses.

Morels and Chanterelles are also among the most popular types of mushrooms for mushroom hunting, as morels can seldom be misidentified by anyone with experience.

The white button mushroom used to be the only mushroom available in the local market, then portabella, shiitake, and crimini became available.

Now more exotic “specialty” mushrooms are creating excitement with mushroom lovers and epicurean chefs are creating splendid treats from morels, enoki, maitake, and chanterelles mushrooms.

All the edible wild mushrooms, the morel mushrooms, are considered the number one prize. Its rich, creamy, and earthy flavor has obsessed millions of people with this delicacy, not to mention morel mushroom hunting for one.

Spring is the season for morel mushroom hunting, but of course spring is relative depending on where you live. Every spring, more than fifty million people in the world go on morel mushroom hunting.

Morels can be found in every Canadian province and are abundant in the U.S.  It can also be found throughout many countries such as Australia, China, Russia, England, Romania, France, and Pakistan. They flourish best with distinct seasonal changes.

Morel mushroom hunting is often just as indescribable as the precious prize. The feeling is that of Easter Egg Hunting, very exciting as well as enjoyable.

Moose hunting is one of the most popular types of big game hunting in some parts of the United States. The best season to go moose hunting is during the fall season because fall is the mating season for moose. And bulls (male moose) will be easily swayed to moose calls.

One of the aspects of good moose hunting is “knowing where the bulls are” during fall hunting season. During the moose hunting season always look for signs for an indication of Bull Moose. Always look for rubbed trees.

Bull moose tend to rub their antler on trees to clear velvet on their antlers. Bull moose also trash the trees of the area they hang around. Also look for moose droppings. These droppings resemble cow patties during summer.

If you are going moose hunting for the first time always remember that moose have a good sense of hearing, smell and vision. These senses are the moose’s protection against their natural predators such as wolves, bears and of course, man.

Pay close attention for wind direction, for the moose may try to avoid you if the caught your scent. Always sit below the skylines or close to trees and stumps. Moose can see and detect predators as far as a quarter of a mile away.

Montana offers some of the best big game Montana hunting in the Northern Hemisphere. From its Rocky Mountains to the West and its Badlands to the east, it always brings a new type of experience for hunters.

It is a hunter’s paradise where you can hunt elk in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, upland birds in the foothills, moose in the low bogs of the rugged mountains, or antelope on the short-grass prairies.

When it comes to hunting opportunities and wildlife diversity, Montana has something to offer anyone from anywhere who’s ready to undertake the thrilling adventure of Montana hunting. Here are two of the best Montana hunting big game and a few tips:

Bighorn Sheep Hunting (Montana Hunting)

Montana license to draw a bighorn sheep can be tough. In the fall of 2005 only about two percent of all applicants were successful in drawing one of the four hundred seven bighorn sheep licenses.

Bighorn hunting season usually opens September 15-November 27, with some exceptions. Those lucky hunters awarded for bighorn sheep hunt can be their hunt of a lifetime.

Hunters harvesting a bighorn sheep must, if required by FWP (Fish, Wildlife and Parks), physically return to the kill site for inspection to show the cape intact and the complete head.

Like many other hunting games, lion hunting is one of the most challenging.  The mighty “King of the Beasts”, celebrated in many Hollywood movies and adventure hunting novels, exudes majesty and power and is always a breathtaking sight to hunters.

The thrill and adventure in gazing into the lion’s unforgettable yellow eyes and its earth shattering roar only uplifts the lion hunter’s choice of game. A new perspective of life can come when hunting for a hungry lion in dense vegetation and on foot.

Lion hunting can be a really expensive choice of game.  Since some places have had the shortage of good realistic lion hunting areas, prices of fair chase hunts have skyrocketed.

Be ready to pay anything from $40,000 upwards for a good Lion concession.  In some areas of Botswana and Zambia, prices are even higher; you may expect to pay $75,000 upwards for Lion hunting.

Lions are extensive throughout Africa where water and food is adequate. They rest during the daytime and hunt at dusk, stalking preys downwind before finally ending its hunt. A lion’s common preys are herds of buffalo, zebras, and other wild beasts where panic and confusion can be caused.

I always have a passion for hunting rifles though I am not an avid fan for hunting myself. It’s the hunting rifle that fascinates me.

No, I’m not a dreadful psycho who revels in chains and instruments of death and torture, it’s not the physics of ballistics but its component of history that I am captivated with.

For me hunting rifles are pieces of history, the science of gunpowder that set most of our technology running today.

Hunting rifles have a significant effect on technology advancement; in fact it’s featured in every part of history.

I always thought of the event when the 16th century flint& lock musket that rendered armors useless, or even those cheap blunderbuss that are used to board enemy ships.

Or the Battles of Lexington and Concord where the outnumbered minutemen with their hunting rifles heroically defended Middlesex County against the British Regulars.

Shot of Time

At first there was hunting. Game hunting evolves eons ago where primitive man learns to get sustenance by using weapons. As the need grew, the technology of hunting grew. Now the early forms of ballistics and trajectory have been learnt by the use of bow and arrow.

Hunting rifles are one of the most essential tools in hunting. Most small game and big game hunters, rely on their hunting rifles. Aside from shotguns, hunting rifles are one of the most preferred and most popular types of firearms used by either hunters or shooters.

Hunting rifles can propel a projectile (bullet) over great distances at great speed with precise accuracy. A hunting rifle is a type of firearm that has a stock (similar with shotguns) and a long barrel that has spiral grooves on its interior.

Hunting rifles and shotguns have lots of differences, with regards to its design and functions. One distinct feature of hunting rifles is its bullets. Hunting rifles use an elongated projectile while a shotgun usually uses small and round projectiles.

Some shotguns use rubber buck shots for waterfowls.

Hunting rifles cover a small target area unlike the shotgun wherein the projectiles are scattered, thus, covering a wider area.

However, while the rifle is deficient in the target area, it makes up for range, hitting power and most of all accuracy.

Some hunting rifles have a range of more that five hundred yards while the shotgun only has an effective accuracy range of forty-five yards.