I always find it interesting when I travel to see what critters are hunted in other locales.  Here in Central PA we have a little variety of critters.  Since I love to hunt with a front stuffer I use it more than a modern rifle.  Huntable small game around here includes Grey, Fox, and red squirrels.  rabbit, grouse, a few pheasants, woodcock, ducks and geese.  Big game includes turkeys, whitetail deer and black bears.  Varmints include coyotes, ground hogs, crows, and porcupines.  I have hunted most of these with a front loader except where a shotgun is in order.  I really enjoy varmint hunting with a muzzleloader.  The biggest critter around here is the black bear.  A few bears are killed each year that exceed 600 pounds and a couple each year heavier than that.  I have found that a 50 cal with conicals will take care of any of them.

Wisconsin has squirrels (gray, red, and pine), rabbits, snowshoe hare, coyotes, fox, deer, bear, dove, grouse, partridge, pheasants, ducks, geese, turkey, and coming soon possibly.. timber wolves. For trapping we have mink, fisher, pine martin, otter, beaver, muskrat, and weasel. They also trap fox and some coyote. Depending on the area of the state you hunt, some animals are more in abundance then in other areas. For instance.. we have snowshoe rabbits (actually in the hare family) in the northern end of the state but not so much in the southern end of the state. We also have elk in the northern end of the state but you can't hunt them. And we have an occasional moose that wanders through, not to mention the cougar that the DNR loves to claim does not exist in the state.

Here it is the same as far as cougar.Even if there are many sighthing
they still claim we have no cougar in Quebec ,Canada.
I saw one in 1963,saw many tracks on the snow in 1988
and saw a huge track at my moose salt lick post last week.
Taureau noir

TN has pretty much what you have in PA with the addition of hogs. We have cottontails, gray and fox squirrels, bobwhites, grouse, dove, turkey, snipe, woodcock, fox, bobcats, deer, etc. We officially have no cougars but I have seen 1 live one and 1 dead one on a road near my house that was verified privately by a TN game warden and the 2 guys that I witnessed picking up the dead one. Several farmers in my area swear they have seen cougars and their sign and I tracked one in East TN a few yrs ago as well. But thyey are not listed as huntable so that is out of the question if we ever do see one that does not exist - osort of like our bigfoot population i suppose. We do also have elk in a few pockets and pleanty of bear as well. When very lucky and nobody is looking, we do ocasionally get a crack at carpet-bagging Yankees that come wandering through.

Seen in the yard, squirrels, grouse, ravens, bald eagles, gulls,  pileated wood pecker, pine martin, coyote, wolves, deer, moose, black bear.  I have only hunted deer so far with the ML.  (Most of the birds are not on the hunting list. )

-MD

Guess I should add elk in our northern tier in a very limited huntable number and doves too. Trapping around here include racoons, fox, bobcats, martins, skunks, mink, weasel, coyote and muskrats. We also have a very small but huntable population of good ole boys from down south but they don't taste so good cause of being saturated with southern comfort.

Shiloh & PA,

Remember to the Canadians and British we are all Yanks.

-MD

Mark if it were not for folks like Shiloh I would have lost interest around here long ago. One thing about friends is we pull each others chains a little and give everyone a little chuckle along the way.

I like pulling chains, and on some I enjoy first wrapping their chaine around their neck.

We have more critters than I can name here in Indiana . (Or I should say,remember.)

We have these NASTY, VULGAR critters up here in Alaska that are currently protected by law and you can't shoot 'em....YET. They are know in some circles as the ATV rider, and during the winter they are mixed in with the ever popular Snow machine (snow mobile) rider. They run down fences, right over the top of "No Trespassing" and "Private Property" signs, have been know to confront tax paying landowners and call them names, hurl epithets and threaten to run over the landowner as well. The local constabulatory officers are powerless to track down and prosecute these critters, and I have had to track several of them down myself and call the officers to the location to tag and release these animals. I sure do wish we had an "Open Season" on these critters as I know I could fill my bag limit quite easily. Some of these critters also exhibit sounds so strong they can be heard over two miles away. Many do not meet the requirements of helmets and other precautions, leading to many being hurt or killed in their roamings all over the countryside. Many also have two and even three riders on them and this strange mutation meets with little tagging by the game wardens. It may take some experimentation, and a LARGE slow cooker pot to try and tenderize these critters enough to be palatable, but I believe with enough time and the right spices, they may be edible.

We have those critters around here too. Most times though they are dumber than a box of rocks.

Trespassers sadly are a fact of life we landowners and hunters have to abide with. Amazingly, I have seen their kind posting on here from time to time denouncing any of us landowners that would dare keep them off our property at any time and for any reason. TX has it right - kill them.