RE: is a rifle kill exciting compared to bow??
Stay with the bow! I've only bow hunted deer...never gun hunted them. Only shot a rifle a half dozen times or so at stumps and targets and it was a very loud, obnoxious, and unpleasant experience for me. I would offer the suggestion of continuing to raise the bar for yourself in bowhunting. IMO it is more exhilarating to pass up an 8 pointer at 15 yards to let him go so he can grow than to blast a 160 class 10 pointer at 200 yards; but then I've never blasted a 160 class buck with a gun at 200 yards but I have shot a 170 class at 15 yards with a bow so I can't imagine there is a comparison. But as a wise man once said..."to each his own". <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>