This is my first year bow hunting. I was worried about the same thing. Now, as if I wasn't already, I'm addicted. 2 does down, and one more weekend to hunt. Muzzle loader season opens in AR next weekend, but I'll be out with my bow. Don't give up. When you take your first one with a bow, you'll never look at gun hunting the same. I won't give up my gun hunting, but it'll never have the same appeal to me that it once did.