All good points, but no matter how you look at it, bowhunting IS more difficult than rifle hunting. Shoot, just shooting a bow ACCURATELY is more difficult than shooting a rifle accurately. Please read that I did NOT say shooting a rifle accurately is easy. So do I consider bowhunters BETTER than rifle hunters? Nope. But I'll take bowhunting anyday.

To me, and this is just me.....Sitting in a tree whacking a deer 200 yards away with a rifle.....Well, I feel more like a sniper, and it's anticlimatic. It's just not the same. I killed my first deer w/ archery gear in 2003. I've taken my rifle ONE DAY since then, and that's because it was my dad's rifle that he gave to me. I shot 2 does w/ it that morning, and it was cool. But I haven't taken a rifle in the woods since, and won't.