RE: Bow Hunting vs. Rifle Hunting = Less Perceived Pressure?
You want an answer to this question?
Move to South Carolina where gun season runs from August 15th to January 1st. Our deer are some of the most pressured deer in the US. You can really see a difference if you are in a bow only club or hunt bow only public land. Its like night and day.
Anyone and everyone that you talk to that lives in SC, but takes hunting trips to the mid-west comes back star struck b/c they say that the deer out there are so much easier to kill. They say that the never look up. Here in SC our deer will spot you in a tree faster than they will on the ground.
It is rare here that you get to view a deer in its "natural" state.