ORIGINAL: Bow4Buc
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.
Do you think the difference here is in the weapon used or the fact that gun hunters simply out number bow hunters by the hundreds of thousands. Meaning
there are simply more people in the woods. Not sure the weapon used makes a difference in hunting pressure as much as the shear number of hunters.
Hunt with gun or bow in the same area too many times and the deer will know you are there.
In the case of the "whole state" I would agree with you.
However, here in SC people don't walk through the woods and try to jump deer to shoot them with a bow. They don't try to shoot them with a bow in front of a pack of hounds.