ORIGINAL: HuntinGUS
Back on topic. I think that if you are going to hunt dangerous game you need to take every precaution necessary to make sure you can make a clean kill and recover the game. Let's face it, if you stick a cape buffalo in the boiler room and get trampled to death because you don't have a PH with a back up weapon you are dead and he is dead and the only ones that benefit are the vultures and the jackals.
Hey, there is someone with a logical way of looking at things.
According to some, you should just forego your safety so that you can be called a "BowHunter"andprove to all your friends that you areserious about this.
Guns are for sissy's!
Yes, but if you are holding the bow, are you a sissy for being near the guy holding the gun. I mean I stand near my wife when she is holding her purse, but that doesn't make it my purse.
I guess I just can't follow the line of thought where someone seriously thinks that having a PH with a backup weapon makes you less of a man or less of a bowhunter. To me, it just makes you a smarter bowhunter.