A lot of times you can't draw any comparison between gun & bow hunting other than the purpose is to kill a deer.

For my personal situation
Bow season-6 weeks, I bust my behind to spend as much time as I can hunting & I have the pre-rut that helps get old bucks up & moving. Medium hunting pressure on the deer.

Gun season-2 weeks and I typically spend 3 days of that actually hunting. Enormous pressure on the deer, seeing/shooting any buck is pretty much random chance, let alone trying to focus on a big one.

If one was hunting the exact same scenerios, & given a choice of "harder" weapon, yea the bow is going to be harder. But when 9 million other circumstances are factored in, like I said, it really can't be compared.

I went 10 years straight with a bowkilled buck.....in that same time I probably hunted 8-9 of those 10 gun seasons with only a doe tag. I may have seen 2-3 legal bucks to shoot at in that same time. Looks like I had a much "easier" time in bow season.