Originally Posted by
Wingbone
If you want to really learn how to hunt deer, hunt with a bow. Bow hunting will make you a better rifle hunter. Rifle hunting, comparatively, is more or less just getting groceries.
This is true allot of times. You will definitely learn more about deer behavior and how they interact. And if you put time in scouting (enough time to be regularly successful) you'll learn about deer habitat and how they live as well.
But the reverse can be true. Some of the pressured public lands I hunt in Ohio and Pennsylvania I can kill a doe or a small buck in early archery pretty easily. Here in Ohio I can find an early season six point on public land every season if I wanted to. Try finding a single deer during gun season though, it's tough.
-Jake