I am not trying to cause trouble, but I want to know what draws everyone to archery hunting. I personally went to archery hunting because it was peaceful and more enjoyable. I could sit in the woods for hours upon hours without hearing a rifle going off. I hunt fairly close to game lands and on the first day of rifle two years ago, I heard over 400 shots in the first three hours of the day. Well, this year I was sitting in my treestand in archery season. I was waiting for one of those big bucks to come out when BOOM, a rifle goes off. I jumped because I wasn't use to having rifle's going off while archery hunting. A couple minutes later, Boom Boom Boom Boom Boom. A guy probablly 350 yards away from me emptied his gun on a small doe which ran across a field in front of me. Then all he!! broke loose. The deer started moving like the first day of rifle season. They start running from one patch of woods to the next and everytime, they get shot at. The woods just kept ringing with shots. The closest shot was the guy about 350 yards from me, but the whole hillside that he was one was sounding off with gun blasts. I counted over 90 shots in the three hours that I was on stand that evening. I know that Alt has "good intentions" with that fall rifle/muzzleloader but if they keep going on I am going to go strictly late season archery. I can't stand having a nice quiet day on the stand, some does walking out behind me and BOOM BOOM BOOM, then all I see is the white tails booking through the woods. It isn't enjoyable having to worry about bullets flying past, it isn't enjoyable having every deer in the county spooked, it isn't enjoyable watching deer come towards you to be scared away by some idiot shooting. I didn't find archery as enjoyable this year. WHAT WENT WRONG??

Good Luck This Season: Buck Magnet
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