Before I get started I just want to say that I don't mean to offend anyone with this post.

As I sat perched 18 foot in my straight white oak tree Saturday, waiting for a deer to cross to feild in front of me and jump the fence so that he would be in range. I could hear the uncountable muzzle blasts from guys getting ready for the Monday opener of the West Virginia gun season.I couldn't help but wonder how many of these guys had just got thier guns out of the closet and wiped the dust off of them and then went out in the back yard to crack a few shots off just to make sure that the scopes were still on. I realized that that is one of the reasons that I love archery and bowhunting so much. It's a year around sport for me not just the weekend before season.
To me archery is sort of like the martial arts, it's a discipline. To become proficiet with a stick and string you must pratice continuely. Not only that but while I was setting there a nice buck steps into the field and it would have been a chip shot with a gun at 65 yards but I still needed him 30 yards closer for him to be in range. The closeness just keeps me pumped. Don't get me wrong I have nothing against guns or the people that hunt with them I just think of all that the people that gun hunt only are missing by not bowhunting.