Well I was called a "bow snob" in another post so I guess that puts me in the elitist category, LOL. What I think you are missing doughboy, is that the above comments are not putting down one type of hunting. The question was asked if a bow kill accomplishment is admired more than a gun kill. MQ1 said it very well, typically a gun hunter that shoots a nice buck lucked into it and had the deer chased over to them by someone else. Not in every case but in many that is true. Not to say that some bowhunters don't get lucky because they do, but in general the bow hunters spend much more time learning the habits of the deer and outsmarting them. There are gun hunters that are very serious and do not fall in the general statements made above but the intimate experience of killing a deer with a bow makes it more of an accomplishment to me. That is not putting down another form of hunting.