Well, isnt there a bunch of opinions on this subject!? First let me say, hunting is a tradition between my uncle and I. It soon will be a family tradtion with me and my two sons, my best friend and his son and hopefully if i ever get married with my wife as well. Now when i was a kid my uncle had taken me hunting for the first time in Winchester, Kentucky with 30/30 lever action, he brought a bucket............that i had to carry for him, and boy was it heavy!! He would sit on his bucket and i sat on the ground with my cushion. As i got older and was able to shoot a 12ga, about 12yrs of age, he got me my hunting liscense and bought me my first deer tag, along with giving me his 870remington 12ga, that i still use to this day for everything i hunt. My first deer i shot(or should i say the first two deer!) was with this shotgun. I had shot a doe, then shot a buck thinking i missed the doe but i didnt and i had killed them both! My uncle was upset with me and happy at the same time, because now he had to use his tag on my second deer. Those days are what i dream about, that feeling of seeing those deer for the first time, shooting my first deer ever and seeing the look on my uncles face of how proud he was and he knew that day a hunter was born, and that hunter was me. These days i am 26yrs old, and i am an addicted bow hunter, it has giving me another level of excitement and memories. This past Ohio gun season was very special to me, i longed to sit with my shotgun next to my uncle up against an old oak tree and share the day together. My oldest son who's name is Hunter, got to do that with me on the last day of gun season. We had sat on the same log i killed my first deer when i was 12yrs old, and he was able to see me harvest a mature doe. I knew after i had shot that deer and i seen the look on his face...........another deer hunter was born on that day. I say all that to say this...................it doesnt matter what you harvest your deer with, rather it be a bow, gun, javelin, muzzleloader or a slingshot! Its the memories that you can take with you when we leave God's wonderful playground, that he provided for us to build these memories with family and friends. I am not a gun hunter, i am not a bow hunter, I am a DEER HUNTER.
-Mick