Using Bow during Gun Season?
11-16-2005, 08:45 AM
#11
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Posts: 7,208
RE: Using Bow during Gun Season?
It is legal here in PA, but I do not choose to do so. I have thought about it. I have started to hunt with a revolver during our gun season. I love my bow hunting, but it can get a little crazy here in gun season, I still like the added challenge of handgun hunting.
11-16-2005, 08:47 AM
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Sturgis, SD
Posts: 1,983
RE: Using Bow during Gun Season?
Illegal in NE where I grew up but in SD, and TX I hunt the gun season with my bow. Rifle season is a great time to spend all day in your stand. Most gun hunters walk around all day and push deer by you all day if you are in the woods. Wear blaze orange though for safety reasons even if not required.
11-16-2005, 09:07 AM
#13
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 3
RE: Using Bow during Gun Season?
Here in OK I do it. Our archery season runs right through gun season. Last year I shot a buck during gun season with my bow and the check in lady asked if I wanted to put the buck on my archery tag or gun tag.
11-16-2005, 09:37 AM
#14
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location:
Posts: 17
RE: Using Bow during Gun Season?
Legal in Texas.
For the past 9 years I have bow only hunted.
I have mostly hunted small areas and some within the urban areas.
Now we are on a bow only lease so we have to...
My whole family hunts with a bow...the wife and kids don't care for the sound and recoil of the rifle so this is something we can all do togther as well.
For the past 9 years I have bow only hunted.
I have mostly hunted small areas and some within the urban areas.
Now we are on a bow only lease so we have to...
My whole family hunts with a bow...the wife and kids don't care for the sound and recoil of the rifle so this is something we can all do togther as well.
11-16-2005, 10:57 AM
#17
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Bremen, GA.
Posts: 2,091
RE: Using Bow during Gun Season?
ORIGINAL: swanny evans
You can hunt with a bow in Ga from opening of bow season until the end of gun season and the season is extended in archery only areas to jan 31st. I hunt with a gun when the season opens because it just makes it easier if you see one at 80 yards, but i also hunt property in fulton thats archery only.
You can hunt with a bow in Ga from opening of bow season until the end of gun season and the season is extended in archery only areas to jan 31st. I hunt with a gun when the season opens because it just makes it easier if you see one at 80 yards, but i also hunt property in fulton thats archery only.
Why do I bowhunt only? I find the Challenges, Thrills, and rewardsof bowhunting to be much more satisfing thanwith any other method.
11-16-2005, 11:47 AM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern Idaho's Panhandle
Posts: 4,436
RE: Using Bow during Gun Season?
We don't have a rifle season. we have an "anyweapons" that is ridiculously long..mind you 
it is dominated by rifles.. I bow hunt from late August to Dec ... Novembers rut I am under the gun... to say the least.. getfew strange looks when the rifle hunters see you coming out of the woods packing your bow..this time of year..
it is dominated by rifles.. I bow hunt from late August to Dec ... Novembers rut I am under the gun... to say the least.. getfew strange looks when the rifle hunters see you coming out of the woods packing your bow..this time of year..
11-16-2005, 11:53 AM
#19
Join Date: Nov 2005
Posts: 36
RE: Using Bow during Gun Season?
ORIGINAL: swanny evans
You can hunt with a bow in Ga from opening of bow season until the end of gun season and the season is extended in archery only areas to jan 31st. I hunt with a gun when the season opens because it just makes it easier if you see one at 80 yards, but i also hunt property in fulton thats archery only.
You can hunt with a bow in Ga from opening of bow season until the end of gun season and the season is extended in archery only areas to jan 31st. I hunt with a gun when the season opens because it just makes it easier if you see one at 80 yards, but i also hunt property in fulton thats archery only.
If you have a place to hunt in Fulton where you could afford another 2 bodies to hunt, I think there is a place in Cobb where I could take you hunting, but I am still scoping it out.
