Winter Bowhunting
12-11-2006, 08:25 AM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Pittsburgh PA
Posts: 323
Winter Bowhunting
Hi all,during the first week of archery season here inPA, I got a nice mature doe with my bow. Then two weeks ago during rifle season I shot another doe. So now I'm out of doe tags. I still have my buck tag to fill, and rifle season is over. So now I'm up for the challenge of getting a buck with my bow when bow season opens up again this month. It's my last chance to fill that tag, and I'd like to try it since I've never bowhunted this late before. Does anyone have any reccommendations, tips, anything that would help?
Thanks in advance,
Nina
Thanks in advance,
Nina
12-11-2006, 08:37 AM
#2
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location:
Posts: 21,043
RE: Winter Bowhunting
What I'd be thinking about.....is how well you can DRAW your bow in colder temps. It's just something to think about. When you've been on stand for a few cold hours.....drawing that bow can be a challenge.
Other than that....just hunt the food!
Good luck....I hunt with the bow all season long (14 degrees when I got on stand, Saturday!).
Jeff
Other than that....just hunt the food!
Good luck....I hunt with the bow all season long (14 degrees when I got on stand, Saturday!).
Jeff
12-11-2006, 10:29 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Southwest Ohio
Posts: 2,849
RE: Winter Bowhunting
Figure out where they bed and where the food is. Sit in between those 2 areas.
One tip on being able to pull the bow back in the cold is to make sure that your clothes are loose on your drawing arm. With so many layers on, if they are tight you are fighting your clothes more than the bow.
One tip on being able to pull the bow back in the cold is to make sure that your clothes are loose on your drawing arm. With so many layers on, if they are tight you are fighting your clothes more than the bow.
12-11-2006, 10:32 AM
#4
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: Winter Bowhunting
I use my bow through all seasons. Like others had said, shot your bow with all the winter gear on to insure you do not have any problems before hand.
12-11-2006, 11:35 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: in the woods or on the water...
Posts: 4,832
RE: Winter Bowhunting
Hunt the major food sources. Pattern the deer and find major crossing of bottlenecks. Deer group up alot during the winter and it makes them more vulnerable.
12-11-2006, 12:28 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 169
RE: Winter Bowhunting
First of all where in Western PA do you live? Second - Hunting the late season is tuff but can be very productive on good buck. I literally set up in the bed room edges for the late season and on the food source side. I've had years when hunting picked corn fields that I had better hunting than in the early season. Most of my hunting late is in the bedding areas over browse like flora-rose and raspberry bushes. It's a real hoot to have a big buck come in when nobody else is even out there!
12-11-2006, 07:17 PM
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location:
Posts: 218
RE: Winter Bowhunting
Nina, We only have room for one more deer in the freezer and since I am the one paying the electric bill why dont you just hang it up for the season and let your dad try to fill his buck tag..............Besides you already taught those deer a good lesson across the street let that little 4point and 8 point grow bigger and they will be waiting for you next bow season. YOU HAVE TOO MANY DEERHEADS TO MOUNT WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO FIND THE TIME. 
