RE: Recurve only season
 

I would much rather see an archers shooting skills test, than a special season for Recurves. Like 3 out of 5 shots in a football size kill zone at 25 yards, befor you can purchase a deer tag!!!

RE: Recurve only season
 

BobCo19-65 and Buster T,

I don't know if you understood my first post or not. To make a long story short. I AM AGAINST ANY SPECIAL SEASONS THAT DIRECTLY INTERFER WITH MY BOWHUNTING SEASON. Whether it is a T-zone hunt, muzzle loader hunt, X-bow hunt or Recurve (primitive) hunt. To ME, there should be two seasons..... Gun and archery...period. I personally hunt both. A muzzle loader is a gun and a Recurve is archery. If someone needs a special season other than that.. do it in Aug. and/or Jan. for does. The last thing I want is guns blazing right at the start of the rut (T-zone) or some recurve only season that keeps me out of the woods. I mentioned before that I am biased towards bowhunting, hence the negativity.

BTW, you guys need not remind me of the history of bowhunting, I know the history.

This is me BC. (before compounds)

RE: Recurve only season
 

Saddly, that would eliminate many traditional shooters that are diciplined to never shoot beyond 20 yards knowing their limitations and that too would not be fair to a good breed or archers.

RE: Recurve only season
 

I have no problems with that, but to be fair, 25yds for the barebow recurve shooters is similar to 50+ yds for the compound guys. As long as we keep it fair, no problem with me.

RE: Recurve only season
 

Actualy there is such a test to hunt on Sub Base Bangor in washington state. When I was in the navy we had to shoot 5 shot in a 6 inch circle at 20 yards in order to get a permit to hunt on base. piece of cake with a compound. tuff with atrad bow but do able

RE: Recurve only season
 

If they did open a season in NC.....I'd learn to shoot the longbow. We have it SO good, right now. We have first access to the deer woods EVERY year (1st...in front of gun hunters).....and I don't take that lightly. I get a FULL TWO MONTHS of the woods to myself before the guns start blaring.

We ARE talking about a slippery slope here......discussing this, though. There ARE those out there that would love to see DEER SEASON. Period. ANY weapon.....legal. Be very careful what you are so quick to scoff at.

Jeff

RE: Recurve only season
 

Ohio is nice in that you can hunt archery throughout gun and muzzleloader seasons, but you do have to wear orange. I like the muzzleloader season b/c it actually makes hunters focus on that one shot. Too many jokers around here shoot their shotguns like they are automatic rifles. I see no need for another season.

RE: Recurve only season
 

As someone who builds, and hunts with homemade longbows, I find the desire to have a seperate recurve, or longbow season to be absurd. To suggest that we need a seperate season, is to suggest that we are somehow handicapped, which I find to be insulting.

Back when Ihunted exclusivly with recurvebows I never felt the need to have a seperate season. In fact, often times I would fill my tags every year, while many of my compound shooting friends would not. It had much more to do with hunting skill, than with the weapon we used.

A bowhunter should hunt with the weapon that best fits his hunting style. For me, that was a recurve, or longbow. I have shot compound bows, and did some hunting with them, and found that they were not a magic weapon. In fact, it is my opinion that a compound requires more perfect shooting form to shoot accurately, than my longbow. Considering that compounds are heavy, limit shooting in low light, and require knowledge of yardage, they in my opinion are not the best weapon for me to deer hunt with.

Add to that the fact that if there were a special season for recurves, or longbows, my compound hunting friends would be robbed of time to hunt, and I find that unfair. Personally I feel that seasoned, and successful traditional bowhunters are not behind such ideas as seperate seasons, because they do not use their choice of weapon to justify poor success in the field.

It is the vocal minority who calls for such seasons because it allows them to be a big fish in little pond, rather than a little fish in a big pond. I think the best way to remedy this situation is for those of us who choose to use recurves, and longbows, to spend our time scouting, shooting, and honing our woodsmanship skills, rather than using our weapons to excuse failure.

RE: Recurve only season
 

I agree. I would never support separate seasons..... We are all archers first, equipment choices are secondary in my opinion.

RE: Recurve only season
 

I'm against a special season for recurves too. Like others have already stated, we already have special season for youth gun hunts, weeks of early and late MZL hunting, crossbows being included for 4 weeks of the bow season, along with all the other regular gun seasons. The actual weeks where you can bowhunt without other "special" seasons interfering are alreeady limited.

If you want to bowhunt with a trad bow during archery season, go right ahead. No one will stop you. I hunt during all the guns seasons using just my bow. I accept the fact that I'm handicapping my chances by trading the long range I get out of my gun for the shorter range I'm afforded by the bow, but that's the chances I willing to take. This year, I could've easily killed a very nice 10 point (along with other bucks and does) during gun season, but they were out of my effective range with my bow. My choice.