manuman

Just joking , but honestly, it is a real problem here where I live in N Ga. The first seaon I hunted here, on opening day of bow, Icounted 26 gun shots! I was slipping along to a stand once and somebody shot within about 75 yards of me, and I was ready to hit the dirt--right after I cleaned out my drawers!People here are definitely more inclined to poaching than anywhere I have ever experienced. What's it like in your neck of the woods?

BowHunterJim

Its not bad on our property but i am surrounded by semis. There is an occasinol hunter by my house but its my neigbor that i dont know all that well

Bullet Hole Bailey

It used to be a lot worse here but they still take some nice bucks, and we even found 2 big boys that somebody had poached and left there. And a friend of ours found a guy that had poached one and was cleaning it out, the poacher ran away and when our friends called the cops they didnt even care much. They said theyd meetour friendto try and catch the guy or to find more evidence but they never even called.

huntingangler.com

They like to shoot dear at night where I hunt. I'm no stranger to hearing a high powered rifle at night.

SuperRedHawk

How do you know they're poaching? People do shoot at other things, targets, animals, etc..
Just wondering

manuman

I know from experiencing it season after after season. The close shotI spoke of was not only from someone gun hunting during bow, but a trespasser as well--I confronted him. My first year here, I was in a hardware store that sells camo , etc. andI asked the owner about the hunting.He introduced me to a guy in overalls with no shirt under them, and few teeth--not kidding a bit--! He asked him, 'How many deer you got this year so far?" He replied, 'Oh, shoot, just 13, and the biggest was a 3 pointer.'This was 2 weeks beofre gunseason and this guy wasn't bow hunting. Georgia limit at the time was 2 bucks and 4 does. I've taken 2 bear here, and the DNR tags them,and immediately goes to the site of the kill to investigate. On my second, the reanger told me that 80% of all bears killed in Gilmer County are illegal. If you need more , I'll be glad to continue.If you lived here youi woul dhave no problem understanding what I am talking about.

obsessed bowhunter

I don't even hunt with a gun during gun season....lol.. It's bow only for me. Your not alone with the poaching problem though. I found 4 deer carcusses about 500 yards from my home last year. I hate poachers!!![:@]
Steve in KY.

RIStrutStopper

Here in RI bow season starts on 1 October. It goes all the way thru 31 January. Somewhere in between are gun seasons. Small game starts 2 weeks into the bow season, Muzzle Loader starts around the beginning of November, and Shotgun in December some time. With the exception of small game, the months of October and January are bow only (there may be some exceptions in some areas). Public land is rough bow hunting when pheasant season opens unless you are somewhere where they do not stock birds. Anyway, to answer your question, I do hunt with a gun during bow season, because if I want to hunt with a gun, I have no choice but to do so.

Buck_Slayer

Does deliverance come to anybody elses mind after reading this?

I have heard gun shots, but it was from a semi-automatic .22 that a kid was shooting when him and either his father or grandpa were out collecting dead wood....before rifles were legal during gun season. you could hear rifles all the time.

manuman

LOL! Believe it or not, I am located about an hour away from where Deliverance was filmed. It's bad here, but not quite that bad!