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bryant1 10-12-2007 09:22 AM

bowhunt during firearm season?
 
Do you guys bowhunt during firearm season?

Lucky_13 10-12-2007 09:25 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 
my county is archery only so i don't have a choice

BuckeyeHuntress35 10-12-2007 09:25 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 
Although bowhunting is legal during gun season, and since our gun season in ohio is only 1 week, i gun hunt all 6 days.

rookie51 10-12-2007 09:35 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 
Nope, put myself at that disadvantage, my main goal in huning is to harvest a deer as ethically as possible. If gun season is in i am using my shotgun. But I enjoy bow season more, less hunters and i really enjoy the callenge.

goherd1111 10-12-2007 09:46 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 
Nope, Bowhunting is not allowed during the firearms seasons in IL. So I simply use those 7 days(3 days for gun season and 4 days second gun season)to rest up and let the orange army have their fun. After the orange army is out of the woods I am right back in there with my bow.

r33h 10-12-2007 09:48 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 
I use my bow until the last two weeks or so of the 'general season'. In Texas, you can deer hunt with a rifle, bow, shotgun, or any legal firearm for the month of November and December. There is a bow season only for the month of October. I enjoy the challange and the up-close and personal expierence that bow hunting deer brings and even though the deer are a lot more skitish during the 'general season', I still bow hunt 90% of the time.

muckland 10-12-2007 09:48 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 
I hunt our (Archery zone only)... durning our Gun season..

BobCo19-65 10-12-2007 09:54 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 
I don't usually hunt at all during gun season, but I do hunt with a bow in late archery/muzzleloader season.

jsuth 10-12-2007 09:58 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 
I never do because there are some rifle hunters in my area that will shoot at a deer, no matter whose land it is on. so it isn't all that safe

huntingson 10-12-2007 10:06 AM

RE: bowhunt during firearm season?
 

ORIGINAL: rookie51

Nope, put myself at that disadvantage, my main goal in huning is to harvest a deer as ethically as possible. If gun season is in i am using my shotgun. But I enjoy bow season more, less hunters and i really enjoy the callenge.
:eek:Don't understand that one. How is shooting one with a shotgun more ethical?

I only bowhunt big game. I just like it too much to do anything else.




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