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I use a bow only during archery season.
19.05%
My bow is my primary weapon, but will use other means if needed
39.29%
I swore off firearms all together, long live bowhunting
30.95%
Other(explain)
10.71%
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How many amongst us use only archery equipment?

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Old 12-30-2007 | 10:00 PM
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I am a bowhunter only............gave up the gun a couple years back.
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Old 12-30-2007 | 10:02 PM
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Yeah Greg/MO
I thought about hunting flying rats with a bow but that sounds really expensive. A 22. sounds good for the small game.
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Old 12-30-2007 | 10:15 PM
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It really depends on what im after.
for deer I would go with the bow
for turkey, my shot gun
squirrel, deffinatly a .22 rimfire
and cyotes will feel the rath of my rifles (which reminds me I need to get a bolt action .223 or maybe a .204 ruger). any of the above that is stupid enough to walk inside 30yrd of my stands WILL be shot at with my bow!! no guaruntees on the smaller targets but they will be shot at. I have hit squirrels from a tree with expandables and small game fixed heads.


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Old 12-30-2007 | 10:19 PM
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Small game(if time allows) and spring turkey I will use a shotgun, but for anything else..........bow only.
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Old 12-30-2007 | 10:32 PM
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Always been bow only!
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Old 12-30-2007 | 10:44 PM
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Strictly bow.
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Old 12-30-2007 | 10:53 PM
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Right know archery is only a hobbie for me.
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Old 12-31-2007 | 12:35 AM
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I use both gun and bow. The gun is real efficient for thinning does.
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Old 12-31-2007 | 03:58 AM
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Whatever season it is that is what weapon you will find in my hands.
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Old 12-31-2007 | 07:03 AM
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Shotgun for turkeys, sometimes cause I carry the bow there too. I'll still shotgun bunnies but have bowhunted them too.

Haven't shot a deer with a rifle since the 90's and it was doe for management. Probably won't shoot another one, ever. If I can't take it with a bow, I don't want it. That includes animals I'm after but haven't hunted yet including but not limited to mule deer, moose, caribou, pronghorn etc...All North American big game animals.


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