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I still get just as much of a thrill using my slug gun or pistol as I do my bow.

thats exactly how i feel except i probobly took 10 times the deer with a bowthen any gun

I killed my first deer with a bow and went through a phase where I rifle and bowhunted both and kill a lot of deer with rifles and shot guns w/ slugs but I just prefer to kill deer with a bow now. The experience means more to me personally when I kill a deer with my bow.Now I have a hunting partner that is exactly the opposite. He truely derives no more pleasure or since sense of satisfaction from killing a deer with his bow than he does with his rifle. To each his own. If it's legal and it makes you happy then that's all that matters.

I'd give up my bow a hell of a lot sooner than any of my guns.

Its never meant that to me. Its not how you kill it, its the hunt and the people you hunt with that make it important. not so much the kill, i can care less if i got anything, as long as im doing what I love with the people I love.

I do love bow hunting and prefer to hunt with a bow over with a gun, but when it comes to the kill it's all about the animal. I feel the same gratification sitting over an animal shot with a gun as I do one shot with a bow.

To me, if the animal is worth killing, it doesn't matter which tool you use to do it as long as it's done cleanly and ethically.

I don't know how anyone could argue the point that sitting in a box blind killing an animal at 200 yards is as exciting as killing one from a treestand with a bow at 20 yards!

Kind-of like the arguement I hear from guys who say things like "I'm as happy killing a young buck as a mature buck" - my response, how many mature bucks have you killed?

It’s all a matter of relativity.
For me to whack a doe with my bow in some of the places I hunt means relatively little in the grand scheme of pride and accomplishment.

Hand me a rifle and set me in the middle of 10’s of thousands of acres of no man’s land and I drill a basket rack buck and it would be 10x the accomplishment.

I have only killed one animal with a gun and it was an old Hawkin stylemuzzle loader. I haven't hunted with it since. It just wasn't quite the same for me. I just love bowhunting and I am alright with coming home empty handed if that is what the end result is.

Todd .. I love ya man, but just read the responses ..... it's not all about "PERSONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT" with everyone ...... and that's ok!!! You roll how you want to and allow others to roll how they like to ....