Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
07-18-2008, 02:22 PM
#101
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
ORIGINAL: bawanajim
I can Tony, I hunt with every thing thats legal in as many states as I have time for. It starts with early goose season and ends with late grouse season. Bow seasons ,slug gun seasons,rifle seasons and shot gun seasons.
In PA we get one buck tag and I use mine wisely,NY same thing in slug season then our rifle season comes in and I have friends from all over the country come home to hunt,play cards and lie about past hunts, I would not miss it for the world.
I guess not enjoying all of the seasons would be like going to the strip club to see your wife.
I can Tony, I hunt with every thing thats legal in as many states as I have time for. It starts with early goose season and ends with late grouse season. Bow seasons ,slug gun seasons,rifle seasons and shot gun seasons.
In PA we get one buck tag and I use mine wisely,NY same thing in slug season then our rifle season comes in and I have friends from all over the country come home to hunt,play cards and lie about past hunts, I would not miss it for the world.
I guess not enjoying all of the seasons would be like going to the strip club to see your wife.
07-18-2008, 02:26 PM
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
Works both ways, John.....and your post proves it.
Now I love ya, brother.....but bowhunters get a bad rep with gun hunters, also. We're the "plague" around here.....because we're seen as getting "their" deer before they can legally ge tto them. If I had a dollar for every time I heard a "gun" hunter put down bowhunters for wounding/maiming game.....I'd have enough to buy one of your rookie cards at auction
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Well...you know what I mean.
Have a great weekend.
If you askyourquestion to a gun hunter only,you will most likely get a favorable response to most types of hunting and the traditions that go along with them. If you ask this question to a bow hunter only you will most likely get a completely different view of your fellow hunters....Makes you wonder huh?
Now I love ya, brother.....but bowhunters get a bad rep with gun hunters, also. We're the "plague" around here.....because we're seen as getting "their" deer before they can legally ge tto them. If I had a dollar for every time I heard a "gun" hunter put down bowhunters for wounding/maiming game.....I'd have enough to buy one of your rookie cards at auction
.Well...you know what I mean.
Have a great weekend.
You have a great weekend too bud!
07-18-2008, 02:28 PM
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
I doubt that i would find that GMMAT, and i also doubt that i would hear much trashtalking about bow hunters, even though the gun hunters dominate. Kind of makes my point.
John: I agree wholeheartedly with your last post.
Have a good weekend, all. Peace out.
07-18-2008, 02:31 PM
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
You might look a little closer at some of the comments here and in other threads where gun hunting is discussed. You may not consider it trashtalking, but it is a hell of a lot more negative than the comments that you will hear about bowhunters by gun hunters elsewhere. I would be happy to be proven wrong in this, but based on the comments by some other folks as well, i think that i am on the right track.
07-18-2008, 02:32 PM
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
I'm "outa here" too.....I'm about to take my 325lb fat Italian arse and get in the pool with the family.....WhooooHoooo cannon ball!! Well not quite, I think I'd splash all the water out of it.[&:][&:](not a very big pool)
Don't fight guys....we're all in this (hunting) together!
later taters......
)Don't fight guys....we're all in this (hunting) together!
later taters......
07-18-2008, 02:40 PM
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
I love my hunting period! I love my bows and I love my guns! I hunt the same way no matter the weapon in hand! I've killed deer at 10 yards on a few different occasions with.... yeah a gun! Just because you hunt with a gun dosn't mean you have to shoot at something 200+ yards away! You get out of it what you put in to it, at least I do!
I wonder how guys mindsets would change if they could only Bowhunt hunt for a week or 2 out of the year, kinda like turning the seasons around, longer gun and shorter bow seasons??? I wonder who would pick up a gun and hunt deer then? 
It just hard for me to imagine that folks never gun hunted for deer before... To each his own!
I love passing on the Tradition of the November gun season to my son and nephews like my Father and Grandfather did to me and my Brothers! Sure is something very special that I wouldn't miss for the life of me!
Great post PreacherBro!!!!!!! Sure would be kinda cool to share a camp one day brother, gun or bow!
I wonder how guys mindsets would change if they could only Bowhunt hunt for a week or 2 out of the year, kinda like turning the seasons around, longer gun and shorter bow seasons??? I wonder who would pick up a gun and hunt deer then?
It just hard for me to imagine that folks never gun hunted for deer before... To each his own!I love passing on the Tradition of the November gun season to my son and nephews like my Father and Grandfather did to me and my Brothers! Sure is something very special that I wouldn't miss for the life of me!
Great post PreacherBro!!!!!!! Sure would be kinda cool to share a camp one day brother, gun or bow!
07-18-2008, 03:23 PM
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
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Great post PreacherBro!!!!!!! Sure would be kinda cool to share a camp one day brother, gun or bow!
Great post PreacherBro!!!!!!! Sure would be kinda cool to share a camp one day brother, gun or bow!
07-18-2008, 05:45 PM
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
In my opinion Bow hunters as a whole are far less likely to allow others to their "frankfurter roasts or picnics or parties or marshmallow toasts."
Again this is just my take on it but judging by what I've seen in my area and what I've read right here on this site over the years...I don't think I'm too far off.
Again this is just my take on it but judging by what I've seen in my area and what I've read right here on this site over the years...I don't think I'm too far off.
It really depends on who you hunt with or what type of people you choose to surround yourself with. The group of bow hunters I hunt with are the farthest thing from what's been described by you.
Like I said before we need the gun seasons to control populations. I'll stand up for a gun hunters rights till the day I die whether I would use a gun or not for hunting!!
07-18-2008, 05:48 PM
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RE: Bowhunting and gun hunting ..... a different perspective?
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You mean.....like going to the strip club v. being with your wife?
I'm not following you......
You mean.....like going to the strip club v. being with your wife?
I'm not following you......
I wouldn't know about that one Jeff!
but then it could depend on the Strip Club and also depend on your Wife![8D]
Dan