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How many bowhunters do it the "hard" way?

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Old 08-01-2008 | 05:52 PM
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- horns orrattle bags No
- grunt call No
- doe bleat Yes
- scent attractantNo
- food attractants No
- cover scentYes
- camo clothingNo



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Old 08-01-2008 | 05:58 PM
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Ha! I dont even need a stick. I look them dead.
I just eat taco bell for each meal the day before the hunt. Medium well anybody?


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Old 08-01-2008 | 06:00 PM
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where the choice for using your car or truck.

Me i just lay on the ground covered with leaves and the jump up and break their necks.....

I really did see a guy do that with a turkey though.
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Old 08-01-2008 | 07:27 PM
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The only thing I don't use is food attractant. I use all the rest except, some things I don't use properly, because it scares the deer sometimes....[&o]
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Old 08-01-2008 | 07:42 PM
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So it appears as though roughly 4% of the respondents to this poll don't use any of the items I listed.
My hat is off to those folks- 'cuz in my book, if they're bowhunting and not using any of those items, they
are surely doing it the hard way!

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Old 08-01-2008 | 08:19 PM
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I use Jedi mind tricks to get the deer to fall on my arrow itself.
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Old 08-01-2008 | 08:21 PM
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I consider big woods hunting "the hard way".

I hunt a 15,000 acre piece of low fenced property that is a mix of swamp, hardwoods, praires, pines, and just about everything else you can think of EXCEPT agricultural fields and food plots. It's surrounded by miles and miles of public land on all sides.

Trying to pattern big woods deer is a completely different game than hunting farms where the food sources and bedding areas are obvious. I've done both, and for me it's much harder to hunt the big woods.

qzq, AMEN to every thing you said . I had never hunted farmland until last year (I'm 33 ), and man,it's night and day! I'm really looking forward to it this season, though I must say,there's a little more feeling of accomplishment when you arrow one of those big woods deer.
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Old 08-01-2008 | 08:59 PM
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put me down for all of the above!

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Old 08-01-2008 | 09:03 PM
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I uses grunt, rattle bag and camo. That's it.
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Old 08-01-2008 | 09:15 PM
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Is using a compound bow with an 80% letoff, a peep and 4/5 pin sight w/fiberoptics, a release, carbon/aluminum arrows, 20ft up a tree, etc. really bowhunting the hard way even if you don't use all the other stuff?

How about a recurve/longbow from the ground? Even if you use the other stuff? What do you think would be the harder way?
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