RE: What's the difference!!??
 

I know.

RE: What's the difference!!??
 

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Ed, you are an animal:D
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top of the food chain - baby!
I rutt like one also

RE: What's the difference!!??
 

Ed, you are an animal:D
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top of the food chain - baby!
I rutt like one also

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Hahahahaha!

RE: What's the difference!!??
 

Ed, you are an animal:D
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top of the food chain - baby!
I rutt like one also

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What? only once a year?[8D]

RE: What's the difference!!??
 

The more severe the angle the harder It Is to pull a traditional bow back. If I'm 18' up in a tree I'd much rather have that deer at 15 yards then have him at 10 yards.

What brought this one on Greg? I'm kind of confused on this and not sure what to think of It.

RE: What's the difference!!??
 

I believe the above to be very nobly spoken. I don't look down my nose at any accomplishment as long as the deer's head wasn't blown off intentionally. I don't think magic was saying anyone here was looking down their nose either. I think there's an implied meaning that it does happen.

RE: What's the difference!!??
 

My thoughts exactly .... great post

as far as a BH regular posting their gun kill on the BH forum ...it should NOT be a problem with anyone.....it's not disrespectful ....it's ALL hunting ...

RE: What's the difference!!??
 

There was a time when I was in my late teens, early 20's when I really slacked off bow hunting. I thought fast cars and girls were more important. [:-]As I entered my late 20's, I got back into bow hunting. I never stopped gun hunting. Any way, I started keeping a log of my hunting back in 1986. It was around there that I made the prediction that I'd get the biggest buck of my life while bow hunting. So far it is true. But I still gun hunt because I like it. It gives me more "in woods" time where I can still learn about these animals. I prefer bow hunting over gun hunting for many reasons...... milder temps, longer seasons etc. The main reason is that, to me, I think it is so cool to hunt deer when they are in their relaxed state, if you can call rutting....relaxed. Rather than hunting escape trails while they are fleeing for their lives. I think that is cool too. I just like bow hunting better but I still like gun hunting. I am not a purist and there is nothing wrong with being one as long as you don't condem me or my methods of hunting.

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Seeing as though you have hunted and been successful with one, I am not doubting that statement in regards to yourself, but I think it is an overstatement if applied to the general compound bowhunting population, at least certainly when applied to myself.

I do not feel comfortable with my proficiency with a recurve at 20 yards. Granted, if that is all I had to shoot and practiced real hard, no doubt I would gain in accuracy/consistency than where I am today, but even then I don't think I would ever get as comfortable shooting a recurve at 20 yards as compared to my comfort level witha compound at 40 yards.

My hunting country is open and is not as conducive to bowhunting as some areas of the country. There aren't a whole lot of us. The 4 doe I have taken this year were at 16 yards, 23 yards, 34 yards, and 38 yards. I was comfortable with every shot.

And I am speaking in candor withno self deprecationor humbleness intended when I say maybe those yardages speak for themselves and are an indication of my ineptness as a bowhunter in that I can't get them closer, and only use our "open terrain" as an excuse.

All Iknow is that I have been asuccsesful and consistent compound bowhunter for a good number of years now that would likely flounder and would have had little to show on the meat pole if all I could use was Trad gear.

RE: What's the difference!!??
 

I was just thinking that it's the hunting that makes the hunt, not the weapon.