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springer01 10-31-2004 11:03 AM

How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
This is my first year bowhunting. I have been rifle hunting since I was 11 I am 27 now. I have always heard once you start bowhunting that rifle hunting just isnt much fun anymore. Well rifle season starts next weekend and I see no reason to hang up my bow. Besides I still havent gotten a kill.

I am just curious how many of you guys still rifle hunt. Or is it pretty much strictly bowhunting for you. I feel like I might take a couple of does towards the end of the season with my rifle if I have not tagged out yet just to help our ratio, but other than that I will have my bow in hand this season.

bowtechshooter86 10-31-2004 11:18 AM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
I still rifle hunt, but theres nothing like bowhunting. Both rifle and bow hunting make my heart pound and thats all that matters.

Pro-Line 10-31-2004 11:22 AM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
I'd hunt em with a paintball gun if the regulations allowed it.

I bowhunt more than anything...because the season is longer. I consider myself a bowhunter first and foremost, but unlike some, I don't look down upon anybody's (legal) method of hunting. It's all hunting...

Dubbya 10-31-2004 11:30 AM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 

I'd hunt em with a paintball gun if the regulations allowed it.
that's greatness.

As for the rifle thing, I haven't shot a deer with one in 3 years. I just like being face to face with the animals. There is nothing like bowhunting for sure.

cardeer 10-31-2004 11:33 AM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
rifle,slug gun, inline,flintlock, and since I cant physically operate a bow I use a x-bow

Leverdude 10-31-2004 12:30 PM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
I still hunt firearms season in NY, but its not so important if I get skunked anymore. Theres usually a few in the freezer already by mid Nov. ;)

buckhunter14 10-31-2004 12:38 PM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
I live in Michigan and this year is the first year I am allowed to hunt with a Rifle/Shotgun. I am excited, yet I love the competition a bow brings to me. I have been hunting with my bow since the legal age of 12 in Michigan and got a doe my first year and a 5-point last year! I am excited of this years rifle season and I am wondering what it will make me think of bowhunting? Good luck to everyone tonight!! ~ Halloween night is a lucky night ~

rybohunter 10-31-2004 12:56 PM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
I still rifle hunt if I have tags left. I have started getting creative to make it more fun, 1st it was a pistol caliber lever action rifle, now it will be trying to take a deer with a revolver.

445 supermag 10-31-2004 01:31 PM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
I will never give up my rifles or my hunting handguns. I love to reload for my guns and hunting with what I make is every bit as satisfying as taking one with my bow.



Brian

Arthur P 10-31-2004 01:45 PM

RE: How many of you still rifle hunt?
 
Kinda hard to rifle hunt when you don't gots a rifle. Some slug kicked in my door and stole all my guns about 20 years ago. I never replaced 'em because I started going broke buying bows. ;)


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