Bowhunting or Rifle hunting?
#11
I'm strictly a meat hunter, shotgun and muzzleloader, bow season to me is just another two months to hunt. I like shooting my bow, but I don't get real excited about hunting in muggy bug filled weather.
#13
Like so many others, I hunt deer with many different weapons, Bow, Rifle, Shotgun and Muzzle loader. In this household we eat a lot of venison, because we like it. But if I had to choose it would be a Bow. Bow hunting is so much less unpressured and after your settled in nature and everything about it is normal, like your not even there. It provides the quaility me time I need to keep myself sane in this messed up world. But the bottom line is having a full freezer, so until I have to choose, I will continue to do it all as long as I can.
#17
Bowhunting for the solitude, and chances to see tons of deer. Rifle for the mental health break during the Thanksgiving thru Christmas chaos, spending time with my father, and the greater chances of someone trotting late in and early out.
#19
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: South Central Wisconsin
Posts: 1,007
Bow hunting. I really only gun hunt because of my dad, giving him some company in the stand for a few hours. I actually prefer duck,goose,turkey, squirrel hunting to gun deer hunting anymore. Way too many weekend warriors. I know many of the guys and girls who hunt around me don't even sight in their rifles from year to year. Hmm i wonder why they wound deer each year? If it was my land I would say something but it's not, so I keep my mouth shut and duck my head.
#20
Same here. The only reason I own a bow is for the fact I get to hunt 5 weeks earlier with it. I really don't see a bow kill much differently than a rifle kill either, I'm equally happy with both. I was amazed at first by bow kills(like most here), but it faded after the bow kills started to rack up.