whitetailbowhunter

I was wondering the same thing.

Centauri

Hehe, Hunter20084 is such a putz

Rory/MO

alright dude its not that funny.

whitetailbowhunter

I just like using that smiley.

Rory/MO

its all good

ReflexKiller

Ahh, it feels good to back, and this is what I get greeted with.

mossbergman11

its illegal in ohio to uhnt with anything less than like 45 i think. they put rules like that for a reason and you should just hunt with a crossbow or somerting

sachiko

There is no draw weight limit in Michigan. If I had to use a 45 pound bow, I wouldn't be able to bow hunt. And neither would most ten-year olds. I am the same size as an average 5th grade girl, so I'm really glad that Michigan allows me to hunt.

Crossbows are only legal here during the two week firearm season.

The really critical thing is shot placement. We practice almost every day, even in the winter, unless there's a fairly stiff wind. You don't need a 45, 60, 75 pound bow if you can hit your target. A miss with a 75 pound bow is still a miss.

I couldn't hunt last season because I was pregnant and I was forbidden to be out in the woods. My first season started late because daddy wasn't sure I was ready. My husband doesn't sit in a tree stand. He stalks them. If you're using a light bow, you have to get really close. On my doe, we crawled through the mud and weeds for over a hundred yards through a swamp to where he was pretty sure the deer was bedded down. We couldn't hardly see the deer. I would have missed it if daddy hadn't pointed to where it was. He had me come to full draw and then he made some noise. The doe stood up, he nodded at me and I shot it. It took about three or four steps and dropped. My arrow got it right in the heart. No it didn't go all the way through, but it doesn't have to do that.

We didn't weigh her, but the processor said she was a pretty good size. She was also delicious. We put her in my mom's freezer. (We don't have one.) My mom had never eaten venison before but she loved it.

It took my mom a couple of hours to get the burrs and stuff out of my hair. (My hair is long, below my knees. I had it put up, but it came out and was dragging along the ground.) I've also hunted rabbits and squirrels with a 20 ga. and woodchucks with scoped .22. We don't kill anything we don't intend to eat. Woodchuck is very good eating.

I can understand in a way why the have some of these limits. A lot of people don't know much about hunting. Every year you read where somebody had shot a friend or even their own kid while "hunting."

By the way, if you want to learn about the reallyfun way to deer hunt, get the book, "Big Bucks the Benoit Way." That's the way daddy hunts and it's a real trip.



May The Sheep Be With You

mossbergman11

does the arrowe pass through with 30 lbs?

sachiko

No. It doesn't have to. If someone gets stabbed in the heart, does the knife have to pass all the way through to kill the guy?

Even bullets don't always pass all the way through.

There's a certain amount of macho nonsense in hunting. I don't know about where you live, but poachers who jacklight deer around here use .22 rifles, because they don't make much noise.