Yea, I agree with Danny. If you reread line two, you will realize that Mathew's shooters need the animal to be close, since Mathew'sbows can't shoot too far!

Ego dwellers

I'll agree with the bowhunter statement, but Mathews? Blasphemy!

*Edit - This is an article I submitted to Bowhunter Magazine. I won a $60.00 Winn Archery Free Flight release because of it. Considering the fact that a bowhunter is a hunter, I feel the article applies.

“What does it mean to be a bowhunter?”

“Patience is the key to any successful archery hunt.” I had heard or read those words dozens of times before in magazines, on TV, or on one of the many online hunting forums that I visit regularly. Never had I taken them completely to heart though, until my first archery season that is.

I had seen her on several occasions from the same stand overlooking a lush green alfalfa field. I had watched her use the same trail to come out into the alfalfa field for three days. I had watched her hop the same rusted barbwire fence on three separate occasions, each time stopping at an apple tree some 80 yards away taking time to nibble on the fruit that had fallen in the course of the day. Each time she hopped the fence my adrenaline rose. Each time I attached my release to a carefully tied string-loop my hands would shake. Each time she took a trail just out of range I learned a little more about our sport.

I had visited numerous websites, talked to a countless number of people online, and read everything I could in books and magazines on shot placement on whitetail deer. The answers were all the same, right behind the front shoulders, in the lungs.

When she finally presented me with a good broadside shot, I was more than ready. My bow at full draw, my 20-yard pin behind her shoulder, I mentally told myself I was ready. Even as I squeezed the trigger of my release, I knew she was mine. As I climbed down out of my stand a half-hour later, I silently thanked God for the animal he had allowed me to harvest.

Hunting patiently, ethically, and with a positive attitude is what it means to be a bowhunter.

I gotta disagree. A hunter doesnt have to be a person. I doubt a wolf is going to give a fawn an advantage witha 10 second head start during the winter.

I guess wolves are not true hunters then.

I guess not...I was just trying to start an arguement with ya bud. After our nascar discussion I felt another debate was necessary.

Pse, I rarely debate on the forums. When we had a go it was a once in a lifetime chance. If you really want to see a heated debate start a bowhunting verses gun hunting thread.

A true hunter is someone who is ethnical to watever he or she hunts, if they dont feel comfortable with the shot they wait for a better one, know's his or her limitations and doesn't go past them no matter the size of the animal, has a great respect for the animal they are hunting, practices with their equipment so they can use it to the full when a opportuinty presents itself, a true hunter is happy with the animal no matter the size a trophy is in the eye of the beholder you don't hafta be a trophy hunter to be a true hunter. Atrue hunter is grateful for each day spent in the woods no matter if they harvest a animal or not just being out there is what it's all about. a true hunter helps support the sport of hunting against the tree huggers and is proud to be a hunter.

Debate or flame war?

Besides Zak, everyone knows Bowhunters are smarter than Rifle Hunters. It would be unfair.

Or the trifecta. Bowhunting vs gun hunting vs crossbowhunting. Throw in feeders and baited hunting, and ya got the perfecta. < *Race terms?