Bowhunting during rifle/shotgun season

[joe skipp]

Never miss a chance to bowhunt during gun season. Gun hunters tend to move around more and kick up more deer and ya just never know...I wear red plaid and this year crown dipped my arrows in flo orange with AMG flo orange feathers for visibility. This buck was taken a few years ago...

 

[reddogge]

I shot a big doe in 2008 during the late M/L season with a bow on my own property.  You must wear orange though same as the gun hunters by law in MD  AND the deer goes on the M/L tag.

[Rooselk]

Here in Washington State there are separate seasons for archery, muzzleloader, and modern firearms. Since I purchase an archery tag every year I cannot hunt deer or elk during the muzzleloader or modern firearms seasons.

My practice is to let the modern firearms hunters have the woods to themselves for their two weeks or so. But I do continue to hunt for grouse during the muzzleloader seasons.

[vtmtnman]

Great deer Joe and Jack.

I think I'm ready to give it a try this year.

[hitman]

Those are awesome deers Jack and Joe. Yes I bowhunt too during rifle season. Just another way too get more time in bowhunting. I'm about always working the first week but every day is another chance.

[damascusdave]

Originally posted by Kris:
Yes, I do!  We have Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) deer eradication seasons (doesn't that sound awful?) here in southern Wisconsin and the WDNR has experimented with a number of gun deer seasons that coincide with the archery season (hate it!).  I always elect to take my bow but have to wear blaze orange to legally hunt (hate it!).  Keep the faith and do it the hard way though, the reward is always the greatest!

Kris

Still not as bad as rampant CWD. It is getting quite bad here in Alberta as well. Guess most of the eastern border area zones are at risk.

I used to work for a fellow in Saskatoon who hunted a long the CWD areas there. They are gun hunters and they often put their best shooter up on a ridge and then pushed the deer to a trail below him. He only averaged 4 rounds per kill. Hate to think what their poorest shooter averaged. One of the wives sat up on the hill with him one day and counted 450 deer go past.

One time they shot 36 mule deer bucks in a day, 12 hunters with 3 tags each.

DDave

[damascusdave]

I am going to start my hunting today in the local cafe. Give the early morning road hunters some time to do their thing before I head out. And of course the landowners where I hunt will be in for breakfast.  

My big quandry is always whether to hunt mule deer or whitetails. I still have tags for both.

DDave

[Sam McMichael]

This is the 14th consecutive year I have bow hunted only. I hunt on private land, so the gun hunters don't seem to cause any changes in deer activity where I hunt. Even though I own the property, and nobody else has permission to hunt it, I still am extremely cautious and always wear the orange vest.