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Author Topic: Never felt like this before  (Read 541 times)

Offline bigb3303

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Never felt like this before
« on: November 06, 2013, 07:27:00 PM »
Saturday is opening day of muzzloader, and we have several decent eight points on our property. I would normally be chomping at the bits to get a firearm in my hands! But for some reason I have this problem with my hand now, and it won't lay my bow down!   :archer2:   so I guess to my disbelief , I am going to bow hunt Saturday! This is crazy! Recurve fever is worse then buck fever      :eek:

Offline Thumper Dunker

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2013, 07:38:00 PM »
:thumbsup:
You can hop but you can't hide.
If it was not for rabbits I would never get a buck.
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Offline daveycrockett

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2013, 07:38:00 PM »
I Understand. This year makes 23 since I gun hunted.  :archer2:

Offline far rider

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2013, 07:44:00 PM »
It sure gets into your blood. Only cure is repeated doses of cedar launched from a Flemish string.
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Offline lilbobby

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2013, 07:54:00 PM »
I feel your pain, it's been 10 years since I hunted with a gun.   :thumbsup:
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Offline joe ashton

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2013, 08:00:00 PM »
life is over as you knew it.....
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Offline ChuckC

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2013, 08:03:00 PM »
I go gun hunting on opening day most years.  I very often don't even load the gun, just go to say I did.

I like bow hunting.  For nearly everything.

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Offline Stephengiles

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2013, 08:14:00 PM »
Traded in my old cva as part of an exchange program got a brand new one for free.....maybe I'll find out how it shoots one day. Already told my son he can have it when he's old enough. He only hunts small game now but he's already told me he prefers his long bow for that. :)

Offline Sam McMichael

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #8 on: November 06, 2013, 08:19:00 PM »
17 years of bow only for me, so I understand how you feel.
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Offline bigb3303

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #9 on: November 06, 2013, 08:39:00 PM »
Yep! The guns not coming out unless I can't get it done with the bow, in the last week of the yr! Just becousee an the wife need the meat. It's a big part of our diet.

Offline Hoyt

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #10 on: November 06, 2013, 09:18:00 PM »
I noticed my flintlock got a lot heavier last season.

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #11 on: November 06, 2013, 09:38:00 PM »
Not at all bad.
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Offline nomansland4404

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #12 on: November 06, 2013, 09:45:00 PM »
Once you pick up a bow gun hunting loses all it's luster. I have zero desire to ever gun hunt big game ever again. Love traditional archery!

Offline -snypershot317-

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #13 on: November 06, 2013, 09:58:00 PM »
i love my trad archery hunting and always prefer it but my wife and i depend on the meat i harvest so sometimes i do have to break out the smoke pole...but only when necessary  ;)  otherwise its all bow for me too  ;)
"Now then, get your weapons-your quiver and bow-and go out to the open country to hunt some wild game for me." ~Gen 27:3

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Offline Robyn Hode

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2013, 06:04:00 AM »
Boy I'm glad to hear others are like me. I have not gun hunted deer for a long time. Heck I just started hunting from a tree stand again. There's just something about sneaking up on a deer to get into bow range especially with a bow that I have made myself.
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Offline German Dog

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2013, 10:24:00 AM »
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Originally posted by nomansland4404:
Once you pick up a bow gun hunting loses all it's luster. I have zero desire to ever gun hunt big game ever again. Love traditional archery!
Same thoughts here!

Offline warpedarrow

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2013, 04:57:00 AM »
If I want meat I take the gun.  It is not fun but it is ten times more effective.  Very little pleasure is derived from using a gun to harvest an animal.

There is a special magic that happens when I step in the field with a bow in hand.  I've come to crave that feeling as much or more than the feeling that I used to get from bird hunting behind good dogs.  All in it's own time, I suppose.
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Offline bigb3303

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #17 on: November 08, 2013, 08:03:00 AM »
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Originally posted by warpedarrow:
If I want meat I take the gun.  It is not fun but it is ten times more effective.  Very little pleasure is derived from using a gun to harvest an animal.

There is a special magic that happens when I step in the field with a bow in hand.  I've come to crave that feeling as much or more than the feeling that I used to get from bird hunting behind good dogs.  All in it's own time, I suppose.
Thats exacly how I have done it the last six years, I bow hunt all season untill right at the end, when we have doe days in december. Kill two or three with the rifle on one sat, then put the gun back in the closet. Where I hunt I can see 20-30 deer a day when rifle hunting, becouse I can see over 1000yards worth of fields from my stand. Geting them in the woods , withing 15 yards is a whole nother chalange , and thats what I like!

Offline Mint

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Re: Never felt like this before
« Reply #18 on: November 08, 2013, 09:36:00 AM »
It's been close to 25 years for me without the gun. I only hunted with the gun for two years and never really enjoyed it. Picked up the longbow and never looked back.
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