Author Topic: How many are bow only? (Read 1936 times)

Jmatt1957 · « **Reply #60 on:** October 31, 2009, 03:14:00 PM »

Trad archery equipment. But use a Flintlock during gun season.

bear1336 · « **Reply #61 on:** October 31, 2009, 03:23:00 PM »

Trad only for me the last 30 years...

mscampbell75 · « **Reply #62 on:** October 31, 2009, 04:15:00 PM »

Bow only for the past 7yrs (compound) with the exception of a week I spent with dad at his hunting club last year, I broke out a 30-30 that I've had since I was 15yo. I was after some meat for processing. Came home w/ 5 deer.

This year is my 1st full year of longbow.

Obiviously I'm not against guns, I just have more fun w/ bows.

jcar315 · « **Reply #63 on:** October 31, 2009, 04:19:00 PM »

When I hunt alone (without my 2 kids) it is recurve bow only!

Usually get one or both kids to come out and sit once or twice a year and that is the only time I take a rifle.

Rifle I take is the Winchester 30-06 that my Dad used to take his one and only deer when I was a kid. He is gone now so it feels pretty cool to have my Dads rifle in my hands when it is my kids and I hunting.

bentpole · « **Reply #64 on:** October 31, 2009, 04:31:00 PM »

I am. Sold my guns when my oldest started College. I figure you can't do everything. Happy to be in the woods with the Bow.

BigJohn · « **Reply #65 on:** October 31, 2009, 04:31:00 PM »

trad only for me. i love it.

Intuit · « **Reply #66 on:** October 31, 2009, 04:43:00 PM »

Been an archery only hunter since 1974. Mostly compound but strictly Trad the past few years. We are able to hunt the rifle season with bows in NY and that worked quite well for me for several years with the rifle hunters moving the deer for me, just sit tight the first day and something usually cruised by.

rambo1993 · « **Reply #67 on:** October 31, 2009, 04:53:00 PM »

i have been gun hunting with my dad since i was 5 im know 16 but still gun hunt love my 7mm-08 reminton but i traditonal bow hunt with my recurve 2 seasons 2/3 of my hunting in a year 1/3 is rifle

ethan · « **Reply #68 on:** October 31, 2009, 08:20:00 PM »

bow only here to!

Sam McMichael · « **Reply #69 on:** October 31, 2009, 08:23:00 PM »

I used to hunt with both. About 12 years ago, I was having so much fun with the bow, I decided to keep hunting with it into the rifle season till I got tired of it. So far, I still haven't gotten tird of it. I am considered a bit of an oddity at deer camp, as I am the only bowhunter there.

hawkeye n pa · « **Reply #70 on:** October 31, 2009, 08:36:00 PM »

98% recurve, if its extremely nasty during the first day of "rifle" season I'll carry the ole trap door 45/70 with iron sights. Either 40 degrees and pouring or to cold and windy for a arrow to fly.

elkken · « **Reply #71 on:** October 31, 2009, 08:47:00 PM »

Bow only since 1977 .... except for birds

DWT · « **Reply #72 on:** October 31, 2009, 08:54:00 PM »

I must be the strange one out of the group, I love hunting anything with any weapon. Ive taken big game animals with bows of all sorts, muzzloaders of many variations, handguns, and rifles and own many of each. If we had a open season for hunting with rocks for weapons I guess id chuck em.

ISP 5353 · « **Reply #73 on:** October 31, 2009, 09:41:00 PM »

I love to hunt, Bow, gun, rock, club, whatever I can use, I will hunt with.

Deadsmple · « **Reply #74 on:** October 31, 2009, 10:50:00 PM »

longbow for food and fun

guns for intruders and trespassers

Pat B · « **Reply #75 on:** October 31, 2009, 11:12:00 PM »

Almost all of my hunting is with a bow. Generally selfbow, cane or hardwood shoot arrows, stone points or trade points. If, by the end of the season, I haven't taken a deer I will hunt with my .308 or shotgun but that is just a meat hunt.

Stan the bow man · « **Reply #76 on:** November 01, 2009, 01:37:00 AM »

Doves shotgun all else bow only since 1991

Crick3t · « **Reply #77 on:** November 01, 2009, 02:29:00 AM »

Bow only all my life. I've been shotgunning before, but never for live birds. I've shot rifles, but only at targets. All trad gear, all self-made wood arrows, all trade points or MA-2's. Soon, I'm hoping to be exclusively shooting a self-made bow as well. I shot a wheelie when I was a kid, but I don't think a 9.5# Wal*Mart Compound at age seven counts against my track record.

Joseph · « **Reply #78 on:** November 01, 2009, 02:29:00 AM »

75% bow for me, 25% percent firearm. I love reloading and precision long range rifle shooting, trap, IPSC pistol, 3 gun, plinking with bow,rifle,pistol, shotgun, and I have shot some black powder. Old school loose powder flintlock. There is a certain satisfaction to making a good shot weather it is 150 yards with a 22 long rifle, 300-500 yards with a 223, or 600 to 1000 with a 300 Winchester, double tapping with a 45, a feather stripping group of maple shafts in a 3D target, or a perfect shot in the pocket of a hard hunted deer! Each has its' place and time

Joseph

Covey · « **Reply #79 on:** November 01, 2009, 09:51:00 AM »

I'm appreciate all the response to my post. I'm 37 years old and kinda got a late start in hunting, my dad wasnt a hunter but he liked to fish so Ive done alot of fishing in my life. Ive never been much of a killer but I love nothing more than being in the woods or on the water and enjoying what God has blessed me with.To me the journey is definitely more important than the destenation and there is just somthing special about hunting with traditional gear!! Good Hunting, Jason


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