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Offline Ray Hammond

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #60 on: October 19, 2007, 09:34:00 PM »
every day in SC is gun season. I hunt there from Aug 15 through the end of season in December with my bow.

Sept 8th through Jan 31st in GA...black powdercomes in second week of October and gun after that through the end of December...then bow again in metro Atlanta counties. I hunt through with my bow.
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #61 on: October 19, 2007, 09:53:00 PM »
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you'll never be one if you succumb to a gun to do what you couldn't do with a bow.
 
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I DO however, have a problem with supposed bowhuunting experts, and there seems to be plenty of em here, who talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
Why is it that to be a "bowhunting expert" you cant also be a rifle or pistol or whatever hunter.Biggie I don't know you and it's hard to judge a persons meaning when reading typed words.But you allways DO seem to have a problem with folks who don't exclusively bowhunt.maybe there are some people who like to do different things and do them because they WANT to not because they are trying to make up for any shortcomings as a bowhunter.

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Offline BamBooBender

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #62 on: October 19, 2007, 10:41:00 PM »
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Weak excuses guys.....

Hey all you guys who keep saying it's illegal in the state you live, get in those hunting rigs you posted pictures of on the other therad and go somewhere else!
I don't see anyone making excuses or even a reason for anyone to make excuses.

Bowhunting is not my first priority in life, but I still consider myself a bowhunter. My family does (and should imho) come before hunting. I have a daughter planning a wedding next year, another daughter looking forward to graduation next year, and son who wants to gun hunt this year(don't own a deer rifle,borrowing one). So not everyone has the money to travel and pay the exorbitant out of state fees. Not to mention the gas and all the other expenses. I pass up hunting opportunities a lot to do other things like attend football games, choir concerts, anniversaries,  and etc. Now I ain't gonna lie, sometimes it's a little grudgingly that I pass those opportunities up. I just try to keep in mind that the deer (or whatever) aren't going to get their feelings hurt    if I don't show up. As a matter of fact, I'm pretty sure they would just as soon I didn't. lol

That being said, I believe you're just trying to say that bowhunting takes commitment and time. I agree with that, but maybe you could consider that everyone is not in the same boat.   jmho
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #63 on: October 20, 2007, 03:57:00 AM »
Good points guys. I guess the difference is that to some of us, bowhunting is what we do, who we are. Our lives revolve around it and all of our friends are bowhunters who feel the same way about it. Maybe it's just a selfishness about the title "bowhunter". I've been uneasy with that ever since the invent of the compound.
It's all in definitions I guess.

Sorry Frank. Didn't mean to hijack the thread. We're getting off the question  :-)
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Offline Kevin Bahr

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #64 on: October 20, 2007, 06:17:00 AM »
5:16 AM here in central Illinois, 45 degrees now, warming to 79 with SSW wind at 20 to 30...
Time to get in a treestand...with a bow of course.
Let's go hunt something!
Later..............
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #65 on: October 20, 2007, 08:28:00 AM »
7:01am here in North Mississippi, 70 degrees now and warming to 85 with NE wind. I have a 2year old boy in my lap as I type. Their mother is in Florida on the beach while I miss another weekend........... Shoot a doe for me Kevin, please!
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Offline fyrfyter43

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #66 on: October 20, 2007, 09:17:00 AM »
In my part of NJ, you can bow hunt right through the firearms season. I can hunt:
Fall Bow from Sept. 8 - Oct. 26
Permit Bow from Oct. 27 - Dec. 24 and Dec. 26 - 31
Winter Bow from Jan. 1 - Feb. 16.

So, with the exception of Christmas and Sundays, I can hunt every day from Sept. 8 until Feb. 16.

Will I bow hunt during firearms season? You bet! I'll be tucked away in the thickest cover I can find, waiting for the shotgun guys to push them to me.
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Offline Deadsmple

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #67 on: October 20, 2007, 11:03:00 PM »
Wow I stand corrected. I never really paid any attention to what the other zones here were like. It seems we can hunt with our bows in Jersey during the different gun seasons, just not the zone I hunt   :banghead:
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Offline John3

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #68 on: October 20, 2007, 11:08:00 PM »
I use my bow during gun season as well. Although I do hunt the opening morning with my Hawkins .54 cal. round ball and patch. About as traditional as I can get and still use gunpowder.

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Offline Kevin Bahr

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #69 on: October 21, 2007, 06:36:00 AM »
Man, that bites Joey...
No does, passed up 3 small bucks though, but...they better not keep tempting me or one of them won't get any bigger!  All the bucks I've ever shot are P&Y, I just shot them a couple years too soon...
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #70 on: October 29, 2007, 08:48:00 PM »
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Good points guys. I guess the difference is that to some of us, bowhunting is what we do, who we are. Our lives revolve around it and all of our friends are bowhunters who feel the same way about it.
Biggie, I respect that but for myself I'd really hate to be that restricted in my interests and selection of friends.  Life revolving around bowhunting seems pretty bizzare  :campfire:  ...Van
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #71 on: October 29, 2007, 08:52:00 PM »
I will gun hunt the first couple of weeks of gun season then I go back to the bow. I do it every year.
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Offline Scott J. Williams

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #72 on: October 30, 2007, 06:55:00 AM »
There is no doubt about it,  some of the best hunting of the season is during the gun season.  I hung up guns thirty plus years ago, and only hunt with my bows.

It extends my season, and it is great to sit in my blind without bugs, and the heat.  On our lease, we have only bowhunters,  even though the landowner allows us to gun hunt, we refuse.  

If it means that my tag goes unfilled, so be it.  In Texas, I am chasing something year around, no need to grab a smoke pole, and I refuse to stay at home and let someone else have all the fun.
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #73 on: October 30, 2007, 10:39:00 AM »
We pretty much live on wild game, plus I see no reason not to maximize my time in the field and hunting opportunities.

So being I hunt with rifle, handgun (although I share Matthew Quigley's opinion of them), modern tackle, and Trad (I'm primarily a Trad guy).

The rut peaks and runs right through the middle of our Firearms Season in ND, so I always both bowhunt and firearm hunt during the Firearms Season.

Our bow tag is either sex/species anywhere in the state, where the firearms tag is issued by unit/sex. We can bowhunt our rifle tag, as long as we hunt within the assigned unit and take the sex that the tag specifies.

So being, if I'm holding a rifle buck tag as well as a bow tag when the firearms season opens in November, as a standard practice I'll use my firearms tag first.  This allows me to continue to bowhunt bucks through the rest of the rut and into January.

We also can get as many Third Season doe tags as we care to buy.  They are restricted to a unit, but the deer can be taken with any legal weapon  during any open season, and you can begin hunting as soon as you get the tag.

These extra tags allow a guy to fill the freezer and continue to hunt.  I got a lot of valuable Trad experience last year hunting into January on a Third Season Tag.

During Firearms Season here bowhunters have to wear the same amount of orange required of firearms hunters and have to follow all Firearms Season regs...
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Offline MI_Bowhunter

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #74 on: October 30, 2007, 11:09:00 AM »
Depends on my mood.   Some years I've pulled out the gun and others I've used the bow.   Lately I've been using a bow more and more.

Every deer I've shot with a gun has been within 20 yards.
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Offline eagle24

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #75 on: October 30, 2007, 11:26:00 AM »
Longbow only, thats it!
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #76 on: October 30, 2007, 11:50:00 AM »
I only bow hunt. Jawge
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #77 on: October 30, 2007, 11:53:00 AM »
Yes, I bow hunt during gun season. I do wear an orange hat and hanky around my neck. it will be small game this year during guns. I already filled my tag. Jawge
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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #78 on: October 30, 2007, 01:21:00 PM »
Van, yeah it does make for some interesting lack of conversation at Christmas Parties. While I'm yawning thru the guys talking ballistics and bullet weights, my mind is sitting in a tree with my longbow, wondering how anyone who has ever killed a deer with a bow could ever go back and kill one with a gun. To me, bowhunting is hunting, the kill is almost anti-climatic. Gun hunting is just killing deer.
It's that narrow minded thinking that has kept me from becoming a success in business and other things I guess  :-)
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Offline Arrow Slinga

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Re: Hunting with your bow in gun season.
« Reply #79 on: October 30, 2007, 02:04:00 PM »
Bigie, I agree with you 100 percent! I have nothing against anyone who hunts with a gun to each their own but what I find amazing is people will bash someone for using a compound and then take all their vacation time to go gun deer hunting. I guess I am a little norrow minded also.
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