Bowhunting during general firearm seasons

[Earthdog]

In NZ we have no seasons on big game animals,so your always sharing the bush with all types of other hunters.
The up side is that you don't met many other hunters anyway,because there's no sudden influx due to seasons suddenly opening and restricted hunting times.
This April I'll be spending a week chasing Red deer during the peak of their rut,,and sharing a camp with two rifle hunters.
Other than on a private "bowhunting only" property I vist once or twice a year,,this is pretty much the norm' for me.

[LV2HUNT]

For us we just hunt with bow all the way through all the seasons. We are still required to buy the appropriate stamps though.

 

[Guru]

I've had good and bad during our rifle season....

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That coyote was killed this past fall....only the second time I've bowhunted during rifle season since my "incident"

[woodsman 365]

Here in NB we can take one deer per year. Lots of bow hunters here are done before we get to gun season.

[Ken Taylor]

I'd trade killing a coyote with a bow during gun season for killing a deer any day!
Both are exotic animals over here...I have wolves on my doorstep though!

[straitera]

Great job with that nice deer Ken! Hunter orange is mandatory on public land here. I've hunted year round with longbow only for decades. I do allow gun hunters the first few weeks to tire of public land however before I'll go into the woods during gun season.

[Missouri Bowman]

I only hunt gun season with a bow. In Missouri we have some state land which is archery only, meaning you don't need hunter orange, usually that land is close to the bigger cities, but very huntable land. One of the areas close to me is about 2300 acres of archery only and recieves little pressure during gun season.  I've seen some nice deer there. As I recall back in the seventies, one of Missouri's biggest deer was taken there.

[Jack Whitmire Jr]

I love the gun season here, but as Curt said wear that orange.

[jcar315]

This past season I hunted from September 15th through the end of January with my recurve only. This included all sorts of firearms seasons during that time. Didn't pull a gun out at all and loved it! Really don't think I will again.

During any season that required bowhunters / hunters to wear blaze orange I always did. Never an issue and always the right time to follow the rules and be safe.

Originally posted by rastaman:
i hunt with my bow year round...gun season or not.  That is one big deer!  Thanks for sharing!      

X2!


Bisch

[hawkeye n pa]

I'm another bow hunter during "rifle" season.  In '08 I shot a 8pt that was still in velvet on the last day.  (Second  week of December)


Nice buck, Ken
Also nice 'yote!!

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

Great buck Ken

I dont own any guns. I hunt the gun season each year.  I dread having to wear orange , but I'm out there.

[hayslope]

Whoa    Someone put antlers on that horse!!!

Great buck Ken.  Probably the only time you didn't have a    on your face was when you had to drag him out of the bush!

[T Sunstone]

Shot this guy next to the last day of Maryland's 2 week gun season.  He came by with about 2 minutes of shooting light left.

[Bonebuster]

I have been afield with my bow during firearms season, and will probably do it from now on.

Wear orange, and take it for what it is.

When I look at my deer rifles, all I can think is
they would fund my new Bushbow from Great Northern.

[motorhead7963]

I will be making a Colorado Elk trip this year.I will be going during the rifle season(FYI) I shoot anything and everything. I will be taking my Bow, so I called the Colo, DOW and talked to a person in the office in the area that I will be hunting and she READ me the regulations as to the requirements of archery equipment.Didn't really answer my question as to wether I can hunt with my bow during the general season, so I guess I will have to make a second or maybe a third call to the Division to get a straight answer. I've been reading the post's on this thread and haven't seen anybody from Colo. post on this one yet, does anybody know for sure if I can. (sorry didn't mean to get off topic)

[Earl E. Nov...mber]

Here in Nebraska, many of us are campaigning for the privilege.. Meeting is Friday, but I am not holding my breath.
So far the State's answer to our request is to make the bow a legal weapon during gun season.. aka "buy another permit" Which are normally all sold out anyway..    
Please wish us well.  

[RonD]

On the National Wildlife Refuge where I hunt it is illegal to hunt with a bow during the gun season.

[larryh]

in washington state you have to choose your tag, archery, rifle, or muzzleloader and have to hunt the seasons your tag fits. you can hunt with a bow in rifle season if you buy an mod. firearms tag. you cannot hunt multiple seasons and a rifle or muzzleloader cannot use that weapon in an archery area even if they have the proper tag.
i used to hunt rifle seasons but no longer do because there are so many large archery areas and archery seasons.

[Keith Zimmerman]

Archery only for me!  Congrats to you guys with kills.