Do you keep your freezer full hunting with traditional equiptment?

[Arkansaslongbow]

Do you always fill your tags? or do you have to rely on gun season to fill your freezer?

Just wanting to know if you the skill to put meat in the freezer EVERY hunting season with your recurve or longbow; let us know......  

[Earthdog]

Yeah not a problem.
The seasons on gathering food runs all year.
We don't have the level of govt control most of the world lives under just yet.
It's a free country,,,one of the very few.

[Bowferd]

I unplugged my freezer long ago.
Don't need it. Don't use guns.
Use the catch and release method.
If it ain't fresh I don't need it.

I should add Lifelong NRA member
I do smoke a bit from time to time but prefer pink salmon.

[Plumber]

I could no problem but I let my kid go pop some deer with a muzzeloader. Iam very happy with trad. hunting I have been doing it for 6-8years ,Iam as confedient as when I walked into the woods with my compound I shoot good enough to kill deer but I do miss from time to time witch is good it drives me season to season missing big deer will make you a better hunter through the pain & motivation method or you will just quit. It will be one or the other.

[sweet old bill]

Were I live if you see 3 deer a week you a lucky so I can say I sure can not cound on taking deer with the bow or gun.

I still love the outdoor and the hunt. But also I have to say due to low number of the deer I also let doe's walk and will only draw on a bigger buck. SO in the last 5 years have had only one taken, and it was a 7 point buck.

[Tom-Wisconsin]

Some years there is no room in the freezer for venison because my spouse forgets to leave me room. So sometimes I just wait for a eight pointer but no doe for meat. If I did get the eight pointer, my son would take the meat for his freezer.

[buckeye_hunter]

Wish I could say yes.......

[Stringwacker]

No problem to fill the freezer. Still eating venison from the year prior when the next season opens. I haven't failed in 25 years to put at least two deer in the freezer with traditional equipment.

[ranger 3]

No, I was lucky last year I saw two deer all season and took one of them.

[Guru]

Yes    

[slivrslingr]

I would have starved long ago if relying on my bow for food!  Now that I'm in Australia, I hope to bring a few more animals to hand.  

[mrgreenhead]

well i got 3 freezers so ill say yes . My freezers have plenty of deer and fish and beaver to supply my needs .

[steadman]

With two tags, three on a lucky year, I manage to put an animal a year in the frezer. But with 3 boys that are 14 to 11, I'd have to kill 2 moose a year to keep my freezer full!!      

[Charlie Lamb]

yes    

[Eric Krewson]

Some years yes, some years no. I love stalking through the woods with a period correct flintlock I built from scratch so I bowhunt until the weather gets bitter cold, then out comes the flintlock.

[hogdancer]

yes,  don't buy meat from the store, never have used a rifle

[Stiks-n-Strings]

I trad hunt for the hunt and all though I would not call myself a trophy hunter I will let does walk in the early season and wait for a nice buck.

 I usually only put one deer in the freezer every two years due to 1/2 of the household don't eat it. But I harvest a couple does during gun season to help keep the does thinned and give the meat to elderly folks who can't get out and do it anymore.
 To me gun season is just a good opportunity to get my girls out because they like to deer hunt but not with a bow so I enjoy it for that no doubt. But when it's just me going it's trad all the way.

 As far as do i think I could keep my freezer full, I'm pretty confident I could.

[Bill Carlsen]

I am very happy to say "yes". Of course the moose I shot really took up a lot of freezer space.

[Shedrock]

The bow way or no way.

[Arwin]

Yep, in the last 8 years I have taken all my deer with trad gear and I usually put 3 in the freezer per season.