Do you keep your freezer full hunting with traditional equiptment?

[Cyclic-Rivers]

No I am a Terrible, Terrible hunter!

I hear ya Mark!  I remember years where I saw 20 deer a day in WI. Now If I see 10 in a season it's great year It's what happens when a state figures out that tag sales generate money and not sending biologists afield to check populations.
The Adirondacks don't have a great # of deer either.

Therefore it's be  a great hunter or ask your friends for Venison.

I plan on shooting a lot of vegetables this year and putting them in the freezer though.     I find they dont move as fast when you approach from up wind  

[wapiti792]

I am blessed to have killed 10 does and 2 bucks in the 3 years hunting with my trad bows...we eat the heck out of it, and other than yardwalkers (chickens) we eat deer, turkey, rabbit, squirrel, and fish from our pond most evening meals. My kids think beef tastes funny and other than a Happy Meal from the Evil Empire, they steer clear of other forms of meat  

[trubltrubl]

no need to buy meat in 13 yrs, moose,elk,wild boar and deer all with traditional equipment

[sagebrush]

Yes

[Ragnarok Forge]

An elk lasts my family of four for a year +  Toss a turky or two and a deer in and we are good to go.

[IndianaBowman]

My kids think beef tastes funny! I've been fortunate to put 4-5 deer in the freezer each year for a long, long time. I'll usually put 2 in with the bow and then my boys pack in the rest with a gun. I have a son on a mission for church now so we put 4 in this year. 3 with my longbow and then my other boy put one in with a gun. I didn't get this fine full figure by being a light eater!

When the kids were little we were down at the Smithsonian Institute in DC and going through the Natural History museum. My wife got a kick out of the kids when they started looking around and saying we had that for dinner last night, that the night before, and that last week. We had moose, caribou, oryx, antelope, whitetail, and black bear in the freezer that year.

[bornagainbowhunter]

Never been a problem.  I usually take 4 to 6 deer a year.  Been bow only for 10 years and longbow for the last 7.

[wapiti792]

IndianaBowman, my kids do that at the zoo...    That is GREAT. My six year old daughter saw me eyeballing a zebra at the zoo last week in St Louis and said "Dad, I bet your lookin' where your arrow would go"...I spit out my gum laughing!

[IndianaBowman]

Wapiti, that is too funny! When I went to Africa a zebra was the only animal my daughter wanted me to bring back for her. The rug should be delivered any day!

How old is your daughter and is she hunting with you?

[twitchstick]

So far this year I'm not doing it so well after a turkey pulled a houdini around my arrow. Most years I don't need to buy too much meat but the girls get sick of always eating game meat. With only a bear last year in the freezer I need to get a couple of deer and elk this year.

[bolong]

yes  

[Onehair]

Last year I took 2 nice bucks, 2 does and a hog for the freezer. I don't have enough left to make it to October.

[bozara]

Where I mainly hunt we can harvest 5 does and at least one buck (sometimes draw a second) plus an elk.  Haven't hunted with a rifle in almost 30 years and keep 2 freezers full most of the time.

[ron w]

No!!!!!!If I had to eat what I hunted I would have starved to death long ,long ago! I average seeing only 3 deer a year, so to fill the freezer with the bow or the gun is almost impossible!!!

[SteveB]

Always save some tags for the inline - just too much fun. And a 1/4 of the neighbors beef - usually name it in the summer.

[portugeejn]

Realistically, I keep my freezer full by going to the supermarket.  I don't hunt with a gun much at all any more (not at all for the last 5 years).  And traditional archery is more fun anyway (The weather is better during archery season-I am not as interested in standing out in the rain as I used to be:-).  

RonP

[wapiti792]

IndianaBowman, she is six and we have shared a couple great deer hunts together as well as a few days in the blind turkey hunting. Her Maddog Pup should be here any day. I hope someday she is filling her own freezer  

[Chris O]

We just had to buy a second stand up freezer.  

[longbowman]

Yes.

[BobW]

no, and thank god for my BP guns (old and new).