Future design of bows

[Bowwild]

I also hunt with rifles. I love to squirrel hunt with my Coopers and I try to kill one deer a year with my .308.  I fill my one buck tag/year with a bow though (and a few does too).

[Hit-or-Miss]

I would still hunt with my bow. I would just drive further north, to a more remote area and walk further into the woods. From what I have seen, most gun hunters don't travel very far from roads or trails. I would just go as far into the back country as I could. Pack up the basics, hike in and solo camp for a few days. I WOULD start wearing blaze orange though!

[Hookeye]

I'm cool with my state's current set up and like the idea of being able to make my own choices.

I love guns, and make no apology for it.

In fact, if I had a better financial situation I'd have a Ruger #3 in .44 mag rechambered for .445 Supermag and slap #1 wood on it.

I've hunted for turkeys with bow (stick bow) and hunted deer during gun season with same.

My choice, nothing more, nothing less.

Heck, my bud just built a .458 SOCOM AR15 and I'd love to drop a deer with a rig like that  

[buckster]

Pretty much Trad Archery only for me.  Boy do I miss out on a lot of nice bucks since I made this choice, but it makes the occassional harvest all the more rewarding!  

Although I do still cheat on longbeards and pull out the shotgun now and again.

[Hookeye]

FWIW if my kid wants to hunt deer (she's 12) she's gonna run a rifle, not a bow. On private ground of course.

IMHO there are a lot of crazies with bows out there hunting, they're just not as easy to hear  

[Hookeye]

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even had one dude sit down and start hunting 40 yards awayfrom us while we were gutting my buddy's deer out...  

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Rude maybe, but not necessarily foolish. Have had nice bucks come in while gutting other deer out (does and bucks).

[acadian archer]

up here you can use bow all season, icluding the gun season. I choese to hunt all year with the bow, both big and small game.

I do like my guns and DID enjoy my O/U 12 gauge and Ruger 270 but they don't give me the same rush. Bow all the way.

If there was a technological advancement that made it possible for a one eyed, one armed drunk monkey to kill a deer. In Iowa they would give them a season during the regular bow season, just to sell more licenses, so we can have an entirely new army of knuckleheads running over top of us.  Bureaucrats rarely, if ever, consider the quality of the adventure, it is too difficult to put a dollar value on that.

[SteveB]

I would hunt with both - as I do now.
Enjoy it all.

[TRAD101]

bow or a camera, don't even have a gun anymore.