Bowhunting during rifle/shotgun season

[vtmtnman]

Thinking of giving it a go this year...anyone else leave the boom stick home?(If it's legal in your state)

[Jack Denbow]

I do. I just hunt deer with a bow no matter what the season. Last year I shot a doe on Pearle Harbor day in the snow, pretty cool.
Jack

[jrstegner]

I do if I haven't tagged out, let me tell you it is a tough row to hoe if you are after mature bucks.

[killinstuff]

Shot my best deer, a big 8 during gun season last year. But I'm on privite land surrounded by nonhunting privite land owners.

[Eugene Slagle]

99% of my hunting is done with a bow in hand with an occasional muzzle loader thrown in from time to time.

I like to get close to what I'm hunting & the satisfaction of taking game that is fully alert with my bow.

[vtmtnman]

I have some lightly pressured areas I can try.After hunting shotgun season in Ohio last year I thought our rifle season was pressured..LOL.

May take off one or two weekdays of the first week too.

[onewhohasfun]

I don't gun hunt at all, but I took two deer during firearms season last yr. Don't forget the flo orange hat.

[pappy]

I have only bow hunted for years now,but will say I am lucky enough to have my own farm that
I don't have any gun hunting except for the early youth hunt,so when the guns start popping on farms around mine the hunting usually only gets better.I will say it's pretty cool to go check in a deer during guns season and see all the looks of amazement.All I do is smile.
     Pappy

[BBK41ND]

Some of the best huinting has been with bow during rifle season.always get a kick ouy of watching from a tree and seeing how many the rifle hunters dont see.always orange up alittle more, the deer dont seem to mind

[straitera]

Gun hunters in the woods can push deer your direction. Just be more careful in/out from your stand. I never stillhunt around gun hunters.

[lpcjon2]

Originally posted by straitera:
Gun hunters in the woods can push deer your direction. Just be more careful in/out from your stand. I never stillhunt around gun hunters.

Sounds like being in a tree 20ft up would be the safe place to be.

[smokin joe]

It is a good way to hunt and makes your bow season longer. I agree that the pressure from the gun season will move the deer a lot more, so a tree stand is a good choice.

[Zradix]

I've heard of enough people shooting a gun at "where I figured the deer was" after seeing a flash of white.

Makes me never want to use white feathers in my quiver.

[SuperK]

I gave up gun hunting years ago.  I only hunt with my bow.  I do wear an orange hat in gun season.

[Jesse Minish]

Here in Idaho we have archery season then any weapon season(rifle season) witch is 90% of the hunting season. Basically if I want to deer hunt its with my bow during rifle season.

[adeeden]

We can't do it in IL, but i do in Indiana from time to time. Dad shot a god one last year with his Bob Lee over in indiana on the opening of fire arms season.

 

Please excuse the poor picture!

[Kapellmeister]

Originally posted by Zradix:
I've heard of enough people shooting a gun at "where I figured the deer was" after seeing a flash of white.

Makes me never want to use white feathers in my quiver.

That's actually not a bad idea!  I like to hunt with a flintlock during our PA rifle season and I like to dress in 18th century clothing... walnut-hull-dyed linen is too close to the color of a deer    :eek:   to be safe IMHO, so I usually wear a gray wool shirt with an orange wool waistcoat over it.  I also never have anything white on.  

Depending on the circumstances and where I'm hunting, I'll use either the flintlock or a bow during firearms season.

[Kris]

Yes, I do!  We have Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) deer eradication seasons (doesn't that sound awful?) here in southern Wisconsin and the WDNR has experimented with a number of gun deer seasons that coincide with the archery season (hate it!).  I always elect to take my bow but have to wear blaze orange to legally hunt (hate it!).  Keep the faith and do it the hard way though, the reward is always the greatest!

Kris

[Cottonwood]

I will be out this season with my recurve and arrows, but we must wear 400 sq inches of blaze orange above the waste.  Will be pretty much hunting on private property, even though the bigger deer are out west of town, and so will the gun hunters.

I dress warm in cold weather, and am not concerned about camo, but got to wear that vest.

[Andy Cooper]

I'll hunt the last part of the muley rifle season with a bow. My 8 year old daughter is going with me for the first part, so stalking and stillhunting is out.