Considering hanging up my guns.

[overbo]

I go hunting w/ my rifles but never can bring myself to pull the trigger no matter what. I own some very fine firearms and love looking at their engraving, checkering, and exhibition woods they sport but just can't bring myself to kill w/ one. I haven't killed anything w/ any of them and some I've owned for years.

[Slickhead]

Ive always considered bowhunting...hunting
Ive always thoughtof gun hunting as ...killing

I still hunt with my 44 mag revolver for deer.
But I have to tell you that in Ohio you cant throw a dead cat wo hitting another hunter that week of gun season.

Nothing brings out more idiots than that week.

With that said Ive always had a passion for firearms.
But I dont feel like a hunter unless I have a bow...and no orange on.

[Kevin Dill]

I have a favorite way of fishing, but I haven't given up all other ways in favor of it.

There are so many ways to have fun afield with rod, gun and bow. I have never understood the idea of making a conscious decision to eliminate any of them.

[Bowwild]

I still hunt squirrels with a .22 rimfire and PCP air rifle. I also take the .308 single shot out every few years and kill a doe. Nothing wrong with the firearm I just have an overwhelming preference for hunting big game (for 45 years)with my bows.

[Sam McMichael]

This past season was the 17th consecutive year that I did not take the rifle to the woods. I have a scope that I put on one of my rifles over 10 years ago, and it is still not sighted in.

[Frank V]

Originally posted by hvyhitter:
Its tuff hunting doves with a bow.............

90% of my hunting is with a bow but I still enjoy taking out a shotgun/pistol/sidelock every once in a while...............

[Brock]

my wife made a deal with me 20+ years ago....put two deer in freezer with firearm and then I can "play" with my bow and arrows all I want.  So I hunt the buck only portion with bow...then doe season I take two does with lever gun, revolver or other....then bow rest of year.  I bowhunt for deer, hogs, bear, turkey, squirrel, rabbit and have done it for pheasant when I was in Maryland.  Dove, quail...sorry but my side by sides get used for them...I am doing exceptional to limit with a side by side much less a bow on the birds.  Well any game animal for that matter...haha

[Trumpkin the Dwarf]

Originally posted by Brock:
my wife made a deal with me 20+ years ago....put two deer in freezer with firearm and then I can "play" with my bow and arrows all I want.  

That's a sweet deal right there! I'll count myself lucky if I marry a girl with priorities like that.  

[SuperK]

I gave up gun hunting years ago.  Trad only for me!  2 years ago I took my two best bucks with a recurve; both of them 9 pointers.  One of them was from the ground!  Talk about a rush!

[Bear Heart]

I can't really ever hang up my other hunting tools. Work dictates my hunting season.

[Roger Norris]

My sons and I still get together for Michigan's firearm opener. I will carry a rifle/shotgun/flintlock/handgun depending on where we are at.

I also still hunt rabbits about 1/2 the time with a firearm.

That said....hunting with a longbow is "it" for me. Anytime I am using a firearm it is more about putting meat in the freezer than hunting.

[T Folts]

Bow for me the last few years, but that dont mean I wont take a gun hunting. For me it is opportunity. If I get an invite to gun hunt some where I will but most of my spots are bow only.
Im so OCD you never know what I'm going to be doing next year.

[Jerry Russell]

I last carried a firearm into the woods in 1988 and it has been a trad bow and nothing short of heaven since then. If you are doing it for all the right reasons you will never regret the journey.

[Mojostick]

I love it all. Bows, nice rifles, muzzleloaders. I'd throw a spear at deer if they allowed it in Michigan. Shooting stuff with centerfire rifles is one of the great joys in life.

[Fireman2019]

Been a bowhunter my entire life.  Finally killed my first deer with a rifle last November.  Aside from a couple primo muzzleloader tags in the last few years, I've been a die hard bowhunter.  I don't think I will ever completely hang up my guns.  I have a really nice Shiloh Sharps that I reload and cast my own bullets for that is begging to get an antelope and hopefully someday a buffalo.

[Archie]

I have some guns that I still keep for hunting, but it seems like I'm always more interested in taking my bow when hunting opportunities arise.

[lbshooter]

I started bow hunting at  14 and shot numerous deer with a a traditional bow seversl years before shooting my first deer with a rifle. This was largely because NJ was buckshot only back then and it  was unappealing  To me. i did take up rifle hunting when i lived down south for some years but found it lacking. For the last 15 years I have rifle hunted big game out west at long range, 500-1000+  yards.  I find this and trad bow hunting very challenging sports that  are two very different dimensions of hunting.  I am also an avid bird hunter with shotgun//bird dog. Still hunting/stalking whitetails is and will always be my favorite form of hunting.

[mellonhead]

I have hunted with many weapons over the years, but for about the last 8 or so I have settled on my two favorites.  I either hunt with my traditional archery gear or iron sighted revolvers.  I find them very similar in that both take quite a bit of practice to be efficent with.  

Toby

[RIVERWOLF]

''''''''''Strictly sticks for over 13=14 years.
Last gun I hunted with was ...Mmmm  probably 20 years ago .

Still carry my 22 Marlin years I run a line....Other than that , I'm going out like I came of age hunting...Stick and string    

Hunting @ its purist form of Lethal simplicity .

[Larrydawg]

I did!! Ive had bows since i was a kid more comfortable with bows then guns
Larry