Pretty simple question. Do you look down your nose at gun hunters or do you see them as part of the sport you love but just choose a different weapon? No right or wrong answers....... Discuss.
I love to bow hunt more than anything. But, You can bet the 30-06 will ring my ears a time or two this season. I don't know why, or what it is, but be it thrill, tradition, or whatever, there's something about it that brings out the lead in me every year.
No way. In fact I enjoy hunting with a rifle & m/l myself, though my first love is the bow and I use it more.
Definitely not! Lord, knows that bowhunting is my first and truest love... but I own way more guns than I do bows... and I plan on using them from time to time, too!
No way. I hunt with bow (compound and recurve), muzzleloader, rifle, and beanyflip if they'd open a season for that. Doesn't matter to me what method people use as long as they follow the regulations and enjoy what they're doing.
but... but .... but..... I thought gun hunters were lazy, inconsiderate, hacks that litter, shoot every deer they see, kill all the bucks, get drunk and ruin it for the bowhunters???? Generalizing here of course.
I use to be only a gun hunter until this year took up bow hunting. I would have had my limit by now if I had a gun. I respect all bow hunter more than ever now. Don't get me wrong there's a few bow hunters I look down on. I know a guy who's shot 3 bucks and hasn't found one. I've had a few shots myself but haven't took them because I wasn't 100% sure. Bow hunting takes allot more skill than with a gun. Hell with a shotgun you have 5 rounds at great range if your screw that up you might as well be elmer fudd...
Sometimes.....if they walk under me.....:D Depends on the gun hunter type really. I DO NOT like the deer drives that are so commonly done here in Ohio, and have seen many cases in which they were just plain DANGEROUS!!! Last time I was in a deer drive, I believe I was 17 or so, and some of the dumb-arses started shooting into the drive at a couple little 6pt bucks, lead flying over my head, cracking in the trees above me..... NO THANKS!!! Good ethical HUNTERS, not herders, no problems at all. My last shot at a deer with a gun was in 2002. I lost the desire to use guns on them, as there was just no thrill in it anymore. Bowhunting ruined the "gun-hunter" in me.....
I bowhunt most of the time. Last year I took my .270 out on one hunt in late Dec on my lease. However I do not like going to public lands during our gun season. The WMAs tend to be really crowded at this time. It's why I look for archery only WMAs to hunt and focus on my lease once gun season opens. I don't look down my nose, but try to avoid those areas as much as I can.
Hi Chavo, my name is Elmer Fudd. Nice to meet you. I missed the biggest buck I've ever seen at 40 yards with a shot gun in 2007. :D
public grounds up here opening day sound like a 2 day war reenactment. Did it one time never again bow hunting public ground here is great though
Well if your sick with buck fever that's understandable. I'm just saying you can't compare bow hunting with a gun. Your odds are increased dramatically with a gun.
You probably won't have many openly admit it here....but there are some here that do look down on gun hunters. Over the years its shown through. I personally don't understand why so many folks harbour the elitist attitudes, but to each his own I guess.
I get it. It's just funny you said that and that exact thing happened to me in 2007. Elmer Fudd I am!!!!
I gun hunt. Bowhunting is great then they close the season for 9 days to gun hunt. If I don't gun hunt I don't get to hunt. So I choose to hunt.
Not at all, I still go shotgun but I'm not as focused on it. I've taken 3 deer with a gun vs about 13 or so with a bow. Then again I hunt private land so while it gets gun hunted, everyone that hunts it sit in stands. I'm actually happy to be going this year, put in for a hard to get public land tag and got drawn. Plus it looks like shotgun weekend will be prime rut around here, cold temps and even a chance of snow on the ground. Wouldn't want to miss it.
that's alright I had the biggest buck I've ever seen in my life here 30yds broadside head down. This was my 2nds day out bow hunting too by the way. Dropped my can call we made eye contact and he said see ya.. Haven't seen him since
I grew up gun hunting with my family. I have alot of great memories thats for sure. I found my passion in bow hunting the last 10 years, but I don't look down on gun hunters at all, if people didn't gun hunt then we would have more problems with deer. Personally, being a trophy hunter I would rather harvest my deer with bow and manage deer with bow. To me there is more behind pulling that string back and letting an arrow rip through a deer than simply pulling the trigger.
