Just curious....for guys who signed up for the contest

1. If you didn't score a buck for your team.....please answer No. 2.

2. Are you still hunting with your bow?....or....have you taken up firearms (conceded the contest)?

Just curious.

 

I Have yet to get my buck this year and I ONLY hunt with a bow.


I have until February 7th to get it done with my bow.

 

I'll be out this weekend with the muzzle loader on my property, only because your not allowed to use a bow during the gun season. Go figure??

Then it's bow till the season ends in Jan.

 

Still going at It strong with the bow. I won't concede until the 3rd week or so of December. Conceding to me Is shooting a doe, one tag area. I don't gun hunt, all bow.

 

Schultzy, It is tag soup for me this year in Illinois the first in 7 years but I do not gun hunt so I am now hunting in Michigan for a doe for the team unless a big buck I don't know is there and stumbles on by!! Walt

 

It happens Walt!! Been there and done that one many times. :D The 1st In 7 years though Is something to be proud of, well done sir! Good luck big fellar In getting a doe In Michigan!!

 

i have got my buck and my doe for my team already but im still going strong with the bow and will do so until Jan 5th

 

Haven't hunted since November 15th. The last couple weeks have been spent in my office here working on business for next year. Also, its been gun season here in WI, which I only went out for 2 hours just to say I did it, and now ML season. Johnny and I are heading back to IL around the 13th for one last trip and will also be hunting here in WI. Hopefully, I'll have enough done to be able to sneek up to the cabin and try whacking a doe later this week.

As long as the baby doesn't come to early and I get the work done I need to, the season is far from over.

 

Same for me, other than I'll be using an 870 this weekend, ML next weekend. I'll use the bow anytime its legal until the season is over.

 

I have 2 saturdays left to get it done(not to confident tjough ) Our gun season just ended,but I still found myself going out with my bow during gun season. I carried a rifle for 2 hours while I was out moving some stands around in case I was fortunate enough to see a deer. So far all year i have seen 8 does in Maine.

 

BBM, is it legal to use the bow during ML season? Thought it was.

 

I cant answer for this year since I already have my buck. But If it matters, last season I hunted with the bow until the closer Jan 3rd. brrrrrrrrrr I sold my slug gun also. now im thinking about selling my Omega ML with stainless barrel.

 

I have not scored on a buck and I am still hunting with the bow. I don't see picking up a firearm at all this season. I can hunt in Georgia until Jan 1 and Jan 10 in Tennessee.

 

If I was still living in PA, I'd be using the bow. I've only hunted down there with a rifle 2x times in the last 6 years that I can remember, and that was because I had doe tags that needed filling.

With that said, I've been out with the .270 the past 2 weekends hunting the northern zone in NY. Deer populations are REALLY low up there, especially this year with the winter kill from last winter. They are well under 5 dpsm this year. I don't know how you could kill a deer any deer up there with a bow consistently, especially during rifle season. I actually don't know anyone that has killed one during archery season for quite a few years. It's just a whole different game in that terrain, and with that type of population. Over the past 2 weekends, in a camp with 8x guys that sit on an exclusive 1500 acres........I saw the only deer in camp. We officially saw more moose than deer.

I'll be back at it in PA for their late season trying to fill a buck tag. For now, I'm not going to change the way I would normally hunt for a contest, I'll enjoy carrying my Remington in the big woods for one more weekend.

 

Still out hunting. Hunting a new location on monday that I know has deer. Looking forward to it. Hopefully I will be able to connect then!

 

Yeah it is, I actually bought a ML tag and am hunting with my dad that weekend. Guess I lied.....other than ML weekend, I'll be using the bow when legal.:D

 

All three of my rifles are loaned out to buddies for gun season. :D Bow only for me, no buck... YET!

 

I gun hunt during gun season and bow hunt during bow season :D

 

I took up the gun for gun season here in WI but now that it is pretty much over I'll be back to the bow.

 

I gun hunt, but in Oklahoma you get two buck tags. So I would still have a buck tag if I did kill one with my rifle....but I didn't. lol