Back Me up?

[Joe Archer]

I have a new lady friend who has been hunting for at least 15 years with a gun and has taken at least 8 nice bucks. I told her that once she starts archery hunting and has a chance at a deer, she will say that she .. " doesn't care if she ever uses a gun again..." Do you agree? She thinks I am nuts. ;) Ok, so she is right about that part :evil:
Anyway, I want her to see your opinions on the future of her "love for gun hunting". I'll pop on here tonight with her.. just after I tune her NEW bow and teach her how shoot the knocks off her arrows... <----<<<

[Banditto]

I agree 100%.

A) it is just cooler to bow-hunt than gun-hunt.

B) gun season is 2 weeks (plus muzzle) while bow season is 10 or so.

C) it adds to the sport of it all.

[Young Steve]

It just doesn't get any better!!

Bowhunting is so much more challenging. But it's also so much more rewarding.

Once you have the opportunity to shoot at an animal, Hit or miss, You'll experience the Excitment 10 fold.

Good Luck this season.


P.S.- Listen to that Joe guy once in awhile. He just might be telling the truth ;)

[krt]

Although I enjoy bow hunting, I don't think I would want to give up gun hunting. I have too many fond memories from gun season (and bow season)over the years & wouldn't want to have mised out on them. Every year they come back to me as the seasons approach. Most are of my earlier days w/ my Dad. He is a gun hunter & never really got into archery.

[Randy Kidd]

That's pretty much like saying that once you have been with a blonde you will never want to be with a redhead or a brunette again :lol:
I have taken deer with bow and firearms..I love them both, I get just as excited with one as I do the other..

[Steven Arend]

I whole heartedly believe that she will love bow hunting more then gun in time.

I started out gun hunting then about 5 years later I took up bow hunting. 2 years after that I started to get more exited about bow then gun. Then after 10 years I gave up hunting with a rifle and a shotgun and went with bow hunting and Black powder, this just added to the thrill then after bow hunting for 15 years and many deer I but away the compound bow and now I’m shooting Traditional bow and cedar arrows and what a rush. Next will be butting away the side lock and going with a flint lock.

It will be a progressive change.

Steve

[WALLEYEvision]

I don't think I could pick one over the other. I too started off as a gun hunter then took up bowhunting a couple of years later. I love both, but what I love best is now my deer season last several weeks instead of several days.

[Death_From_Above]

I too believe that both are a lot of fun. Gun is awesome depending how you do it. If you sit in a tree, and shoot the first buck you see at 50 yards over a bait pile...ya it's to darn easy!

If you get up early, after new snowfall and get on a trail and track a buck catching a glimpse here, and a glimpse there, and then crawl the last 20 yards on your belly to get a shot. I don't care what you use....it's an awesome experience and one no one would ever forget!

So I say whatever it takes to provide you with a lifetime full of memories...She should do!!! And isn't it nice to share in those memories with her.

[Joe Archer]

Well thank you all for the replies. The lady I am talking about is sitting here right now. Her new Darton Maverick is all set up for the woods and she is ALREADY shooting like a pro! She had a few chuckles from your replies and really liked the one about the blondes and redheads... I liked that analogy as well ;) We have her tree stand all set up 10 yards from a major trail that a buck is already scraping on. In any case, I lost the bet and now she gets to have her way with me!!!! I would have swore that you all would have said there is no comparison between bow and gun. Sorry about my luck.. NOT! I will let you know how opening weekend goes and hopefully we will have some pics to post. <----<<<

[Ranger Ray]

Whats a gun? ;)

[Hunt_n_Fish]

I agree, Bow hunting is so much more fun and rewarding.

[Shiawassee_Kid]

could'nt really give you much insight about gun hunting because I never have any tags left by then to get the dust off my rifle/muzzleloader. :sad:

[victor mi pro bowhunter]

I think she will love bowhunting and not think about gun hunting much but.I can't see her giving up gun hunting.

[PrtyMolusk]

Howdy, Joe-

"I have a new lady friend..."

AHA! So that's the reason you've been absent from the site for a while..... ;)

[safetreehunt]

I know you're not asking to choose here, just whether you'd go back to gun hunting or not. In my case I grew up with a rifle in my hands and I'll always be in that state of mind. To me and I suppose with a good part of my family, the opening day of gun season is better than Christmas eve. And Thanksgiving weekend is more like the Christmas holidays for our family since we get together then more often than during the real Christmas holidays.

However....I love the bowhunting for the fact it gets me into the woods way more than I ever was as a gun hunter. I have developed over the last several years though a dilemma that makes me choose between bowhunting and bird hunting. When I was younger and did not bow hunt I bird hunted all of the time. That activity has fallen way off since I started with the bow about 15 years ago. I miss the bird and duck hunting dearly. It's very difficult to do both at the same time of year.

[D_Hunter]

Sitting there in the silence of the outdoors...listening to the morning start. Hearing a noise that just quite isn't normal...than turning to see what she has gone through all the preperation for. Slowly getting into postion...anticipating on what is about to happen, her every sense will be hightned.....

Then there is the thrill of watching a deer get within 20 yards to make a shot with the bow !!! :lol: :lol:

Good luck...enjoy your new sport.

[Joe Archer]

Les,

That was very intuitive. I have been hunting for over a year and a half.... NON-FREAKIN-STOP! Do you know how hard it is to find a fine lady who loves hunting, fishing and the outdoors who has a warm heart, great legs, a nice smile and can shoot a flea off a fly from 100 yards??? No, I didn't think you could imagine ;) In any case, it took all the hunting instincts I could muster...

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[Oct.1]

Joe,
First of all it’s good hearing from you again. I know you most likely have been visiting treads I usually don’t.
From experience; I was fortunate that on my wife’s very first archery hunt within minutes from setting her in position she shot a 170 lb buck. She was about 15 feet at the time.
She both rifle hunts and bow hunts. She still enjoys rifle season, but she likes the warmer weather, and the chance to have that up close in your face experience. She has taken three in the past 10 years with a bow, and one and a half with the rifle. (We will leave the half story go for now.) She will tell everyone that their isn’t as much excitement shooting a deer 50 yards away that doesn’t even know you are there as it is when the animal keep looking at you and you know to do it right you have to find the opportunity at the precise time and than you know you have done what many only wish to do.
Don’t get me wrong, we aren’t just trophy hunters, but we are honest about out hunting.
We also like to brag once in a while without lying a lot.
Believe me that once she succeeds with archery and has people saying “ You bow hunt, or you got that with a bow” she will be hooked just because she can step up to the plate when the men get together lying about their deer kill during rifle season and tell them a story the will knock their socks off. And she did it with a bow, up close and personal.

Whens the weding?? (oops)

[WILDCATWICK]

Good for you. I personaly have not given up gun hunting once I got into bow hunting. Bow hunting in the woods is more fun for me than gun hunting in the woods. I think becuase it's warmer, see plenty of deer, and you don't see many people. I think I like gun season in the camp better thou. Something about deer camp the first week!!!! Always fun after the hunt and great food.

Randy Kidd nailed it:That's pretty much like saying that once you have been with a blonde you will never want to be with a redhead or a brunette again :lol:
:yeahthat:

[JDLIGHT]

I guess I was opposite most of the guys here. I started out bow hunting and for some reason I was a natural shooting a bow. When I started gun hunting I soon realized that I wished I had a bow in my hand.

I have also had times where I had the bow and a nice deer was at 50 yards that I could have easily whacked with the gun.

So all in all I would say I favor bow hunting over gun anyday, but gun hunting has become our week long trip each year and brings all the tradition that deer camp has to offer. Not saying that a we couldn't accomplish the same thing during bow season, it just seems more like deer camp Nov. 15th.

I guess I am John Kerry on this subject. "I voted for bow hunting before I voted against it..."

Good luck to all on Friday.

JD

[DEERSLAYER]

She hunts!? Dose she have a sister? ;) :D

[Joe Archer]

I just had to tell ya....
She got her new bow on Monday (Darton Maverick) and we were shooting the past couple days. She is already shooting about 4 inch groups from 20 yards and is much better from 10 or 15 yards. No single sisters, but the sisters she has do not hunt anyway. <----<<<