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How many are bow only?

Started by Covey, October 30, 2009, 04:47:00 PM

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Jmatt1957

Trad archery equipment. But use a Flintlock during gun season.

bear1336

Trad only for me the last 30 years...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside thoroughly used up, totally worn out, with bible in hand and loudly proclaim...WOW...What a Ride!!!

mscampbell75

Bow only for the past 7yrs (compound) with the exception of a week I spent with dad at his hunting club last year, I broke out a 30-30 that I've had since I was 15yo. I was after some meat for processing. Came home w/ 5 deer.

This year is my 1st full year of longbow.

Obiviously I'm not against guns, I just have more fun w/ bows.
Psalm 86:11   Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.

Black Creek Banshee T/D  49#@28
Iron Mountain R/D Longbow  53#@28
70's Bear Kodiak Hunter 45#@28

jcar315

When I hunt alone (without my 2 kids) it is recurve bow only!

Usually get one or both kids to come out and sit once or twice a year and that is the only time I take a rifle.

Rifle I take is the Winchester 30-06 that my Dad used to take his one and only deer when I was a kid. He is gone now so it feels pretty cool to have my Dads rifle in my hands when it is my kids and I hunting.
Proud Dad to two awesome Kids and a very passionate pig hunter.

Right handed but left eye dominant.

Proud to be a Native TEXAN!!!!!

"TGMM  Family of the Bow"

bentpole

I am. Sold my guns when my oldest started College. I figure you can't do everything. Happy to be in the woods with the Bow.

BigJohn

"I gotta go my meds are kicking in"

Intuit

Been an archery only hunter since 1974. Mostly compound but strictly Trad the past few years. We are able to hunt the rifle season with bows in NY and that worked quite well for me for several years with the rifle hunters moving the deer for me, just sit tight the first day and something usually cruised by.
Senior member & Measurer P&Y Club
NRA Life Member
Past Bowhunter Safety Instructor

rambo1993

i have been gun hunting with my dad since i was 5 im know 16 but still gun hunt love my 7mm-08 reminton but i traditonal bow hunt with my recurve 2 seasons 2/3 of my hunting in a year 1/3 is rifle
Black widow 2007 PSR 2 T/D recurve 60" 48#@28"
Bear kodiak hunter 1pc. 50x#@28" 60" style recurve
Kota Prairie Swift 1pc. 53#@28" 60"
Samick Leopard recurve T/D 50#@28" 60"

ethan


Sam McMichael

I used to hunt with both. About 12 years ago, I was having so much fun with the bow, I decided to keep hunting with it into the rifle season till I got tired of it. So far, I still haven't gotten tird of it. I am considered a bit of an oddity at deer camp, as I am the only bowhunter there.
Sam

hawkeye n pa

98% recurve, if its extremely nasty during the first day of  "rifle" season I'll carry the ole trap door 45/70 with iron sights.  Either 40 degrees and pouring or to cold and windy for a arrow to fly.
Jeff
>>>>---------->
Fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom.

elkken

Bow only since 1977 .... except for birds
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good

TGMM Family of the Bow

DWT

I must be the strange one out of the group, I love hunting anything with any weapon. Ive taken big game animals with bows of all sorts, muzzloaders of many variations, handguns, and rifles and own many of each. If we had a open season for hunting with rocks for weapons I guess id chuck em.

ISP 5353

I love to hunt, Bow, gun, rock, club, whatever I can use, I will hunt with.

Deadsmple

longbow for food and fun

guns for intruders and trespassers
All praise is the Lords


"to get to heaven, turn right and stay straight"

Pat B

Almost all of my hunting is with a bow. Generally selfbow, cane or hardwood shoot arrows, stone points or trade points. If, by the end of the season, I haven't taken a deer I will hunt with my .308 or shotgun but that is just a meat hunt.
Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes!
TGMM Family of the Bow

Stan the bow man

Doves shotgun all else bow only since 1991           :banghead:
Blackwidow PSAX 45@28 64" Black & White Ebony
Blackwidow  PLX TD 64" 48@28" Black & White Ebony
  Massie 64"48@28 Longhorn Longbow      
Roland Jenkins recurve 50 @ 28"
Bear Polar LB 45 @ 28"
Bear Grizzly 55 @28
2 Osage self bows
                                                         
BY THE GRACE OF GOD

Crick3t

Bow only all my life.  I've been shotgunning before, but never for live birds.  I've shot rifles, but only at targets.  All trad gear, all self-made wood arrows, all trade points or MA-2's.  Soon, I'm hoping to be exclusively shooting a self-made bow as well.  I shot a wheelie when I was a kid, but I don't think a 9.5# Wal*Mart Compound at age seven counts against my track record.

Joseph

75% bow for me, 25% percent firearm.  I love reloading and precision long range rifle shooting, trap, IPSC pistol, 3 gun, plinking with bow,rifle,pistol, shotgun, and I have shot some black powder.  Old school loose powder flintlock. There is a certain satisfaction to making a good shot weather it is 150 yards with a 22 long rifle, 300-500 yards with a 223, or 600 to 1000 with a 300 Winchester, double tapping with a 45, a feather stripping group of maple shafts in a 3D target, or a perfect shot in the pocket of a hard hunted deer!  Each has its' place and time      :bigsmyl:      Joseph
"Politicians are like diapers, they need to be changed often and for the same reason"

Covey

I'm appreciate all the response to my post. I'm 37 years old and kinda got a late start in hunting, my dad wasnt a hunter but he liked to fish so Ive done alot of fishing in my life. Ive never been much of a killer but I love nothing more than being in the woods or on the water and enjoying what God has blessed me with.To me the journey is definitely more important than the destenation and there is just somthing special about hunting with traditional gear!! Good Hunting, Jason


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