Bow Only Hunters?

[smokin feathers]

i shoot the bow year round on game,fish and foam, but i still enjoy firearms as well and shoot several different kinds of competition there as well and enjoy hunting waterfowl and upland birds with them. I do not get anything out of hunting deer with one though as i do lots of culling depredation, guide and controll work with rifles and shotguns.

when i hunt for myself i like to get up close and personal and the bow is way to go to get that old lost feeling.I had a buck i was trying to get a shot on a buck yesterday at 15yds broadside and couldnt get drawn on him, i was shaking like a leaf in a hurricane!!! never would have felt like that with gun in hand.

[kennym]

Kirk, you can hunt deer with a spear in MO, but only during rifle!

Well, you could a couple years back, haven't seen it in the regs this year,may have to look now.

[kennym]

OOPS, it is with atlatl..

From MDC page

Methods allowed during all portions of the firearms deer season, except the muzzleloader portion

•Atlatl, which is defined as a rod or narrow board-like device used to launch, through a throwing motion of the arm, a dart 5 to 8 feet in length.

[Bowjunkie]

Homemade selfbows only for the last 13 years.

[Mark of WV]

My first love is guns and shooting but I must admit that this year the luster of hunting with a gun began fading fast. Great for getting meat in the freezer but there is really no challenge to it. But do love any excuse to be in the woods.

[thunder1]

I've been only for 9 seasons or so. I've been trad only for about 7 seasons.