I bow hunt until rifle season, tho I’ll still break out the bow from time to time.

Haven’t touched a gun for deer in years

I'll hunt a deer by any means necessary. If rocks were lethal and there was a rock season I'd be in on it. I just like to hunt. A few times I've toted a bow until Ive killed one then switched to a gun. If I could I would carry a gun all season though.

I love bow hunting. I still haven’t killed a buck with one so I’m dead set on shooting one this year. I will take both gun and bow every time during the rut. If my bow set ups are just right I will bow hunt, if a clear cut makes sense, well, you get the picture..

I bow hunt with traditional archery,and if my shoulder wasn't so banged up I would love to try to kill one with a spear,I just can't hardly throw anything.I love to kill deer with a gun to much to just put it away.Turkey always gets a face full of my shotgun!

Same here. I enjoy bowhunting and appreciate it for what it is, but I get just as much enjoyment toting a rifle with me. It's basically a way for me to get in the woods a month before gun season starts. [/quote]

Exactly why I bought a bow this year

I have bow hunted only for the last 10 years or so, got hooked on it and really enjoy it. Sometimes I win, sometimes the deer wins (most of the time the deer wins), but it's still exciting.

I appreciate bow hunting for what it is, esp getting that close to a deer & making that much movement & getting away with it is very cool ... But, I also love watching deer & turkey do the "dirt twerk" when you blow 'em off their feet w/a gun ...

majority bow, but will use the rifle also.

Bow hunt until rut, then I will carry both. If I can shoot him with the bow, then that's what I use. If not, then the smoke pole comes out.

Man thats what Ive said for years. I just used to be ate up hunting them. If there was a rock season, Id be chucking rocks!!

You have to have a pretty high deer population to be successful with a bow, consistently. That’s a fact.

Well, if I were a single fella I’d live at my camp and bow hunt pretty much all the time. For whatever. I’d shoot a gun too. Well, I guess it would be wayyy different if I was still in young man single world. LOL!

Bow for deer and shotgun for turkey, I have no desire to let those birds torture me any more than they already do.

30 years ago I was bow hunting until gun season. My nine-year-old son shot one with a gun. Haven't hunted with a gun since. I figured I hunt for the challenge. If a 9-year-old can do it with a gun, there wasn't much challenge left with a gun. Only bow for the last 30 years.

I've been hunting a year now. I only became interested in deer hunting once I picked up the bow. Today is actually the anniversary of the first buck I shot and missed last year. Even after disappointment after disappointment and beconing calls from buddies to surrender to the gun and just get my first kill. I haven't waivered and I'm still enjoying the challenge. I know when I finally harvest that first deer it's gonna taste so sweet.

Short version: Bow only year round for me. (And I'm hunting with an early 2000's PSE compound with steel cables, no cam, wheels only).

Since 1975 I have had a passion for bowhunting.
I love guns but I just don't hunt with them much.
I've always shot a recurve or longbow.

I bought a new rifle 3 years ago, then a bow directly after that and the rifle has been into the woods 1 time since I bought the bow. I choose bow every time and get crazy looks from my buddies all the time. It’s so much more rewarding to me and I enjoy it way more.