I love bow hunting especially the first 2 weeks before the deer get pressured. At our place after two weeks of bow season they are in alert mode. I have took my bow during gun season but not often.

I have been a bow only hunter for many years. It seemed to go in phases. Gun, compound/gun mix, just compound and now traditional archery only for the past 15 years. I enjoy the work I have to put into it. I enjoy killing with my bow but now I focus more on showing people how I hunt and putting them on deer.
My theory is this, when a gun hunter sees a deer at 100 yards the hunt is over. For a bowhunter it has just begun.

Well said.

I hunt 90% with a bow. I just get alot more enjoyment out of it.
I dont feel like ive acomplished much by just sitting on a gasline or a huge cutover & shooting a deer 150 yards away.
I like the hunt that goes with a bow.

Well I've never killed a deer with a gun or a bow and I so badly want my first deer kill to be a bow kill. People tell me that it isn't uncommon for a person to go 2-3 years bow hunting until they get their first kill and ... uh ... well I just like doing things the hard way. I've spent a great deal of time with my guns over the past 2 years just getting to the point that I felt I could kill a deer with my rifles. Now I've fallen in so deep with bow hunting that I am seriously considering waiting to gun hunt until after I've got a bow kill.

It just seems to me that it won't be that hard to kill a deer with a gun. I've seen plenty of deer within a hundred yards of me that I coulda popped with my 30-06 or 243 and dropped them in their tracks. On the other hand, I've seen only 2 within 25 yards ...

I would rather bow hunt for sure. Haven't shot a doe in years with a gun. I still carry a rifle in certain stands/situations but bow mostly.

And we get 10 days of bow only the first week of December.

I got the inkling to bowhunt only this year but I am gonna hold off till next year. I have a new desire to start a small bow hunting only club in the black belt somewhere next year

Let me know tfd. I might be interested

Sure thing breeze

I maybe as well depending on location.

I started bow hunting years ago because I realized I was missing bout 6 weeks extra hunting. I enjoy the quiet of the woods while hunting (no gun shots) and usually less hunters in the woods. I did however buy my 1st crossbow this year. But when gun season opens I grab the rifle.

I've been ready to throw my bow out of the treestand since the first week. When you see the deer 100yds away and it keeps going farther away; I wish I had my rifle then.

depending on location I would be interested.

I like that... I really, really like that. Can I use that saying?