I'm kind of a loner anyway so I love having the opportunity to be in the woods a month before the orange army. Bow hunting is really difficult, especially to harvest a mature buck( still trying.) I've taken 11 deer with my bow now and there's nothing that compares to the cat and mouse game you play when trying to draw without being detected. I love it and don't care to pick up a rifle again. I even hate to watch rifle hunting on tv.