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Joined: Jan 2015
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Just curious what is the attractiveness of those that strictly bow hunt? Sometimes on a TV hunting show or on youtube there will be a hunter with a massive buck at eighty yards that they can't shoot with their bow ,but could have with a rifle and the gun season is open!! That would frustrate me to no end. So why do some guys bow hunt and nothing else....is it the challenge? ....the "primitive" weapon? .....shot so many with a rifle just want a bigger challenge?....something else?Help me to understand what I am missing.....
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Ill carry a gun but I prefer my bow. Its just more rewarding to me to kill something with my bow
Roads? Where we're going, we dont need roads. ~Doc brown
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"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Captain Woodrow F. Call
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What they said.
Also, my closest property to hunt is bow only.
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Freak of Nature
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If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand. That's honestly the answer. Just like hunting in general. Sitting in the freezing cold, pitch dark. Why? Same answer.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Cause anybody can kill one with a rifle.
83% of all statistics are made up.
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Booner
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Killing a deer with a bow is more personal than with a gun. In my experience It is more close quarters and raw. Definitely Brings the playing fields loser together. Imho Consistently being in bow range vs gun range is a a different game. I play them similar but more precise with arrows.
Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes
On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here.
On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
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Boo Boo Head
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I never saw a fat Indian. I'll stick to my guns
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If you're not prepared to watch one walk away, then you wouldn't understand. A child can sit in a house and shoot one at 75 yards. I like the cat and mouse chase. I've killed enough 100-110" bucks with a gun.
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Simple answer and dead on. I respect any hunting method and encourage everyone to hunt with any weapon they choose to use but any bow only guy will ask you where is the challenge when you can kill every deer you see. Bow hunting never gets old and it makes your property bigger.
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Freak of Nature
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I never saw a fat Indian. I'll stick to my guns I think Custer said the same thing right before the Little Big Horn fight.... 
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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I never saw a fat Indian. I'll stick to my guns I think Custer said the same thing right before the Little Big Horn fight.... The last thing was, " Look at all the f$-%$- Indians!"
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Boo Boo Head
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Yea well guns won out over the Indians in the long run 
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And for a challenge might I suggest only shooting 5+ yo bucks while hunting public land only....with any weapon.
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I am Cornholio
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If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand. That's honestly the answer. Just like hunting in general. Sitting in the freezing cold, pitch dark. Why? Same answer. Yep 
If you’re a common sense person, you probably don’t feel you have a home in this world right now. If you’re a Christian, you know you were never meant to.
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Yeah it's the challenge, but there's something about hearing the leaves crunch when a deer is so close that you just don't get shooting one 100-200 yards away on a green field.
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Thanks for the replies fellas....
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Bowhunted for 40 years and dont get the challenge of bow only. It is so much easier and more relaxing bowhunting. Crap you are worried about a 30 yard circle with trad gear. But, if I have a rifle Im trying to fit a bullet thru a 3 inch hole at a cruising buck up to hundreds of yards in nasty stuff. MUCH MUCH more challenging at least for me with a rifle.
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MUCH MUCH more challenging at least for me with a rifle. Sure sure, yep. No doubt.
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