How many bowhunters do it the "hard" way?
08-01-2008, 06:00 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Camden,MO
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RE: How many bowhunters do it the "hard" way?
where the choice for using your car or truck.
Me i just lay on the ground covered with leaves and the jump up and break their necks.....
I really did see a guy do that with a turkey though.
Me i just lay on the ground covered with leaves and the jump up and break their necks.....
I really did see a guy do that with a turkey though.
08-01-2008, 07:42 PM
#25
Fork Horn
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RE: How many bowhunters do it the "hard" way?
So it appears as though roughly 4% of the respondents to this poll don't use any of the items I listed.
My hat is off to those folks- 'cuz in my book, if they're bowhunting and not using any of those items, they
are surely doing it the hard way!
Rob
My hat is off to those folks- 'cuz in my book, if they're bowhunting and not using any of those items, they
are surely doing it the hard way!
Rob
08-01-2008, 08:21 PM
#27
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 577
RE: How many bowhunters do it the "hard" way?
ORIGINAL: gzg38b
I consider big woods hunting "the hard way".
I hunt a 15,000 acre piece of low fenced property that is a mix of swamp, hardwoods, praires, pines, and just about everything else you can think of EXCEPT agricultural fields and food plots. It's surrounded by miles and miles of public land on all sides.
Trying to pattern big woods deer is a completely different game than hunting farms where the food sources and bedding areas are obvious. I've done both, and for me it's much harder to hunt the big woods.
I consider big woods hunting "the hard way".
I hunt a 15,000 acre piece of low fenced property that is a mix of swamp, hardwoods, praires, pines, and just about everything else you can think of EXCEPT agricultural fields and food plots. It's surrounded by miles and miles of public land on all sides.
Trying to pattern big woods deer is a completely different game than hunting farms where the food sources and bedding areas are obvious. I've done both, and for me it's much harder to hunt the big woods.
. I had never hunted farmland until last year (I'm 33 
), and man,it's night and day! I'm really looking forward to it this season, though I must say,there's a little more feeling of accomplishment when you arrow one of those big woods deer.
08-01-2008, 09:15 PM
#30
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Southern MD
Posts: 2,520
RE: How many bowhunters do it the "hard" way?
Is using a compound bow with an 80% letoff, a peep and 4/5 pin sight w/fiberoptics, a release, carbon/aluminum arrows, 20ft up a tree, etc. really bowhunting the hard way even if you don't use all the other stuff?
How about a recurve/longbow from the ground? Even if you use the other stuff? What do you think would be the harder way?
How about a recurve/longbow from the ground? Even if you use the other stuff? What do you think would be the harder way?