Posted: 12/31/2008 10:37:22 PM EDT
I started bowhunting last January. Tonight I shot my first buck with a bow! I'm pretty excited.
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Congratulations on a fine, bow-killed buck. 
I thoroughly enjoy bowhunting. It was bow-only for me this past season, which was a first for me. I virtually tagged-out by the first week of November with 3 does and an 8-pointer, and had no reason to go out during firearms season except to spend some time with my wife as she pursued a buck. Bowhunting is just so much more up close and personal. While waiting for a deer to close the distance for an ethical shot, you get to witness more of their mannerisms than a firearms hunter who shoots them at long range. While hunting in archery season, I've seen fawns nurse, seen knock-down, drag-out fights between bucks, heard deer "talk" to each other, watched bucks rub trees and make scrapes, etc. –– all less than 20 yards away. I watched two does this year suck up acorns in front of me like Hoover vacuums for an hour and a half. If I'd have been firearms hunting, the deer would have been dead as soon as I had a clear shot, and I probably would have missed seeing most of these things. |