If you are lucky enough to get drawn for one of the hard-to-draw rifle hunts you better beg,borrow or steal a rifle with a scope and learn to shoot it.You'd be out of your freakin' mind to show up with a bow. What if you're sitting in a blind at Chaparral WMA and a 200" buck-of-a-lifetime steps out at 80 yards? If you got a rifle, that's a chip shot and it's head goes on your wall. If you have a bow all you can do is start openly weeping and sobbing uncontrollably,which you will do for the rest of your life every time you recall that day! This coming from someone who has been primarily a bow hunter the last 28 years.