If it ever comes to a vote, I will vote there be only 1 general season, all legal mean would be allowed. I think if you want to challenge yourself to bowhunt that is fine, but you still get to hunt with the rest of the people. If you didnt get to start a month early there wouldnt be as many bowhunters as there are. And no I dont care how many bowhunters there are, and yes I do believe that a separate bow season divides hunters in general as I have had many bow hunters look down their nose at me in the past.

I hunt with everything I can, bow rifle smoke pole and pistol is coming soon.

matt

No bow season\if you bow hunt it would have to be during the regular season. (I don't think its fair to nonbow hunters)

Yes the opinion in bold has been taken way out of context! This opinion was expressed based on a lease only not as a national past time or statewide! I also explained to Stick chunker that this was something not set in concrete several times! I think maybe he was so upset he couldn't read correctly? lol

I know of several bowhunting leases in my area, am I offended well hell no! Dan mentions something to the effect that it shouldn't matter on a lease because the bowhunter should be hunting in his area exclusively. Deer do move around and sometimes make a routine of visiting several different feeders\areas so that reasoning doesn't make sense to me.

I am glad everyone enjoyed the debate and I am going to post up another debate issue soon in the deer hunting section on feeder\blind ideas for a new lease.

I'm a believer than anything out of the ordinary on a property will cause mature deer to act different. This could be scenting a place up, starting to show up at weird times of the day and walking by and looking at scrapes and such where their senses are keyed in on smelling what's going on.

I agree. To a mature buck, the woods are like your bedroom. Add something that wasn't there the day before and he'll recognize it immediately. It's why seasoned hunters know the best time to hunt a newly positioned stand is the same day you put it up.


And let's be honest and add that it's something that bow hunters know as well, and which gives them that early season advantage.

No bow season\if you bow hunt it would have to be during the regular season. (I don't think its fair to nonbow hunters)

Yes the opinion in bold has been taken way out of context! This opinion was expressed based on a lease only not as a national past time or statewide! I also explained to Stick chunker that this was something not set in concrete several times! I think maybe he was so upset he couldn't read correctly? lol

I know of several bowhunting leases in my area, am I offended well hell no! Dan mentions something to the effect that it shouldn't matter on a lease because the bowhunter should be hunting in his area exclusively. Deer do move around and sometimes make a routine of visiting several different feeders\areas so that reasoning doesn't make sense to me.

I am glad everyone enjoyed the debate and I am going to post up another debate issue soon in the deer hunting section on feeder\blind ideas for a new lease.

And let's be honest, you could have the early season advantage too

Not interested in being able to get a head start on others to kill an animal that I really don't need, much less to hang on a wall.

I was thinking the guy was talking about me for a minute.

The discussion also seems to point to the fact our worst hunting "elitist" can be found within the bow hunting community. Say what you want, but without expection, the hunters who appear the most possessive of the woods are the ones who bow hunt only. Now that's not to say that every guy who only bow hunts comes off as an elitist. But I've never known a bow hunter who doesn't hesitate to grab a gun and hunt during the general season who came off that way.

How in the hell did you pick that up from this discussion?

#1. I choose to hunt with a bow. I get to hunt one month early.

#2. You choose not to hunt with a bow, but are capable of doing it. You don't get to hunt one month early. You claim it is unfair.

Lets change it a bit.

#1. I work. I get to have a hunting lease.

#2. You don't work, but are capable. You can't afford a lease. You claim it is unfair.

Sound familiar?

whoooo calm down fellow hunters,
I do like to bowhunt, Tell you the truth i was kinda on the fence when they came out and said anyone can hunt with a crossbow, A crossbow and a compund bow a different to me what do yall think

Sounds "elitist" to me