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Method of Bowhunting
« on: May 16, 2013, 11:17:03 PM »
What is your favorite way to hunt with a bow ( spot and stalk, tree stand, blind, etc.).  Include general location and type of game so that it makes more sense.
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #1 on: May 16, 2013, 11:24:35 PM »
Spot and stalk-muley
Locate and ambush-elk
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If i hunted whitetail or had elk patterend to a specific trail i would use a blind or tree stand. Over looked but effective

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2013, 12:20:54 AM »
Spot and stalk for muleys and treestand for blackies and whities.

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2013, 03:45:59 AM »
Spot-stalk mulies.
Treestand elk.
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2013, 01:53:45 PM »
Spot and stalk Mulies for early hunt. For the late hunt, I got a place in the north central I hike in to and when I smell the doe in heat, I put on the ghillie suit and wait for the horndogs. I have good luck with that on Nov. 21st and 22nd. Rut's usually completely over by the 23rd, then it's back to spot and stalk. I call and ambush Turkey.

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2013, 02:02:57 PM »
Tree stand or make my own blind out of brush for whitetails.
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2013, 02:12:23 PM »
muley/black tail spot and stalk...
Elk spot and stalk  until within a good range to start calling(if herd bull) if not herd bull then i just locate and call them in... or blind in a good way

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2013, 02:23:23 PM »
Muley and elk I do spot and stalk and for whitetail it is out of a blind
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #8 on: May 17, 2013, 02:25:07 PM »
I do it all.

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #9 on: May 17, 2013, 02:42:30 PM »
Spot and stalk all
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #10 on: May 17, 2013, 02:54:19 PM »
Read.
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #11 on: May 17, 2013, 08:03:18 PM »
i find an elk freeway, and then take a nap til they show up. :chuckle:
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #12 on: May 17, 2013, 08:35:49 PM »
i find an elk freeway, and then take a nap til they show up. :chuckle:

Tried that once myself.  Woke up much later than expected.  Sometime during my nap a detour sign was erected at the end of the trail they should have approached from.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.  :chuckle:

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #13 on: May 17, 2013, 08:45:26 PM »
i dont know what my method is called.maybe stumble and spook

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #14 on: May 17, 2013, 08:51:23 PM »
i dont know what my method is called.maybe stumble and spook

 :chuckle:   I've used the exact same method you speak of!    :tup:

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #15 on: May 18, 2013, 09:16:52 AM »
Spot & Stalk and Still Hunt but I'll do whatever the animal/lay of the land/weather call for. Gotta be versatile to be successful. And lucky.
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #16 on: May 18, 2013, 09:20:05 AM »
i do whatever my nephew does  :chuckle:

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #17 on: May 18, 2013, 09:29:58 AM »
My favorite is calling elk. Followed closely by tracking, doesnt matter the species.

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #18 on: May 19, 2013, 10:07:13 PM »
i dont know what my method is called.maybe stumble and spook
I use a variation of that one, stumble and spook, stumble and spook, stumble and spook, find one that doesn't spook and biff the shot, then stumble and spook, stumble and spook, and then ambush and connect the shot.  I works about 20% of the time.

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #19 on: May 19, 2013, 10:15:53 PM »
i dont know what my method is called.maybe stumble and spook

 :chuckle:   I've used the exact same method you speak of!    :tup:

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #20 on: May 19, 2013, 10:25:03 PM »
In my youth it was all bugling bulls, spot & stalk deer and belly crawling for pronghorns.  As I got older napping in a clear cut became a little more my speed.  Now sitting in a blind shooting critters I can pack out whole is starting to become much more enjoyable.  The mind would still like to chase goats up the Catalina cliffs and belly crawl 1,000 yards through cactus filled rocks for Arizona mulies, or pack a bull elk out of the Eagle Caps.  But sadly the body doesn't play those games so well anymore. :'(  I've had to cancel my next sheep, goat and grizzly hunt because the body is just breaking down too fast.  Hopefully I can find the strength to give it one more hurrah in a few years.  But if not I think I've finally made peace with the fact stand hunting can be pretty enjoyable too.
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #21 on: May 21, 2013, 12:58:18 PM »
the best method is called daylight til dark !

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #22 on: May 21, 2013, 03:36:41 PM »
On the ground, up close and VERY personal.  Whitetails, mulies, elk, coyotes, there is just nothing more challenging and rewarding than taking game on their own turf. Nothing against treestands, but I dont like to sit much. I spend most of my hunting season crawling around like a baby and it works for me.  :tup: I am the proverbial ''snake in the grass''   :chuckle:
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #23 on: May 22, 2013, 12:08:54 PM »
research, research, scout, scout come back to spots scouted and fail then walk around with my fingers crossed for hours and hours and hopefully get lucky it has worked so far so why stop.

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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #24 on: May 28, 2013, 08:20:46 PM »
Spot and stock. Nothing like getting up and close with a muley in his bed. Elk with a rifle is a gut feeling game. Elk with a bow was sit on a trail in the mornings and evenings lite calling to try and locate, but ended with a bull being spooked to me on the way to a stand. Always a good thing to have a little lady luck on your side.  :tup:
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Re: Method of Bowhunting
« Reply #25 on: May 28, 2013, 08:24:59 PM »
Run and Gun (Bugle) the ridge tops for bulls if I have a tag. if just for cow and spike I go to areas that I know hold elk and create excitement with cow herd talk until I wack one.

 


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