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Offline pat riotic

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Re: Archery: Love it, hate it?
« Reply #30 on: September 27, 2010, 10:17:57 PM »
Archery, its a love hate relationship. It has its ups and downs.
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Re: Archery: Love it, hate it?
« Reply #31 on: October 05, 2010, 11:41:09 AM »
I love each method for different reasons. Most of all I enjoy the total hunting experience. When I can't, if that day ever comes, hunt any longer I will still be in camp with my family and friends. I will always be able to sit around the camp fire and lie with the best of them. :IBCOOL:
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Re: Archery: Love it, hate it?
« Reply #32 on: October 09, 2010, 03:01:32 PM »
My gosh have I had to change my way of hunting since taking up bow hunting.  This is year 6, finally got my first elk this year.  A cow at 40 yds.  what a feeling.  I actually drew the desert deer tag with my bow the first year that I bow hunted.  FYI, there is some huge deer in that unit.  But I was a rifle hunter carrying a bow, and didn't have a clue.  Ate that tag.  Well as luck will have it, I drew the desert again this year and I hope I'm a little better at it now.  I will again head to the Moses Lake area and try my luck at those famed desert mule deer.  With a little luck I will connect with a nice deer and post a picture.

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Re: Archery: Love it, hate it?
« Reply #33 on: October 09, 2010, 03:29:07 PM »
Hunted with a rifle from 8 y.o. until 33, switched to archery and became a much better hunter. I have a safe full of rifles that haven't seen the light of day in 12 years, and no intention on using them again.  (or selling them)

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Re: Archery: Love it, hate it?
« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2010, 03:57:45 PM »
I could never hunt big game with anything other than my bow :IBCOOL:  I converted from rifle 3 years ago and my first year I got deer and it was the most rewarding feeling I have ever experanced as a hunter.  It was a doe but I would rather shoot a doe with my bow than a monstar buck with my rifle.  I would feel I cheated myself by killling with anything other than my bow. BOW OR BUST
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Re: Archery: Love it, hate it?
« Reply #35 on: October 10, 2010, 04:04:31 PM »
LOVE IT! This is my 12th year hunting with archery and I wouldn't hunt with anything but. I do one gun hunt a year, out of state deer. Only cuz the bros I go with are'nt as into the archery thing. But nothing gets my blood pumping like archery hunting.

 


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