Bowhunting Poll

[StringShooter]

How do you use your early bowhunting tags? You only get one buck before firearms season. I try to take a doe and "hope" for a wall hanger buck. I don't like to use my early tag on a small buck because I have to wait till firearms season is over for another chance at the wallhanger.

 

[Hideandwatch]

Im half way there, with only 2 weeks left, this is tuff man!

 

[spectr17]

I only get two bowhunt trips to Missouri before gun season so I big buck hunt usually on both trips. I know I can take some meat during gun season if I don't mess up.

I don't usually take any trips back after gun season, it's too cold for this pansy Californian.

We go comatose under 40 degrees and freeze up like popcicles under 30.

 

[hucklburry]

I passed up an 8 pointer today, had him broadside at 9 yds. It was tough, but next year he could be real nice! His outside spread was a little shy of the ends of his ears. OK mass for his size. It would be a nice bowkill really, and if he presents the perfect shot I may take it, but I hope he makes it to next year!!!! My goal is 2 does for the season, and if the 16 pointer we saw last year shows up, him too!!! Otherwise I hope to let a few of these smaller bucks grow up a little.

--Jim

 

[StringShooter]

The cold has arrived early. We actually have a chance of snow on Thursday ( I doubt we see much if any) and temps next weekend (Nov. 2-3) are supposed to drop into the low 20's with highs in the 30's. I can handle the cold, just keep the winds down.

Remember that the youth hunt starts the weekend of Nov. 2-3, so if you bowhunt, wear your orange.

Jesse,
Your correct...it's also nice to keep the does around during the rut to increase your chances of that buck coming by a short time later with his nose to the ground. I wonder how many people have missed an opportunity of a nice buck because they shot that doe.

Here is what a poacher can do to a nice rack. Notice the groove where the projectile busted the beam off. This was a buck that I was bowhunting 2 years ago. I never even noticed the missing side till after my shot or I would have let him walk. I knew it was him and usually don't stare long at the antlers

Well, good luck everyone!

 

[Chairman]

I'm still chasing the ever elusive 1st bow kill....

This is my third bow season I've hunted. My first was in '97, I hunted new ground last year, and Sunday was my first day out this year. I couldn't vote in your poll ~ it said I had already voted...????

Anyways ~ at this point, I'll probably take the first chance I can get, no matter what(so I can get over this "hump"). From then on, I'll take a doe or a wallhanger, with my early bow tags. I know the doe's are buck magnets, but we have plenty to go around, 'round here. My freezer is mighty low...

 

[Matt in MO]

I wait on a wall hanger - now they have names thanks to getting photos of them with the homebrew gamecams. So I'm holding out for a 150 class buck with dual split brow tines - I have about 6 photos of him.

I have two boys - the 13 yr old has bagged nice bucks the last three years with a gun and is also bowhunting this year. Now the second boy is 10 and wants to go. One deer a year is really all we need, now I'm afraid we'll have two! We get lots of free beef from the in-laws, so its a little hard to reach over the T-bones in the deep freeze for venison. Dad may not shoot a deer for a few years.....

I may have to get a second job, my duck and deer hunting gear costs have tripled!

 

[Tinhorn]

I usually wait for a normal 8 pt or better and mite take a doe late in the season but this year I mite take advantage of those $5 doe tags some northern counties have this year, wish that was state wide tho......

Tinhorn