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Post by Foggy on Feb 23, 2020 23:26:50 GMT -6
ok....lets have a poll....
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Post by Foggy on Feb 23, 2020 23:27:45 GMT -6
I've lost one deer with a gun. And a bear and a elk. Good shots....poor decisions by a guide on the elk.....and I should have shot the bear again.
I dont hunt with a stick and a string.
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Post by wklman on Feb 23, 2020 23:44:45 GMT -6
1 elk with a rifle and one deer with a bow so I'm even Steven on being a shitty hunter.
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Post by sd51555 on Feb 24, 2020 0:30:20 GMT -6
The first archery deer I ever shot at, shortly after my filthy hooker ex gf from college ran off with the pizza delivery guy, I didn't recover. Spent 2 hours in the dark and 4 hours the next day looking for it. I don't think it even died. Otherwise I've recovered every deer I've hit. Some of those weren't pretty, but I got 'em.
Those were the lessons that led me to be a real snob when it comes to shooting. If it's not gonna be a clean kill, I'm not shooting. I've had enough grenades go off in a deer's guts and hind quarters to not wanna be that cut-up guy any more. I make it very clear to the guys in camp as well. Shoot what you want, but if you blow it's ass and guts to apart, you're on your own.
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Post by Reagan on Feb 24, 2020 4:56:48 GMT -6
I’ve lost more than 5 with a bow. Polls are good for gathering statistics and statistics lie. So to complete the truth.
I’ve never lost a gun shot deer.
I’ve never hunted with a rifle. Only shotgun or muzzy. I started muzzy hunting prior to getting an in-line 25 years ago.
I’ve pulled the trigger on my muzzy 1 time in the last 16 years. Shotgun has been longer.
I’ve had at least a couple of bow shot deer survive. 100% certain.
I’ve later found a couple of bow shot deer thanks to rotten smell. How do you score those?
Your statement about bow hunters making deer nocturnal is laughable. I see the same thing every year. That is a lot of deer all season until the gunners hit the woods. Then it takes a few weeks for the deer to move again but they are always very spooky the rest of the season.
I have found a lot of gun kills that weren’t recovered thanks to hail marry slug guys. I’ve never found anyone else’s bow kill.
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Post by Freeborn on Feb 24, 2020 5:49:29 GMT -6
I have only shot a few deer with bow and never lost one. I have shot allot of deer with rifle and lost 1 in 30+ years. I am selective with my shots, both with rifle and bow.
There is no way bow hunters make deer nocturnal. Anybody who starts and sticks with bow hunting is way more careful and tactical then rifle hunters. Are there bad bow hunters, sure but they are short lived as their behavior will cause poor results which will cause them to quit.
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Post by batman on Feb 24, 2020 7:01:35 GMT -6
Never lost a deer with a gun. Biggest crippler since polio with my recurve.
Until I put up the fence.
So am I now the most ethical hunter on this forum? Am I the only one willing to put forth maximum effort to recover game?
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Post by Catscratch on Feb 24, 2020 7:09:46 GMT -6
I can think of 4 that I lost with a bow. 3 of them I recovered a day or three later, but the meat wasn't good anymore so they don't count as recovered. All had a tag filled out, none resulted in two dead deer that year.
As a bowhunter I've turned MANY deer nocturnal. I must be a shitty bowhunter... a persistent (over 30 years) but shitty hunter. I post a lot of video's and pics of bucks in the daylight now but it took a long time for me to quit hunting how I was told to hunt and figure out my own ways. In the meantime I educated and re-patterned a ton of bucks.
Two killed with a rifle (I didn't loose them, that's just my total rifle kils). Neither went far but both were tough tracking. I can see how a guy could shoot at a deer, not find blood, and walk away thinking they missed. Lots of noobs out there think a hit with a rifle will cause them to fly backwards and pile up without running a step. Hollywood...
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Post by chummer16 on Feb 24, 2020 7:13:32 GMT -6
Testing my memory here but in 29 years I have lost;
Bow two, both tracked in dark and were still alive, backed out and coyotes got them.
Muzzleloader one, again lost to coyotes
Shotgun/riffle probably 5 or 6. Most of them were in my early years when we did drives and I was told to shoot anything that comes out. Have not hunted like that in 20 years.
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Post by smsmith on Feb 24, 2020 7:17:38 GMT -6
3 that I can think of with bow. 3 that I can think of with rifle. 0 that I can think of with shotgun. I don't hunt with a muzzleloader.
edit...as far as bowhunters making deer nocturnal....I suppose bad/sloppy/uneducated bowhunters can make deer nocturnal. Bad/sloppy/uneducated bowhunters don't last long as they don't see shit and say to hell with it. A firearm can make up for even the shittiest of hunting abilities.
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Post by Bwoods11 on Feb 24, 2020 7:17:51 GMT -6
I would say 2 deer with bow and 2 with gun (never recovered)... not counting my teenage bow years. Most of those were just misses.
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Post by kl9 on Feb 24, 2020 7:22:53 GMT -6
1 with a bow and several that took a lot of tracking. 2-3 that took an additional shot as well.
Zero with any sort of firearm.
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Post by daydreamer on Feb 24, 2020 7:34:09 GMT -6
Only one deer with my bow that I found two days later but meat was bad so it shouldn't count.
I did lose an elk with my bow when I was 14 unfortunately. Took me a long time to get that monkey off my back too...
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Post by Foggy on Feb 24, 2020 8:16:30 GMT -6
^ Always fun to stir the winter pot. Grin. 4
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Post by leexrayshady on Feb 24, 2020 21:17:30 GMT -6
Only have shot at 2 deer with a bow and both were fairly close and died within 50 yards, I hunt in the woods with a rifle so most of those shots are close as well and have either missed or recovered every deer I have shot at
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