Bow Hunting Deer
Bow hunting deer has been growing in popularity. This could be the most positive thing to happen to the sport of deer hunting; ever! It scores highly at "score-your-hunting" because the skills required are greater than that of the gun hunter. When Fred Bear became a bow-hunter in the 1930's it was not a popular sport.Bear was instrumental in establishing a bow n arrow season in Michigan; one ofthe first. He eventually started Bear Archery. He promoted archery, traveling the world, hunting almost everything, even elephant, with his recurved bows. When choosing a bow today some hunters continue to hunt with the traditional bow, sometimes called a stick bow. The stick bow can be a long bow or a recurved bow. The most popular bow today is neither, it's the compound bow. Some hunters are allowed to hunt with a crossbow. No matter which kind of bow a hunter uses he is limited to a relatively short accurate range when shooting a bow. Limited range requires better hunting skills to get close. Read: Why We Hunt
the crossbow, there is a great deal of movement required to draw and release an arrow. This movement alerts the deer and adds to the difficulty of using a bow; especially if you are hunting on the ground. Having good complete camo, or a bowhunter's ghillie suit can help. Several different methods of bow hunting deer are used today. No matter which way they hunt, the bow-hunter has to have enough skill to get very close to a deer. He must also have some knowledge of deer behavior, or he may never get to release an arrow. Some hunters say,
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