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 of the 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.
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Some guns have a limited range as well. But! With the exception of 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. A few hunters are so good they can actually stalk, or still hunt on the ground. Many bow-hunters use some kind of a ground blind, and even more use a tree-stand, or elevated platform of some kind. 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, "Any deer taken with a bow is a trophy."
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