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-hunting season in Michigan; one of the first. He eventually started Bear Archery. He promoted archery by traveling the world and hunting almost everything with his recurved bows. Today some hunters continue to hunt with the traditional bow, sometimes called a stick bow. The stick bow can be long bow or a recurved bow. The most popular bow today is neither, it is the compound bow. Hunters with an injure or disability may be allowed to use the crossbow. No matter which kind of bow a hunter uses he is limited to a relatively short accurate range. Limited range requires better 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. 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. No matter which way they hunt, the bow-hunter has to have the 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.
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