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<blockquote data-quote="goodgrouper" data-source="post: 148795" data-attributes="member: 2852"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p> I only posted to prod you a little. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] Yes, it's all good. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif</p><p></p><p> [ QUOTE ]</p><p> Honestly though, why cheat yourself out of another way to experience it?</p><p> </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p>I'm not cheating myself out of another experience. I can get as close as I want with a rifle in my hands. Had the same "breath blowing down my back" experience a few years ago and couldn't whirl around quick enough with the gun in my hands so I just let the elk breath down my neck.</p><p> And besides, if I got all equipped up for archery, then all my expensive guns would have to stay home! Then I'd be paying double to experience the same thing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif</p><p></p><p></p><p> [ QUOTE ]</p><p> As far as it not deserving its own season, I dissagree. It would be bloody impossible to bowhunt with all the rifle hunters afield too </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p></p><p>Well, that would be the result of choosing an inferior weapon now wouldn't it? /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif Seriously though, I would love to have a handgun only hunt too. But the easiest way would be just to throw us all into one hunt and we choose what we want to hunt with.</p><p></p><p></p><p> [ QUOTE ]</p><p> As for damage, arrows are absolutely devastating. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p></p><p>Yeah, but they won't break both shoulder blades of a bull elk at 1300 yards! Now that's what I call devestation!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p> [ QUOTE ]</p><p> Let an elk go at sixty? Sixty is no problem!</p><p></p><p> </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ] </p><p></p><p>What about 70? That is considered LRH for bows by most guys I think. You'd probably get an ethics debate going over it whether you could do it or not. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="goodgrouper, post: 148795, member: 2852"] [ QUOTE ] I only posted to prod you a little. [/ QUOTE ] Yes, it's all good. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [ QUOTE ] Honestly though, why cheat yourself out of another way to experience it? [/ QUOTE ] I'm not cheating myself out of another experience. I can get as close as I want with a rifle in my hands. Had the same "breath blowing down my back" experience a few years ago and couldn't whirl around quick enough with the gun in my hands so I just let the elk breath down my neck. And besides, if I got all equipped up for archery, then all my expensive guns would have to stay home! Then I'd be paying double to experience the same thing. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] [ QUOTE ] As far as it not deserving its own season, I dissagree. It would be bloody impossible to bowhunt with all the rifle hunters afield too [/ QUOTE ] Well, that would be the result of choosing an inferior weapon now wouldn't it? [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img] Seriously though, I would love to have a handgun only hunt too. But the easiest way would be just to throw us all into one hunt and we choose what we want to hunt with. [ QUOTE ] As for damage, arrows are absolutely devastating. [/ QUOTE ] Yeah, but they won't break both shoulder blades of a bull elk at 1300 yards! Now that's what I call devestation! [ QUOTE ] Let an elk go at sixty? Sixty is no problem! [/ QUOTE ] What about 70? That is considered LRH for bows by most guys I think. You'd probably get an ethics debate going over it whether you could do it or not. [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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