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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 1397368" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>If you hunt much you will wind up wounding and losing animals. I have done it with rifles bows and shotguns. Even if it is only a dove I look for it a long time and am sad if I can't find it. With the right equipment and practice 1000 yards is not a big challenge especially with pronghorn, other animals are harder to find but not necessarily harder to shoot. It got so routine and dull that I bought a brand new bow and went back to bowhunting because if there is no challenge then I begin to lose interest. All of that said the last few cow elk I killed were all under 400 yards, and all it involved was sitting on a knob for one to four days and waiting for one to cross a stream valley (not very exciting at all but I was building preference points for bull elk and desert bighorn). When I killed my first and only elk with a bow a few years ago, I was super excited and felt I had accomplished something. When after about five years of hunting hogs free range on public land (no bait) I managed to kill my first one (rifle) I was excited even though the shot was only 50 yards but it was running hard. </p><p></p><p>My opinion is if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, then do something else. If you enjoy what you are doing then good for you.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 1397368, member: 8"] If you hunt much you will wind up wounding and losing animals. I have done it with rifles bows and shotguns. Even if it is only a dove I look for it a long time and am sad if I can't find it. With the right equipment and practice 1000 yards is not a big challenge especially with pronghorn, other animals are harder to find but not necessarily harder to shoot. It got so routine and dull that I bought a brand new bow and went back to bowhunting because if there is no challenge then I begin to lose interest. All of that said the last few cow elk I killed were all under 400 yards, and all it involved was sitting on a knob for one to four days and waiting for one to cross a stream valley (not very exciting at all but I was building preference points for bull elk and desert bighorn). When I killed my first and only elk with a bow a few years ago, I was super excited and felt I had accomplished something. When after about five years of hunting hogs free range on public land (no bait) I managed to kill my first one (rifle) I was excited even though the shot was only 50 yards but it was running hard. My opinion is if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, then do something else. If you enjoy what you are doing then good for you. [/QUOTE]
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