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Some Americans clips,

 

One confimed kill on deer, That crow does get owned though!

 

I understand that some would have been tracked and dispatched but think about their shot placement, there must be so many wounded that die slowly.

 

I know the bow is mans oldest invention for hunting but.......

 

 

 

Toby

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Here's how bow hunting should be done.

 

 

 

 

That was not only AWESOME but about 10000000 times more humane

 

Good job for bringing this to attention Hartfordwmj :good:

 

 

If I had a bow, and was hitting Wild turkey - these would be the arrows

 

 

 

By the way hartford, is there a more humane way of getting deer?

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Some Americans clips,

 

One confimed kill on deer, That crow does get owned though!

 

I understand that some would have been tracked and dispatched but think about their shot placement, there must be so many wounded that die slowly.

 

I know the bow is mans oldest invention for hunting but i am against it!

 

 

 

Toby

You fall into the same trap as everyone who has never tried it. Just think, HOW CLOSE you have to get to the game to get a shot. The skill involved is unbelievable. Most american friends do both, rifle and bow season hunting. They go on reccies to determine scrapes , tracks etc put up a high seat and wait! Traipsing through the woods in total darkness at about 4 am. They have cut away branches and made sure they have 2 "shooting lanes". Once the deer is shot they wait before they go and recover it. THe rest is more or less the same as here. Before you critizise you might want to try it first?

And, by the way, would you be willing to practise practise and practise again and again and again? Try "simple" target archery and then we might talk again?

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Here's how bow hunting should be done.

 

 

That was AWESOME!!!

turkeys sure are stupid animals - you shoot ones head off and the others just look at it as if thats what normally happens!

Soundtrack was cool too :good:

We non-bow hunters take for granted how easy it looks but ive fired a bow and i sucked

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I understand that some would have been tracked and dispatched but think about their shot placement, there must be so many wounded that die slowly.

 

I know the bow is mans oldest invention for hunting but i am against it!

Toby

 

 

Toby, I am somewhat baffled that while you admirably feel concern in case animals suffered after being shot with a bow and arrow, you were making a joke out of Jade Goody's suffering with cancer

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As the size of the animal increaces the guilt should multiply.

 

Oh so now we dont care if the poor little squirrel suffers....(we will feel a little guilty)... but a deer means lots of guilt?

 

Okay a couple of facts:

 

Bows kill by blood lose not shock damage. When the animal runs it is usually a reaction to the sound of the bow string not the arrow hitting them. The arrow is traveling so fast and is so sharp it would feel like a wasp sting.

 

I have seen many deer and moose aswell as bears run 100 to 1500 meters or more after being shot with rifles aswell. A gun does not mean that it is going to drop straight down. And I have probably had to track more rifle shot game over the years as a guide than I have bow shot.

 

As to why do we hunt with bows....some areas are bow hunt only by law.....some seasons are bow hunt only by law.......personnally I like to get as close to my animals as I can, a 20 meter or less bow shot means a heck of alot more to me that a 200meter or more rifle shot.

 

As to the respect to the quarry....I feel the same remorse when killing a deer as a squirrel or rabbit or pigeon. If you dont then you do not have the proper respect for the animals that you are harvesting and should not be hunting.

 

NTTF

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i can see both sides of this argument as i shoot a rifle and both my sons shoot bows "targets" both my son shoot at county level

and when you see the grouping they get at 20 meters 2" to 3". and at 60 meters betwwen 6" and 8"

and when my eldest son practise in the garden at10 meters he as to shoot at 3 diffrent target as the arrows are so tight together he risks

smashing them . so if you can shoot at that level i can,t see a problem

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This guy seems pretty good is it u NTTF?

Respect is a completly different thing to guilt my friend.......

 

 

blacta,

 

According to your profile you are 15, thats not a bad thing, I am glad to see you interested in the outdoors, hunting, fishing, ferreting etc. I am also glad to see that you are trying to increase your knowledge of the countryside, and the hunting side of things. However I do not think that Idiot Tube, where you will find 50 bad examples to every good 1, is the place to learn.

 

If you really want to learn about archery and make an informed opinion get yourself a bow and practice a couple of years until you are splitting arrows out at 20 meters, and at the same time practice getting inclose to the animals you hunt. Start taking the rabbits that you air rifle at 15 to 20 metres and passing on anything further. Well you are out see how many times you can get inside 20 meters of a row, fallow, red or any other deer. If after two years you are doing this consistantly book yourself a trip bowhunting and try it. You will then have a well balanced opinion and one that YOU have earned.

 

NTTF

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