Hows your bow season going

[Nails]

Well the season for archery has been open for about 2 months. I know some of the guys on the site have bagged some animals with bows. I have not bagged anything yet this season. I only hunt with my bow now. My hunting buddies say to me " you sure must like your bow, your always taking it for walks". well that has been my story so far this season. I have put on a few stalks, spooked a few from their beds and just gone on walks.

Well a group (Bochunk, Puppychow and a few others) of us visit Qnscowboys hunting lands next week for our annual ELP Buckoff ( bow only). I am looking forward to the Island hunt. It has always been good to me every year so far with my bow.

I have been wondering how you have been doing hunting with your bows? There has not been much action in bowhunting forum so I thought I would put this thread out.

[willyqbc]

Well I opened the season with a spring bear, back in June. Followed that up with a nice meat deer on the archery opener in region 7 Sept 1st. Took a moose and another meat deer with the rifle, but I have saved one tag for the end of Nov and the archery season in december. There's a particular HUGE 3 point that I've been jousting with for the last 3 years......so far the score looks like 3 point - 14 .....me - 0! BUT this year he's going down!! so thats my year in a nutshell so far!

Chris

[harv3589]

Mine has been good this year so far...managed to get a 185 gross mulie with my bow 2 weeks ago. Try for a whitetail during nov in the bow zone around Calgary.

[Thunderstix]

Mine has been good this year so far...managed to get a 185 gross mulie with my bow 2 weeks ago. Try for a whitetail during nov in the bow zone around Calgary.

Very nice Mulie by the sounds of it.
I am going to try and stick a blacktail this weekend if the wind doesn't stop us from getting to our "secret" island.

[Blacktail]

I was visiting my son in late august in Port Hardy to do some fishing and when we got bored of catching all those 30 pounders we went out opening day of bow season and nailed a nice little spike meat buck.
Locally here I picked up a nice wide heavy fork a couple weeks ago.

[Blacktail]

Hey Nails ,where abouts do you go for your hunt with the guys on the Island?
Hopefully see you at the Malahat Turkey shoot

[Nails]

Hi Blacktail, it is good to here from you, we need some more archers on the site. Congrats on your deer, you can never see the bottom of your freezer eh. We hunt the south end in the the small wood lots, ideal for the bow. I am hoping to make the shoot if I can get off work.
Willy and Harv congrats on bagging your deer. I put a nice stalk on a fork today but got busted. Those arbutus leaves were dry enough to crunch after all the rain we got on monday. It was still a blast.

[J_T]

Hi all,

Had a great start to the archery only season in the East Kootenay. Had my boys out for their first extended archery elk hunt. Had a 5 pt in broadside at 20 yards opening day (yes, why didn't I shoot.....??), lots of whities, ate grouse and rabbit. No bears, lots of ungulates. The boys had a great time.

Looking forward to the late bow only season for whitetail in Region 8.

JT

Blactail,

Good to see you posting.

JT

[Kirby]

Lots of excitement, managed to get with in range of some very nice 160-165 class bucks, but due to other hunters, swirling winds, unseen bucks, yada yada yada only tagged with the rifle so far, but going out tomorrow to chase some rutting mulies with the bow.

Kirby

[Thunderstix]

I wimped out on Remembrance Day and used my rifle....nice little 2x3 Columbian.