What type of weapon do you prefer to hunt with?

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i have to say that if it wasnt for rifle hunting i probably would have never become a hunter at all and it was a blast while it lasted i have killed a few deer and a few elk with some of my guns but something happened a few years ago i bought a primos the trueth about hunting big bulls 8 and all but 2 of the 13 hunts were with bows and i was blown away i couldnt beleive they were calling bulls in to 20 yards and closer and having to make such precice shots on these animals. well that christmas my mom asked me what i wanted from her and i asked if she would help me out with a bow and to my suprise she just went and bought the bow a martin jaguar and left all the fun little also not cheap accesories like site rest quiver release and other misc. stuff to me. so it took me about a year to get a bow togather that i could actually shoot. i did everything to this bow put the rest and sight on learned where to knock it learned how to paper tune it sighted it in this bow means the world to me and i will never sale it.not to mention all the time learning how to use calls and tree stands for deer and all the other stuff. i havnt picked up a rifle with the intention of harvesting big game since i got that bow. but it has been trial and error since i am an all self taught archery hunter everything ive learned i have learned from internet and video and from the last three years of just going in to the woods and gaining experiance. i have a few friends that archery hunt but are all on the level i am so we learn togather. last year it all came togather the work absorbing the knowledge and the time i put in came down to me harvesting a huge cow elk that gave me a 15 yard quartering away shot in between an opening in some buckbrush my buddy and i had been working a bull when i shot her funny thing was is that i was calling for him and he was shooting when she slipped by hime and came to me but anyways yeah cow or not it was better than any animal i have ever shot with a rifle. i got one with that older bow i built so this year i bought a new bow from idaho archery a mathews dxt and its faster and much more comfortable better suited to me. this year i get to pound some new territory up north by lewiston not sure i have a guy who wants to take me and call for me but im kind of fond of doing my own thing. so we will see i will let you guys know. from what i hear im gonna be in some pretty awesome whitetail country(i know this is true because of the bucks ive already seen.) so i might focus on whitetail if im not feeling to confedint about chasing elk in wolf country.
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