Can’t decide bow or rifle for hunt

[fadetoblack188]

I am going down south next month for a hog hunt.  This is out of a tree stand. I am having a hard time deciding on wether to bring my 6.8 ar or my bow 

 

I would like to shoot it with bow. But what if the only hog comes in at 80-100 yards ? 

 

What do do you guys think!? 

[Hunter007]

7 minutes ago, fadetoblack188 said:

I am going down south next month for a hog hunt.  This is out of a tree stand. I am having a hard time deciding on wether to bring my 6.8 ar or my bow 

 

I would like to shoot it with bow. But what if the only hog comes in at 80-100 yards ? 

 

What do do you guys think!? 

If it is going to be a once in a lifetime hunt bring the gun if you going to be doing this a lot what's the difference .

[moog5050]

Only you can decide whether you will kick yourself if you go bow and scenario you mentioned occurs.  If you will then take the 6.8.  

  If you are going for more than 1 day you could start with bow and move to gun midway through trip.  I did that when I went bear hunting.  

[fadetoblack188]

But in the same sense one comes in 20 yards and stand still and I shoot it . I’ll kick myself for not having bow hahah

[Uncle Nicky]

1 minute ago, fadetoblack188 said:

But in the same sense one comes in 20 yards and stand still and I shoot it . I’ll kick myself for not having bow hahah

They don't die that easily. I'd never consider taking a bow on a paid hunt.

[crappyice]

Depends what you want to do...I went on a Maine Bear hunt over bait and spent the 4 days with bow (and my pud) in hand. If I went with gun guide would have place me in different stands but I just don’t care for guns as much as I like using bows. The bow certainly made it harder on my guide but I knew that and was ok with coming home with only the experience


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[Jeremy K]

Out of state hunt is with out a doubt bow ,bow hunts are just the greatest .

[grampy]

If you make a kill, with which one will you have the greatest satisfaction? 

That's the one to use. 

For myself, it would be the bow. 

[Pygmy]

Want some pork  ??  Take the rifle.....

 

[Hunter007]

I don't know I think at least for bear I would prefer to have a gun after watching this .

[Pygmy]

I have been on many hunts when some members took a bow and a gun,,,,Nearly every time, they hunted with the bow for a few days and then killed their game with the gun....

On only ONE hunt in northern Quebec,  the bow guy stuck with it and killed two nice caribou bulls, as nice as any the rest of us took with our rifles....

The only pig hunting I have done was free range, and they were damned hard to get a shot at with a rifle....Never did any canned pig hunting..That might be different..Good luck, Pilgrim.....

[fadetoblack188]

I would have better satisfaction with the bow. 

 

But def my chances of bringing home the meat are with the rifle. 

 

Looks like rifle is winning inning in the thread 

[helmut in the bush]

Leave the crippling stick at home

[G-Man]

Take both your staying in the country . Then do what guide recommends if he has a bow spot like a wallow then try bow, if its field hunting you will want the gun.

[fadetoblack188]

Which is the crippling stick? Haha