any of u doods into bow hunting

wild pigs specifically if that matters

tia

your pal

lemon

Using a bow to hunt something that can easily kill you is pretty respectable.

ask buize

he master of bow and swords

nope

u guys r no help so far

maybe i should try google

You'll shoot your eye out.

The bow won't do you much good without arrows, get some arrows.

The only advice I can offer is don't use dogs unless you're prepared to watch them die and climb a tree if you miss and the boar charges you.

where I'm gonna hunt dogs (and guns) are illegal

bow (and arrow) only

Originally Posted by Elvis Hitler

You'll shoot your eye out.

i would actually be impressed if you managed to shoot your eye out with a bow.

Never understood hunting. No way that could be more fun than paintball. Buy a paintball gun instead.

Boar hunting is fun, though scary as ****.

Originally Posted by Reggs

Never understood hunting. No way that could be more fun than paintball. Buy a paintball gun instead.

You're the kind of effeminate ***** who pays a real man to come fix things when they break. No one wants your opinion.

it's a depredation thing

pigs are eating all the ****ing acorns and destroying oak forests in this area

Yea, it's for the forest and has nothing to do with bacon and ham.

You got a spot? Learning to bow hunt is decently long. If you've got pigs and a depradation permit just tag them with a crossbow. Much faster to learn how to shoot and a lot easier to aim.

ya maybe I'll do crossbow

what r the plusses and minuses of either

i am a noob but I want to kill a bunch of pigs this fall/winter

dont shoot ur thumb off like myu brohter in law

Originally Posted by lemon

ya maybe I'll do crossbow

what r the plusses and minuses of either

i am a noob but I want to kill a bunch of pigs this fall/winter

Crossbow has a scope and you can leave it cocked. Aimed like a gun. Minuses is in CA you can only use it for rifle deer season. It's not considered archery. For pigs its not as big a deal since pigs are year round and there aren't many archery only spots. Though Lake Sonoma is one but they also accept crossbows.

The learning curve is pretty easy since you have a scope and it's pretty flat shooting. Loading it is more of a pain as is unloading it. Loading is done with a loading pulley and unloading is done by firing off the bolt with a decocking tip on it. Also crossbows are sorta heavy and front heavy. But as a plus you can load a xbow at the beginning of your hunt and insert a bolt right before your ready to shoot making you safe.

Compound bows are the way to go for what you appear to be doing, recurves and longbows are a huge learning curve even moreso then compounds. Compounds take practice to even draw them correctly, once you learn its really easy. Aiming bows is a lot of practice. you have a peep sight on your string and you've got pins on the front of the bow that you set to distances that you look at. Release the trigger and away goes the arrow hopefully to the right spot. Arrows miss a decent amount because 1. you twitched 2. you ****ed up your anchor point 3. you messed up the distance and picked the wrong pin 4. etc... But archery is a lot more challenging and can be a lot more satisfying since you have to work a lot harder with it. Also you should be willing to practice a lot more with a bow and be comfortable shooting in weird positions and from quick setups.

Originally Posted by Reggs

Never understood hunting. No way that could be more fun than paintball. Buy a paintball gun instead.

you can't eat the people you shoot in paintball tho

first time i came to NZ we stayed w/ some friends who live up on the Coromandel peninsula on a huge piece of land miles away from anyone

like we literally had to abandon our rental car and jump in their 4x4 and drive for 10 mins to get from their 'mailbox' by the road to their actual house

anyway that first night we ate some wild pig that the dude had killed on their land, but i'm pretty sure it was with a rifle of some kind not a bow ;<

gg cool story bro