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I'll be doing a drop camp in Colorado 2nd Rifle season. I am considering taking both bow and rifle. In this area there are opportunities for long (200+) shots and short (20-30 yards). Got my cow elk here last year at 40 yards. I'll have both a bull tag and a cow tag.
Obvious I'll have one weapon in my hands and the other straped to my backpack depending on where I am.
The other option is to leave one in camp while I hunt with other.
Opinions? Any of you guys done this before?
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I would concentrate on one type of hunting tool, myself. If you don't score with the bow, at least you will have a great trip. I found out a long time ago that I can't concentrate multiple things, be it rifles , bows , or shotguns, so take only one main, and one for a back up of the same thing.... Cat
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Leave the bow at home. If you want to hunt with your bow, come out in September.
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Carry the bow and bring along a gun bearer like they had in Africa back in the day.
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When I have gone way back in the woods, I have taken both bow and rifle. For example, bear hunting, all week in norhern Minnesota. Just in case I wound a bear and have to follow him into a thicket, I am going back to the canoe and get my .308 carbine.
Same for hunting wild boar on foot in the mountains of SC or NC.
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Yep, I've done it on several occasions, both in Africa and this year in Alaska. My intentions are to harvest game with my bow, but when it cimes down to crunch time, I won't hesitate to pick up rifle. My theory is, why go home empty handed when on the last day I can connect with my long gun.
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When hunting dangerous game on foot, the prudent thing to do sometimes is put down the bow and reach for the thunderstick - as when trailing a wounded boar, or there is a pack of wolves between you and your canoe.
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