[Rack Tracker]

Which of the following items would be the most likely reason for you to go armed with a pistol while bowhunting? (Regardless of existing laws in your State)

Black Bears,
Grizzly Bears,
Wolves,
Mountain lions,
Snakes
Meth cookers, Pot Growers
Angry husbands or Other (please explain)

 

[Ryan]

2 legged predators.

 

[JRF20]

Pot Growers and Meth Cookers.

 

[Narc]

I can't remember the last time I went anywhere without my pistol, and I do not anticipate doing so any time in the future.
Better to have it and not need it then need it and not have it

 

[DBL LUNG]

I don't carry one, it's illegal here in South Dakota, but the only reason I would carry one is because of mt. lions. But I think that you wouldn't have time to mess with a pistol anyway. I think that if a cat is actually "hunting" you, your days are numbered. But that is different than bumping into one on a trail, which I belive the cat would probably just haul @ss out of there.

 

[Wolfman88]

Boar hogs!!!!!!

 

[tackscall]

Grouse. A grouse will kill you and everyone you love given half a chance

 

[ButchA]

It's legal here in VA (I carry a Para Ordnance .45ACP) and will be carrying while bowhunting. I chose "Wolves" in the poll, because there wasn't a choice for Coyotes. We have tons of Coyotes in the mountains and they reek havoc on game species and populations.

 

[Straightline]

My last trip to Montana in 2003 my guide started carrying after we “ran into” a black bear that had buried an elk carcass in the area we were hunting. We also talked to some loggers who had an encounter with a grumpy bear in the area. The bear had treed one of the loggers. During the trip we had several encounters with the bear one of them before daylight.

Note:
The elk had been killed by another hunter not the bear.

 

[foxymizhunter]

I'm a psycho magnet!

Reason for handgun? Trust me, if there's a nutcase in a 50 mile radius -- he'll find me. And then he'll want to tell me about his mother and why he just loves red-heads...eek!

 

[Bobmuley]

I don't carry one for any particular reason....when I use it I'll have figured out justification for it.

 

[Team Hoyt PA]

I wouldn't.

Going into town is another story.

 

[teal325]

You forgot one option:

Because I can.

If you don't exercise your rights you lose them IMO.

 

[swoosh]

Tresspassers have my bow out gunned, I need a little back up:wink:

 

[TEXAS 10PT]

Mtn Lions
Bobcats
Snakes
In that order but I carry one all the time anyway.


TEXAS

 

[jwoods]

I'm including drunks and drug users in general with Meth cookers. Also have been some reports of problems with wild packs of dogs in a couple areas I hunt.

 

[Team Hoyt PA]

Mtn Lions
Bobcats
Snakes
In that order but I carry one all the time anyway.


TEXAS

Mtn. Lions and snakes are one thing.....but a Texas bobcat isn't much to be afraid of....especially since they are nocturnal 95% of the time.:tongue:

 

[Bobmuley]

Mtn. Lions and snakes are one thing.....but a Texas bobcat isn't much to be afraid of....especially since they are nocturnal 95% of the time.:tongue:

Pelts are going for $200+ nowadays...:wink:

 

[TEXAS 10PT]

Mtn. Lions and snakes are one thing.....but a Texas bobcat isn't much to be afraid of....especially since they are nocturnal 95% of the time.:tongue:

Its still "nocturnal" when I'm walking to my stand. The other 5% accounts for the two I saw in broad daylight last year.


TEXAS

 

[Team Hoyt PA]

Its still "nocturnal" when I'm walking to my stand. The other 5% accounts for the two I saw in broad daylight last year.


TEXAS

c'mon you girly man.....it's only a little Texas bobcat!!!!!
How would you like to walk into the woods and have a bear breathing down your neck? :tongue:

Bob, I WISH !!!!!!!! I'd be out of state every season going for bobcat if they were 200!!!!