like deer hunting, turkey, and moose. and is it possible to hunt squirrels with a bow and arrow?
thanks, jak
It all depends on how much time you can invest on the sport. A recurve bow demand a lot of time invested. With a recurve bow you first need to spend a lot of time training even before you think about hunting, a compound bow will get you hunting in a few days, whereas a recurve might take a few months if not a year. Then comes skill upkeep, you need to spend a lot more time at the range with a recurve to keep your skill current compared to a compound. A compound you can put down during the off season and pick up again before the season start, can’t do that with a recurve. What’s the upside to using a recurve? Knowing that you’ve truly accomplished something. When you shoot with a recurve, you do so without the aid of all the mechanical devices.
Compound. When hunting you may be forced to hold still with the bow drawn for a bit of time before you release. To much motion will give you away every time. I’d think anyone would find it much harder to stay still for a long time with a recurve, but with a compound it is easy.
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Both bows have there advantages. If you are fairly new to Bow Hunting I would suggest a compound. It may require a little more effort to fully draw but once drawn it can be held drawn much longer with less effort.
It is possible to hunt small game such as squirrels you will just have to select the proper arrow tip for the job.
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well since i am guessing you are new to the sport, i would suggest a compound. they are much easier after drawn, much more room for error like if you twitch or move as your releasing the arrow. but the main thing is practice practice practice
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Compound. No ifs, ands, or butts about it. You need to be very accomplished with a compound bow before trying to use a recurve for hunting.
Yes, you can take squirrels with one using blunt tips or Judo points. You will ruin or lose a lot of arrows this way when shooting up into trees, but it’s fun.
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Judo points: http://www.cabelas.com/spodw-1/0027605.shtml
It all depends on how much time you can invest on the sport. A recurve bow demand a lot of time invested. With a recurve bow you first need to spend a lot of time training even before you think about hunting, a compound bow will get you hunting in a few days, whereas a recurve might take a few months if not a year. Then comes skill upkeep, you need to spend a lot more time at the range with a recurve to keep your skill current compared to a compound. A compound you can put down during the off season and pick up again before the season start, can’t do that with a recurve. What’s the upside to using a recurve? Knowing that you’ve truly accomplished something. When you shoot with a recurve, you do so without the aid of all the mechanical devices.
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The most accurate would be a compound with all the bells and whistles. I’m not a bow and arrow guy but a fella let me shoot his with one of those string holder releases and I hit a camel cigarette pack from across the street dead center! I was blown away! But personally I like a primitive….it’s more of a challenge!
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I know of plenty of folk who have used a "primitive" bow to take all of those animals; the bow was made from a sapling tree, and shaped with a piece of flint — so I guess it was a real Primitive bow, after all.
Now to the actual question: Both bows are equally effective for hunting all those animals (and many on other Continents, too). It depends on how they are used, and where they are used.
The compound bow is easier to use than the recurve, but the recurve allows you to gain more actual skill. Compounds may have more "power" than recurves, but again they need less actual skill. Compounds may have that "let-off" allowing you to hold heavy draw weights at full draw a long time, but you also usually have to contort yourself some to get them to full draw — and that’s the kind of motion animals are most often spooked by. And compounds, being mechanical devices with wheels/pulleys and pivot pins in those wheels/pulleys, often make noise when noise is the last thing you want.
If you wish to experience the thrill of taking game with a weapon that requires skill and patience, use a "stickbow" — a recurve or longbow. If all you want to do is "take game", then by all means use a compound.
And yes, it is possible to hunt rabbits and squirrel with a bow of any kind. Just put a blunt on the arrow, instead of a broadhead. The last rabbit I hit in the head with a blunt dropped dead real fast.
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