Ha! Primitive Weapons Season?

I laugh to myself all the time when I think about our current "Primitive Weapons" season. Guys say that they would rather bow hunt than use a gun. Through out history, warriors and hunters have always gone to the better weapon. Custer got his butt killed along with his troopers, because he had single shot breech loaders and the Indians had repeaters. Danial Boone would have loved to have had a Browning Automatic rifle or lever action. I understand a man wanting a challenge, but why then use a compound with all of the cams, releases, laser sights, etc. Seems to me, if they really wanted a challenge, they'd go out and cut a tree down and make their own bow and arrows, or at least buy and use a simple long bow or recurve and wooden arrows, and shoot by instinct.

Now how about our new primitive guns! My 45-70, with a scope and easily shoot out to 200 yards, now how primitive is that. In MS you can use any caliber larger than .35 caliber. That includes a lot of great shooting weapons. I personally love them, I don't particularly care for blackpowder guns. My inline blackpowder gun, that doesn't shoot real black powder and doesn't even look like a muzzle loader. It shoots quite well out to a hundred yards, so what is primitive about it?

So when you tell me that you're a purest and don't believe in hunting with modern weapons and that it's more of a challenge to hunt with a bow, just pull out your stick bow and your flintlock, and I'll believe you.

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Comment by Ken "BubbaBrown" Ledbetter on December 20, 2010 at 4:52pm: My comments were aimed at the compound bow hunters that don't think that a cross bow is an archery weapon and the flintlock hunter that thinks that an inline is not a primitive weapon. I personally would like to hunt the whole season with the weapon that I'm most proficient with! The point where we pick up modern rifles, is when I start having fun!

Comment by Chip Maraist on December 20, 2010 at 7:38am: Hey, I resemble that remark! But I know where you're comin from. I used to only use my stickbow in archery season, and my Hawken traditional muzzleloader in primitive season. And I love to hunt that way still.

But I also enjoy eating venison, and as the season winds on, and deer sightings just aren't plentiful, us carnivores start to get a little desperate. And our weapons efficiency goes up.

But great warriors in combat, and men who had to hunt to survive, they always wanted the most efficient weapons, and I don't blame them. They were'nt looking for a challenge, they were trying to survive one.

But I don't hunt to survive, I can buy meat at the store. I hunt because I like the good feeling it gives me. I enjoy deer hunting because on some primal, predatory level, it makes me feel good. When I shoot one with a gun, I feel a great sense of satisfaction, that as a predator, I've gotten my quarry, and my meat for the freezer. Just like when I make a great shot on a teal zooming over my decoys. And I like that rosy feeling of satisfaction. But when I stick one with my bow, I get a tremendous rush, a "high" I can't explain, and I get so excited I can hardly talk. And I love that feeling. I need that feeling. I crave that feeling.

And make no mistake, its not the "challenge" that I'm after. I face enough challenges in the real world. I go hunting to get away from "challenges", to forget my troubles for a little while. I hunt because I enjoy the intense feelings I get from hunting, and they just seem to get more intense the more primitive the weapon. I don't know why they do, I just know that its so. I guess its kinda hard to explain, but feelings are like that sometimes, yeah they are.