Archery Vs. Rifle Hunting For Beginners
Ever thought about hunting to provide food for the family, but do not know what is the best method for a beginner? A lot of people are starting to hunt or are starting to teach their kids how to. Most beginner hunters do not know which method is the best for them, or the easier one for that matter, so this paper is intended to help with making that decision. By looking at the distance, sound and scent discipline, and the required skills, one will be able to determine if archery or rifle hunting is more practical for a beginner hunter.
It is helpful to know the distance you will have to hunt from using both methods. A beginner archer could easily take down an animal anywhere from twenty to forty meters. A good, seasoned archer still doesn’t take shots further than fifty or sixty meters. How close you have to be is what makes archery hunting so difficult. It requires a lot more than just skill and accuracy. Now for a beginner hunter rifle hunting could easily take down a animal anywhere between twenty to one-hundred meters. Once they get seasoned and a lot of practice they should be able to take down an animal anywhere from twenty to three-hundred meters, sometimes even further. With rifle hunting you can be a lot further from the animal, and fifle hunting does not require much more than your skill and technique.
Sound and scent discipline are needed in both methods of hunting, but one method requires more than the other. Since archery hunting requires the hunter to be a lot closer to the animal to take it down, it also requires a lot more scent and sound discipline. Animals have a very keen sense of smell and can smell things out of the ordinary from long distances. One way many archers defeat the whole smell thing is they wash their clothes in a scent blocker laundry detergent and then put their clothes in a sealed bag until