Compare And Contrast Hunting Vs Hunting

In 2011, there were about sixteen million Americans older than six years old that went hunting. With all the sixteen million hunters some would argue which weapon is better for killing game. Some hunters just don’t take into consideration the similarities and differences between hunting game with a bow or hunting game with a firearm. According to the seasons to hunt in different states, there are many animals, hunters can hunt for with both bow and different firearms. Most, wild game that hunters are able to hunt in Missouri are universal with weapons such as whitetail deer there is a bow season and a firearms season. The first thing to do when going is to find out what wild game to hunt. When shooting a bow and firearms there are similarities …show more content…
In order to hunt on public land or any land honestly you should get your hunters safety permit which allows you to hunt on public land and lets you purchase deer tags or any game tags at all (Robyn). In order to hunt at all in the state of Missouri there is a hunters safety course every hunter has to take and what that allows a hunter to do is to be able to buy tags to actually go hunting and it also allows hunters to hunt on a state owned public land. That is mostly all the certification a hunter has to go through to be able to hunt besides doing paper work for a firearm which can be a long process whereas a bow anyone can buy one a bow upfront without doing any paperwork. “For a good beginner setup, $500-600 is probably a reasonable estimate for both compound bows and rifles” (Robyn). Rifles and shotguns can be quite expensive and bows can be too such as higher end brands of rifles and shotguns even bows can cost up to eight hundred to about twelve hundred dollars. On top of buying firearms most people have to go through a background check along with a couple pages of paperwork. In order …show more content…
For new people to the world of hunting in terms of budgets guns or bows they can range about the same price although most hunters would eventually say you get what you paid for in budget guns and bows although some most rifles can cost more in the long run with attachments and bows not as much (Robyn). Most hunters always say you can get a cheap gun but you’ll get what the hunter paid for and also like the author said after it is all said and done you'll probably have spent way over the budget for a rifle after all the attachments are added. “Compared to bows, guns have more recurring costs: bullets and shot. Shooting practice can get expensive if you want to visit the range frequently. By contrast, arrows can be used many, many times”(Robyn). This can be important to start out with bows if someone is just starting out hunting and does not have a lot of money it is probably easier to use a bow along with it not costing money every time there is shot at wild game which after a while or a couple years can rack up money extremely fast, but with bows they can last for years and