“Certainly I admire any hunter that is really dedicated to just one mode of deer hunting,” said Kerry French of Holmes County. “Anyone willing or focused enough on just one weapon surely has to be really good at it. I know hunters that only bow hunt all season long, or even some that are now using the old fashioned longbows to add extra challenge to their hunts. For me though, I prefer to use all the options available to enjoy them all.
“I will have to admit though, once I got my hands on my new primitive weapon single-shot Thompson-Center .35 Whelen, I concentrated on it above all else. I even put up my bolt action 7 Mag and bow just to use the Whelen.”
Go solo or multi-task
For sure, there is no hard and fast rule on which weapon option to use for deer hunting. To each their own is the dominant rule. Those choosing to hunt with just one weapon do, over time, tend to become very proficient with it. There are some advantages to that approach.
However, clearly the majority of deer hunters opt to use different weapons appropriate to the different seasons to maximize their opportunities to be in the woods. The ultimate challenge to deer hunting is to become skillful at various approaches with multiple weapons. That’s the fun, too.
In the final analysis the thing about deer hunting in Mississippi is that there is something for everybody. It may be archery, a crossbow, a smokepole, Pap’s old pump shotgun, a cutting edge synthetic bolt rifle and scope, or one of the new fangled centerfire single-shot primitive guns. As long as we all go hunting with family and friends as well as bring along some new hunters, that’s what counts.
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