Pistol during archery only?

[Axe Man]

Better to have it and not need it...than to need it and not have it.

(drop the mic)

(holding my lighter high after mic drop)

[CBHunter]

Better to have it and not need it...than to need it and not have it.

(drop the mic)

Exactly

[Burntorange Bowhunter]

Fraidycats.

[Kurdawg]

better to have it and not need it...than to need it and not have it.

(drop the mic)

x1000

[nathank]

[Budman68]

Fraidycats.

X2.. Pretty sure I can walk around a snake and stick a pig with an arrow. Come on, why do you really need a pistol with you.

[OUTDOORSMANEVERETT]

Any reason why you need a pistol to bowhunt, other than it's you right to own one. Seems like extra weight to lug around. Now if you hunt down by the border or in east Texas, I can see a reason. Just kidding on the East Texas.

SNAKES! I've had many in my ground blinds throughout the year.

Walk up on a bunch of hogs a 5am in the dark!

[breederbuck33]

Never know, I dang sure carry mine in South Texas.. Never know who, or what you might run into down there...

Once it gets cold at our lease in Concho county I leave it at the camp, we don't have any pigs or really anything to even be concerned about out there.

[Jaybo31]

X2.. Pretty sure I can walk around a snake and stick a pig with an arrow. Come on, why do you really need a pistol with you.

So if you make a bad shot you can use the pistol to finish off the deer. I'm glad they changed it, gives a pretty quick and painless why to finish one if need be

[El Paisano]

Why not?

[SwampRabbit]

X2.. Pretty sure I can walk around a snake and stick a pig with an arrow. Come on, why do you really need a pistol with you.

Trespassers, Poachers, anybody else doing something illegal that could be armed.
Hog that I shot with an arrow that isn't dead yet or feels cornered when I am tracking a deer at night...
Aggressive dogs
Mt Lions

I agree, I wouldn't waste a 9mm on a snake, nor my first shot on a pig either. I carry it for self defense.

[BrandonA]

In south Texas I would say for rattlebugs and illegals with bad intentions. At our ranch in Mills county for rattlebugs. I have never been scared of being attacked by hogs or anything else.

[Brian243]

Glad I read this.

[DEG]

Illegals and rattlesnakes!

X2

[jeepntx]

Now if you hunt down by the border or in east Texas, I can see a reason. Just kidding on the East Texas.

I wouldn't be kidding on the East TX part. I was scouting a new lease and was probably 30-40 yards from the fenceline/tree line. Next thing I know, a guy is charging out of the woods at me with a 3 ft long tree branch. I pulled, but didn't point, and he stopped dead in his tracks and dropped the branch.

He said he thought I was one of his meth-head neighbors coming to steal more stuff from him (and he admitted to me he was really high).

That's why I carry when I'm on the lease.