Getting Your Bow Into Discreet Properties

[ThePreBanMan]

Not just the bow you have to worry about. Think about it. You'll be in camo, that's a give away as well. You'll probably have a camo pack. Tree stand, etc... The bow is really the least of your concerns. Dark in dark out, that's really the only way.

[Hawthorne]

Learn how to shoot a recurve. Buy a takedown. Can fit in a back pack. There is even a way to make take down arrows out of aluminum shafts

[Dewey]

Sounds like more than anti's to me. It is also others that dont know about it that he doesnt want finding out and adding pressure.

You could get a traditional takedown bow

I think if you can move as quickly and quietly as possible and just get to where you need to be with as few people seeing you as possible, stash the canoe as well as you can and get to hunting. With that said sometimes there is just no way to hide it. If your canoe is big enough you could certainly lay it down flat in the canoe to hide it a bit better. However wearing camo and packing a stand might also give you away, not sure a person can hide everything.

I’m considering having my outer camo layers in the compartment and have stands already hung. The good thing is I literally only have to kayak about 50 yards in the open, pull the kayak into the woods and I’m good. But I’m exposed to about 10 houses. Just trying to be creative

Exposed to 10 houses it sounds like your fighting a losing battle before you even start. People are nosey and there is no way you will be able to hide what your doing. Who knows maybe the neighbors will all accept that you are hunting and be fine with it.

[Camoface13]

Not just the bow you have to worry about. Think about it. You'll be in camo, that's a give away as well. You'll probably have a camo pack. Tree stand, etc... The bow is really the least of your concerns. Dark in dark out, that's really the only way.

Stands will be prehung in summer (kayak in at dawn to hang them), camo outer layers will be stashed, only other thing I’m taking to this spot is my bow. Minimalist in this circumstance.

[MarshRunner1]

I would just send it. Screw the anti's. Where theres a will theres a way.

[Chuck B]

Get a big mesh bag (so it won't float) and tie off the back of your canoe and into the water. When on shore, pull the bag out of the water and start hunting!

Wear a big over sized coat and secure the bow on the inside of it to your chest.

[PK_]

Duffel bag the bow.

Don’t forget to put a rod holder and decoy fishing rod.

[seazofcheeze]

Duffel bag the bow.

Don’t forget to put a rod holder and decoy fishing rod.

I was going to say big cooler for the bow and camo and fishing pole

[Edcyclopedia]

Duffel bag the bow.

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put camo in duffel bag and change on the shore...

[BRoth82]

Bring a fishing rod with and tackle box, people will just think you're out fishing.

[Racks&Beards]

Wear a bright colored North Face or Patagonia jacket and slap a "I HEART MUSKRATS" sticker on the side of your canoe and stash the bow in the bottom.

There it is!

[stash59]

Not gonna work for this year! But just start spending time canoeing and getting out and looking around the shoreline. It'll get old to them after awhile and they'll pay less attention to you!!!

[Dhurtubise]

Sounds like more than anti's to me. It is also others that dont know about it that he doesnt want finding out and adding pressure.

You could get a traditional takedown bow

I think if you can move as quickly and quietly as possible and just get to where you need to be with as few people seeing you as possible, stash the canoe as well as you can and get to hunting. With that said sometimes there is just no way to hide it. If your canoe is big enough you could certainly lay it down flat in the canoe to hide it a bit better. However wearing camo and packing a stand might also give you away, not sure a person can hide everything.

I imagine that bringing a deer back would also be an issue if you have a successful hunt? Unless you can quarter it up and pack it out but that might also draw unwanted attention.

Just take it across at night.

[Chuck B]

Here’s my scenario, neighborhood I’m in has property across the channel it also owns. Anyone in the neighborhood can hunt it, but it’s bow only and you can only access by crossing the channel (40-50ft wide). Not many people know about it so I want to be as discreet as possible to not get any anti’s wound up. Any ideas how to hide my bow when paddling over? My big plastic bow case doesn’t seem ideal

Lets hear an update on this. How did you go about it?!

[DaveT1963]

Act like your fishing - create a false narrative, maybe have a rod or two visiable