Iguana bow hunting questions

[u/No-Entertainment7074]

Iguana bow hunting questions

Iguanas bow hunting question

Trying to Decide Between a Hunting Bow and a Bowfishing Setup for Iguanas

Hey everyone, I could use some advice on a setup for hunting iguanas at around the 10-25 yard range. I live in Miami and iguanas are absolutely on every street and they get huge so they make some fun sport to shoot with bow and arrow. Back to the poent I’m deciding between using a hunting bow or a bowfishing bow. I know hunting bows have the range and precision I want, but I also like the idea of having a reel for retrieving arrows, since iguanas can be in dense areas where arrows might be hard to recover and since they are really small targets and really hard to make a kill shot in the brain so usual if u don’t make a kill shot they’ll run off into the nearest tree or body of water and die there. The issue is, bowfishing arrows don’t seem to have the same accuracy or range as hunting arrows because they’re heavier, lack fletching, and have line drag. On the flip side, tying a line to a carbon hunting arrow feels risky and unsafe because they’re not built for that kind of stress. Has anyone tried adapting a hunting bow for bowfishing-style use? Or should I just commit to one type of setup? I want precision and easy arrow recovery without compromising too much. I have a PSE Kingfisher recurve bow fishing bow and there’s a huge difference in between the feel of that and the feel of a hunting bow especially in accuracy and range. Any tips or setups that worked for you?

[u/runfishdrink]

This sounds awesome!