Yes, I carry while bow hunting. Actually I have two on me. I carry my S&W Model 637 .38 snub in my pocket. I also carry my S&W Model 317 .22 with 3" barrel and adjustable sights in a holster on my hip.
I think I have good reason to go armed that way. Opening day (Oct. 15) of bow season, as I was getting my gear out of the truck, two coyotes ran by within 10 feet of me. Then as I was walking to my stand, I came within four feet of a skunk. (I had previously gotten a picture of a skunk on my game camera.)
The land I hunt is not my own but the owner has given me permission to do just about anything I want on it. That includes dealing with a poacher that he has had trouble with any way I deem appropriate. Just this past Friday while moving my game camera and changing out the memory stick, I met two trespassers on the land. They weren't armed in any way (at least visibly). They said they had shot a deer on other property and had trailed it that far. Neither one of them was the poacher. While talking to them I kept the .38 in my hand in my pocket.
And finally the odds of ever seeing a game warden on the property is about 99.99% against. I know the owner would never call him on me. If he did come there he would have to drive down a long driveway to the owner's house, then continue past the house a couple of hundred yards to the owner's workshop, then start walking into the woods about three hundred yards to find me.