I have loved archery since I was a lil young'n....I made a slingshot that would shoot an arrow...pretty slick gizmo , but range was limited but was hell on pop bottles and milk cartons.
Then as years went on , I got my first stick bow....then recurve....then the compounds....I hunted with all of them, and they have a place in my heart.....I still have them too. In fact the stick bow was my dads :an avid true archery hunter who also went up the ladder from stick bow to compounds.
One day he called me on the phone to tell me he got a xbow....I said " what the hell for"!!!!???!!!! Well his shooting arm was hurting for the last couple years ( 85 yrs of age)and felt the xbow was the way to go. Well , I felt kinda lost for words...like geeesh.....you can't pull back a bow for one shot to shoot a deer.....damn. I felt like as though any bow hunter could pull back a vertical bow, if not , reduce the draw weight, but I didn't tell him that.
So he tells me how much he paid for this xbow....then I really felt bad for him....kinda expensive.....and for what....a damn xbow. I felt anyone using a xbow was using one due to a health or a dissability....or a reason on that order. I never felt threatened by anyone using a xbow.... or some one would shoot my deer.....hell no....I was as good as I could be with my compounds ( I pound chest like Tarzan here).
On one of my recent visits with him , he brought out his xbow to show me what he bought.....geeeesh , heavy as hell, felt clumbsy.....looked nice and well made.....but sorry , NOT FOR ME.
He said , " one of these days this will be yours.....so let me show you how to crank it and shoot it".....I was reluctant.....nope I would not shoot it.
I was very hurt my dad bought this xbow.....why I kept asking myself did he do something stupid as this.
Well , I started reading about the xbow that he bought....the mechanics of it etc......interesting.....very interesting indeed. Then I started reading about ALL xbows....from mid evil to present....then started reading about different xbow mfg.......damn interesting as could be.
Wellll all this reading got me intersted enough to go out and buy one MYSELF...........I love it !!!!!!! I sure do.....never thought I'd be saying this statement.....man , these are fun to shoot and deadly....unreal.
This opening day of archery , I'll be tote'n this bugger with me in the great outdoors.....another way to hunt with a new tool.....and I'll be proud of it.....again " I pound my chest like Tarzan".
BOB