RE: Ban compounds from archery season - thoughts ??
Stealthy,
When shooting trad equipment, why are you holding at full draw for so long? Shoot what style you want, but it sounds like your trying to shoot trad equipment like it was a compound with sights.
Like I said before. You STILL MUST pull 70# on a 70# bow...no matter the let off. Buck fever or not, 70# is 70# is 70#. Your trad bow may be 70#...but only at one spot (unfortunatly your anchor).
Now I have NEVER been one to force ethics on someone, and I'm not doing it now....but seeing as your haveing SO much trouble hitting an ELK with your trad stuff....How long are you going to keep flinging arrows at live animals that you admitedly cannot hit? How many are you going to hit, before hitting the vitals?
<u>PERSONALLY</u> I am not happy unless I can put all 5 arrows in the target close enough to get my finger and thumb from one hand around the group. Again, that's <u>ME</u>.
Are you having SO much more fun with this trad stuff, that you would rather keep shooting this way that actually have that deer or elk?
WHY BAN more and more stuff. More hunters is NOT a BAD thing...it's a GOOD thing. To be worried they would be in YOUR woods is selfish (IMNSHO).
trad, compounds, and crossBOWS are in the same season because they kill deer on the same principle, and have a very limited range. NOT because xBOW shooters are "archers" it's due to the nature of the tool at hand.
I find it VERY hard to understand WHY people would try to talk others into making a hard job (killing a deer with a pointed stick with blades on it) EVEN harder. I use a compound, a release, sights, silencers, carbon arrows (don't EVEN go there), stabilizer, wrist sling, and a peep. ALL help me hit my target. EVEN WITH all that, the animal can still move, that makes it hard enough for me. Now you want me to start flinging arrows with trad stuff? How many deer you want wounded by having us all go trad?