RE: Ban compounds from archery season - thoughts ??
SC,
<font color=red>"TxCowboy - You noticed that too ? He skirted BOWFANATIC's question yet again, as well as mine. Why is that ?"</font id=red>
1. I skirted nothing for you. I've laid out my position many MANY times on different forums...for you. For that, you chase your tail, pretend that I never answered you, and lied about me to try to get me to engage you in your "issues". You need some help.
2. You, TxCowboy, and BOWFANATIC have already made up your minds that the ONLY reason to oppose crossguns in archery seasons is selfishness. You're minds are closed, and the name-calling begun. Why entertain you three further? Is there a point to it?
When you get to the point where you understand why archery seasons were started, by whom they were started, and the underlying premise of them, maybe you'll get it. When you start to understand who has fought for decades for your right to bowhunt, and who has conributed nothing to the equation, maybe you'll understand. I doubt it though.
Until then you hang you hat on catering to the least common denominator, and making everything as easy as possible. And you call others selfish? That's laughable at best.
When you think that the sole purpose of archery seasons is to let you grab something with a string, go into the woods, and kill a critter with a sharp stick flying through the air...don't start calling anyone else selfish. You're the case-in-point.
SC...
I understand how you got to the point that you are now. From what I've seen of you over the past year, you somehow got the impression that hunting with a longbow would be "cool". Maybe it was one too many Fred Bear videos or something? You started pounding your chest, talking about how you had "given up the training wheels", sold your compounds, and "committed yourself" to being a "traditional bowhunter". You got a longbow, shot it for a while, and headed to the woods. After just one month, and having taken no deer, it didn't suit you anymore. Suddenly, the "en vougue" of trad lost its shine and you, admittedly, went with something you refer to as easier.
You're not unique. I see your kind every year by the boat-load. Hollier-that thou trad shooter one day...compound-toting trad-basher the next. You float of the winds of whatever suits your needs and damn the rest of us for not agreeing with you. The guys that I shoot and hunt with, compound and trad alike, just sit back and laugh at you and your type.
In the course of this, you somehow became a self-proclaimed expert on hunting with a trad bow. You seem to think that your fruitless month in the woods negates the experiences of people like Paul Brunner, who has 45 years as a bowhunter under his belt. How? I have no idea.
What I do find funny is that you only came to this great conclusion of yours after you bombed out, like a druggy on the SAT test, at hunting with a longbow. Look...you want to give up the longbow and go back to a compound...fine. Who cares other than you? I hunt with guys who make the P&Y equipment rules look like a Model T, and I couldn't care less. I hunt with guys who's idea of fair chase is 300 yards accross a bean field with a 7mm...so what? They hunt their way, I hunt mine, and we don't think any less of each other for it. You're the only one who has made your own equipment choice such a massive internet issue. I don't know if its some sort of unfounded guilt on your part, or your just looking for a way to bow out of your previous "training wheels" remarks.
When you first "found God" in the form of a longbow, you came accross as hollier-than-thou, and I didn't much care for it then. When you fell flat on your face and went searching for a way out, you still came across as hollier-than thou...and I still don't care for it.
You can vent your unfounded guilt at me all you want by calling me names and lieing about me. That's fine. When you get your own personal issues sorted out, let me know. Until then, you might want to watch those "hollier than thou" and "selfish" rocks you're throwing, because your glass house is becoming a total wreck.
JRW