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So if you have a son who you'd like to spend time with in the woods and teach to hunt, but is unable due to size and strengh to handle a qualified bow but yet is able to sit with a crossbow and drill centers you'd not take him to the woods because of it?
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One of the many reasons I am happy to live in Ohio. My 3 sons are able to spend more time in the woods enjoying it. My 2 youngest are not capable yet to maintain the legal draw weight to use a compound. However all 3 have their own compound bow that they are practicing with to learn. The oldest uses his own compound to hunt with.
The two youngest also have their own recurve and longbow. So using a crossbow until they are proficent with them is fantastic. Anybody that doesnt want kids in the woods to continue the hunting legacy have no thoughts to the future of our heritage. So I am for them using a crossbow so they can be with me. It beats them staying at home and playing video games or watching tv while Dad alone is hunting. Is that want you really want? I know I dont.