JRW - So very wrong you are. Dodging the issues, not responding to question, not debating at all but posting the same stuff over and over ... not helping your anti-crossbow case any.

"This is one of your main problems SC you think the way YOU do things or your experiences are the way it is."

Lets key in on this for a moment. IF that were true, I would expect everyone to shoot a longbow, correct ? But I don't, I am fine with compound and crossbow hunters. Will everyone experience what I have ? Of course not, but some things are consistant and true, such as when you switch from rifles to compounds you become a better hunter because of stand placement etc etc like Charlie P and I were discussing. I think shooting a longbow/recurve makes you even better though, and CP - I should have worded that different and not have made that so matter of factly. My bad there.

So look at the last few posts. The "feeling" was that if you can't hit what you shoot at for goodness sakes switch to another weapon. 6ptsika even went as far as to say take the license away. So who is wanting to force their views on who ? First we got use a compound, recurve or longbow or don't come into archery season, and now we have hit X ammount of the deer you shoot at or don't hunt at all ??

6ptsika - I am using your statement as an example, nothing personal here. I agree in a large way that if you cannot hit what you are aiming at , don't hunt with that weapon. Thing is, as archery season is right now, if I were unable to hit with my longbow, I should then use a compound, right ? And in AR, if I cannot for whatever reason get good enough with a compound, then I have the option of a crossbow. This should be a good thing, less deer wounded, still have me as an archery hunter. Anti-crossbow people are saying to me then that if I cannot practice enough and spend enough time with a compound (in states that have no crossbow seasons) that tough then, no archery hunting for me. Is this not the message being sent ? And if THIS is true, then couldn't the longbow/recurve shooters say the very same thing, as it is true that they are more challenging weapons that require (overall) more practice, are less powerful, have shorter ranges, are not as accurate etc etc ? THAT guys is forcing your views and beliefs on others, exactly opposite of what I have been saying.

JRW - When was Arkansas' first crossbow season again ? And post a link to this stuff I have said on the LW. Maybe I did, maybe I have changed my mind, maybe you misread it, maybe I was wrong ?? If I got time I'll go browse the archives over there today. I remember deabting frontal shots as not good shots and quartering to shots as well and, I think I was wrong. Fred Bear certainly thought they were good shots. I remember ATV threads, cut on impact broadhead threads and general elk threads.

6ptsika - I DO agree with you on that last post of yours overall. I think that is why inline muzzleloaders and compounds are legal in their respective general seasons - they make the hunters more accurate. Advances in technology does this, as mechanical broadheads have. Changes in rules by G&F commissions rarely go back with technology (exceptions like Idaho primitive zones). Crossbows are for most people easier to use and more effective for them at close range animals. Why ? Pracitce I suppose, ease of use, but if those same people would try compounds I think they would find them very close to being as easy to use, and maybe more accurate. The guy I first mentioned ... he shot that compound all weekend. He has a very bruised up forearm (I again had to tell him about rotating that elbow and openig up his stance a bit) - I suspect his crossbow won't ever get shot again.
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