SC,
Well, since you offered...
What I find sad, yet humorous, is that you seem to be very selective when you discuss what "your experiences" are, depending on what side of the fence your feet are planted on at the time.
For example, and from the link Arrowsmit posted (these are
your words, and
your experiences)...
<font color=red>"As for my take on this issue, I live in Arkansas. Crossbows are legal."</font id=red>
So, you have a lot of experience with the issue? Great. Let's look at what your "experience" bore out when it was fashionable for you to be, as you said, "anti-crossbow"....
<font color=red>"
Its been my experience that crossbow hunters pick their crossbows up the day before they go hunting, shoot a few shot and then they're off."</font id=red>
Your "experience" was that crossgun hunters don't practice much at all.
<font color=red>"You dont hunt Camp Robinson, do you ? Man, hat place is loaded with crossbow hunters. Mostly Little Rock archer wannabe's who buy their crossbow on Friday or pull it out of the closest and hunt on Sat and Sun with it." "I'm about 5 miles from Camp Robinson North entrance, about 2 miles from Bell Slough."</font id=red>
Your "experience" was, again, that crossgun hunters don't practice much at all.
<font color=red>"What you are saying is a reflection of the type of hunters that use crossbows in general. Not real good hunters, not really into spending time to learn their equipment, mostly men who want to fill an easy tag. The result ? Wounded and lost deer..."</font id=red>
Your "experience" was that, due to lack of practice, crossgun hunters wound and lose game.
<font color=red>"Safety does not have a relevancy to what weapons are used, an idiot with a crossbow is every bit as dangerous, possibly more with no one wearing blaze orange to catch his eye, as an idiot with a gun."</font id=red>
Your "experience" was that "idiots" (your word) with crossguns are dangerous.
<font color=red>"
My experience this past year? I don't remember seeing any other archery hunters at all that I could identify their weapons, period, because of where and how I hunt. I did however see my neighbor take his dusty crossbow out of his closet, shooting 3 different kinds of arrows and rusty broadheads and hitting a 10" groups the day before he was to go hunting. THERE is the problem I think with crossbows. Oh, and the guy on the 4 wheeler, crossbow cocked and ready driving through the woods. Oh, and a guy I know buying one on Friday and shooting one of the biggest bucks my Dad ever seen (it passed his stand about 30 minutes after the guy shot it). Long bloodtrail, it started raining, deer never found."</font id=red>
Your "experience" was that crossgun hunters were slobs.
<font color=red>"The difference lies in that you and I can pick up a crossbow and have it shooting 3 inch groups in about 5 minutes, and while compounds nowdays are also easy to master, its not that easy."</font id=red>
Your "experience" was that compounds were not as easy to master as crossguns.
One of my favorites...
<font color=red>"We simply cannot have high wounding rates and slob hunters in our ranks and survive IMO. Crossbows invites those kinds of hunters -
I've seen it, I know it. The examples I gave are from this year alone. Last year I saw the same thing, year before and year before that."</font id=red>
That one speaks for itself.
You accuse others of not being able to debate, and dodging, but you exemplify the concept of selective memory?
When Arrowsmit calls you to the mat for this, you simply explain it with "I was wrong". Well, what were you "wrong" about? These are your
experiences, not your
opinions. Did your eyes
not see what they saw for all those years?
And this, SC, is why I ROTFLMAO every time I see you start another one of these threads. Tell
me I can't debate? Heck son,
you can't even debate your own "experience". <img src=icon_smile_dissapprove.gif border=0 align=middle>
JRW
Edited by - jrw on 11/26/2002 13:56:10