Further more, and apparently I failed to illustrate the point sufficiently...

Previously, when you were, as you put it, "anti-crossbow", you used isolated incidents of slobs carrying crossbows to draw conclusions about crossbow hunters across the board...which was wrong. In all the times I've debated this issue, here, on the Bowsite, other sites, and in person, I've never once tried to play the "slob card" that's so en vogue. Personally, I've never had the inherent ability to determine someone's ethics by the legal equipment they carry afield.

Now that you've flip-flopped, you're still using isolated incidents to draw conclusions across the board, and it's still wrong. For example...Pat and his missed grizzly bear, your buddies the "pin cushion brigade", and your co-worker who took to a decked-out compound like a fish to water.

Just like before, you ignore anyone else's experiences that contradict your assertions, but hail those which do. For example...Paul Brunner's experience, my experience, and all of the wounding threads on this forum by hunters using compounds.

You expect folks to accept your experiences as the rule, while dismissing other's as the exception. SC, that's not what "debating" is all about. That's what hypocricy is all about (not to be rude).

This is what CharlieP tried to tell you, on this very thread, when he said something to the effect that you seem to think that your experiences are indicitive of the way things are everywhere. But, you missed what he tried to say, time and time again.


In addition, you talk about debating things, but you have repeatedly failed to grasp some obvious and indisputable facts concerning your arguments. It was stated to you that the only effective difference between compounds and trad bows is the let-off. Everything that you mentioned in order to increase the difference (sights, machined risers, releases, etc.) are all things that can be used, or incorporated into, trad bows. I thought you understood this. You seemed to understand this. But later in this very thread, you went right back to it again...going full circle for the ump-teenth time.

This, SC, is why I keep asking if you've caught your tail yet.

Look...I have no problem debating crossguns in archery seasons. What I refuse to do is "debate", while the other person ignores indisputable facts and keeps spinning in circles.

If you ever want to really debate me on this, I'd be happy to. But, I refuse to help you chase your tail again. Much like Tim Allen's stand-up routine, it was cute once or twice, but it's just gotten old, stale, and boring.

JRW