I really don't care what weapon you choose to hunt with but I choose to hunt with a Patched Round ball in .54 caliber, and I don't want to lose that privilege. Besides, anyone who thinks the Patched Round Ball is incapable of ethically and humanely harvesting big game and still bowhunts is living a life full of contradictions and only has one agenda.

There is a difference between a bow hunter and a 3-D target shooter. The 3D shooter wants to see how far away he can go and still hit the target, but a bow hunters wants to see how close he can get to the target and still harvest it.

Its the same way between Traditional and a Modern ML hunter. Traditionalists want to see how close they can get. While a Modern ML'er want to see how far away he can get and still hit the target.

I would bet that more deer are wounded and lost during Bow season, than with hunters using a Patched Round Ball. both pure numbers head to head and per capita.

The most important thing to remember is that we are ALL HUNTERS and we need to agree to disagree and stay united. Anti's have been trying to divide us for years, lets not eat our own and lose the overall war. Personally I want to see my state move to this type of season:

Bow Season (any compound or stick bow allowed)
Crossbow Season (other bows allowed)
Muzzleloader Season (any ML allowed)
Primitive Season (only sidelocks & stickbows allowed)
Rifle Season (any centerfire or ML allowed)

This is a win-win-win solution for everyone. Hunters get more hunting opportunities with a more variety of weapons. States revenues will increase due to more stamps being sold, and Retailers and Manufactureres sales and revenues increase due to more types of weapons are being sold and used to hunt.

I am against my state allowing crossbows in the general archery season, but if they were to have a separate Crossbow season, then I would go out and by a crossbow immediately. Likewise, I refuse to buy or hunt with an inline, but if I had a primitive only season, then I might be compelled to buy an inline and try it in a general ML season.

I have emailed Mr. Bridges to complain to him that his attitude and beliefs are very divisive, and he should try to unite all hunters instead of alienating the traditionalists.

I think we need to stay united, so we don't get divided and conquerored by anti's.