ORIGINAL: Arthur P
and you are forcing your thoughts on them. not letting them make an educated decision.
Like I said, you don't like it my way, then YOU do it. It's easier to sit back and throwdung at someone else's idea rather than come up with a workable idea yourself. As of yet, NONE of you have even suggested a way to improve things
"Educate them" you say. "They need to be practicing." Well, DU-UH!
Hell yes, they NEED the education. They NEED to be practicing. Now that we're agreed on those two points, HOW do we get that accomplished? How do we do it without morestate regulations? How do you instill a sense of responsibility into the average bowhunter? How do weenticehim toWANT to become astudent of the technical side of the sport? Howdo we instill in him the desire to spend time shooting and practicing with his equipment?
Into the fray enters the spectre ofhuman nature. If they don't want to do it, they ain't a-gonna do it unless they're forced to.
Okay, so by regulationswe make them sit through classes. We make them practice aminimum number of hours. We fix it so they have to show proof of these things before they can get an archery tag. Now what have we accomplished? The vast majority aren't going to bother. They'll quit. Theywon't buy bowhunting gear if they aren't going to use it,so... We've caused the archery/bowhunting industries to collapse and put thousands of people out of work.
I'm open to suggestions here. HOW do we meet our goals?
Ithink you are going way overboard on this whole thing. Maybe you need to get your blood pressure checked or take some valuum? Your type of thought process is why people left England in the first place. I'm going to make you do things my way!!!! And my way is the only way becasue I say so!!!! Please!!
The issue of people not shooting enough has been around for a long long time. Simply stating that if I go to a 401 gr arrow compaired to 391 will fix the problem on deer sized game is close minded and ignorant. A bad shot is a bad shot no matter what the arrow weight. Probably if it was possible to make shooting more fun for the average hunter they may do it. I shoot because it is fun. I stopped hunting in the past because I did not shoot enough to be confident in myself.