RE: The Crossbow Controversy
I guess my whole question here is why you think a crossbow hunter is not a bow hunter. Again, and you have yet to comment to this, is when bow hunting with either a compound or a crossbow (again i use both) the actual hunt is exactly the same. The prep work is exactly the same. This assumes that "bow hunters" scout thier area, pick a stand according to trials, rubs, scrapes, sign, beds, sources of food, play the wind, get camoed up, etc..... We as bow hunters spend more time in the woods learning the habits of deer then a week long gun hunter has ever done, that is of course he is not a bow hunter too<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>. The only diff here is the draw. The release is a little different but not much if you think about it. So tell me why a person who does all the above (just as you do) cannot hunt the same season you do simply because the draw and release are a bit different or easier so you say. The yardage to have a clean kill is the same, the fixed or climbing stands are the same, what gives here?
The arguement about the numbers of wounded deer are probally just that.... more compounders equal more wounded deer. The numbers are proportinate to the amount of hunters using compunds versus crossbows by choice or by law. But your claim thats its easier to kill a deer with a crossbow then a compound may have a legal point to it. If that is true then all states should ban the compound and require you to use a crossbow becasue as you claim is "easier" to kill a deer with which would most likely mean less wounded deer. HMMMMMMMMM
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