Dnk If I had stroke of the pen, law of the land ? Hmmmm. I'd give traditonal archers a piece of the archery season, reserved totally for traditional bowhunters. Why ? Because its a totally different kind of hunting. Compounds and crossbows are much closer in what they are.
ranger56528 you don't mind crossbows in general archery season then ?
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BD, I'm not wrong at all. My perspective is from a hunting and legal viewpoint: in most states, crossbows are legal for primitive weapons season, but not for archery only seasons or areas. From that perspective, a crossbow is a primitive weapon but not archery equipment--same as a muzzleloader.
Actually thats not correct Chad. Crossbows are allowed in EVERY general archery season in every state to my knowledge. You might have to have a handciap permit to use one, but legal archery weapons they are classified. Muzzleloader aren't allowed in archery season every, neither are firearms, they're not archery, it doesn't matter if you're handicap or not.
but I don't want to loose the archery season. It's a quieter and less stressful time to be in the hunting woods.
What makes you fear the loss of archery season ? Is it technology ?
but IMO it's not archery equipment.
thats the root of it all though isn't it ? If you don't BELIEVE it should be allowed, isn't that an elitist view ? That "hey I don't like XX weapon, I don't use it and I don't want you to either" view - thats the way I'm beginning to feel about compounds on some levels, not unlike many thinnk about crossbows.
So how am I labeled a divider ... but anti-crossbow people are not labeled ?
recurver167 so you don't mind technology increasing, and more and more atuff allowed on compounds or maybe crossbow's being allowed in archery season ?
ranger56528 that definition is true - and it excludes the eccentrics that makes compounds what they are. I mean seriously, the parallel limbs don't move hardly at all on the new bows, and they certainly get no "propel" out of them, all the energy comes from the wheels