ORIGINAL: SteveBNy
No matter how you look at it folks a crossbow is always at full draw and locked when a hunter is settled in and waiting. There's no ways around that argument for the people who are capable of pulling a compound/recurve/longbow back. Thats the huge difference to me between a crossbow and bow.
Several pages back this was stated (as it always is) as a superior advantage- not drawing so the game can see you.
I asked then how this "advantage is any different then the one gained from shooting from inside a ground blind or 25 ft up a tree. If one is not allowed should not both be banned?
I predicted few if any would respond.
I was right - again - no one ever soes.
Another fact is that not one season has been ruined by the inclusion of crossbows - most are longer now then before.
So the sky will fall arguement has NO BASIS in real real results - just another emotional scare tactic.
Steve
I didn't say that crossbow hunters would take to many deer and hurt the population! Your logic of being 25' in a tree and or in a blind doesn't matter much to me. With me pulling 73lbs back with my recurve on a nice buck can be a challenge in its own weather he sees me pull my bow back or not, my nerves are going nuts!! Also pulling my 73lb bow back in below or near zero temps with lots of clothes on is a chore itself! Actually it would be tougher to pull my bow back being I'm 25' up in a tree and have a deer at 10 yards my angle is more severe making it much tougher to draw on then being only 10' up in a tree. Not even close Steve. Nerve's and weather play a huge part in getting your bow back weather in a tree or on the ground in a blind. This year the buck I shot was at 10 yards the first time when I pulled my recurve back to shoot him. He busted me 22' up in a tree. I was able to get the shot off luckily at 17 yards when he was on his way out at a very slow traught. I was lucky it worked out!