Fact is guys, crossbows in archery season have NEVER been a negative impact to seasons or bag limits. ever
PA has 270,000 bowhunters now.........and another 730,000 licensed DEER hunters who don't participate in archery season. I can't find a quiet spot now.........bring crossbows in and I will guarantee you that the number of people in archery season doubles in 1 season. You want to see it affect seasons, bag limits and the quality of the experience that is archery season , then bring them to PA.

Fact is, if we're all striving for a big tent theory, to all stay banned toghether, we need to welcome crossbows with open arms, right ?
NOPE

Fact is, if there are fewer hunters, we NEED crossbows as a means to get people INTO archery, don't we ?
NOPE


Compounds will bristle at the above. They will try to say crossbows aren't archery ( ignoring the two thousand years or crossbows steeped in archery history)
They aren't bows by MY definition

Anti-crossbowers will tell you (and 98% of these guys shoot compounds BTW) that crossbows are TOO easy, easy being relative because they don't want to consider THEIR choice of easy to be looked at as too easy by trad shooters !
YEP...and I'm not "Anti-Crossbow" just anti crossbow being considered archery equipment by MY definition of what I consider a bow.



Where is the consistancy ? If compounders can look at crossbows and say " your'e not allowed in archery season, I don't like you because of A,B,C " why can't I do the same as a trad shooter ?
You can, knock yourself out.

Why is that an elitist attitude, and its not the other way around ?
Because a compound is a bow, a crossbow is not.........you can jump up and down and site 2,000,000 yrs of evolution if you like. To ME a bow needs to be hand drawn and held for a finite amount of time by human power.

You can keep making the same case over and over and over.........you will never convince me, I know what I want, I know what I believe, and I know how I define things. If you don't like it or it doesn't fit YOUR definitions then tough crap.

I said it before, it's a futile argument, You will never convince me, I will never convince you.
So feel free to fight for crossbows in archery season if you choose, and I will feel free to fight to keep them outif I so choosebecause we both honestly believe different things.