I just think it opens the door for other weapons.
Arkansas has had them for 30+ years - what other weapons are you worried about ?
Double Creek Everything you said about crossbows can be said of compounds. " Be a Two Season Hunter " - remember that ? Who coined it and why ?
There was a time when bowhunting was recurves and longbows. If you wanted to hunt that season, learn how to use one. Somehow, compounds were allowed in, and now its their season, and they're fighting to not have the same thing happen to them as they did to trad archery.
Ironic, isn't it ?
Double Creekif you hunt your own lands, crossbows would never be an impact to you. The ONLY impact I can see (and its the same impact compounds bring) is more bowhunters, which you've provided evidence that it might not even help IF they are allowed. So ..... there is really no argument against them. Oh sure, we can bicker about how its drawed, but in reality, its a short range bow just like a compound.
There is an argument to be made for "choose your weapons" tags. In other words, you hunt with archery equipment or rifles/shotguns etc, you do not get to hunt with both. THat would weed out all the rifle guys wanting to come into archery season I gaurantee !
We never said it was b/c of the xbow, we just pointed that our 2 neighboring states that have introduced xbows in the last decade have experienced declining numbers while our numbers have remained steady and even grown.... Could be totally unrelated, but also is alarming enough not to simply dismiss.
You implied it, or you'd not have posted the stats in relationship to your anti-crossbow stance. It IS a concern though, those huge declines in bowhunting numbers.
You're a funny little guy LOL. Perhaps you can show me whereI tried to tell you that a compound isn't more powerful, easier to draw, easier to be more accurate
. Are you just making stuff up now?. It looks that way
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brucelanthierquestion marks ..... I used questions marks to indicate questions were being asked. I was not telling.
But don't be so sure I couldn't shoot your recurve fairly well. I mean, how hard can it be if you can do it
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Truth is, VERY difficult and different or you'd be shooting one !
You don't have to validate whay I questioned, because I know the answer. I've been there and done that. You'll find you need to shoot your compound a week or two prior to archery season beginning to dust off the cobwebs, and your inches groups will be right where they were last year. Very littledifference. As you bowhunt more, you'll learn to draw as the animal is coming in, holding until it gives you the shot you want, using your sights and triggered release. You'll feel like anything within 30-40 yards of your stand you can kill anytime you wish - you're that accurate with your bow.
I've been there, and I've walked away and I'vewalked back. That accuracy, that power, that increased ability to make the killing shot is a powerful draw. And then yougo back, and you're like "wow, this isn't challenging at all"
From that, I've learned a lot I think, in that the kill is less and less important. Its the journey, its the hunt, its the CHALLENGE.
Its all abour perspective too. Afirst year bowhunter never having stepped into the woods will finda crossbow huntingn VERY challenging. So would a life long rifle hunter. Orcompounds, they'd find the hunting vastly different.
But taking a trad bowinto the woods it totally different still