allowing crossbows would be the same thing then wouldn't it ?
How do you figure? Adding a weapon to a season is totally different than having a separate season addedfor a particular type weapon. If the DNR wants to add a couple weeks at the end of Sep. or beginning of Feb. (before our seasonnow begins or after it now ends)specifically for crossbows, I'm all for it. The crossbow proponents are going to have to get off their butts and work hard to lobby for it before it happens though.
We've not seen that in Arkansas, I don't hink Ohio has seen it, Canadian provinces haven't seen it ....... why do you think it'd be that big a deal ?
As best I can tell crossbows are a tiny fraction of the market--probably no more than traditional bows. The main consumer--the U.S.--is still too limited a market. Like I said, even with the limited market there's already been big innovations made according to Matt. You know as well as I do if there's a big market potential like there is with compounds, there will be a tech race to see who can make it faster, quieter, lighter, easier, etc. etc. etc.
Again, we don't have that in Arkansas, why would it magically appear in Mississippi if crossbows were legal ?
Yes you do, at least according to the fellow I "talked" to several years ago. You twoare the only folks I've talked to from AR about crossbows, and he fit the exact mold of the type person that scares me in the woods--and he had his youngson (who he claimed couldn't hunt with a bow for some reason--not a disability) using a crossbow as well. I don't know the actual percentage you have of that type "hunter", but in my experience so far it's been 66% counting the guy's son.
you really see a crossbow the same as a rifle don't you ? Gunpower, bullets or not, you see them as the same ?
Lol--no I don't--to me they aren't a bow and they aren't a rifle--although they have as many similarities to one as they do the other. I'm not completely ignorant--I have shot them.
The crossbow in your hand ..... it will not make you a better hunter.
Well duhh.......I've made similar statements on this thread--like I figure that, if legalized, a bunch of folks will drop out soon after trying them when they find out crossbows aren't magical--the stats DC posted seem to point in that direction also--big surge, then big drop.
in the end, you'r saying you want to restrict whats allowed in archery season.
I want only archery equipment allowed in archery season. If that makes me an elitest, I can live with that.
About the same arguments made for crossbows could be made for side-hammer flintlock muzzleloaders. Primitive, lots of limitations, heavy, noisy, limited range, etc. etc. etc.--anyone pitching a fit to have these allowed in archery season? Why not? Easy--because it's not a bow! That point keeps getting ignored, sidestepped, walked over........."I say a crossbow is a bow, so........" and that's the extent of it, then on to how it's not really any easier, better, etc. etc. etc. That isn't the point.
Chad