ORIGINAL: brucelanthier
ORIGINAL: Schultzy
No pride issues here Rock, just Tradition for the abled body person. I'm trying to protect the Tradition of bow hunting in the USA so my daughter and maybe her kids can actually know what a bow and arrow is and was. Before you know it compounds are going to be legal with draw locks. Is that what you want for bow hunting today? Not I! I have no issues with the people who can't pull these regular bows back, set them up with a xbow so they can go out hunting.
Explain to me how CB's will "ruin" the tradition of bowhunting? If all you teach your daughter is traditional bowhunting how will someone else using a CB prevent her from knowing what a bow and arrow is and was? If compounds are legal with draw locks how will that prevent you from teaching your daughter traditonal bowhunting? What kind of logic are you using here?
The traditions of bow hunting Bruce has nothing to do with shooting a Traditional bow, you miss understood dude! The Traditions of bow hunting is just that bow hunting, picking up a compound, recurve, longbow, self bow, etc something that you actually have to pull back. When has xbows been part of the tradition of bow hunting in the USA? Bruce I've been involved with Archery/Bow hunting for all of my life (33 years) and the actual tradition of bow hunting is on its way out the window if someone doesn't soon put the brakes on some where. Compounds have probably gone further then anyone of us figured they would of and if it wasn't for the P&Y club they would be allot farther along and who knows where bow hunting would be today. The xbows if let in everywhere would be going just as crazy with technology as the compound and where would they stop? Before you know it arrows are going to be put in rifle barrels and launching them. Don't laugh, I'm sure its in the works.
I said before I'm all about helping the old and disabled out, I have no problem with them picking up a xbow and hunting with it. Another thing too, if the crossbow is allowed, put it in with the gun season. Pretty similar weapons. For the folks who have just got into bow hunting I'm sure you could care less being you haven't been involved in the change of bow hunting. Bruce, how many years you been bow hunting?