ORIGINAL: brucelanthier
You still haven't explained how even shooting arrows out of a gun will prevent you from passing the bowhunting tradition on to your daughter.
My daughter just turned 7 and she got a recurve for her birthday. I currently hunt with a compound yet it doesn't prevent me from teaching my daughter how to shoot, and eventually hunt with, a recurve.
Your argument that allowing CB's (or arrows shot from guns) into archery season will "ruin" the tradition of bowhunting doesn't make any sense.
Not to you Bruce but it does to me. Like I asked earlier how long have you been involved with bow hunting and its Tradition?
ORIGINAL: Dnk
What the heck is a gun that shoots arrows? I think someone converted a couple of rimfire rifles into arrow shooting devices but what does a firearm that shoots arrows with gun powder have to do with this bull$hit thread?
Its called more technology Dnk! Like I said don't laugh, its coming! Allot of you could care less what happens with the Technology in bow hunting, I do. Why does that make me a bad person?
ORIGINAL: NEW61375
Just a quick question Shultzy that stems from this statement:
put it in with the gun season. Pretty similar weapons.
Other than it's appearance/cosmetics and the draw being held mechanicallydo you feel there are other similaritiesto a gun?
As far as actually hunting with one aren't the limitations and characteristics of a crossbow and how they kill almost identical to most other archery equipment (more similiar to compounds than recurvesI know, just speaking in general)?
Just curiousas towhich characteristics are more important to you as far as puttinga weaponin a season. As high tech as compounds and crossbows are they are still very primitive(as far as killing)compared to modern firearms(imo).
Its similarities to me are the not drawing, scope, stock, trigger, pretty much everything you already said. Its pretty simple to know what the similarities are between a gun and a Xbow. Yes there are some similarities between the bow and crossbow but I think there are more similarities between the xbow and gun. Killing wise your arrow or (bolt) does the same thing as a regular bow's arrow would do, no difference there. The characteristics to me from what I listed earlier are the characteristics one would see on a gun so then I believe it should be put in the gun season. What is wrong with putting them in the gun season?