ORIGINAL: Big Duane
Have you fell off your rocker Duane? I shoot a damn recurve, not a compound!!! Nothing surprises me anymore coming from you!!!!!!!!!!
not "you" meaning you, "you" meaning compounders - sorry I didn't put that right when I typed, sorry
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.
compounds don't pass tradition either ....... but is shooting guns in archery season legal? I didn't know that
People love easy. We live in a world of easier= better and hunting is no different.
Compounds were created and have thrived because they are easier. Every addition that is added to them, be it solo cam, split limbs, drop away rests, SIMS, mechanical releases, mechanical broadheads, 85% let off ........ its ALL designed for one purpose - to make the shooting easier and thus, the hunting easier.
Crossbows are simply one step further, and nothing more.
Thats really ALL it boils down too. Compounders say crossbows are too easy, yet they're using a weapon much easier to use that a real recurve or longbow and yes, those ARE real bows and what bowhunting is and has always been.
There has only been "traditional" archery since compounds. Before compounds, archery and bowhunting WAS recurve and longbows, and selfbows. Only after the compound invasion did a shift in what a bow is changed.
When crossbows, or compound, become a negative to archery season, ban them. But until then? You have to allow them if you allow compounds.
Cross bows do everything compounds do