ORIGINAL: Bigg~BirddVA
ORIGINAL: Matt / PA
Can I just ask a simple question on a different subject relating to this topic?.........Seriously without a battle:
Why do guys from Ohio, Virginia, Arkansas, Canada, New England and everywhere else all seem to care more about PA legalizing crossbows than PA itself?
Sorry to single out one guy but ........For example, I just noticed "Awshucks" is a registered member of Huntingpa.com and every post there is about crossbows?
Why? How is this affecting YOUR hunting or YOUR daily life? (generalizing with those questions for the whole group)
I don't get it? I couldn't care less if Arkansas or Virginia or Ohio or Canada legalized howitzers or mustard gas for deer season so why do you guys follow this topic around and the happenings in a another state completely unlike yours, that you have absolutely no knowledge of like your waiting to see the results of the Powerball drawing?
I'm just curious, honestly it seems like such an odd thing for someone from another state or countryto even be concerned about let alone swarm to the threads and topics like it's a war.
Let the guys in PA hash this out, we are unlike ANY other state in the country and absolutely cannot be compared to a place like Arkansas. Good lord there are probably more people living within 50 miles of me than in the entire state of Arkansas. (No offense I'm sure its a beautiful place!)
I just find it almost bizarre.
We find it just as bizarre that people can be so greedy and mis-informed on xbows. The you don't belong here or it's none of your business it just a way of wishing someone wasn't bringing in facts and information to counter those that want to keep others out of the woods. Sorry but every time I read a "they're not bows" coming from a state that allows compound bows I and others will respond. We're here to give proof that xbows will and do work. You have proof that it won't? Same arguments were given here back when the process for their inclusion began. It's been proven they were wrong.
Maybe you weren't around when the same things were said about compounds or maybe you forgot. Doesn't look like they harmed bow hunting. Neither will the xbow.
Matt, think BBVA summed it up pretty well, but in my case, I lived in Pa [Lancaster, Mountville] for 5 years in the 80's. Still have friends there and would hunt w/ xbow if/when legal. I also rifle hunted there, way up north, can't recall the names now, but if what I saw there at "deer camp", you guys have nothing to worry about as far as gun hunters w/ xbows. i used to get back there some going to a rendezvous out side of Lancaster, but since I blew a rotator cuff and can't shoot the smokepoles offhand any more I don't get there much. Probably another reason you see me on the xbow forums alot. Speaking of which, I've found over 20 of them so far and the number/names of new guys virtually daily tells me how the xbow movement is rolling like a snowball down hill. Have a good season!