GMMAT no doubt an Adcock ACS CX built without fiberglass lams and the concave limb design etc etc will outshoot a 1950's Bear Kodiak .... but each bow is shot almost in an identical way. So too is that persimmon driver used in almost the same was as the New Nike wood though the Nike will outdrive that old one.
A compound .... vastly different in every way that it works to the way its shot to the performace.
You obviously do not have any idea how a modern compound works given that according to you compound limbs do nothing more that hold the cams/wheels.
http://www.hunting.net/articles/article_detail.aspx?articles_id=539
you telling me, SERIOUSLY trying to tell me, that the limbs on the above bow is what generates the energy to propel the arrow?
c'mon .... aint nobody going to say that, its the cams and wheels and design that generates the energy, the limbs actually do very little on today's bows.
I'm done with you. I'm not going to feed into your hijacking another thread with your elitist traditional archer mindset.
HuntingBry of course you're done, you can't refute what I'm saying.
If you're not elitist, you're FOR crossbows in archery season aren't you ?
I'm not elitist at all, are you?
I don't care how anyone kills a deer, bow, gun, spear, as long as it is legal and they take pride in the hunt and respect the animal I am good.
I don't really "care" either, but I will tell you killing a spike buck with a self bow and arrows is MUCH MORE an accomplishment than killing a 140" B&C with a rifle 300 yards out.
Sorry, it is, and calling it what it is aint elitist at all
It does not matter if it is "vastly" different as you propose, they are both bows and they are both equal hunting. And to your question, I do welcome both compounds and crossbows just like I welcome the guy in rifle season who has a high power custom cartridge magnum that has 200 yards on my .308. But then again I am using the gun and he is using a modern advanced high speed projectile launching game getter.
TG78 it matters, it matters in the record books, and it matters to G&F and the laws they set and it matters most to how other hunters percieve, admire, talk about etc.
Nobody can argue taking game with "traditional" archery tackleis by far the harder way to hunt. Hell its OBVIOUS because we make up such a small small percentage of bowhunters !
There is a REASON most use compounds and crossbows. And overall, bowhunters arethe minority compared to rifle hunters ... .why is that ? ITS HARDER thats why
Just calling it like it is