ORIGINAL: KodiakArcher
ORIGINAL: HuntingBry
Things may be great in AR. I know it works in OH. Here in PA most of the guys toting crossbows are perfectly capable of shooting a compound, but too lazy to practice. Solution, buy a crosssbow. If they are too lazy to practice with a bow do you think they will take the time to learn the capabilities of a crossbow, what shot angles to take, how to estimate range, proper tracking techniques? Nope, they hunt just like they gun hunt and they don't do that effectively either. SLOBS
C'mon man, listen to yourself. Here in the USA most of the guys toting compounds are perfectly capable of shooting a longbow, but too lazy to practice. Solution, buy a compound... You're making some pretty bold and unfounded accusations against a lot of your fellow sportsman. Given that PA doesn't even allow xbow hunting, what are you basing these wild accusations on? Hearsay. No better than PETA. IMHO.
I usually have enough sense to not let anything said on these forums get to me anymore, but comparing me to PETA straight up pisses me off. You need to do your homework son before you start spouting off. I live in the SE zone where crossbows have been legal to anyone willing to buy one for the last several years. When it happened I kept an open mind and welcomed my new archery brothers to the sport. Since then I have been sickened by what I have seen. Shots taken at horrible angles, deer left dead because "it's just a doe", wounded deer lost due to a lack of tracking knowledge, ridiculously long shots being taken, and I could go on. These are things I have been around first hand. The stories I have heard that would be hearsay are worse. One of the guys that I share a property with is disabled and uses a cart and a crossbow and he is constantly justifying his use of a crossbow to me because he knows what slobs the other crossbow users are. I tell him not to worry about it because I know he is a hunter and not what those guys are.
Perfect example, we are hunting a property with a couple of guys a friend of mine knowsand one guy with a crossbowis in a woodlot along the field. He has us push out a patch and a great looking 9 point bucks runs out to him.My buddysees the buck from 100 yards away as he enters the field and runs past the crossbow toter. He thinks to himself, "man that deer is far from the woods." Just as he thinks that TWANG! My buddy goes right to where the deer was standing and the crossbow guy says "I just missed him. He must have been at 40 yards." My buddy pulls out his range finder and ranges the guy, 72 yards.[:@]
You want to hear some more wild accusations??? I'm not going to tell you how things are in Alaska, so don't try to be so presumptuous as to tell me how things are in PA. Again, not everyone that hunts with a crossbow is like this, but the vast majority in this state are. SLOBS Do not call them fellow sportsmen. It is an insult to the rest of us.
Don't speak of what you don't know of.