ORIGINAL: stealthycat II
notice nobody wants to talk about the hatred compound shooters have for crossbows?
start a thread declaring you don't mind crossbows in archery season - the rabid anti-cross zealots will come out in full elitist force exclaiming how some one else's choice of archery weapon doesn't belong in the season that compounders hijacked.
Old buddy, you need to lay the blame where it belongs. It was the trad shooters of the 50's, 60's, and 70's that threw their longbow and recurves in the corner when the compound came along, no one hijacked the bow season, it just plain and simple changed by the very ones you keep relating to.
By he mid to late 60's I never seen anyone shoot a longbow, they had been totally replaced by the recurve.
When I got out of the Core in the late 70's I went to get a new Bow because my 67 Kodiak was showing stress on the limbs and guess what, if I wanted a recurve it had to be special ordered, went to several shops and no one had one!
You will shoot about the same with a compound if you take the sights off of it, maybe worse if your a snap shooter, just faster.
Fred Bear tried,to shot the compound, said he could not get use to it, the breakover threw his shot process off. I think he was a Bowhunter!