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Old 04-28-2009, 07:45 AM
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Default RE: There is hope in PA. Crossbow not quite a done deal!!

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Deadlocked as your 1000 hunters is a number that means nada to 899,000 other hunters. Non vote ususally means don't care on doesn't warrant enough of my interest impact me. Using your number scheme I have the vote as ONLY 1000 of you exclusionists responded. As what will happen w/ the Xbow vote, to late to change and not a good choice for the hunting cvommunity to get all fired up about. How can you ever trust any group that flip/flops like this on a vote so quickly? Again, look at the other issues and what is happening in your state hunting plan. and GC. Xbow is the least of the problem and a very small win, IF you even get a retro vote that stciks! This is what makes PA a laughjingstock in the hunting community these days. People just shake there heads in distrust, disgust and wonder at the antics the hunting organizations show, the voting record, the POS dilemma , Sunday hunting, doe allocation, and something like this that you all are running with and betting the bank on. Again, so what you win! It has changed nothing about the communication or PGC program in the state. Rendell is still the governor and he sits back w/ his socialist pals loving these weapons debates amongst ourselves. But man we gotta keep those Xbows out of the woods that will be full of poachers and lazy slobs and newbies and all sorts of Xbow toting gangs! Jeeze. Okay CO8 rescind the Xbow debate as you have proven to me and everyone on this site that your 1000 strong are right and the majoroity of the US (which is continually adding Xbow) that have Xbow hunting is wrong. We are wrong for wanting to hunt w/ a Xbow, wrong for having an opinion that defies your exclusionist ideals and wrong for wanting to spend time in our woods w/ the stringed weapon of our choice. What do yu call 1000 people who are ranting and screaming out of 900,000 hunters who have chosen not to vote or express and opinion (see above description) radicals and ec-bownuts! Which the state of PA continually votes into office , listens to and responds to because we all no extremist organizations in PA are the norm, not the exception. There you are CO* a new name for your organization Ec-bownuts!
Bring back Sproul!

BZZZT! WRONG!!!

The crossbow is legal in 11 states (if you count PA) in all ofarchery season. 3 more are limited to a part of archery season (which is what Weaner has proposed) The other 36 restrict the crossbow to either theaged or disabled, to gun season or it is totally illegal as a hunting weapon. ( Outdoor life, April 2009 page 49)

Your bias clouds your judgement but it can't cloud the facts.

Pennsylvania has always taken a go slow approach to introducing weapon changes and new seasons. The question remains, why did this happen in the face of both a lack of science and an overwhelming negative response from hunters?
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