I just love threads like theese......It shows just how uptight, selfish, and egotistical some hunters can be. How dare someone introduce another type of weapon that just might get more folks into archery hunting. Get over yourselves for Pete's sake! It's hunting and should be enjoyed not argued over!. It shouldn't make a hill of beans to you what the hunter in the next county has as their archery tackle. If they choose a long, a recurve, a compound or a cross, they are all a type of bow with similar characteristics and killing power. Some of you want to dissect and dissect till you find some kind of difference in them just so you can try to segregate one from another's hunting season....And for what??? So YOU can have the woods to yourself?? No that's not selfish.

I've got a great idea for those of you who are so uptight about this whole crossbow hunting. Buya piece of land and put a frickin 10ft barbed wire fence around it and post sign that says somethingto this effect "This is private land for a bow hunter only because I think I'm better than you and I want to keep you slob crossbow hunters away from my precious deer, so I can kill them and tell everybody who will listen (and even those who won't) that I'm the greatest hunter of all and you're not because I use a compound bow to hunt with" If not, then hunt the public land with everyone else and shut the hell up!


For as long as I live I will NEVER understand this typeof mentality...NEVER. You guys need to take a step back and look at what you're doing to hunting as a whole...you're only going to kill it from the inside because of selfish, self righteous, elitist ways of thinking. You should be welcoming any new form of hunting that will bring more folks into hunting even if it's just a handful. Because I've got some news for you, the number of hunters is dwindling and dwindling fast. Before you know it there won't be enough of us to have a say in our hunting rights and hunting will be gone forever, then what will you do with your precious compound bow??

I'm ahunter, period. I don't care what I hunt with because I'm not a bow hunter ora gun hunter, I'm a hunter.


EDIT: For the record, let it be known that I've never hunted with a crossbow, I've shot one a few times to sight it in for my late Father-in-Law but never hunted with it. I wasn't all that impressed with it and it was a Ten-Point Pro Elite crossbow.