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07-13-2009 | 05:02 AM

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PA GOBBLER

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From: Altoona,PA

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Originally Posted by Screamin Steel

Greed? Greed on whose part? Unless you were disabled or hunted in ML season there were no crossbow hunters in PA archery season. If you weren't already a bowhunter by now, how can anyone claim greed on the part of anyone but the one's who just rushed out and bought a xbow? Archers did not demand anything that they didn't already have. That cannot be defined as greed by any stretch. Greed is the PGC's approval of xbows in order to sel more archery tags to offset their failures to get a fee increase again. Greed is everyone who didn't bowhunt before even with today's high tech compounds, yet is banking on slamming a big buck with a xbow without paying the price , ie the long hours of practice that it takes to become deadly profficient with a vertical bow. If you have a legit disability, more power to you. Otherwise, modern compounds offer plenty enough advantage to consistently kill deer with sufficient practice. How easy do we want it to get here? Rifle season starting in September?

Greed from the bow hunters that want the woods to themselves, thinking the few extra hunters that may join the ranks of fall deer hunting may ruin the chances of them getting a buck. Greed coming from a BOC that is doing nothing but playing politics that has nothing to do w/ the resource.

So you are saying that the former and current members of the BOC only passed x-bows for the extra archery tags?
What’s wrong w/ slamming a “big buck” w/ an x-bow, why does it matter to you the weapon of choice for a hunter?

Here is my question why do you not want x-bows? Is it you don’t want hunters that “weren’t already bowhunters” out trying to get the “big buck” that you paid the price for that you want to shoot?

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