Originally Posted by
BTBowhunter
BH1, Lanse, Boilermaker
None of you has answered this question in spite of the fact that it's been asked multiple times.
With 900,000 hunters, PA has always taken a cautious slow and steady approach to the introduction of any new weapons and seasons. Muzzleloader season was first restricted to three days on selected state game lands. Archery season was first instituted during the regular gun season on two specific designated areas only. Most recently, archery bear season was put in as a three day, mid week deal.
I'll ask all of you again..... what would have been wrong with a slow and cautious aproach to the crossbow?
I'm going to give you my answer (opinion) to your question of slow and cautious,,,which is,,,,,
Pa. has been slow and cautious with their inclusion of the x-bow because every other state that is going to allow em has done it years ago! I remember back in "05" when Va. started allowing them for the regular season hunting dates that i was positive that Pa. was going to include them that same year,,with all the hipe about HR and too many deer,,,,What they should have done was include them back then!,, before the deer were shot to oblivien and every hunter in the woods was still seeing deer,,,then and only then would there have been a gradual acceptence,,,doing it now is the wrong time because hunters in Pa. are now finally realizing that it's time to pay the piper for shooting too many friggin deer! The guns didnt kill the deer,,,the bows didnt kill the deer,,,the muzzle loaders didnt kill the deer and i damn sure that the x-bows wont go down in history for killin the deer,,,but the hunters who carried them weapons might go down in the history of all our memories as "THE KILLERS OF DEER"