Originally Posted by
bigcountry
Again, once more, because I am a nice guy, the bow season started by tradition of archery, the difficulty in aquireing the necessary skill to harvest an animal, with generious seasons due to that difficulty. (look up Roy Case Bow season in WI) When you put a gun stock with the same trigger and laser/scope and make it so the weapon is preloaded you have taken away 80% of that difficulty us archers face. If you disagree and say its twice as hard using a modern X-bow than a gun, then thats your perogative. I can't change that.
I never said the xbow was harder or easier. Just different. Shooting a bow is not difficult any longer either. I've killed a lot of deer with a bow and it's just not that hard. I don't make it out to be a supernatural wounder when I do.
You seem to want to say a xbow is a gun and compares to a gun. If the xbow is the same as a gun would the harvest be as high if guns were outlawed and only xbows were allowed?
I fully understand how a xbow works. They do not have the range or speed of a gun. They are closer to a bow than a gun in most categories.
I still don't know why you care if the guy in the next tree has a gun, bow, or xbow. I hunt in gun season with a bow alot of times. It doesn't take away from what I want to do. It doesn't change what the history or tradition is with the bow. What if your hero Roy Case had the opposition to the bow as some give the xbow now? There wouldnt be any tradition now. Maybe its time you accept the new tradition some want for themselves now. It has to start somewhere.