I bet you need to use an arrowgun this year
You've yet to show me a link to an "arrowgun" .....
What I want to know, is if modern rifles and muzzleloaders are both guns,than why the two seasons? which season came first? were the seasons split because of the advantages of one over the other? And the theory that its to increase the deer kill numbers don't work if that were the case just lengthen the one one season?
So I see it this way,if muzzleloader hunters and rifle hunters don't have to SHARE the same season THAN WHY should us bowhunters have to share a season with arrowgun hunters???
a fair question, and the answer lies in the fact that a crossbow is a bow, just as much so as a compound is
splitting crossbows out would also mean splitting compounds out because of they're so radically different than recurves/longbows
G&F study these things, they know the impacts when allowing weapons into seasons, they know how crossbows will impact the herds, and they know it will not be negative
Again ....... not one single shred showing crossbows are negatives in archery general season.
trying to make excusses for yourself not using a bow...whaaaaah
easy now, remember compounders shoot their choice of weapon because its so much easier too
You don't seem to understand that arguing about letting this weapon or that weapon in this or that season can ultimately have adverse affects,because where does it end?
The best question in this thread.
The answer? Your state's G&F study the impacts, and in large part they see how other states have went when crossbows are allowed in season. A rise in bowhunting numbers ( a good thing ) and an impact to the herd that isn't unacceptable which all equals giving sportsman the maximum opportunity with the least ammount of impact.
Now, if your goal is to have fewer hunters in the woods and less game bagged with archery tackle? Ban compounds. Or give 80% of the season to traditional, 10% to compounds and 10% to crossbows huh?
If you shoot a compound, you simply cannot reasonably place restrictions on crossbows that trad archers can't also place on you and that's because of the technology available in today's bows.
Will there be a point where technology is too great and the toll is too great on our deer herds? Maybe ......... and if it does, I guarantee the compounds will be the weapon that does it, leaps and bounds every year - its amazing when I look back at my 1980's PSE Precision Edge and think what radical differences compounds are today.
You can think crossbows will be bad, but its based on NOTHING. Its a fear, and I mean that as a baseless, factless fear, not unlike fearing the boogie man that doesn't exist .... crossbows being a negative doesn't exist, it just doesn't
I have no love for a crossbows. I've hunted with them, I've hunted decades with a compound and quite a few years with recurves/longbows. I've hunted upwards of 20 different states, I've lived in 20 more I imagine. I've been hunting all my life, and I've done it in a crossbow state.
I know it sounds like I'm defending them, but guys if I'm going to be against something, I need a REASON to be against it. There is no real, solid, rational or reasonable facts to keep crossbows out - they've been a part of archery history far longer than compounds, they have an arguable less effective range, they're arguable a less effective weapon even though they are easier to shoot than the easy compounds. But again, apples to apples lets place the compound next to a recurve and do the same litmus test and see what we get?