Charlie, I cut my internet teeth on Bowsite. That place always feels like Saturday night in the Do Drop Inn. Always a fight going on. Glad I found more respectable places to hang out, where people mostly come from the deeper end of the gene pool.

Unfortunately, you didn' t turn the tables on anybody. The article you posted is 2-3 years old and it was thoroughly blasted and hashed out back then, even by the trads. Or MOST trads, I should say. It was so badly recieved that it had been pulled from Compton' s site, last I' d heard, so I was really taken aback that you even found it.

Doug; crossbow controversy. Hunters should stick together, for sure. At the same time, they should not be trying to steal hunting time and opportunity from seasons dedicated to other forms of hunting for their own selfish reasons. So, which group is actually being selfish and not sticking with other hunters? The ones trying to maintain what they have or the other that is trying to take opportunity away for themselves? I think the ' selfish' finger you point at this side of the controversy can just as easily be pointed back in your direction.

eightwt, I grew up hitting the TV every Saturday afternoon just hoping and wishing the American Sportsman would show Fred Bear on one of his adventures. There wasn' t any blatant commercialism about it, just the wonder of going hunting with a bow. I' d watch him go hunting bear then I' d grab my bow and arrows and go out in the pasture behind the barn and go hunting too. And sometimes I' d get my bear, only my bears were a good bit smaller and they had long ears and a fuzzy white tail. And I used bows I made myself, being taught by my grandfather who told me he learned from Geronimo after the chief had been released from prison. I was in college before I ever learned to shoot like a white man, with 3 fingers on the string and a solid anchor.

Those are some of my traditions. I' m the same person and have the same values, whether I' m carrying my selfbow or my ProTec. Oh, sure. I go through my phases where I' ve had a belly full of technology. People start talking about ' needing' more arrow speed, ' needing' better sights for low light, ' needing' this, that and the other. I can' t see any need for any of it because I was taking game with my bows many years before anyone cracked 230 fps OR came up with fiber optic sights OR mechanical releases became the ' in' thing. I' ve done all of it and I do what I can to help with their problem, but at the same time I do like to point out the alternatives.