Imagine if you will that I am going to clean and press over my head a bar with 250 pounds of weights on it. Through human effort, I have to accomplish this. Now imagine we take that bar and suspend it from the ceiling with chains about 7 feet off the ground. A person walks up under the bar, grips it, the chains let go and for a brief moment that person holds the bar before dropping it to the ground. He looks at the guy that actually lifted the weight and says: "im a weightlifter just like you" No he is not, he is a poser.

Imagine I am paddling my canoe on a lake. A jetskier pulls along side and says, "Im a canoe'r just like you. Its got a hull and carries a passenger on the water. Dont bother me with the human powered effort crap. Im a canoe'r." No, he is a poser.

Im riding my bicycle on the road climbing a steep hill and a guy on a Yamaha pulls along side and says: "Im just like you" No, he is a poser.

Im playing golf and a guy shows up with a potato cannon that fires golf balls. He wants to join our 3-some. He says: "im a golfer just like you. Dont pester me with the human powered effort crap. Call me a golfer". No, he is a poser.

A bowhunter uses a human powered weapon that is only as powerful as he is able to handle. That is his limit for the shot attempts he can take. If a crossbower meets him in the woods and says: "im a bowhunter too, just like you". He should not be surprised if he is met with eye rolls.

He is a crossbower or crossbow hunter or whatever those guys call themselves. There is nothing wrong with that sort. I hope they enjoy what they do. They just are not bowhunters. The game they kill is not the same accomplishment as that of a bowhunter using human powered weaponry. They are certainly a hunter and probably a great person. They just are not bowhunters. They ought not pose as one. I support what they do and they certainly are hunters just like bird hunters are hunters and gun deer hunters are hunters, But they are not bowhunters.

Now, Im off to a log cutting event. Everyone there will be using an ax to fell trees. Im using a chainsaw. I will insist they consider what I do to be the exact same thing as they are accomplishing.