Originally Posted by
DIY_guy
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.
I'm sorry but those are stupid analogies.
Now you imagine say - oh let's just go all the way back to the 4th century BC - when people were using crossbows for hunting, self defense and a weapon of war. Now you come along with a compound bow and everyone is in awe of its superior performance!
My point is that crossbows have been around a lot longer than compound bows and recurves for that matter. The longbow was used by English archers because of its deadly accuracy at ranges much beyond that of the lowly crossbow which was considered a short range weapon. Now by today's standards the longbow comes nowhere close to the performance of a compound.
I could go on but it would make no difference regarding your opinion. Same as you not changing mine.
And as a fellow member once said and I am really starting to like him "Shining light on a subject does no good for the blind."
I just can't wait for my 10 year old grandson or 8 year old granddaughter to shoot a deer with my crossbow and I will post it in the BOWHUNTING FORUM where it belongs.