Originally Posted by
Bocajnala
Grouch,
You're still welcome to use whatever legal tool that you want to use and make the "sport" into whatever you want it to be for yourself.
I shoot a recurve and that will be the only bow that I take into the woods this year.
They still make flintlocks.
Here's the thing.... You have the freedom to choose. Just like the guy who chooses to use a $2,000 bow.
Freedom is a beautiful thing. Not a reason to complain.
-Jake
I agree with you 100% Jake. If I want to take my 370 fps crossbow or my recurve out for deer it is my choice. Both perfectly legal. Same with regular rifle season. I can take a rifle that will drop a deer at 600+ yards or grab my flintlock or percussion cap rifle where I need to cut that distance to less than 100 yards. Its all where your mind is that particular day. Personally I'd rather see someone hunt with a crossbow and make a human kill than someone try to use a recurve and gut shoot an animal and not recover it.
As for that kid, at least the father took him out. A lot of guys don't. And who knows what happened before this hypothetical show? May be the kid did scouting with his dad and that's were they decided to set the blind?
A pastor once said:"never judge the first time you met them - you never know what chapter of their life you happen to walk in on".
Heck I let YOU join our camp just talking to you on here! I haven't regretted that - YET! LOL