I don't have any problem with it what so ever. It's legal here in Arkansas and I just haven't seen any problems with it. I tend to be very opinionated on how I prefer to hunt and how I rank the accomplishments of different equipment. However, I am never going to try to impose those beliefs on others by telling them they shouldn't be allowed with their prefered method. There was a lot of "to do" about my opinion that gun hunting didn't deserve the respect that bow hunting does but at the end of the day it was just my opinion and I wasn't trying to censor the way anyone else hunted like some people here are advocating.
They're legal in any general weapons season here in Texas, except for migratory game birds. I don't have any problem with that. I don't want them in our bow season, but it's getting increasingly difficult to oppose crossbows and, at the same time, say a high letoff compound shot with a mechanical release is okay. The line seperating those kinds of compound rigs from crossbows is pretty blurred and keeps getting more blurred, year after year. Anybody that doesn't see that is blind, or a hypocrite
ArthurP,
I am not sure which one I am but I would certainly be one of those in your opinion. I just don't get the leap there. You call it a blurry line between a compound and crossbow when there are so many overwhelming differences between the two. But you make the distinction that's it's ok to shoot the compound as long as you shoot it with fingers
I shot fingers for 11 of my 16 years in archery and I just don't see much difference between the two. In fact in many ways it's simpler to shoot fingers. I agree that hunting with traditional equipment is more challenging but the "there's no dfference between crossbows and compounds , unless you shoot the compound with fingers" thing looses me everytime
