With your example, the Harley added a gasoline engine - completely changing how the bicylce is propelled.
Quiz:
Bring the weapon's stock to the shoulder, acquire target though the scope, flip off safety, squeeze trigger. I describing the firing sequence of what weapon? A. Rifle B. Slug gun C. In-line Muzzleloader D. Crossbow E. All the above
Correct answer is E. All the above.
Once you add a shoulder stock, telescopic or red dot sights and cocked-and-locked ready feature, no matter the power source for the projectile, no matter the effective range, you're not shooting a bow any more.
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This 'trads can't hit anything at the 3D shoots so they shouldn't be allowed in the woods' line is one of the main things the anti-trad crossbow faction I was monitoring on the net are putting high priority on getting out on the forums.
Straight up - I can go to a 3D shoot and probably finish in the top 10% of trad shooters. I aint a bad shot with my longbows/recurves (struggled lately though). I shot a few 3D shoots this summer - I shoot with my buddies, talk with a lot of guys, read a lot of trad thread, on trad sites .......... I know just how inaccurate trad shooting can be from my shooting to others. There is NO comparison - none at all, to the accuracy of a modern compound and crossbows to recures/longbows.
Am I to understand then, that you are also saying that traditional shooters should not be allowed in the woods. I definitely want a clarification from you on that point.
Tell me... How many of those shots at the 3D shoots you've attended have been shots you would have actually taken in the woods, under actual hunting conditions? At the shoots I've attended, I'd say only about 50% were within my effective range. The others? That's where I learn my limitations.
Better keep a close eye on the poop you pump. PETA is watching and reading and bowhunting is square in their sights. You reckon a compound or crossbow can match the accuracy of a good .270 at 100 yards? Same difference as comparing the accuracy of crossbows or compounds with tradtional bows at 40 yards. In the near future, you might well be having to fight down your own stupid argument for the survival of bowhunting.