And that's differnt how............................. You have to be kidding me. It's the SAME THING. You fight to make somehting illegal or you fight to keep a group of hunters out of the woods and out of hunting it's the same thing. How can you be see naive or obtuse as to not see that?
Do I need to type a little slower for you? Crossbows were not a legal form of weapon for any season for any hunters in the state of Georgia, with the exception of the disabled. There were no crossbow hunters. Just who exactly was I fighting to keep out of the woods? There was no llaw preventing anyone from hunting in archery season, anyone could go down, buy a bow, pay for their tag and hunt in the archery season. I was never, at any point in time preventing those poor down trodden Georgia crossbow hunters out of archery season, there weren't any. If compounds are as easy as some would indicate there was nothing stopping anyone from hunting in archery season, nothing, nada, zip zilch.
Were they archery weapons 2500 years ago when they are invented?
Nope, they were not. The individual holding the crossbow is not holding the arrow bac at draw with any part of his body. They are and were a hybrid weapon, not a bow, yet not a gun. I have and had no problem with crossbows in primitive weapons and or general hunting seasons. In archery, they do not belong, they are not archery weapons, they are a hybrid weapon. Georgia has an archery season, not a bow season. Why do I not want them in archery season, it is not an archery device. Like I said before, and get this, clean out your ears or whatever is causing you to miss the following: I did not support the use of crossbows in archery season. I still do not feel they belong in archery season. I will not fight to get them removed, and welcome any and all that use them into the woods of Georgia as state-defined archers, and as such will defend their right to a continued archery season in Georgia.
Not wanting bair is one thing but it's a completely different ball game when you start trying to keep certain groups of hunters from entering the woods and even taking up the sport. When you start driving people away from the sport that needs all the support that it can get, that's the difference.
Why then is fighting to keep baiting illegal any different? I am keeping those poor downtrodden, ridiculed baiters out of hunting, oh the horror!!!!!! Worse yet, I am, according to your line of thinking, making them into poachers by my oppossition to baiting, I must really be horrible. Just think of all the people that would hunt if they could bait, yup, we better make it legal.