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Old 12-16-2004 | 01:29 PM
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silentassassin
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Default RE: legalizing crossbows

Just who exactly was I fighting to keep out of the woods?
Everyone who wanted to shoot a crossbow but couldn't. Everyone that wanted to hunt in the bowseason but was to intimidated to try a compound. Everyone that would have liked to hunt with a compound but didn't think they had the time through out the entire to shoot a compound enough to be capable of quick humane kills. You were fighting to keep all of those people out of the woods. So maybe I need to type slower..............................

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.
In other words you don't have any well thought out reasons, you just don't want them hunting in "your" archery season. Gotcha!

Why then is fighting to keep baiting illegal any different? I am keeping those poor downtrodden, ridiculed baiters out of hunting, oh the horror!!!!!!
Well for two primary reasons. The first one being that by restricting bait you aren't taking away an instrument that could help bring people into the sport. The second is that there are some negative impacts of baiting that can affect not only the deer herd but the hunting of them as well. That can't be said of crossbow hunting.

Worse yet, I am, according to your line of thinking, making them into poachers by my oppossition to baiting, I must really be horrible.
I can't even figure out what that is supposed to mean so I can't really comment[>:][&:][8D]
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