Matt / PA - you REALLY think compounds are hard ? Seriously ? If you do you're kidding yourself. They are - by DESIGN - easy to shoot. Why do you put pins, peeps, use release aids and drop away rests, keep the high letoff etc etc on them ? It makes them EASY.
People love easy.
I GAURANTEE if I developed a gadget to attach to your bow that would allow you to reduce your groups by 50% you'd buy it. Why ? Human nature to have BETTER and EASIER without any effort.
The kid it amazingly took 2 years to shoot a compound would have hunted 2 years ago with a crossbow until he got good enough with a compound. In other words, in the short lives we have he lost 2 years he could have been bowhunting.
True - some ARE natural shots - but not with compounds. Compounds are mechanical, they are designed to make everyone good shooters. I mean, c'mon, its robotic - you draw, put the pin in the peep on the target and squeeze the trigger. Thats it - the bow does everything else. Remember, I've crossbow shot, compound shot for years and for the past 3 years I've recurve/longbow shot. I got a very good handle on how difficult the 3 are - and how easy they are and how they all differ.
Now to your anti-crossbow website. Of course they didn't recognize the huge differences between compounds/recurve - they intentionally left all that out.
Bowhunting was meant to be, and is a difficult and demanding sport. It requires a high level of dedication from its participants. Today's modem compound bows, coupled with sight pins and mechanical releases, have done much to make it easier for archers to reach and maintain levels of proficiency necessary for hunting. Unfortunately, there are still those sportsmen and women who are not willing to put forth the time and effort to learn to shoot archery equipment proficiently.
I agree 100% with that. What this is saying that compounders do NOT want to take the time and effort to learn to master a recurve/longbow, so they shoot compound because they are inherently EASIER. Compounders do not want to put forth the time and effort and they want to shoot BETTER and EASIER
You know that is true. Thats why you choose a compound. Its why I chose a compound in Kansas last fall. It will be why I choose one again too if I ever do.
So please, PLEASE tell me how my choosing and a weapon that just makes it a bit easier and better is wrong ? You cannot choose easier and better yourself and then condemn me for taking it one step further can you ? Its hypocritical to do that. I know that, you know that. So I asked at the beginning of the thread for just one negative crossbows have given archery.
Just one. And not one in 18 pages ? If crossbows were bad, you'd see "deer season reduced" or " way too many hunters" or " reduced tags " ...... something.
And yet - not one has surfaced.
The below is 100% true and can be applied to compounds, can't it ?
The compound is the answer for today's opportunistic hunter who lacks the dedication and commitment required to be a bowhunter. The compound is simply a superior weapon that is much easier to use than archery equipment and therefore should not be allowed in any archery season or archery only areas.