That lone statement has shown how credible your arguments are. If you spent so little time shooting your bow to get ready for deer season, you were doing a disservice to all bowhunters everywhere.
Why ? I can take YOUR compound and shoot it very well in 10 minutes. Why is that a disservice ? They're DESIGNED to shoot with easy Cougar, thats what compounds ARE. If I can pick up your compound and have 3-4" groups within 10 minutes ....... thats not good shooting ? That klind of shooting would be, what, 280's on a 3D course or something like that ? And don't forget, I took one shot, a heart shot a very nice non-typical 3 days after practicing with the Q2 after a 3 year hiatus. Can't argue with the results, can we ?
I find it funny you are for allowing crossbows into regular bowhunting season, but against crossbows being allowed in with firearms.
They ARE legal in firearms season. See, in AR, you can shoot archery in rifle season following rifle rules (orange , bag limits etc ) I know some states you cannot. However, I'm quite sure crossbows are legal in most firearms season anyway in most states, aren't they ? I'm not arguing that at all.
1st in regards to "is a crossbow a bow or a gun?" While it does share components of both, I would have to say it would be more a bow than a gun simply due to how the projectile is launched. After all it is called a crossBOW and not a crossGUN right. I know some of you all hate them but they are bows sorry. They have been around before anyone even knew what a gun was. So how can you classify it as a gun?
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2nd, if it's more gun than bow as some of you think, why is it that the states that do allow them (either by the mainstream or for handicapped) allow them during the archery season? if it's a gun then why not let the handicapped just use a rifle during the archery season to kill there deer?
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I have no problem cross bows. If anything I encourage them because if it brings new people into hunting then we ALL benefit. How can bringing people into hunting that otherwise would not, be bad? And this "it's ok as long as you don't hunt when I do" is the right attitude to have? Thats just elitist crap!
They will say that it DOESN'T, however kids and women in AR who use crossbows wouldn't be bowhunting if it wasn't for them. Plus, rifle hunters joining the ranks of bowhunters by shooting a crossbow STILL counts as a bowhutner. Take a million rifle hunters and let them buy crossbows and they add to the ranks of bowhunters even if they still rifle hunt primarily.
On elitism ......... it can be a good thing in a way. Let me explain. Modern Muzzleloaders have gone too far IMO. I use one - however I think they are 1 shot rifles more than they are muzzleloaders. People don't even have to know to measure power now with pyrodex pellets, quick loading and that funky new Knight ........ its gone too far. They're still technically muzzleloaders - but every year less and less. We've "lost" what muzzleloading is/was. Its become easier - but that doesn't mean better. The tradition of muzzleloading, the old flintlocks and caplocks of old ........ and the skills needed to shoot open sights with a 12 pound barrel .......... its being lost. Elitism is traditionalism. Elitism is not just "our way is better" its more like "the traditional way should stay intact"
Can you see what I'm saying ?