BigJ12 - Heres the funny thing ........ and why people hate when I come onto these threads. I shoot traditional and I got no problems telling people that my choice of hunting weapon is by far more difficult than a their choice of a compound, or a muzzleloader or a rifle for that matter. It simply IS - and its my choice. So while I fully understand the CHOICES ...... where I differ is that I simply don't care that a compound is easy or that a crossbow is even easier.
Data,
I know you shoot traditional and yes it is harder than a compound....by a long shot. I grew up on long bows It's all I shot until I was 13. Then I went to a recurve and I thought it was wonderful to have such a shelf to shoot off of. Both of them took me a while to learn and I still don't consider myself to be very good at it either. I then switched to a compound because I thought they were cool looking and guess what? It took me all of 1/2 hour to get good at shooting it. I'm not that old (just turned 40) but all I had was long bows as a kid.
I cringe everytime I hear some bow hunter talk about how hard it is to hunt with a bow and how easy it is with a firearm. To me it just shows how silly and uneducated in the ways of hunting some are. I'm sorry guys but sitting in a tree stand or gound blind right next to a deer path with your lanes picked out and yardage markers set is not hard.
Try walking all day and I mean ALL day from sun up to sun down for two pheasants. I know it's different and with dogs can be easy but where I am here in Illinois the pheasant population has suffered and you have to walk miles and miles for one bird. I'd rather sit in a tree anyday.
Before anybody starts posting I know some of you stalk deer and some have to climb mountians to reach your quarry and I take my hat off to you. I too hunted the rockies and it's a workout. But most of you just sit in a tree or a ground blind and wait like me!
Crossbows are not evil, just another form of bow. Yes it has a stock and is cocked but it's still a form of a bow.
I still haven't received any responce to my statement that just like the crossbow today, at one time the compound was the odd bow out had to be allowed into the bow hunting fold. If those hunters back then took the stance most of you are today it wouldn't be legal to shoot your compounds today now would it?