And "for the life of us we cant believe you dont see" the BASIC similarities that puts them both in the same category.
It’s truly sad that some of you don’t know what a bow is. A bow is a weapon that shoots arrows powered by the elasticity of the bow and/or its string. The technique of using a bow is called archery.
It's not!!!! We dont allow crossbows during archery season. They are more than welcome to learn with a bow and join and enjoy the season , we have a 35lb minimum requirement.
I still cannot use my crossbow for hunting.
First , it may not "hurt me" in particular. I'm concerned for the sport of bowhunting and bowhunters in general , NOT JUST ME!!!
What’s there to be afraid of?
Second , dont even try and tell me or ANYONE here that a crossbow is no more effective than a compound bow!! I've put in my research and I know damn well what their capable of.
Forty yards is the range that almost all experts consider the max for hunting. A crossbow bolt has something like a 13 foot arc at sixty yards and a deer can easily move 3-4 feet during grazing during that period. It’s extremely easy to wound a deer even if it’s not startled.
Big MISTAKE to try and "guess what I'm saying" pal!
Here in Wi kids must be 12 years of age to legally hunt AFTER taking hunters ed. Most 12 year old kids I know can handle 35lbs of draw weight and if they cant I'd still take them along as my father did with me.
Is that what bowhunting is all about to you? Just plop any weapon in your kids hands as long as they get their KILL?
What's truly sad is that in this day and age yall are too dang lazy to get off your arse and teach these kids how to shoot a bow. Just plop a xbow in their hands as long they get that first blood. It's truly sad that everything that I learned (and many others here) about HUNTING in general (not the kill) will be totally lost in 20 years!
Keywords: What if your youngster desired to begin archery hunting for the first time? On the other hand, they were just attracted to crossbows. Even though you strived to get him/her to use a bow they were not interested.
YES! Archery gear offers a humane way of taking game! So your saying because of the slobs who dont bother becoming proficient with their recurve/longbow/compound we should make it as easy as we can for them to appease the antis? How about GETTING ON THEM? Educating them?
I don't believe anyone will disagree with that in a week, you can teach a new compound shooter to shoot tighter groups than most traditional shooters can accomplish in a year of hard practice. The learning curve between a crossbow and a compound is a few days. With a bare stick bow the difference between it and either the crossbow and the compound bow is measured in months and every now and then years.
Also curious where Buckmaster9 and BigJ12 come from? It seems so far the biggest supporters of crossbows are those from states who already allow them.
I’m from New York. It pisses me off.
Just curious what datamax has to say about that concept??
I’m interested as to what your thoughts are on the
Concept99 bow?