My way of thinking is simple, if you love to hunt you will hunt with anything that is legal to hunt with so I agree with you
Choice of weapon is very personal though for some people, its as simple as convenience for others.
Do you think it was right, years ago to let compound bows into the archery season? After all they were vastly different than the long or recurve bow.
Nobody is answering that, because they themselves use compounds and they'd be effectively be arguing themselves out of their own chosen weapons !
flat feet - AR, OH, GA - they don't make people wear orange. And its vastly easier to draw on a deer with a compound, hold and shoot when you're ready than to shoot with a recurve when the deer is RIGHT THERE.
I'm spanking you here buddy - how come you don't respond to my retorts ? Too good for you ?
GRIZZLYMAN - now THAT is a valid CON because it would happen, woulnd't it ?
silentassassin - we're getting to them I think [8D]
MNRut -
I fear that they will attract hunters who do not take the time to get to know their weapons limitations. A lot of gun hunters who only pick up their rifle or shotgun during hunting season will see crossbows as a way around all of the practice that goes into hunting with a compund.
A valid concern however its never happened before in AR, OH and GA, has it ? No more so than slob compound shooters, slob recurve shooters and slob gun hunters. Its a wives tale fear - its not reality.
You can talk all day about the fact that it's the operators responsibility to know the limitations, but the problem is a lot of people do not want to take the time or put in the effort to fulfill this responsibility.
Same can be said of compounds
You will probably say that this type of behavior is exhibited by users of compounds, which is true, but I think alot less so than would be with those that use crossbows.
You were right
but if your theory is true, then AR and OH would be slob capitals of the country. Yet OH is one of the top 5 trophy states and AR has made leaps and bounds since the 3 point rule. Never once has crossbows been a negative.
Its arguable that trad hunters exhibit much more ethics than compounders - we have to pracitce all year round to keep the edge and compounders don't. Your argument there IS comparable with compounds vs recurves and only furthers my points.
Surely, there is not someone counting how many deer are lost per year by users of crossbows.
Nor compounds. Geeez man, just go back to October and November right here on this forum and read all the "I missed" threads and " I bloodied one" threads.
All compounder shooters buddy