Theres no reason to. Allowing them in archery season would have no negative effects. Its like asking for a handgun season, an inline muzzleloading season, a caplock season, a 12 ga shotgun season, a 20 ga shotgun season ......... its grossly unneccesary.
But yeah - lop off 3/4 of the archery season and give it back to the trad hunters. 1/8 of the orig arhcery season could be for crossbows, 1/8 for compounds.
Yeah ........ I'll go with that concept.
Hey - whats wrong with a seperate compound season, right ?
Thats exactly the kind of answer I expected from you.
Why 1/8 to compounds and 1/8 to crossbows? How about we split it up equally?
Afterall , your arguement three years ago was about "the integrity of bowhunting" not strictly losing hunting time. Remember?
Bobo,
I worked in a shop that sold crossbows for a couple of years and I setup no telling how many of them. I bought one for my wife that I shot several times. I have pretty much been around them my whole life. They are simply not as accurate as a compound especially when fired from the standing position which is what I was comparing and if you think they are then I will bet you the title on my Z71 to a box of doughnuts that I will spank you with my compound and you with your crossbow from 40 yards, anytime you want to take the bet.
Assy,
I'll take that bet!! It's funny how it quickly turned into "standing" when thats not how crossbow hunters will shoot when hunting.
I'll still take that bet!! Make sure the Chevy has a full tank of gas!
I can unequivically guarantee you that it won't have any effect on you. It's a big ado about nothing.
No you cant!! Period! Not you or anyone else can guarantee the same results in every state!!!!!!!!!
While I am sure there would not be nothing wrong with a separate season. The problem is when to have it. Would you like it if they shortened the bow season to allow for a crossbow only season? Do you think the gun hunters would like it if their season was shortened for the crossbow only season? I know here in Illionis the slug gun hunters only have two weekends a year to hunt, one three day and one four day weekend that are about three weeks apart, a total of seven days only!
Glad you asked.
The way I understand it WI has the longest bow season in the U.S. running from sept 15th(<sat closest) to jan 3rd with 9 days of that time going to gun hunters. I see no reason we cant find room in their for a crossbow season. I also think to be fair for all , the seasons should rotate to give all weapon choices a chance during the rut except gun season. There is a reason the DNR has gun season when it does. If gun season were during prime rut it could have devastating results on the deer herd.
If you are in your tree stand with a compound bow and two counties away someone is in their tree stand with a crossbow how does this effect you or your hunt?
It doesn't effect me or my hunt today but it could tomorrow. If there are seperate seasons and they introduce crossbow to a state that has never allowed them it can show them first hand if there will be problems. If they start out with a one month crossbow season and by the second year the crossbow season is producing twice the numbers of regular archery season then they have the problem pin pointed. By just throwing it in the general season theres no way of knowing who shot what with what weapon besides maybe a question box on a tag and relying on the honesty of everyone isn't good science.
silentassassin - why not truly take archery season back to what it was, giving the bulk of what is now archery season back to recurves/longbow and then giving a few weeks to compounds and a few weeks to crossbows ?
To answer your question in all honesty (although I'd love to throw a smart arse remark somewhere
) most states cannot control the deer herd now. Do you think it would get better by going back in time to more primitive weapons?
It really wouldn't bother me personally because I started with a recurve and lately I'm kind of sick of all the techno but from a DNR deer management perspective? Never happen.