Not true. I have always stated clearly the differences in the long, recurve and compound bows. All I need to do to conclude the crossbow is different is show how it does not share what all 3 of the bows share in common.
Well they all shoot arrows. That is something they all 3 have in common so I guess that's a wash huh
Dude, do you really believe otherwise? If you do; you are not nearly as intelligent as you pretend to be on-line. The one thing ALL bows have in common are the manual drawing of a string attached to limbs that store the energy tranferred to them by the muscles of the person drawing the bow. Upon the manual release of the string that energy stored in the limbs is expelled and transferred into the string and then onto the arrow.
That's funny cause I never saw cams on a recurve
Come to think if of it I have never seen cables, axles, or a cable guard on a recurve. Yet despite of all the other things that go on with a compound while drawing you still think they are the same.[:-]
Read above post, they don't work the same. If they did, then the crossbow couldn't create and maintain energy without the direct result of human muscle. But it does.. it is why they are different
Well somebody has to pull it back initially. A crossbow is just a compound mounted on a stock with a latch to hold the string. That's it.
This is just your "opinion" and a dumb one at that. There was no HUGE anti compound sentiment... as I said before, when the compound was launched ... it was an inferior weapon to traditional equipment based on it's lack of reliability, consistency and noise alone.
Have you been smoking something? Have you spent anytime around archery whatsoever? The trads were chicken flippin when they tried to introduce compounds into the archery season. If you don't think so then just ask any of the old timers around that were in it before compounds were brought on the scene.
You are a meatball. I have never said "better" or "inferior", just different. I personally think "Crossbowhunter" doesn't sound like a bad moniker to have... but why are you crossbow guys avoiding it like it's diseased? Perhaps because it validates the "different" part????
Actually that's the essence of this whole thing. You guys think your special and people won't think you're so special anymore if crossbows are let in. Only specials people should be allowed in "you" season.[:-]
Some of you guys couldn't stand the thought of a kid being out there and killing a bigger deer than you I would bet. Others are just affraid someone will have more of an oppurtunity than you. I don't understand why you take it so personal. But what baffles me even more is why you don't want to open the sport up to women and kids and the partially disabled.
Here you have a valid point. Choice, and mine and other archers and 47 states have made the choice that a crossbow is not "archery" equipment
No they haven't. That's like saying that becasue there were laws on the books saying that women couldn't vote that women had choosen not to vote
Come on you don't really believe that do you? If you want to give someone a choice then legalize it and let them decide which they prefer. That's a choice. However, the good news is that your "choice" is coming to an end because several other states are considering legalizing crossbows during the archery season and your state probably will be soon as well and then you will have to share your woods with the crossbowers whether you like it or not. Then you will have the "choice" to stay home or keep on hunting. Crossbows are coming whether you guys like them or not.