Instead of thinking of bows as rifles, think of them like Muzzleloaders.
that would be conveinient for you but it wouldn't be taking everything into consideration.
You can't hunt with shotguns or rifles during Muzzleloader season. Are you getting the picture yet .. we HAVE DIFFERENT SEASONS FOR DIFFERENT WEAPONS.
Sometimes we have differnt seasons for different weapons and sometimes we allows the weapon to be used in the same season. It depends on the weapon. Your scenario didn't work out like you wanted to did it
Because I am thorough, and bored at this conference I am attending I tried finding some record of a state not allowing a compound during archery season. Couldn't find a one, but I'd be interested in seeing anything you could find supporting your claim. If it exists.
I didn't say they didn't allow them. I said they had to re-write there laws inorder to allow them and some states did it quicker than others.
Now you are sounding peevish. Hunters don't always have to agree with everything other hunters say
No they don't have to agree or even need to. i think a spirited debate is a good thing. However, when you let those feelings lead you to lobby against other hunters (which is the same thing anti-hunters do) then that's a bad thing. Kind of like why you don't vote for an assualt weapons ban. Because whether or not you want to own an assualt wepon, you don't even want the ball to start rolling in tha direction. Right now you are standing at the top of the cliff trying to roll it off.
you just don't seem to like the waiting part.
I don't think people should have to wait just because you don't feel like
sharing "your" season.
Are you honestly saying that kids who can't hunt with crossbows during archery season will join gangs?
I am saying that we shouldn't have an obstacle in the way of kids pursuing the sport.
You know what, if you were right .. why make kids wait to graduate high school? Why do they have to wait to drive a car .. hell, my kid is 5 months old... what do I tell him at 10 years old when he tells me he wants to drive?
Because the state has put laws in effect to regulate these activites but that isn't apples to apples because in many states it's legal for a kid to hunt with a gun at 10 but not a crossbow.
Please .. you sound like your begging now. Crossbows do deserve to be in the woods, and are allowed in the woods. In their appropriate time and place. Just because you don't like it ... aint going to change it.
You sound like you are dodging the question.
Data and Big I am leaving it with you to spend 3 days chasing long beards in MS