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So let me get this straight........your NOT a bow hunter if you use a crossbow, but you ARE a bow hunter if you use a crossbow as long as you are handicapped?
Only 1/2 right BigJ .. you are NOT a bow hunter if you use a crossbow, and if you are handicapped and use a crossbow you still aren't a bow hunter... you are a crossbow hunter. That doesn't make you less or inferior, just different.
It's been fun boys
MaJay,
I wrote that in response to 121553's silly and elitist post, it was to show him how flawed his argument was.
Nobody disputes that there are similarities, but that big difference (the holding at full draw vs cocked) is at least, if not more of a differentiator than "loose powder vs shells" as Data put it.
Well that is your opinion and that's ok with me. However, I propose that the act of holding at full draw vs already cocked is a form of how the weapn is used in a hunting situation (as you and others have said in the past) but that difference has NOTHING to do with the BASIC function of the weapon and that is where I am swayed. Because
the basic function of the weapon cannot be described as anything other than a bow, and that is why it is listed in the dictionary as a form of a bow not a form of a firearm.
That has not been done yet, because compound still require practice and archery skills to shoot correctly and well. But remove the draw, and anchor point and release part.... and you left archery on your road to crossbows. A valid weapon to be sure .. but not archery.
Again I see your point, but again I must tell you that even with firearms you can have two very different forms but both still firearms and in the same season. For example here in Illinois you can use a slug shot gun, muzzleloader rifle and pistol during gun season. I don't think I need to tell you how different it is in shooting a
shoulder mounted scoped slug gun with a 200yd effective range vs a
hand held open sighted pistol with a 50yrd effective range. I don't think I need to tell you just how difficult it is and how many hours of practice needed to become proficiant with a pistol, I know, I have probably hunted more game with a pistol than most here on this board have with their bows. Both are firearms, both shoot the same type of projectile with the same type of stored energy yet one is hand held with crude sights and the other is shoulder mounted with a scope.
But in the end they are both still firearms and both share the same season here in Illinois. This is where I think most on this board miss the point. I think more need to expand there hunting to include all of the different and wonderful options we have in the line of weapons that we have at our disposal to hunt with. I think if they did this thread would not be so long.
A crossbow is a bow....a different type of bow, but still a bow.