I don't care if there in the woods or used for hunting. In there correct season would be nice!
Why do you think archery ISN'T the correct season ? Bows in bow season - its pretty simple really, and crossbows ARE bows in every traditional sense applied, like it or not. Hell the new compounds don'w even have working limbs ! Literally the new compounds are almost NOT bows by definition !
Do you thing a states DNR office would publish somthing negetive towards there own beliefs, in this case Crossguns.
Why yes, they would. They don't have preferences on weapons - they make rules and regs according to what they thing is best for the deer herds and to maximize hutners recreation. They tweak seasons, bag limits, zone lines - every year they do this, and every year they publish WHY. Example - we lost 2 weeks of archery season last year. Why ? It was argued that people kill pregnant does and bucks with shed antlers. That was passed, and now we have some lobbying to show that only like 350 deer were taking in that last 2 wwek period - a very minute ammount compared to the overall harvest.
If crossbows were a negative to archery season, it'd be very apparent.
Find a mirror, and you will find the harm.
Lets look at that for a moment. I have no problems with crossbows in archery season because I live in a state that has them and KNOW they have no negative effect - you do have a problem with them in archery season for silly, make believe beliefs that have no factual merit - so that makes me the bad guy ? Uh .............. okay ...........
flat feet - the very most silliest of arguments and the truth behind your fears - and that is, you think your choice of equipment/weapon makes you a hunter on a higher ethical ground. You think you're a bowhunter when you have no cluse what a REAL bowhunter is, do you ? Would you like to know ? A real bowhunter is a self bowyer, making his own bows and taking to the woods with no goals really other than to hunt for the Hunt. Antler size is the least thing on his mind. Your compound is a horrid, grotesque blasphemy of what a bow is suppose to be. They are to archery what steroids are to MLB - and you know it and yet you think you're so much better for using a high tech bow ?
Please. You are not better than a crossbow hunter. You are not. Neither am I. A man in the woods crossbow hunting for the 1st time has a HUGE challenge on his hands. Don't belittle the hunters who choose differnt weapons. If you do, perhaps its YOU who needs that mirror ?