Bowhunting is an accomplishment, maintaining alot of selfpride is always a factor for me when I go to the woods. It is harder than 95% of other means of hunting. So when I take to the woods with my bow in hand, and can produce under pressure. I know that I am a Bowhunter, and an accomplished one at that.
Good for you I feel the same way but I don't feel that I have the right to dictate for everyone else how they should be able to hunt just because I feel that way personally.
With a crossbow you just don't have a since of accomplishment that you would with a bow as far as performing under pressure.
You don't and I don't but I bet those kids in data's pictures do. I know a lot of people that could care less whether it was killed by a gun, bow, crossbow or whatever, the method is simply irrelevant to them. Everyone doesn't get the same sense of accomplishment from the same things.
Let your kids harvest a animal with a bow and tell me by the reaction on there face how much more they perfer a bow.
You're trying to force you own preconceived notions on everyone else and it just doesn't work. We're not all the same we put value on different things.
This is my last entry, the grip of reality that you guys have on crossbows is funny
Only thing is that all the people being left out of the woods aren't laughing[:'(] Unfortunately you are laughing at them
Again you guys prove to me that you know nothing about finding statistically significant and factual data that is completely reliable. Good Work!
It wouldn't matter if someone did put a report out here, you wouldn't accept it. But isn't the true measure of the effect of crossbows measured but the hunters they share the woods with? I think so and I can tell you that it's a non-issue to the majority of the hunters in this state. That opinion comes from having lived here for over 30 years and heard an OVERWHELMING majority of people supporting other hunters right to use crossbows. Now I give people a ribbing about using them and I encourage them to try trad or compound equipment but I don't think I have the right to force my views on them. There's a big difference in choosing not to shoot one and telling others they shouldn't be able to shoot one because you don't want to[&:]
The reason is very simple BigJ, because a person is physically unable to utilize archery equipment it would eliminate the ability to hunt during this period of time. By allowing a crossbow to be used by the handicapped, you are allowing them to be in the woods when they otherwise wouldn't be
Exactly, just like it would do for those women and kids and guys with shoulder problems that don't qualify or feel like being qualified as "disabled".
The smartest thing I have heard concerning crossbow use in the 3 states that allow them is that they have no specific records concerning their use as the kills made by them are just lumped as archery kills. There is no record I can find of how often they are used or if there is even a valid following.
Well I provided those numbers and AR does break down the numbers of animals taken by crossbows. You can get that info by clicking here
Deer Harvest Report just click on deer harvest report.