I think if you werent such an elitist about your precious traditional tackle, and if you didnt work so hard at denouncing the compounds, I may actually listen to what you have to say.
Well I don't shoot trad gear and I certainly don't have any other agenda rather than to enlightened people who are uneducated about the use of crossbows to the complete and utter non-impact they have on my hunting.
Not to mention that you took most of what I said out of context. I agree that there are too many advancements in the compound today. Perhaps you missed it in my thread though, seems you have selective reading.
VERY DIFFICULT to discuss something with someone who suffers from SELECTIVE READING.
Heres a tip for you, read my entire thread, and rather than picking out the sentences you dont like, put together a coherent response taking into consideration ALL my thoughts and words.
Looks like you have done the same thing but you didn't like it when it was done back to you. The way I see it is if you are prepared to jump into the debate then you better be prepared to defend your responses. You were making unfounded assumptions of which your have no idea based on your own predjudice and misguided fear.
Keep posting your thoughts, it just makes it more and more obvious your hatred for compounds. If you had it your way, we would only be allowed to use longbows and cedar arrows. We would fashion our broadheads out of stone, and tie turkey feathers on with sinew.
data, does have an elititist attitude towards his equipment but all of his points are valid and his elitism is no different than what the compounders on this thread are showing toward the crossbow. The difference between data, myself, and you guys is that we don't believe are own particular beliefs should be forced on others. I would rather see guys shoot compounds and i try to encourage them to do so but I have seen several guys over the years start out shooting a crossbow and wind up going to a compound later that by their own admission whould have never started archery hunting. I just have a hard time seeing that as a negative. Now you couple that with the fact that you open up the archery season to many that it hasn't been open to before and that outweighs any negatives they may have.