That's why your six year old could shoot a crossbow and not your compound.
And thank God they CAN in Arkansas !
Damn, Data .... with skills like that, who needs a crossbow? You should be using a slingshot or a spear!
I shoot a recurve right now - plenty of challenge there
Crossbow harvests made up the majority of their archery harvest last year.
and boy, their deer herd sucks, don't it ?
"Putting perspective on what bowhunting is - and isn't" and you want it all lumped together in one season? Please explain the lunacy in that statement.
the "lunacy" is the fact that crossbows have never been a negative to archery season.
Wow! What scientific research you've done! Care to break it down a little further for everyone? Like say , out of the 3 states that allow crossbows during archery season , what year were crossbows legalized? Before or during the "booming compound era"? How many bowhunters before legalizing crossbows? How many bowhunters the following year? How many bowhunters now? The deer population in each state starting before legalization? The harvest total for each state before legalization? The harvest totals now? Including gun harvests matched with DNR's desired yearly quota? How each state keeps track of which kills were compound/trad vs crossbow?
All kinds of pertinent info that needs to be taken into account for real research involving each individual state. Hmmmmm , yes , that right , that doesn't fit your pro crossbow (another chance to slam compounds) stance very well.
Look it up - compounds dominate archery season and have increased since they were allowed in. They "took over" archery season like nobody thought possible ! Do you deny that ? P&Y and G&F have to constantly tweak and ajust their "rules" to allow the latest and greatest want of compounders. Its true - like it or not.
Correction. You've tried to show that compounds are just as easy as crossbows. And YES this whole thread was just another chance to slam compounds. Evident by anyone who's been around long enough to see your other posts under a different user name.
I never used "different user" as a username ! And if you HAD read enough of my stuff you'd know I'm all for all bows in archery season - I've said that for a very long time.
No - actually you should have!
but I didn't
Well , yeah! Btw , "non working" horizontal limb technology? Care to explain that one? Are you trying to tell us that the limbs of a compound dont have a functioning factor in the shot?
Minimal. The limbs don't do much of anything anymore - they can't, they're horizontal to each other and aren't very "bendy"
Crossbow still suck
Compounds still suck