And there in lies the problem.. your ultimate response is "what would it hurt?". At the root of all of the posts is this point.
No once again I am saying it would help women and kids and those with shoulder injuries and it help all bowhunters in general by strengthening our numbers. Two big positives IMO. You are choosing to only hear "what would it hurt?"
Silent calls it "Archer Greed" for not allowing Crossbows to be included. What Archers call it is defining and defending the sport of archery.
I don't care how you define archery. It's bowhunting I am concerened about. I don't think your personal preference should determine how others should have to hunt. I don't think your unwillingness to share the woods should determine how others are allowed to hunt.
Add a crossbow and then there is no way you could ever limit the technology added to a compound bow. How could you not allow a draw lock if you allow a crossbow? How can you not allow a laser sight but allow a 3X9 variable scope on crossbow? The fight against crossbows is not against crossbows per se, it is against shredding the sport of archery.
Archery or bowhunting? Your view of what bowhunting is doesn't make it the right one. That should be left up to the individual. Again if it won't affect you and gets others involved int he sport what do you care other than you might not be perceived quite as pretigiously as you once wer or at least thought you were.
Allowing crossbows hurts archery on so many levels .... it takes away the need to "learn" archery, it opens the doors to ANY technology advancement to be allowed, it ends the concept of defining seasons by weapon types.
No it doesn't. Weapons are grouped by the projectile and how it is propelled. Muzzloader = baclk powder and a bullet Modern Fire Arm = cased powder and bullet Bow = arrow propelled by limbs and a string. It makes a lot of sense to me
Lumping them together is the same as saying there should be 2 seasons .. powder propellants and limb energy weapons.
That's a different thread.
Then why not just 1 hunting season? For all .. equal, with any legal weapon of your choice?
You are resorting to the illogical. If we open the door to crossbows they will all come rushing in but it's rediculous. They all shoot arrows and they have identical ranges, trajectories and KE energy and they all kill via broadhead surely you can see the distinction is much different to that of allowing firearms.
By allowing a crossbow to be a crossbow, and bows to be bows and and ML's to be ML's allows them to be managed individually, develop their own unique followings and allow for a diversity of hunting experiences.
Exactly and a crossbow is a boe it's just a different kind of bow just like a compound is a different kind of bow than a trad bow.
If it is a few crossbow hunters who want a longer season ... I don't want to exclude them, I just don't want the baggage they bring. I don't want the precedent they set.. and I don't wan't the division they cause
You know what all of those statements have in common. The word "I"
That's what this is really all about is "you" you aren't thinking about anyone but yourself and you have the nerve to call me bitter
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If you doubt what I say .. then refer to the 47 states that don't allow them, and truly ask yourself, why have they been separated?
I will it you will ask the other states where they have been introduced how unfounded your fears really are
There have been a lot of things seperated over the years that turned out to be wrong, women and blacks come to mind. Were we right in seperating them at one time also?