Your trying to say the majority of compound hunters would just use a gun if there were just one season for all weapons?
I totally believe they would. When push comes to shove mose people like to kill animals. Create a poll on guys who ONLY use bows - not a great many are archery only - and how many actually hunt during rifle season with them - lots less. Challenge them to SHARE seasons ? They'd drop the compond and pick up the rifle slicker than snot
Did he really just sell out and grab the compound?? Was it a bunch of B.S. so he can say "hey I used a compound , I have nothing against them"???
Well - I sucked with my recurve and picked up the compound and shot it one evening, maybe 20-30 shot and hunted 3 days with it no practice before killing my nice non-typical buck. Thats the truth, like it or not.
The same reason that flyfisherman think that spin fishing is somehow less noble- they want to feel superior. Disregard the fact that the difficult 95% of fishing is just fishing - you know, find the fish, set up on the fish, cast to the fish, etc
BINGO ! I agree
If traditionalists are flyfisherman, and compounds are spin fisherman, than crossbows are trollers. You still have to find the fish, and once you get one on the line you need to play it and reel it in. But trollers lack a whole series of other fishing skills - casting with precision, setting the hook...you get the idea.
Absolutely frickin GREAT anaology ! Everyone of those guys buy the same fishing license, all are considered fisherman, they just have a bit different approach with different rods and reels and techniques. Theres VERY few places where its flyfishing only, and they are that way because the resource gets hammered if they allow spin casting/trolling/live bait etc. And we see in AR,OH and GA and Canada that the fear of a resource being negatively effected (deer) is not a reality in any way, shape or form. IN Fact, like I showed, the compound has attributed to a 10X increase in bowhunters just in the past 10 years alone - no negative effects.
Excellent analogy !
My thoughts? You should enter politics in the democratic race. You dont answer direct questions. You hop , skip , jump around , and reply with another question.
And you danced too - you don't like my idea because it would give archery season back to those who most need the extra days and have the greatest challenge